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- Little Home on the Prairie solid members are remembering one traditionally inaccurate element that pops up often all through the present
- Talking on a podcast, Alison Arngrim stated that most of the actresses on the present wore acrylic nails
- “All of them had the French ideas. It was so ‘in’ within the early eighties,” she stated
The Little Home on the Prairie solid is remembering a number of the present’s historic inaccuracies, noting that lengthy acrylic nails with French manicures (popularized within the Seventies and Eighties) could be seen all through episodes set within the late 1800s.
Within the Nov. 6, 2025, episode of the Little Home 50 podcast, co-hosts Pamela Bob, Alison Arngrim and Dean Butler spoke concerning the nails and the way they regularly pop up all through the present — notably in season 5, episode 9, titled “The Marriage ceremony.”
At one level within the episode, Mary Ingalls accepts Adam Kendall’s long-awaited marriage proposal — which is strictly when co-host Bob notes that audiences can see Mary’s decidedly artificial manicure.
“That is the second after we first see the nails, the French ideas,” Bob says within the podcast.
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Arngrim — who performed Nellie Oleson on the present —provides that the extra fashionable nails could be seen “repeatedly by way of this episode,” with Bob including: “They’re shiny, shiny new. Stunning. They’re shiny new acrylics.”
Arngrim then described how she, too, loves a recent manicure, however at all times made a degree of eradicating any polish earlier than filming days.
“Now you understand I really like doing my nails … I really like doing my nails,” she stated. “I did try this. Even through the present, I do know I didn’t have any form of acrylics through the present [but] I’d usually on the weekend paint my nails many fascinating colours. … however Sunday night time [removed it] with the nail polish remover.”
She continued; “And I do not know. As a result of Melissa Gilbert had the acrylics. Melissa Sue had the acrylics. All of them had the French ideas. It was so in within the early eighties. They usually all did and I didn’t. … I stated, ‘I am on a TV present and I’ve a full seven 12 months contract for a TV present the place apparently I reside within the 1800s and do not have nails.'”
“Yeah, if it was any any later … God, the Nineteen Thirties, possibly we would gotten away with it,” Arngrim stated.
Added Bob: “It’s so bizarre that Michael Landon was like, ‘Yeah. I am cool with it. It’s bizarre to me.’ “
Michael Landon — who performed patriarch Charles Ingalls on the present — acted because the present’s producer, even directing most of the episodes.
Landon died on July 1, 1991, three months after publicly saying his prognosis with pancreatic most cancers, and is usually remembered by the solid of the present.
In a Might 2025 episode the podcast, Butler stated of Landon: “I feel individuals revered Michael, however I do not suppose that he had that business respect that he deserved. He captured audiences on this profound approach and continues to seize audiences. In a altering world, he nonetheless is ready to seize individuals as a result of there’s reality in what he is writing about.”