Little House Cliches?

Some animal that half-pint loves dies.

Charles always rounding up a bunch of men to go do something.

Mary and Laura always having a sh*tload of books to carry to school.

Ma sewing.

Pa's face always ending up dirty, sweaty, or bruised.

The endless parade of new students to Walnut Grove's schoolhouse and there always being a seat for the new student no matter that the previous episode(s) showed all the seats were full.

I'll try to only post new ones, although I know I'll mention a couple technically mentioned, but I'll alter it slightly.

- Good weather all year in Minne-freakin-sota except for Christmas episodes or a plot device (like rain when things are sad or dramatic; blizzard in an episode devoted to it).

- Laura often going for guys way out of her league.

- Bad alcoholics redeeming themselves, usually thanks to Chuck. (Throw in Albert's morphinism.)

- Nels muttering something to Harriet, and when she inquires, he changes it to a positive statement that rhymes with his last said word.

"Will you miss me, Nels?"
"Like a crutch."
"What did you say?"
"Oh, very much!"

One time I think he mentioned "grief," but then he changed it to "beef." (..."that roast is a good peice of beef!")

- Nancy's debut shows her having naturally thin hair, but once in the care of Harriet, Nancy gets full hair that holds its curls. Even a day in the wilderness ("The Return of Nellie"), it doesn't fall flat, even turning to a wild, frizzy mess.

- Caroline's pregnancies last one episode.

- Albert being Mr. Perfect except when he hustled on the streets or was drugged out in the cliched-1980s "Just Say No" episode, "Home Again."

Main characters' amnesia problems. Examples: Mary tells Adam after adjusting to the blind school that "she never learned" an instrument, particularly the piano. I guess she blocked out her music lessons with Granville Whipple, getting to take the mini piano home with her! The worst example is probably Caroline and Chuck joking about gettting to be grandparents one day. "Uh, you had a grandson who died in a fire!"

- Members playing different characters even after they've been well-established as someone else. (Little Chuck becomes Albert, Alicia becomes that daughter of the drunk, loser rich dad when Cbuck is their houseguest.)

- The show inconsistently altering its years.

-Caroline pouring coffee.

-Laura running off when she's upset about something.

-Laura crying in the barn/crying under a tree when she's upset about something and Pa giving her some words of wisdom.

-Someone always goin' fishin'.

Charles going shirtless because he’s working up a sweat outside or has broken or bruised his ribs

The church rings out with "Bringing in the Sheaves".

Charles smoking a pipe.

The unbiquitous Dinty Moore beef stew the Ingalls consume everytime they eat dinner.

There is much talk of the girls having to do their chores, but we rarely see any evidence of it.

People drinking coffee at nighttime.

I wasn't a huge fan of WKRP in Cincinnati, but it did have one line describing Little House delivered by Edie McClurg that I will never forget because it's hilarious and accurate: "It's about blind children out West, and every week they have a fire or someone gets an incurable disease."

Laura looking under horses for dicks