History YMMV / LittleHouseOnThePrairie

** This is sent up in the Rose Years: When Rose is watching her mother get dressed up to see the banker about the farm they want to buy, she muses to herself that Laura is considered the prettiest of her sisters.

*** At one point in Little House On The Prairie, Pa gives Mary and Laura a stern lecture for even ''thinking'' about disobeying him(though they didn't actually do so).

* NightmareFuel: For a show supposedly purporting wholesome family values, this one had a ''lot'' of it. Dead children and babies, fires, rapists, gunfire, drug addiction and withdrawl, disease...they spared the audience ''nothing'' about the harshness of life back then.

* HollywoodHomely: Laura's rather critical of and dissatisfied with her own appearance; she envies Nellie Oleson her blonde hair and tall, willowy figure, as she herself is quite short and brunette. In reality, she was a very [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder.jpg pretty]] [[http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_10_img0726.jpg girl]].

** On a lighter note, the parenting styles on display in both the Ingalls and Wilder families, with their extreme emphasis on self-discipline and frequent reference to whippings, are liable to strike modern readers as serious overkill. Laura is reminded constantly that adults -- 'ladies' especially -- do ''not'' allow their emotions to show in public. And when little Almanzo gets too close to a hole during ice-cutting and nearly drowns, he is told ''immediately post-rescue'' that he deserves severe punishment for his carelessness, though the punishment does not follow. Pa also spanks a 5-year-old Laura as punishment.
*** See particularly both Ma and Pa's response to Laura's kerfuffle with Eliza Jane Wilder during Miss Wilder's stint as Laura's schoolteacher in ''Little Town on the Prairie''. Miss Wilder's treatment of Laura, and especially her harrassment of Laura's little sister Carrie, is unprofessional, patently unfair, and in Carrie's case borderline abusive; nevertheless, both parents chastise Laura for acting out in protest, and Ma tells Laura point-blank that she should not criticize her teacher.

** Pa's obsession with moving in general. At the beginning of ''Little House on the Prairie'', the reason given for the move from the Big Woods is that it's gotten too crowded -- the definition of "too crowded" being that the Ingallses sometimes, without trying, encounter people they are not related to. (Their attitude toward neighbors seems to change after a period of living out where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou.)
*** Pa's attitude doesn't change, and Laura clearly demonstrates that it's hereditary. The only thing keeping them in place once they hit De Smet is that Charles long ago promised Caroline that he'd ensure their kids got a proper education.

** On a lighter note, the parenting styles on display in both the Ingalls and Wilder families, with their extreme emphasis on self-discipline and frequent reference to whippings, are liable to strike modern readers as serious overkill. Laura is reminded constantly that adults -- 'ladies' especially -- do ''not'' allow their emotions to show in public. And when little Almanzo gets too close to a hole during ice-cutting and nearly drowns, he is told ''immediately post-rescue'' that he deserves severe punishment for his carelessness, though the punishment does not follow. Pa also whips a 5 year old Laura as punishment.
*** Not with a whip. She gets a ''spanking''.

* MoralEventHorizon: Albert burning down the School for the Blind, killing a woman and a baby in the process. He was EasilyForgiven in the show, but not by the fans.

** FoeYay (Laura and Nellie, whose rivalry defined much of their youth. In a later ep, when mellowed, married Nellie visits (and deals with her clone Nancy, see below), Nellie jokes with Laura about getting into a fistfight.)

* {{Narm}} --

* CompleteMonster: Albert, once he's crossed the MoralEventHorizon.
* FoeYay (Laura and Nellie, whose rivalry defined much of their youth. In a later ep, when mellowed, married Nellie visits (and deals with her clone Nancy, see below), Nellie jokes with Laura about getting into a fistfight.)

** Pa's obsession with moving in general. At the beginning of ''Little House on the Prairie'', the reason given for the move from the Big Woods is that it's gotten too crowded -- the definition of "too crowded" being that the Ingallses sometimes, without trying, encounter people they are not related to. (Their attitude toward neighbors seems to change after a period of living out where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou.)

** The eponymous Little House on the Prairie was built in the middle of Injun Country: Pa basically found a spot he liked and started building his house. The Native Americans whose land this was are less than pleased, and feel they have a right to come in and take anything they want. This is shown as being a terrible thing to have happened -- not wholly unreasonably at the time, since the Ingalls have put a lot of work into their claim but in modern hindsight, that Pa is squatting on their land is a ''lot'' more evocative.

** On a lighter note, the parenting styles on display in both the Ingalls and Wilder families, with their extreme emphasis on self-discipline and frequent reference to whippings, are liable to strike modern readers as serious overkill. Laura is reminded constantly that adults -- 'ladies' especially -- do ''not'' allow their emotions to show in public. And when little Almanzo gets too close to a hole during ice-cutting and nearly drowns, he is told ''immediately post-rescue'' that he deserves severe punishment for his carelessness, though the punishment does not follow.

** See also the Wilder parents' horror when Royal decides he's sick of the whole 'get up at 5am and work until sundown' gig and wants to become a storekeeper, instead of a 'free and independent' farmer.

* ValuesDissonance: Laura's youth at the beginning of her and Almanzo's courtship wasn't at all unusual in the 1880's (she was 15 and he 25, which would garner a visit from Chris Hansen in today's world, but back then many, many women were married before the age of 20; if you were still single at 25 odds are people called you a spinster). FridgeLogic can hit that with a potential case of SurpriseCreepy, though, when you consider he first met her when she was thirteen, and wonder just how much of a conscious JailBaitWait went on there. ''Laura'' [[FailedASpotCheck failed her spot check]] when he first started courting her, but Ma definitely wasn't happy about it, precisely because Laura was only fifteen. Fortunately for Almanzo, Pa didn't seem to have any problem with it, but read from an adult 21st century perspective (especially a parental perspective), it can seem unintentionally creepy.