Revisiting The Racoon

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Hello, this is Mark

And you're listening to one of the croft cast tonight

I have coming on to the show for the very first time ever

Chloe, how you doing? Chloe?

Good, Mark, how are you?

I'm doing alright here tonight

Talking about a great episode

Yeah, I'm excited

Now you're in Northeastern or like me over there in Pennsylvania

Yeah, yeah, that's like Central Pennsylvania

And so you're Central, are you?

So whenever I go to Pennsylvania, I really head to the Amish areas

Are you anywhere near there?

Yeah, I'm about 45 minutes from there

Okay

And yeah, I love that area

And you know, it's one of those kind of just really picturesque areas

Yeah, I like Lancaster, that's probably

While not my favorite area, it's definitely probably top three

And you're a big fan of this silly show, Little House, in a hurry, right?

Yeah, I've been watching it since I was like two, three years old

So I know it pretty well

Awesome

What episode are we talking about tonight?

We are talking about the backtoon season two

Yeah, and it's spelled incorrectly here

And it's spelled incorrectly

I wonder if anyone got in trouble for that

Yeah, because when the show's, when the episode begins

I'll bring it up there

It's like so

The record spelled wrong

Yeah, I did read that when I was doing some research on this episode

I was like, oh, it's spelled wrong, that's nice

It's like my letter is T

There was something that there was like two ways of spelling it

There was like the American way of spelling it

And then I don't buy that

I'm not buying that for one second

That's a 100% typo in my opinion

Probably, most likely, they probably didn't know about that

You're not getting out of this one with saying it's like girl

Oh, that's the old English way of spelling raccoon

Come on, come on

So, let's see, we're starting in the front of the little house

Where Mary's playing fetch with Jack

And, you know, they're just kind of playing

They're doing their thing

We don't see this too often

Where they're just kind of playing

Just being like normal kids

I was just going to play cake party with Janet

You can play afterwards

All right, I guess Janet won't mind

It's weird because it's really not in line with little house

I mean, I don't think she had a doll named Janet

I know she had a black Susan

I don't know what age

I also think black Susan was given to carry at some point in the books

About 100% sure

Somebody out there

I'm not gonna cover the books

Is it like the big ones or something

Law is holding a doll

But it wasn't that kind of doll

It looks like that kind of doll is more like a china doll

Or some sort of breakable doll

Whereas the dolls that she's pictured with in the books

Is more like fabric made dolls

Sure, yeah

Good, cause I need practice

You sure look scrumptious

Yeah

You wait right there

You wait right there

You wait right there

So they're doing their little back and forth

I'll be the play

Mary throws like a girl

Oddly enough

So um

Mary throws the ball harder than anyone could have expected

And Laura starts going back, back, back to try to catch it

And her dolls broke in

Totally a lawsuit

Yeah, she's here right there

I hope she doesn't cut herself on those porcelain shards

Oh yeah

Yeah, it's very sad

Like she's very upset

Of course

Like you know, this is her pride and joy right here

I'm so excited

I'm so excited

Yeah, they're definitely not cheap

I'm sorry

This is my fault Laura

I threw the ball

I threw the ball

Funny the ball didn't hit the doll though

That would be Laura hidden the doll

So they tried to put together the doll

And they can't really

So it never goes back

Really the way you're supposed to

Charles has this super glue out

Yeah

The doll we've never seen before

And we'll never see again

Yeah, it's true

And she's going to be just as unhappy tomorrow

There's no way I'm going to be able to put this thing together

The big pieces are easy

But some of them are just a small pieces of dust

Maryfew's just as bad

She threw the ball

I think it'll be interesting if Charles does

I'll just carve her a new face

And it'll just be like this weird wood face

It was some plastic surgery

Yeah

It was just an accident

Charles

Do you think we could afford to

I'm sorry Carolyn I can't

It's the winner money there's never enough

So it's weird I know

I know it's important to the kid

And to make her happy

But at the same time I have to wonder

Yeah, it's just not a good use of money

And to consider it is

Strange to me

Yeah

But we get we get a close-up of a catalog

In just a moment

And you were mentioning you have one of these

Reprints? Is it a reprint?

Maybe you have an original

I believe it's a reprint

I don't think it's an original

It was from 1899

So it's a little after this

But the prices are definitely cheaper than today

Well yeah

And it's very interesting

I love those reprints

I have a few different ones

But I have a Montgomery Ward one

I want to say to 1896

And it's so interesting

The things you could buy

Or just I mean of course

Rifles and ammunition

And strange medicines

Like the snake oil stuff

With a lot of morphine in it

And just a really really wild thing

And I do recommend people grab one

And I think they're fun to look through

And I think kids also get kind of a kick out of it

Yeah I mean my grandma sent mine

I don't know where she found it

But she sent it to us

Because she thought I would like it

And I spent hours looking at it

And looking at every individual thing

And being like oh my gosh

Imagine if that was the price today

Well I mean just for inflation

You know I'm sure that the prices are similar

But I just I look at it as you know

I'm able to just order wagons

You know like if I want to

And I guess we can do that in a lot of ways nowadays

I mean we can completely go in Amazon

And purchase

Nearly anything

I mean you could order a car online as well

And just have to deliver to your house

So we do live in a world

Where all of that kind of exists

But to have a catalog

That represents so much

I mean we're talking

You know everything from like

Wedding supplies to medicine

To you know guns

And you know bear traps

And all types of really wild stuff

Yeah I've seen medicine in there

That like cured things

That like aren't even

Curable

Like it's not like a disease

Or like a sickness that

You could just take

And poke and for and get over

Like some of it was like

Seasures or

Some other weird thing

And it's just like I don't think that's going to cure that

What's interesting I find is also

The medicines I saw

Do touch upon

Medicines for people

Who are heavy smokers

Who they develop

Of course coughs and cancers and stuff

And you know it's interesting when people say

Well no one knew that it was bad for you

It's like that's interesting

Because a hundred

And you know I have a catalog

That's 130 years old

And it's basically trying to treat

These ailments from smoking

So yeah it's like I got a catalog

This is otherwise

Right and I don't think we can really

Now granted that was likely

Vodka

You know like it was just

But it was still trying to cure

Something that was

A problem

I even saw like

Like booze for babies

Like when people used to feed

The babies booze to get them to go to sleep

That's a good thing

Has a parent

No

Well I was a baby

I know for a fact like

I would get like

Maybe whiskey rubbed on my gums

Like it was you know the 70s

I don't really know what

I don't think

You know a finger

You know wetting your finger

With whiskey is really

Going to make a baby

Drunk

But I'm not really sure what it would

I don't know if there's a numbing agent

In whiskey a month

I think that only works if you ingest it

If you drink some of that whiskey

So here's the catalog

That's a creepy thing

That's a creepy thing

Here we go

So yeah, here we have a metal head

And as we see like

It's 50 cents which is probably about $7

Now

Adjusted for inflation

So if you're really broke

I guess you know

Absolutely you're not going to have the money for that

But it is metal

Yes I can order one

But they ask a side of money

How much?

With movable eyes

That's the best grade

$1.20

What?

That's like 29 bucks

Wow

Do you have any ones that are a little defective

Like has one eye that kind of like

Triple blanks

Do they have one for 11 cents

59 and 69

That's the cheapest

Cash on the barrel

No, I'm sorry I couldn't help

Thank you Mr. Olsen

Come back when you grow up

To the real world Mary

Of course I have a coin jar that

I save up all my extra coins

And I just counted it today

And I only have like five bucks in there

That's good

And saving it since 2020

What? You could not have been

Putting too much change in that

Yeah, I maybe like penny here and there

Like when I get changed back

When I pay for things in cash

And I'll get like a dime back

I'll just slow it in there

And yeah, so I started that back in 2020

And five years later

I only have like 50 bucks

Not even

I have this like issue with change

I kind of detest it

Commuting from Manhattan

I commuted from Manhattan for like 12 years

And every day I'd come home with change

And I'm like oh I don't want this change

And so I started doing what a lot of people do

And you just kind of start

You have like one of these old water bottles

I just started throwing it in there every day

And

I did cash that in one day

Like I was moving

And I thought well I'm not gonna bring this

I'm like how much it's probably $100

So I went and

Did a thing where

The machine counted

And it was like I think it was like about $820

It was like in sales

Yeah, I was like

That's crazy

A decade's worth of change

That's crazy

That was funny, very noisy

You feel you know when you

Bringing it to the machine

Everybody's looking and you're like

And I probably was pretty pretty

Look at that time

But nevertheless I didn't want to

Bring

An 80 pound jar of

What appeared to be pennies

With me to my new apartment

Yeah

So yeah, so Nellis is like

Get out of my store before

Like I thought yeah

I'm the way home

Mary discovers a baby raccoon

Are you doing way out here

Stop that

Actually Jack discovers the raccoon

Sorry

Jack stop it

If you flush another skunk

Another skunk

You have to imagine Jack gets into some scraps

With some animals, right?

Literally

I mean he's an outdoor dog for the most part

So I can imagine him

Getting into some stuff

Right

So we see a little raccoon

Poor little baby

Oh I hate raccoons

Do you like raccoons?

You probably get them

I'm sure you can try them up there

I mean I'm not my favorite animal

But I don't mind them

Actually ever since I watch this episode

As a kid, every single raccoon from that on

I just called Jasper

I really

Here on the island we get

Raccoons

And possum

Squirrels

And it's just like

I don't like them

I don't like them at all

And possums kind of creep me out

Because possums

If you were to put a fairy tale

On a possum

They would actually look kind of cute

Because they kind of waddle

When they run

And they're very slow

But they have like a rat's tail

And it's so nasty to look at

possums are ugly

Yeah

So she goes to pet the wild animal

Because you know that's smart

I've never pet a raccoon

I love Jack

Jack is like my favorite

Dog on Little House

For the series

Do you prefer Bandit or Jack

I don't know

Jack was the real dog in the books

And in real life

And he was the OG dog

But he was a bulldog in the books

Yeah

This type of dog

Yeah, I don't know why they changed the bleed of dog

Guess maybe it's easier to work with

I don't know

I like Jack

Jack

There's a boat

You know Jack

Oh whoops

That's basically what

Oh it's a nice

It's a nice little fella

That would scare

And scare me to hold that animal

With his little hands

His little hands

God, I hate them so much

Their hands are so awkward

They're too human

They have it

I brought it home just for you

But I'll share it and I promise

I was kind of like thinking

Like it probably has like

Lies

Just like he's getting out

Get it out

It's a little kid bringing an animal from the outside

Right

Do you want a petty candy?

No, I can't

Get away from it

Give me like

Really

The best thing I ever had

I'm going to put a big ribbon on his neck

Anyway, so Caroline's like

Well, this is fun

Now clean up after him

And I even have a name for him

I'll call him Jasper

Please mom

We'll see

What's really great is that Caroline knows

That Charles is going to be like

Oh no, with that

Let me think

Do you want to have eggs?

No, get this thing out of here

Yeah

Yeah, it's just

It's a bad idea

The Charles comes home

With what was once a smile

Hi Pa

Did you get the racco?

Mary gave him to me

Let's bring

Let's have more questions here

Go on to the bus

I found him out in the woods

Where he belongs

I'm going to make a pet out of it

I'm sorry I asked

I said, wouldn't work

I gave it to her, Pa

So she wouldn't miss her doll so much

She just wouldn't work

The animal's not a kitten or a puppy

The dog he's wild

That's right

He's wild

Put him out

Get rid of him

And

Um

But it's weird that Caroline is kind of like

Well, maybe we can reconsider a little

Like she's kind of pushing him to reconsider

So

Well, it's just that Laura's been missing her doll so much

All right

Can't have my women thinking

I'm the meanest man in Minnesota

But she's only going to keep for a little while

I don't know who would have a raccoon as a pet

It really

Is amazing to me

All right, you can keep the raccoon

Hey, baby

Is that your fur?

It's going to be my pet

And a hold on, is that going to be a pet

He's just going to tend to him until he's big enough take care of himself

And that's going to be a lot sooner than you think

Let's take Jasper up to our room Laura

Hold on, he's not going in the house

Well, Jack goes in the house

Well, I think Jack's a little bit different. He's going to stay in the barn

You like him, don't you, Pa?

Oh, boy

And you like him even more?

Who grow on you?

Wait and see

Oh, he's going to grow, let's be sure

And I want you to put him out in the barn

So at least Charles is compromising

I don't like this compromise

Laura's

But she loves her pet

So let's see

Take Jasper to school for show and tell on a leash

Which I would think would be a very bad idea for a variety of reasons

I would imagine that

A raccoon might break its own neck

If you put like a collar or a rope around its neck

Kind of the way

Yeah, like a harness would be better

Like if you were to put a cat on leash

The cat would freak out

Oh, yeah, definitely, my cat would

Yeah, like it would get himself a baby now

You know, it would freak out and jump off the walls

Uh, let's see

Miss Beetle

You know, slipping through the cracks, everybody slips through the cracks

Um, in Miss Beetle's class

So she's like, of course she can never raccoon

To dangerous pet, maybe they'll scratch somebody and kill them

But can anyone tell me what they eat?

People

Fruit

Bugs

Fish

So they're having like just a fine old time

Um, everything seems fine with Jasper, you know

It really does

Um, what's next here

Um, let's see, right before church

We're gonna give a little bit of a visit to Jasper and the barn

Sorry Jasper

This is kind of a famous little scene that everybody really enjoys

We can't go with you today

They don't allow raccoons in church

If you hide your eyes, it'll give you an ache

Hide your eyes

Good boy

Oh boy

Oh

You hear Carrie in the background

Someone's trying to kill me

Uh-huh

Let's see, off to church

Like a Jack

He's crying

So

Jasper waits no time getting out

Yeah

You know, they have a real raccoon chase in those chickens

Yeah, this is

Yeah

Those poor hands

Jack's like, don't do it

Don't do it

I'll see, so Jasper pops into the house, pretty visual

And the ingles come home

And they're like, what's that smell?

And they go into the house

All right, that's it

That raccoon is gonna go

Let me take a walk

So Charles, of course, Charles has to make the hard decision to get rid of the raccoon

Right? I mean, come on

Yeah, and flings the baby at Caroline

Really? I didn't catch that

Yeah, it's like me too

Let me see

All right, that's it

That raccoon has got

Take this

Take this, she's just like

Tell her to tell me

She's holding the Bible too

This is kind of a funny shot

Of, um, of Laura

She's lecturing the raccoon

And it's really cute for the moment

But Pa's coming and he's like, this isn't

Sorry, half-pine, but this has got to

He's got to go, I'm going to

Go and get Married out

To the woods

Here we go, Jasper

Here we go, Jasper

Back in the old woods

Back in the old woods

I think of, I forget the episode where the old man was drowning the puppies

And they saved the puppies

Oh yeah, I remember that episode

I don't remember what episode that was

But that's what I think of

When you have a living thing and a sack, it's terrible

Yeah

Come on

I don't believe Pa would be the type to drown

An animal

Love with it

Love with you

Charles is going to make this a very long trip

So when he gets home, everything is already cleaned up

So yeah, he goes out

Laura's like giving a little bit of her own little lecture

Oh, I'm sorry

Yeah, he comes back

But he's back

He's way back

She's so dopey

Laura's like

It's a pretty visual thing

He's just, Charles is just kind of frustrated

He's just getting back from dumping the raccoon out into the wilderness

He's just getting back from dumping the raccoon out into the wilderness

Why

He got lots of mouth there Pa

He didn't know anyone

I'm the only mommy he's got

So he's frustrated, you know

Have you ever had a pet that was a little bit difficult at first

I mean, my first pet ever was a fish

He wasn't that difficult

And then my second pet was a fish

He died like a week later

Right

Not a lot of luck with fish here

Well, actually my first fish lived like 10 years and I'm even kidding you

Maybe not that long but like it lived a long time

I got him

I want him out of fear

At a carnival doing that wingtoss

And I

Ended up

My mom thought he was just going to live, you know, week to weeks

Typical links

Length of that kind of fish

But he ended up living till

I was in late elementary school

He lived in a long time

And then the second fish I got

I won the same way

And then he died like a week later

That's a normal fish life

What about a pet without gills

I have a cat

But no problems when you got the cat

No, she was a stray that

Kind of just adopted us honestly

Nice

And has been living here ever since

We found it in like 2013

2012-2013

So she's been with us for a long time

What's your cat's name

I call it kitty kitty

That's her name

Actually naming her

So we just named it pretty kitty

I think it's a good name

It'll work

So we're back

We have this like crazy cage

I don't know who made this cage

With a lot of details

It's basically a lot of twigs

Rope together

Something Charles would do

Lizard or something

It's like, I don't have anything to do

Like build a cage

Jack be quiet

Don't pull that

So Jack is like barking

At the raccoon

And it's like agitating the raccoon a bit

Ah

And that always gets me

Whenever the thing bites her

So Laura's putting food in for Jasper

And Jasper just kind of snaps at her

He bit me

Oh, let me see

And the raccoon escapes

Which is weird because you think the raccoon would

Grab the food

But we're just not

So Jack is like bugging out

This is basically how my dog is when

Anything happens

Like another animal comes into the house

Okay

So they're having like a little uh

A fight and uh, Jack gets bitten

It's very sad

These little pockets bitten

And Jack's like, I didn't sign up for this

I told him not to put that raccoon into the house

It's just a little nap

Like it gave me

Cage

Whoops, sorry

Jasper turned wild

Jasper didn't turn wild

He was just upset as all

Being caged

And Jack barking at him

Trying to make him fight

Well

He's gone now

So they discuss the bites

And um, Laura's basically begging Mary not to tell Pa

About the bites which is a really stupid thing

Knowing

They must know about rabies

And it's just one of these

Strange decisions that they've made

But over time these two make packs

Um, and even though they

They're not in line with

Their kind of character

Um, I guess it is

There's like, you know, this to be kids

I'm back

I know you will

Mary, please

But

Um

All right

Mary's such a sucker

Thanks Mary

I'll just tell Pa

That I open the cage

And Jasper ran off

And that's the truth

Bye

So it takes about two minutes in a little house in a prairie world

Time for um, Mary to basically rat out

The uh, problem

Tell his fault Jasper's gone

Wasn't Jasper?

Jasper beat him

Mary English, you promised not to tell

And hold on a minute, what's this all about?

When that happened

When Jasper ran off

I'm going to tell you Laura

Engels, Jasper was lucky

Now a raccoon like that could tear a dog apart

I don't know you feel bad but it's better for everybody

It's better for us and it's better for Jasper

So

There it's unfortunate because they have

Um, Jack barking

Like really frantically

Because the raccoons come back

And they're not really sure why

Jack is going

And again it's very visual but we do have a shirtless Charles for the ladies

And he goes out

Again it's a very visual type of thing

You see the raccoon in the loft

Going to investigate

It's music

It's crazy

It's so synthy

So we get like jump scares

Second jump scar in a little else in a hurry in this episode

It's pretty nuts

So the raccoon goes running

Everybody's just like really on edge

Because we don't know what's going on

So my fault

I don't want to fit Jasper the eggs

I spoiled him on eggs

That's why I came

Hey, hold on how it

It's not your fault

Now you think that's the first raccoon that everyone after chicken

Now before this, um, we didn't see it but Charles does kill the raccoon

Does he kill the raccoon?

I don't understand

He basically bludgeoned the raccoon

I didn't want to do it, I just didn't have any choice

It's all my fault

I don't want to fit Jasper the eggs

I spoiled him on eggs

That's why I came

No

Hold on how it's

It's not your fault

Now you think that's the first raccoon that everyone after chicken

It's in his nature half point

Nothing he could do about it

Nothing you could do about it

There's nobody to blame

This is so strange to me

Because they, you know, they live on a farm

Like this doesn't, this, none of this should be really too much of a surprise

To these girls

That's true though

And they should be very aware of

Like if a bite happens, you have to really, you know, share that information

It's very

Very not in line with the way that they really are being raised

Now you said you took some notes about this episode

I don't want to, you know, monopolize the entire episode if you wanted to discuss something

No, no, but

Just some

Things

It was kind of interesting because

I found a fun fact about raccoons

Says that they're often seen putting their food in water

But it's not for cleansing this

It's actually to make it easier to chew

And they're smart enough to open locks and doors too

They have those little hands

I mean, that's

Kind of

Crazy, right? I mean

It is kind of interesting that they can open a door

I mean, it takes some level of logic to understand how, you know, that they have to twist it

But

Yeah, yeah, I mean, they're definitely smart

They're not stupid animals

They'd be smart to stay away from my house

I just don't like them

So

Charles explains that Jack has to be tied up

Because he's been bitten by

Um

A likely rabid raccoon

And it's possible that

Jack could be

Rabid

And at this point, you know, there was really no treatment for rabies

And in people, if you had rabies

Again, no treatment

And

It would be awful

And I believe rabies ends up being a bacterial infection, blood infection

And it would come with fever

And I don't know how

I imagine it would be extremely difficult to fight off naturally

Yeah, I mean like when

When Mary

Tells

Mom part of the law is thirsty

Caroline says it's a sign of rabies

That's a sign of rabies

It was actually the opposite

When a person isn't thirsty

That's a sign of rabies

It's a hydrophilia

Fear of water

It's like an irrational fear of water

Yeah, yeah, so

I found that kind of interesting

Yeah, rabies was another thing

That growing up in the 70s

I thought was going to be a bigger deal when I got older

It was like quick sand

That's not like water

You're going to get bitten by a rabid dog

I'm just walking down the street

But I don't think I've ever encountered a rabid dog

Yeah, me either

Yeah

And you're in the middle of nowhere

I'm just kidding

Not going to know for a while, not for sure

So

To we do, I don't want you or

Or a carrier to go near him, right

He's stating it could take up to 80s

To monitor

Um

Let's see

Mary finally let's out

That

Laura was bitten

Baba

Yeah

People get the rabies provide

Yeah, that's why I don't want you to go near the dog

And watch how he grabs her face

Like it's

She's really running out of her sister

What about her

What about her

She's been

Laura

She says something

Why don't you tell me

I made a promise

So they tie up Laura next to Jack

I'm just kidding

80s

So we bring her over to Doc Baker

Of course

Four days ago you say

One of the rare times we sell Laura without her pigtails

Yeah

That's right

Well then we better start treatment immediately

One gum drop to be taken internally

Thank you

And I don't have to take any medicine

For a little bite like that

No, just rest in bed for a couple of days

That's my prescription

Dr. Baker's magic formula

Charles is like

Uh, this isn't gonna end here isn't

Now why don't you take these off to your sister

Charles is like can I have gum drop

Be peace in the family

Well I have a chat with your folks

I haven't seen him for quite a spell

bundle up

Thank you doctor

Laura is dying

Yes, seriously

It's like it doesn't

I mean, it's

He gives him the best intuition that he could possibly give

To tell Mrs. Engels

How long before we know

Watch the dog

Hide her for me in a dog

Runs its course from start to finish in about eight

Days

Thank you patient period for a girl or its ages

Anywhere from three weeks to a month

So it's pretty awful

I mean it's a terrible terrible infection

So it's a really just a waiting game

So they put Laura in bed

Like you could be fine

So we're gonna be in a bed

A raccoon bites a pretty serious thing

First thing happens you start getting these

Being black circles around your eyes

Then the ears get a whole point in

And they stick up like that

And you get an awful craving for roggs

Hi you're teasing

I guess I am

Because you don't want me to know

That's why Dr. Baker sent me out of his office

This is one of those rare moments where Charles

Is willing to

Tell Laura

The truth

And how old is she here you think like eight, nine years old

I mean using the hundred you will

Be about 1874 which would make Laura about seven

But Melissa was ten in real life

So probably like

I mean Melissa's friend but probably seven or eight

There's a heavy thing to you know

Have to tell a child like that

So I couldn't hear what he said

No we just said some things

We want to talk over with the dark and so

Jasper was sick when he bit Jack

That's why he's tied up

You're afraid he's gonna get sick

There's a chance he might be a little sick

Yeah

And me

Am I gonna get sick too?

I have fun I don't know

Michael I'm in turn on those waterworks

So I think it's a sweet moment of um you know courageous honesty

You know he knows his daughter can handle the truth on some level

Yeah Charles is just like oh my god like what is going on in my life

Hey here's Jack parking in the background

He goes to investigate

We get I mean it's a very visual episode um we have Caroline

Pranked through the window you know

Shooting through the windows a very

Little house move

I'm gonna have um the girls are in bed

A little um

We'll chat

Laura

What?

Do you hate me?

I wouldn't blame you if you did

Why should I hate you?

You're my sister

About the worst sister anybody ever had

Mary, look what I did

I'm the one who brought Jasper home in the first place

Remember?

But I wanted him

And I didn't tell Pa you bitch you when I should have

And I did tell Pa after I promised I wouldn't

You didn't tell Pa because I asked you not to

And that's being good to me

Then I broke my promise to you

Our promise is a promise you know

You know if I was bitten by a raccoon

And I was in Laura's position where it's like you might get sick

Oh, she's in really good spirits for it

Yeah, I'm surprised

I mean it's not

Web uses it contagious

In the sense that we're cold is

But I'm kind of surprised

They're letting Mary sleep with her in the sense of

Giving Laura some space and time to

Let's get recovered

Yeah, I mean he did say the incubation period for him is

Three weeks to a month

But yeah, I agree with you

It's

I don't think she could just go into convulsions

Or something like that but you just never know

She might

But she really might need that kind of like

camaraderie

Like you have to have somebody there in case she gets really upset

Back in the

Back in the barn

They have Ma doing some hay

And

Charles comes up

Oh, come on, it's all right

So we have

Mary freaking out

Because

The doctor said it's a song

Oh, he's going to be a song

Ma

Laura's thirsty

The doctor said it's a sign

It's not a sign

The child is just thirsty

It's not a sign

That's true, right?

I'm not going to give her water

Did you say water, Miller?

I'll fetch some water

Not thirsty anymore

It's like they're in a panic

I mean, of course they're in the panic

Now outside of his window

He sees Jack

Going crazy

I love Jack

I wish I had it

I just watched a friend of my

Well, my son's friend's

Dog and that was a

Oh God, what was he?

A Wheaton Terrier

And he looked exactly like Jack

And he was

Just such a good dog

And I have

A miniature poodle

And it's just kind of weird like the miniature poodles

Like about seven pounds

And the Wheaton Terrier

Was about 70 pounds

So

But it's interesting is my dog

Was just totally bullying

Like the big dog was petrified

Of my dog

It was just very, very interesting

So yeah, Charles is like, all right

Um, he goes

To grab his gun

Which he stores over the fire

Which is not a good idea

It's a very sad, very visual moment

He takes his gun

He's loading it

And um...

It's a very important

Member of the family

To the viewers as well

At this point, I mean, remember, Jack was in the pilot

Jack was originally lost

In the pilot

You know, as viewers

We've already gone through so much

With Jack

And the last thing we're going to do

Is see this wonderful dog

Get some, you know

But some blasting

Oh, whoa

So Jack's like barking

Obviously, Charles is walking forward

With his rifle, three tenths moment

Here's it or his eyes

Jack's like, turn around, dummy

It's a record

Yeah, very, very tense

He's, um, loading

Yeah, he packed the black powder before and I was putting

I guess, um, around

I'm not really 100% sure how these work

How do you shoot a dog that's crying?

Oh my god

So this is another...

The third jump scare coming up

Whoops

So he takes the gun and he's about to get him

And all of a sudden the raccoon shows up

And just because he's covering his eyes

We can identify this as Jasper, I guess

Yeah, that's what

To do that for the eggs

So he came back, I guess, for the egg

When I was a kid, I assumed that that's why he came back

Or because he wanted another egg

So him covering his eyes

Like Lord trained him to

It's almost like, hey, I'm back for another egg

And that's how Charles was able to say

To know that, oh, yeah

That's Jasper, not the other one

Right

Jasper

So Charles is like just, you know, crying tears

He's all the whole family now

Jasper

Jasper

He drops the gun, shoots the dog

So he goes and he tells everyone to deal

There were two raccoons

And when they killed the chickens

It wasn't Jasper

It wasn't Jasper

It's Jasper out there, now he's set up and big

It was a pretty exciting ever saw

You're all right

It's like big

It's all right

Very sweet

The jack's all right

That playing jack is just beautiful

It's tied up

Let's keep him tied up in the barn

Just in case

I'm going to spoil the barn

But I read a plot hole

That a doc baker says

Law and they have babies after the bite

And after it's discovered there were two different raccoons

Charles said it was she was going to be fine

When an actuality at one end of mattered

Because she'd still be in danger

Like we got this

You know, witch raccoon bitter

Like the fact that it's a raccoon

Well, yeah, we don't know witch raccoon bit

Either one of them

Really

Why don't you go in on time

I wouldn't

Want to have a guy

I would do it, you know, just kind of like

Lock, you know, make sure she's inside safe

I'd probably want to shoot the raccoon away

Maybe get rid of them

So your runza

Pulled on Ty

Her wonderful

Jack

He's like, why are you tying me up?

Yeah

And give that raccoon

There's so many eggs he'd give me nothing

I get nothing at all

God, I love that dog

That's a great dog

And that's it

There's no chickens

Now the chickens are safe

We'll assume that the hens are in the hen house

Okay

That's it

Um

Yeah, that's it

So, um

I think it's a cute episode

I like the tension

And

Do you have any other thoughts about this one?

Um, I mean, as a

I think as a kid

Um, this episode was one of my favorites

Mm-hmm

Just because of the cute little raccoon

Like, like I said earlier, like now

It's like every time I see a raccoon

I'm like, oh look, it's Jasper

That was Jasper

Yeah, that's it

But yeah, it was kind of interesting

Um, of like

When I was talking about the plot holes and everything

Um, I found that on a website

That like gave like mistakes

Uh, for episodes and stuff

And it was, I mean

Not saying it was

The most realistic episode

But it was a good episode

I think it was pretty realistic

I mean, um, that they could have been bitten by a raccoon

I mean

Yeah, yeah

For sure

But um, Chloe, I want to thank you so much for coming on here and talking about this episode

I think it was a lot of fun

You're welcome, I had fun too

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