Who would win in a fight Pa Ingalls or Pa Walton??
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Merits of the question aside, this seems to be about two fictional characters in television shows, so this thread may be better served in the TV & Media forum. Moving now.
Pa Ingalls was younger and in better shape. Pa Walton was an older father and didn't do the kind of back-breaking labor that Charles Ingalls did. John Walton was more of a pacifist but Charles, while not a violent man, was a bit more likely to punch someone if he thought it was warranted.
Back when Little House first aired, my mom tried to make us watch it on the theory that there was too much violence on TV and we needed to watch something more wholesome (the tastes of my brother and I ran more towards "the Six Million Dollar Man," "the Night Stalker," and reruns of things like "Batman," "the Wild Wild West" and "Star Trek"). The very first episode she sat us down for involved Pa Ingalls getting into a knock down drag out fight with some bad rancher or something. Which ended the forced viewings pretty quickly
So, yeah, Charles was an @$$ kicker.
Anyone with as many kids as Pa Walton has got the stuff. Walton for the win.
See....I don't think John Walton would even have to fight. He'd just look at you with such disappointment that you'd walk away in shame and think about what you did.
I think if John Walton was pushed enough, he’d be a force of nature. “Beware the anger of a gentle man,” after all.
Oh? Which Bonanza episode would that have been?
I don't see the resemblance.I caught the tail end of this one. It showed Landon and Blocker. Apparently Greene and Roberts were out Ponderosing. This episode ended with Landon killingVincenzo/Lt. Schrank/Norman Bates's shrink/Simon Oakland after he was trying to have his way with Mariette Hartley, if memory serves. At least I think it was Hartley. I can only be 90 percent sure on that as I'm allergic to Mariette Hartley.....never more so than on 1987 CBS morning news/sitcoms with Bob Saget.
Sylvia was a child. At the time that Pernell Roberts was still on Bonanza, Hartley was an adult (this would have been only a few years before she was in a Star Trek episode).
And... after a Wikipedia search of Bonanza episodes, here it is:
Wikipedia said:
This was a 4th-season episode. No sign of Mariette Hartley at all. And Joe's girlfriend would have been an adult, not a child.Wikipedia said:
And don't forget, John Walton was a veteran of World War I — that's why he was so reluctant to raise his fist, and why he was the only member of the family to not attend church, because he'd Been Through Some Shit. (That aspect of his character was always there, but it especially becomes important as the show moved from the Depression years into World War II.)
Because Bonanza invented that??????No Hartley? Thank God....
My ''scene-for-scene'' description was exaggerated. But despite the differences, it appeared to me that Landon was thematically cribbing past BONANZA material for Sylvia's story. In both versions, the woman died due to the attacker's actions, as did both attackers.
Make it a mountain-man steel-cage death-match and throw Pa Clampett in the mix.
If it's whittling or clog dancing, then Jed's your man. If it's wrasslin', then the go to Clampett is Ellie May. I think she took down Jethro in two moves. Granny can not be under estimated. She's small but she's feisty. But if it's ciphering, Jethro. He has after all, a sixth grade education.
A well rounded family unit.
Seems pretty generic.
How big an ad in Variety should Landon have take?
Then he should handle kidnappings
