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Mary-Ellen is so annoying!


She's cute but my god so annoying. She is always whining and throwing childish tanturms. Erin is much nicer.


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I couldn't really stand Mary Ellen either. The only time I liked her was when she stood up for herself about that whole quilt thing. Nobody respected her feelings. She wasn't ready to grow up. That's what I hate about these backwoods old fashioned families. Always trying to force their daughter's to find a husband when their old enough. Like in little house on the prairie when Mrs. Oleson got that restaurant so Nellie could find a husband. She didn't even want it and yet she was forced to cook.

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nobody forced mary Ellen to do anything that i can remember. She mostly did her own thing, dressing in dungarees, playing baseball etc. Then she became a student nurse - it was her idea to get married

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She was worse in the show early on but she was still obnoxious in the later episodes when she just became obsessed with John Curtis. I swear she said "John Curtis" twenty times every episode.

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