User Reviews

I enjoyed and chuckled at the opening scene, especially with Adam and Little Joe horsing around with Hoss. I haven't seen an entire episode of Bonanza in many years, and I don't recall any opening scene containing as much jocularity. (using that word always reminds me of Father Mulcahy, lol)

When the professor first started speaking, I was thinking that his voice sounded familiar. His voice, mainly his inflection, reminded me of the Mad Hatter in the 1951 animated version of Alice in Wonderland. So I looked it up. Lo and behold! The voice of the Mad Hatter was that of Ed Wynn, the same actor who played the professor in this very episode!

Enjoyed reading these other reviews, but I have to agree, in part, of the low review. Some of the dialogue in this episode was a bit juvenile. Not necessarily in a bad light, mind you. It just seems that this entire episode simply had a jovial theme, and the dialogue was very much a part of it.

Little Joe's bird-mocking scene halfway through the episode was comical. (By now I was already in the spirit of the episode's jovial theme.)

Some oddities: I couldn't figure out why the professor was depicted as being hard of hearing.

The scene where Hoss was about to launch himself over the cliff was perplexing, to say the least. On one hand you had the glee and excitement displayed by Amanda, the professor, and Little Joe. Then you had Hoss's sobbing. Not weeping, but literal sobbing!

If not for the odd ending, I would've given it 8 stars.