if you were lisa douglas.... would you stay in that house for the originally agreed upon 6 months? Oliver sort of sprung the whole farm thing on her, and even though she loved him, if I were her I would have said no, unless we live in an inhabitable house. Would you stay? why or why not?
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Well if I were a woman in the 50s and 60s, I likely would have b/c back then the husband made most of the decisions like that, and divorce was almost unheard of.
Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.
agreed! except im not sure divorce was *that* unheard of seeing as in the 3-4th eps of the 1st season when Lisa went to NYC to have the furniture sent to GA, everyone around town was talking about how his wife "had run off" and he kept explaining that she just left for a week. I understand that women "knew their place" but i feel like i definitley would have taken the mother in law up on her offer, especially as that house looked like it should have been condemned.
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I'm on Lisa's side. As nice as the people are in the area, that house was beyond a dump and the husband's experience with farming was all from books and potted plants on the terrace (and mushrooms in his desk drawer).
sharethey couldn't condemned that house otherwise Mr. Haney would have nothing to sell Mr. Douglas LOL
shareNo, I would NOT stay under ANY circumstances, I'd be back in the New York Apt so fast it'd Oliver's head spin, I'd go beyond divorce, I would sign the paper commting Oliver to Belluve PERMNATELY
sharehahaha yes! i think it had something to do also with the fact that she was a bit naive, so she stayed.
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I'd stay but there was no excuse for them keeping the house in that condition. Boggles the mind why they would not repair and furnish the place. Maybe that was Oliver's intention after the Monroe Brothers finished with the bedroom. I've known poor people who have damage or unsightly conditions in their homes who lived with them so long they just stopped being aware of them and how visitors would see them. It's not that they couldn't make the upgrades. They just didn't see them anymore, in a manner of speaking. But Oliver and Lisa came from such opulence they should have found the home intolerable. I guess it says something about their character, though, that they didn't think such appearances of poverty had anything to do with their happiness or their relationship with their friends. Nobody in the neighborhood was as shabby as they were! And none of it mattered.
"Truth is its own evidence." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
And what's funny is, in the reunion show, that took place 25 years later, the bedroom STILL wasn't finished lol.
Though it DID look like they added on an addition to the house.
Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.
I wouldn't stay with those living conditions. With Oliver's income, we all know that place could have been majorly overhauled if not torn down and rebuilt. Of course if either had been done, the writers would have run out of storyline very quickly.
I saw the movie The Egg and I (Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert) and they portrayed a couple who pursued the husband's dream (he may have been a lawyer??). The house was a shambles but they fied it up. Of course Betty MacDonald was far from Lisa Douglas.
But when Oliver stopped being a lawer, I'm guessing he didn't have the money he once had.
I mean yeah he prolly had quite a bit saved up but it would run out pretty fast and he'd prolly rather spend it on things around the actual farm than the house.
Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.
I sometimes wonder how much money Oliver had after moving to the farm. He never complains about spending money, except in cases when he is being ripped off or someone wants him to buy something unnecessary, such as the time Eb wanted a car. I never knew of him complaining about Lisa's trips to New York or other places. In one episode, Lisa bought him a tractor which Mr. Ziffel mistakenly thought was a gift for him, so Oliver and Lisa couldn't bring themselves to tell him the truth and take it away from him, in light of how grateful he was. So they could afford to buy a $4,000 tractor and lose it. Their New York lifestyle wasn't very far from that of a millionaire, so I've always thought he probably had several hundred thousand somewhere.
I've always wondered, too, about the set itself. I know set designers can make any kind of weathered or worn set with fresh materials, but the Douglas home looks like it was pieced together out of actual walls and woodwork of old shacks. I wish I knew the story behind the creation of the interior home set!
"Truth is its own evidence." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
toking, you are certainly NOT uneducated or illiterate.
So I ask, when did "prolly" become a substitute for "probably?"
Most Internet posters I've seen use "prolly" have posts so full of spelling and grammar mistakes I have to believe they they dropped out of school about the age Abe Lincoln did, only they never picked up a book or newspaper afterwards.
I'm not trying to offend, but your use of that non-word just doesn't go with the rest of your comments.
If I were a married man and I were in this situation, I would have sooner chosen the city and convince my spouse to forget about buying a farm.
shareBeing married to a farmer myself for 30 years, let me tell you, the house comes LAST on his list. Equipment, livestock, outbuildings, buying more ground, trying to keep up with the neighbors latest toys, all come WAY ahead of a house.
Once while we were visiting with some friends, the wife mentioned she would like to make new curtains. Her husband told her "Curtains don't make money." He had, however, recently built an enormous heated machine shed so he did not have to make repairs in the cold out of doors. I doubt that shed made him any money.
If you haven't lived it, you can hardly believe it.
Choice between the farm and New York City? The farm, hands down.
shareIt is odd that you seem to have missed the entire point of the show.
Lisa fit in there much better than Oliver did.
Everyone in Hooterville, including Lisa, were *beep* crazy except for Oliver.
"When all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done."
Hell, no! Lol. If I was Lisa, I would tell my husband to have the house razed, and a whole new one built before I'd move.
shareI think what he did to his wife was chauvinistic, unfeeling and inconsiderate. It's painfully obvious that neither one of them belongs on a farm, especially since Oliver can't seem to give up wearing his snazzy business suits. No,I would not have stayed. I would have taken half the money in the bank account and caught the first train back to New York.
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