Little House Cliches?

Charles and Mary crying. Some little squirt running up and wrapping their arms around Charles' waist.

Married Laura wearing that red dress with little yellow flowers

major crying from everyone


though he composed really really lovely music, David Rose's syrupy string themes being played every time there was something horrifically dramatic that happened to heighten the emotional impact on the audience 

Mr. Edwards trying to be reincarnated as Mr. Garvey, or some stalwart guy as Charles sidekick


Mary always suffering the brunt in every tragedy, poor Mary.... 

SELF PITY scenes galore ---- and family members , normally Charles or Caroline, trying to talk them out of it 

everyone coming down with scarlet fever! 

people moving from Winoka to Walnut Grove to Winoka to Walnut Grove to satisfy storyline purposes

people moving from Sleepy Eye to Walnut Grove to Sleepy Eye to Walnut Grove to satisfy storyline purposes

chores chores chores

Pa and Ma never having money to go anywhere (pretty realistic)

This thread is so long I probably am naming many named before, sorry:

- Carrie unable to properly speak
- Grace barely ages
- Anyone who works on Pa's farm becomes a better person
- Pa always finds the person in distress and saves the day, even contagious disease doesn't get a hold of Pa when he is exposed
- The Ingalls are most tolerant of all Walnut Grove, Pa always accepts people when the town doesn't
- Mary is always suffering some tragedy
- Fires, storms, disease etc. always kill off the infant of some WG resident
- The Ingalls are the only family to live in a house without plastered walls, everyone else has normal walls and the Ingalls live in a barn more or less
- Everyone runs to the Ingalls house for Pa to help them.
- Half pint
- Laura's ugly red dress after she marries
- Nellies curls
- Pa is a horrible farmer who never has a good crop
- Mrs Oleson saying "Oh Nells"
- Pa taking long pauses before he answers anyone

Alcoholism happens to people suddenly. It gets so pronounced they have to resort to drinking medicine in order to get their mid-afternoon buzz.

- Ma saying " oh Charles ".

- Ma crying

- Pa laughing like an hysterical fool.

- Pa poking his nose into other people's business.

- Willie eating like a horse.

- Laura befriending old men.

- We often see the same man eating at nellies.

- It is always raining when someone passes away.

OMG!!
How could you have overlooked the most obvious one:
Mrs. Olesen's squawking, "OH, FOR HEAVEN' SAKE!!"

Doc Baker discussing people's medical problems with anybody. Just been watching "Sylvia" and the Doc examines her (Sylvia), finds out she's pregnant, and then starts discussing the matter with Laura and Albert(!)

Charles always insisting on "cash on the barrel" until he needs credit.

And the biggest continual problem - people you have never seen before who are, apparently, living in Walnut Grove. They then appear for one episode and vanish again. The set of schoolkids is vastly different each time we see the schoolroom.

And anybody who can work out how many blind schools there were, and where they were, is a better man than me.

Some disease which makes everybody else ill, except Charles, who is able to move about freely. (He is spared being packed in ice, which is the LHOP panacea for every disease going.)

Telling a kid to go upstairs to the loft so the adults can discuss something privately. Except you could obviously hear every word from the loft.

The same bit of film serving for Winkato, Chicago and Minneapolis.

Stereotypes, like the Jewish father of Percival in "Come Let Us Reason Together" who is straight out of "Fiddler on the Roof". The Irish woman Nels has an affair with in "The Second Spring" goes around saying, "Top of the morning!" and singing "The Wearing Of The Green" etc. etc.

Every time we see a train, it has the same engine on it (number 3, IIRC).