YMMV / Little House On The Prairie S 1 E 17 Plague

• Narm: As dark the subject manner is in the episode, the rats used in corn meal scenes are clearly domesticated pet rats. Seeing them running around with clean shiny coats takes the seriousness of the situation out as some will find the pet rats cute. A terrible shame that Charles and Doc Baker took the Kill It with Fire approach to save the town.
• Nightmare Fuel: Both in and out-of-universe; Charles and Dr. Baker seem horrified when they open the storeroom and find dozens of rats swarming around the sacks of cornmeal. Not helping: An eerie musical cue is played. Worst of all is when Doc Baker demands, "Burn this place to the ground." That's exactly what the townsfolk do while the rats are still inside, and all those rats are implied to be immolated to kill off the plague carriers. Then there's the infected people slowly succumbing to the typhus...