History Recap / LittleHouseOnThePrairieS1E8MasHoliday

* BabysittingEpisode: Mr. Edwards is asked to look after the Ingalls kids while Charles and Caroline make a second honeymoon trip to Mankato, since Grace Snider was unavailable due to a sore throat. HilarityEnsues.

* BabysitterEpisode: Mr. Edwards is asked to look after the Ingalls kids by the Charles and Caroline while they make a second honeymoon trip to Mankato. HilarityEnsues.

* InformedAttribute: Charles says a fella at the freight depot described the play they were gonna watch as "the funniest play he's ever seen", but not only is the play a {{Melodrama}} which takes itself seriously, nobody in the audience is seen laughing. Either the fella thought the play was an in-universe example of {{Narm}} or [[BlackComedy he had a twisted sense of humor]].

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: More like "the theatre you chose to attend hates you"; Charles takes Caroline to the theatre and hopes she stops worrying about the girls back at home, but the play happens to be "Abandoned Children", about a deadbeat mother who announces to her children that she's abandoning them and they beg her to stay, in a way that'd give the most melodramatic episodes of this series a run for their money. Poor Caroline is reduced to tears and Charles realizes it's time they go back home.

* CrackOhMyBack: Mr. Edwards is attacked by old back pains when he plays horse with the girls. He's initially capable of playing with Carrie, when Mary and Laura join him, it's too much for his back. In the end, he has to walk home with his back hunched so that the girls don't get into trouble for that.
* TheMunchausen: Mr. Edwards tells the girls how a tree he chopped down fell on him, which kept him stuck for three days, and then a Sioux indian saved him and in doing so named him his honorary brother, renaming him "Sitting Bull". Mary doesn't seem to believe the story as there was another famous Sittin Bull, but when Laura starts showing her disappointment, she assures her younger sister that there are probably a lot of people with that name.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: When Laura is at the Mercantile, she spots her parents returning ealier than expected and, worried that they'll find the house unorganized and Mr. Edwards incapacitated by back pain from playing horse with the girls, runs home and helps Mary hurry to put everything in place before Caroline and Charles get home.

* TheMunchausen: Mr. Edwards tells the girls how a tree he chopped down fell on him, which kept him stuck for three days, and then a Sioux indian saved him and in doing so named him his honorary brother, renaming him "Sitting Bull". Mary doesn't seem to believe the story as there was another famous Sittin Bull, but when Laura starts showing her disappointment, she assures her younger sister that there are probably a lot if people with that name.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: When Laura is at the Oleson Mercantile, she spots her parents back home ealier and, worried that they'll find the house unorganizde and Mr. Edwards incapacitated by back pain from playing horse with the girls, runs to her house and she and Mary hurry to put everything in place before Caroline and Charles get home.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Inverted. After the night the girlswent out to get the eggs before they got bad and slammed the door on shotgun armed Mr. Edwards, causing him to shoot a hole through the roof, he makes it clear that he won't lie to their parents about that, but wouldn't said a word about it [[LoopholeAbuse unless they specifically asked him if he shot a hole through the roof]].
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: More like "the theatre you chose to attend hates you"; Charles tends Caroline to the theatre and hopes she stops worrying about the girls back at home, but the play happens to be "Abandoned Children", about a deadbeat mother who announces to her children that she's abandoning them and they beg her to stay, in a way that'd give the most melodramatic episodes of this series a run for their money. Poor Caroline is reduced to tears and Charles realizes it's time they go back home.

* CrackOhMyBack: Mr. Edwards is attacked by old back pains when he plays horse with the girls. He's initially capable of playing with Carrie, when Mary and Laura join him, it's too much for his back. In the end

* CrackOhMyBack: Mr. Edwards is attacked by old back pains when he plays horse with the girls. He's initially capable of playing with Carrie, when Mary and Laura join him, it's too much for his back.
* TheMunchauser: Mr. Edwards tells the girls how a tree he chopped down fell on him, which kept him stuck for three days, and then a Sioux indian saved him and in doing so named him his honorary brother, and named him "Sitting Bull". Mary doesn't seem to believe the story but Laura starts showing her disappointment, she assures her younger sister that there are probably a lot if people named Sitting Bull.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: More like "the theatre you chose to attend hates you"; Charles tends Caroline to the theatre and hopes she stops worrying about the girls back at home, but the play happens to be "Abandoned Children", about a deadbeat mother who announces to her childrne that she's abandoning them and they beg her to stay, in a way that'd give the most melodramatic episodes of Little House a run for their money. Poor Caroline is reduced to tears and Charles realizes it's time they go back home.