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It was pretty big news at the time. He was very well known and as much as I didn't like the way he portrayed Charles Ingalls as a boorish wuss, I'd say he had a sort of larger than life persona. The kind of guy you'd never believe would even get cancer, much less get it and die from it so quickly.
The $200 Hollywood haircut and salon tan; the neighbors and dear friends, the innocent children who conveniently die so he can bring on the waterworks.
In a word: Chris.
But who could blame her? She'd never had a shot at a real man before that. And at least she ended up getting Grace out of it to remember him.
Or dad who:
Cries like a baby?
Chomps on food with his mouth wide open?
Laughs like a hyena at things that aren't funny?
Struts around shirtless to show off his Hollywood Salon Tan?
Bathes once a week?
Fancies himself as a carpenter but can't build even one more room so his kids can have some privacy and space?
Adopts more kids every time one escapes.
Manages to get injured so he can't work, then pouts like a toddler when his wife has to work. Maybe he'd prefer the kids starve?
Preaches "Cash on the barrel" yet has a running debt at the mercantile. Also storms out of same mercantile within dats of his arrival in town when the proprietor refused his demand to extend him credit on a number of expensive farm implements.
I wondered what they were supposed to do that Christmas morning when they were snowed in after drinking pot after pot of coffee. And didn't the dog conveniently disappear during episodes like that?
It would need to have a steady supply of water so the tears could run from his eyes at regular intervals.
As anna8625 said, I could definitely see him breaking out the fiddle. Of course, he would drown out the solemn music with his corny, raucous crap, smirking the whole time and having no clue just how bad the situation was. Then, as soon as he figured out how bad it is, he would jump in a lifeboat with the rest of the women and cry his eyes out.
Perhaps after he'd milked that for all it's worth, he'd try to lead them all in a prayer and tell them they're going to Hell for drowning the good, poor people while saving the lives of all the horrible, greedy, rich people.
They were perfect Frenemies. I thought he was one of her few friends who would actually stand up to her regularly.
I never did watch the Waltons, even though it was on every morning (after Woody Woodpecker, I think.) But I wish you'd go wake up the Roseanne board. It was so active on imdb, now it's a dead zone.
I'd be okay with it as long as I could have the attic. I wouldn't want to share a bedroom with two siblings.
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