"Bonanza" Three Brides for Hoss (TV Episode 1966) Poster

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7/10
Love is strange
bkoganbing10 June 2016
Although Stu Erwin's Irish brogue is not terribly convincing, the whole Bonanza episode leans most successfully on the humorous side as three women show up at the Ponderosa claiming to be mail order brides for Hoss Cartwright. Not like the Cartwright boys ever had any trouble getting women even Hoss.

Of course it's not Dan Blocker looking for a bride, it's Stu Erwin who wants a bride and a mother for his little daughter Sharyl Locke. He just signs his advertisement Hoss Cartwright.

Answering the ad is Majel Barrett taking time from Star Trek to play a gal from Kentucky who comes to the Ponderosa with her hillbilly brothers Claude Hall and Wynn Pearce. Also answering the ads are Mitzi Hoag from Boston and Danielle Aubry from Cajun New Orleans. This episode was awash with accents.

And believe it or not it all works out and I think you can figure it out. The course of true love is strange indeed at times.
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7/10
Joe's ED problems still plague him and a lazy man wants a maid/nanny for his brat daughter
glitterrose2 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
All those women in the house and Joe's still not going into heat over any of them? Very curious... Anyway, I'll be fair...some of the parts of this episode were humorous. I'd say the funniest tidbit came courtesy of the hicks. Although I'd say there's a section missing cause suddenly putting on a fancy dress turns a hick into a lady without anybody teaching her any etiquette on being a lady?

And those other two ladies are probably gonna wake up and wonder if they got into the "mountain dew" the hick men were talking about. Yeah, there was talking about training the men. You'd still think those two fancy ladies wouldn't even glance at a couple of hicks.

So the main plot point involves this man with a brat for a daughter and he's the one that was writing these letters to these women and posing as Hoss. This is the point that kinda left a bad taste in my mouth. You have a series based on a single man raising his three sons. You had three wives in the mix but I doubt they were around long enough to be able to do much raising. And I realize it's gotta be hard to be a single parent. You have to do as much as you possibly can. And I realize that there's gonna be a point where you probably have to look to people that can look after your child while you're at work. A lot of people might argue that Ben raising Adam, Hoss and Joe were different. They're boys/men and have a father around. It's different when you're raising a little girl. I still can't help thinking of the episode when Hoss was looking out after Eileen Baral's character in another episode. Hoss managed to do it all and Eileen's character was beyond traumatized and he was still good enough to her that he genuinely helped the little girl. The little girl in this episode was a brat. So I'm just assuming daddy's getting worn out and it's time to find a woman to do the cooking, cleaning and tending to the child.
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