History Recap / LittleHouseOnThePrairieS3E13LittleWomen

* ImportantHaircut: Ginny uncovers her head and reveals that she sold most of her hair to buy her mother a dress so she could come and watch the play - it's what helps her and her strict mother make amends.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mrs. Oleson presents a wig maker responsible for making Nelli's wig for the play, during which he explains how he has to pay a good amount for the hair he gets to make wigs. It's a sign of how Ginny gets the money to buy her mother a new dress.

* StrugglingSingleMother: Widowed Della Clark has to provide for herself and her daughter Ginny and that's why she's initially uninterested in the school play (or in Harold Mayfield's courtship).
* SwordAndFist: Laura challenges Willie for a sword fight when he keeps tormenting her with his wooden sword (she uses a stick), and when he gets to disarm her, she jumps at him and it becomes a regular fight.

* ImportantHaircut: Ginny uncovers her head and reveals that she sold most of her hair to buy her mother a dress so she could come and watch the play, it's what helps her and her strict mother make amends.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When it's revealed that a tearful Ginny cut off her hair for real so she could sell it to a wig maker and a dress and to get her busy mother to come and watch the play, all Nellie Oleson cares is about when she can say her next line and be in the spotlight.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Willie doesn't get the best luck throghout the episode, but it's all self-inflincted: he impersonates Robin Hood with his mother's hat to torment the Ingalls girls, and is beaten by Laura and implied to get a spanking offscreen from Mrs. Oleson for getting her favorite hat; then he tries to repeat the act with a dog during reccess and gets chased into the school. Finally, he convinces two older classmates to do his play under the condition that he'll get cigars and chewing tobbaco from his father's store, but he fails to get it and gets into an argument with them, which gets him covered in white paint they'd use for the play (it was [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]]), and gets laughed at by everyone present.
* MaybeEverAfter: After being rejected by Della Clark throghout the episode, Harold Mayfield is seen giving her and Ginny a ride home after they make amends during the school play, implying that she might give him a chance after he helped her with her daughter.

* SwordAndFist: Laura challenges challenges Willie for a sword fight when he keeps tormenting her with his wooden sword (she uses a stick), and when he gets to disarm her, she jumps at him and it becomes a regular fight.

* PapaWolf: While he isn't Ginny's father and his fondness for her is partially because he's interested in her mother, Mayfield gets furious when Della refuses to go see her daughter's play and confronts her in Ginny's defense after seeing the girl in tears for not being able to convince her mother with the new dress (Della thought it was a gift from Mayfield to try and court her and rejected Ginny's request to wear it to go watch her play, unbeknownst that Ginny had sold he hair to buy it).

* {{Foreshadwoing}}: Mrs. Oleson presents a wig maker responsible for making Nelli's wig for the play, during which he explains how he has to pay a good amount for the hair he gets to make wigs. It's a sign of how Ginny gets the money to buy her mother a new dress.

* ItsAllAboutMe: When it's revealed that a tearful Ginny cut off her hair for real so she could sell it to a wig maker so she could buy her mother a dress and get her busy mother to come and watch the play, all Nellie Oleson cares is about when she can say her next line and be in the spotlight.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Willie doesn't get the best luck throghout the episode, but it's all self-inflincted: he impersonates Robin Hood with his mother's head to torment the Ingalls girls, and is beaten by Laura and implied to get a spanking offscreen from his mother for getting her favorite hat; then he tries to repeat the act with a dog during reccess and gets chased into the school. Finally, he convinces two older classmates to do his play under the condition that he'll get cigars and chewing tobbaco from his father's store, but he fails to get it and gets into an argument with them, which gets him covered in white paint they'd use for the play (it was [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]]), and gets laughed at by everyone present.
* MaybeEverAfter: After being rejected by Della Clark throghout the episode, Harold Mayfield is seen giving her and Ginny a ride home after they make amends during the school play, implying that she might give her a chance after he helped them with that.

* KarmicButtMonkey: Willie doesn't get the best luck throghout the episode, but it's all self-inflincted: he tries to impersonate Robin Hood to torment the Ingalls girls, and is beaten by Laura and implied to get a spanking offscreen from his mother for getting her feather hat; then he tries to play again with a dog during reccess and gets chased into the school. Finally, he convinces two older classmates to do his play under the condition that he'll get cigars and chewing tobbaco from his father's store, but once he fails to get it and gets into an argument with them, he later appears covered in the white paint they'd use for the play (it was [[Literature/TheAd venturesOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]]), and gets laguhed at by everyone present.
* MaybeEverAfter: After being rejected by Della Clarke throghout the episode, Harold Mayfield is seen giving her and Ginny a ride home after they make amends during the school play, implying that she might give her a chance after he helped them with that.

* StrugglingSingleMother: Widowed Della CLarke has to provide for herself and her daughter Ginny and that's why she's initially uninterested in the school play (or in Harold Mayfield's courtship).

* ShipperOnADeck: Ginny wishes that Mr. Mayfield and her mother became a couple.

* ImportantHaircut:

* ShipperOnADeck: Ginny wishes that Mr. Mayfield and her mother became a couple.