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* TemptingFate: The episode starts with the Garveys thanking God for their best crop in years and going out of their way to comment on how it's gonna improve their situation. The next shot is the sparkles from their fireplace escaping through the chamney and spreading to the barn, where they start a fire and burn the entire crop from the ground.

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* TemptingFate: The episode starts with the Garveys thanking God for their best crop in years and going out of their way to comment on how it's gonna improve their situation. The next shot is the sparkles from their fireplace escaping through the chamney and spreading to the barn, where they start a fire and burn the entire crop from the ground.ground.
* UnableToSupportAWife: Part of Jonathan's dilemma after losing his crop in the barn fire. Being unable to provide for his family in the short run makes him feel less of a man, especially after Alice finds a job at the post office and he's still unemployed. His stubborness about being the sole provider leads to an argument and nearly ends in divorce.
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* FatalFlaw: Jonathan's is {{Pride}}. He insists on being the sole provider for his family and can't bear to have his wife with a job while he's unemployed and feeling worthless. So when Alice announces she got a temporary job at the post office, he insists that he be the provider alone, and that argument kickstarts another argument among them.

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* FatalFlaw: Jonathan's is {{Pride}}. He insists on being the sole provider for his family and can't bear to have his wife with a job while he's unemployed and feeling worthless. So when Alice announces she got a temporary job at the post office, he insists that he be the provider alone, and that argument kickstarts another argument among them.their quarrell to the edge of a divorce.
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* TemptingFate: The episode starts with the Garveys thanking God for their best crop in years and going out of their way to comment on how it's gonna improve their situation. The next shot is the sparkles from their fireplace escaping through the chamney and spreading to the barn, where they start a fire and burn the entire crop from the ground.
* YouLookFamiliar: Guest star Eddie Quillan (Judge Picker) had previously appeared in "To Run and Hide", and would go on to make guest appearances in "Someone Please Love Me", "The Return of Mr. Edwards", "The In-Laws", "Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow: Part I" and "For the Love of Blanche".

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* TemptingFate: The episode starts with the Garveys thanking God for their best crop in years and going out of their way to comment on how it's gonna improve their situation. The next shot is the sparkles from their fireplace escaping through the chamney and spreading to the barn, where they start a fire and burn the entire crop from the ground.
* YouLookFamiliar: Guest star Eddie Quillan (Judge Picker) had previously appeared in "To Run and Hide", and would go on to make guest appearances in "Someone Please Love Me", "The Return of Mr. Edwards", "The In-Laws", "Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow: Part I" and "For the Love of Blanche".
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* FatalFlaw: Jonathan's is {{Pride}}. He insists on being the sole provider for his family and can't bear to have his wife with a job while he's unemployed and feeling worthless. So when Alice announces she got a temporary job at the post office, he insists that he be the provider alone, and that argument kickstarts another argument among them.


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* TemptingFate: The episode starts with the Garveys thanking God for their best crop in years and going out of their way to comment on how it's gonna improve their situation. The next shot is the sparkles from their fireplace escaping through the chamney and spreading to the barn, where they start a fire and burn the entire crop from the ground.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The judge assigned to settle the dispute between Alice and Jonathan pulls this after the aforementioned ContagiousLaughter and rules that while Alice did not say that Jonathan was crazy, he thinks that they're all crazy!

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The judge assigned to settle the dispute between Alice and Jonathan pulls this after the aforementioned ContagiousLaughter and rules that while Alice did not say that Jonathan was crazy, he thinks that they're all crazy!crazy!
* YouLookFamiliar: Guest star Eddie Quillan (Judge Picker) had previously appeared in "To Run and Hide", and would go on to make guest appearances in "Someone Please Love Me", "The Return of Mr. Edwards", "The In-Laws", "Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow: Part I" and "For the Love of Blanche".
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The judge assigned to settle the dispute between Alice and Jonathan pulls this after the aforementioned ContagiousLaughter and rules that while Alice did not say that Jonathan was crazy, he things that they're all crazy!

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The judge assigned to settle the dispute between Alice and Jonathan pulls this after the aforementioned ContagiousLaughter and rules that while Alice did not say that Jonathan was crazy, he things thinks that they're all crazy!
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* ContagiousLaughter: After Charles starts laughing while Alice and Jonathan are arguing in court about whether or not she said that he was crazy, everybody (except the judge) starts laughing and the Garveys decide not to go through with the divorce.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The judge assigned to settle the dispute between Alice and Jonathan pulls this after the aforementioned ContagiousLaughter and rules that while Alice did not say that Jonathan was crazy, he things that they're all crazy!
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