Walton things that leave you scratching your head

[Easton]

In The Ferris Wheel, near the end of the episode, Ben ties himself to a rope which John-Boy holds and Ben climbs the tower and then creeps along the spoke to reach Elizabeth's seat.

Scratching my head... How did Elizabeth get there?

[missyou123]

Right. How did she get there and why?

[goodnight]

She sleep walked to the fairgrounds and climbed it in her sleep?

[missyou123]

Wow. Her sleep walking took her to a specific destination?  She’s good. 

[Easton]

I thought of sleepwalking, but the seat she was in wouldn't have been low enough for her to jump as John-Boy suggested. I know it was all about the drama, but if they wanted to be realistic about it, Elizabeth would have climbed into the bottom seat. But that wouldn't have allowed Ben to discover that 'height isn't everything'.

As a famous king was prone to say: "Is a puzzlement!"

[tasteoftherecipe]

Not as head scratching as aforementioned Ferris Wheel(sleepwalking) incident, but what always crossed my mind is how it always seemed at the end of episode the entire family, other than occasionally  John Boy who was still awake writing would always go to bed at the exact same time. You would have Elizabeth who was like 7 going to bed at the same time as Mary Ellen and Jason. In some episodes they also seemed to trick me in when the adults and John Boy and even sometimes Jason and Mary Ellen would be listening to the radio and Olivia would have the others go off to bed, but always they would be awake to say Goodnight to everyone. 

Just a little fun head scratcher. 

[Easton]

^ They handled that quite well in the episode where Jason felt he was old enough to stay up later than the other kids. I loved the amused looks from John and Olivia as Jason wandered around trying to find something to do only to decide that it was a lot less boring being asleep in his bed than it was staying awake with nothing to do.

[tasteoftherecipe]

I raised 6 children and in my home I had more than 1 bathroom. In my household when the children were growing up and at school age they still seemed to manage to be late quite frequently. In the Waltons household however, it seemed they only had 1 bathroom for the 7 children, John Sr. & Olivia and Grandpa and Grandma. I believe somewhere I recall them saying they had a bathroom(baths) scheduled for at least when Grandma and Grandpa were going to take baths. 

It seemed however, with the exception of skipping some breakfast from time to time all the children were out the door and off to school pretty much on schedule. They must have all woken up really early in the morning to get ready and get the morning chores done and eat breakfast to be off to school on time. Maybe this is why they went to bed so early in the evening most nights or at least until Jason started working at the Dew Drop Inn and stuff like that, but that was after he was finished with school I think. 

There is absolutely no way my 6 children could have managed that with 1 bathroom, especially my 3 girls and most especially my 2 oldest girls(Amie & Amanda) who were only 2 years apart). My youngest daughter April came a little later and is 10 years younger than my eldest daughter Amie and 8 years younger than Amanda. Someone would have been killed if we didn't have multiple bathrooms. 

[patriciaanne]

There were only four of us in our apartment growing up with one bathroom and I still don't know how we all made it out alive. 😅

[Brenda]

There were 6 of us in my family as I was growing up, my parents and 4 children.  Our house only had one bathroom, which is one more than the house had when my parents moved into it in 1947. Adding a bathroom to the house was one of their first projects, thankfully before I was born.

[Easton]

Except for the grandparents, my family was (almost) The Waltons: Mom, Dad, five boys and and two girls. I was the youngest boy and second-youngest of the children. Only my younger sister was younger than me. She died a few years ago and the eldest died quite some time ago.

There was 1 bedroom downstairs (for Mom & Dad) and 4 upstairs for all the kids. We had only 1 bathroom. When I was a kid, I had to bathe with my next 2 older brothers. One would sit at one end and the other would sit at the opposite end. I sat sideways between their feet. The three of us had to sleep in the same bed as well.

[carol]

What has me scratchng my head is how everything in the attic survived the house fire.

[Kyle]

It reminded me a little of the Southfork fire on Dallas, another Lorimar show. There was a raging fire but most of the damage was cosmetic and the family claimed that the house was built (in the 1950s) using the most advanced fireproofed materials available. Yeah, right. Maybe the Waltons used the same materials in the attic.

I always hated Elizabeth getting paralyzed in The Ordeal. Not only was it silly that another family member faced paralysis, but Elizabeth should have known better at her age to play around on a pile of logs. She was raised around a sawmill after all.

[herofan]

Jan 17, 2023 17:25:11 GMT -5 tasteoftherecipe said:

Not as head scratching as aforementioned Ferris Wheel(sleepwalking) incident, but what always crossed my mind is how it always seemed at the end of episode the entire family, other than occasionally  John Boy who was still awake writing would always go to bed at the exact same time. You would have Elizabeth who was like 7 going to bed at the same time as Mary Ellen and Jason. In some episodes they also seemed to trick me in when the adults and John Boy and even sometimes Jason and Mary Ellen would be listening to the radio and Olivia would have the others go off to bed, but always they would be awake to say Goodnight to everyone. 

Just a little fun head scratcher. 

Good observation. I had wondered the same at times.

[jason88cubss]

How John managed to have ANY free time at all

Work the mill, gotta cut up wood in forest for the mill + for the house and hunt for food