The second of a two-part episode. We open with Kate being helped into the hotel again, having sprained her ankle at the end of last week's episode.
They learned the decision about a 40-person convention coming to the Shady Rest will be determined by the company president, a Hurley Feasel, who is to arrive in two days to look the place over. But Dr. Rhone confines Kate to bed, meaning everyone else will have to pitch in to help, while she stays in her bed.
Instead of just cleaning up the place, Uncle Joe directs most of the rooms and the lobby to all get fresh coats of paint, and the girls (while, Billie and Betty only, as Bobbi Jo is inexplicably absent in this one) undertake to do all the painting, never questioning Joe's crazy color schemes, even though we hear they know how bad they are as they refuse to put their guest into one painted with mismatched colors.
Feasel comes a day early and finds newspapers and wet paint signs all over, including where they put the guest register on the counter for him to sign. Uncle Joe has also brought in a singer named Smokey Harner, to entertain. Somehow, Betty Jo is allowed to dicker with him about how much he will be paid, and she gets him down to a workable price like an expert.
As we progress through the show, we learn that Smokey has a one-song repertoire, On Top of Old Smokey, the one song Mr. Feasel detests. Feasel is checking out early, totally unhappy with the hotel, including the miserable meals prepared by the girls.
Now the doc has pronounced Kate's ankle amazingly healed but she wants to stay in bed to let her family be proud that for once they are running the place nicely without her help. So Billie and Betty and Uncle Joe decide it will make sense to fool her into thinking the convention is still coming, to make her happy for now-as though she won't learn quickly from the total lack of guests, or income, when she finds out they didn't come. They play a record and make noises to fool Kate into thinking the 40 men have arrived. But Kate has decided to come down the stairs and let them see that she is healed, only to see they are fooling her. She quietly returns up the stairs and everyone looks sad.
We don't get any apologies, just cut to everyone, save for Bobbi Jo, sitting at the dining room table when Mr. Feasel returns. He explains that the 40 salesmen are all new and he wants them to start out with the worst hotel experience they will face so they'll be able to handle all the other bad places they will go to. Then he eats some food that Kate has cooked and loves it. Now he will not bring his convention there because the food is too good. Everyone laughs about how Kate's good cooking has ruined things.
Again, I don't see how these high school girls, raised helping Mom run a hotel that regularly serves meals, have not been taught anything about cooking by their mother. It made no sense to suddenly paint everything with company coming real soon-painting is time consuming, it takes some time to dry properly, and they had plenty to do with Mom out of commission to undertake such a thing at that time.
The Smokey character only knowing one song, but ready to open at a club in a nearby small town even though he only knows one song was not really funny, more of a distraction. Impossible to like much about this one-a 3 from me.
They learned the decision about a 40-person convention coming to the Shady Rest will be determined by the company president, a Hurley Feasel, who is to arrive in two days to look the place over. But Dr. Rhone confines Kate to bed, meaning everyone else will have to pitch in to help, while she stays in her bed.
Instead of just cleaning up the place, Uncle Joe directs most of the rooms and the lobby to all get fresh coats of paint, and the girls (while, Billie and Betty only, as Bobbi Jo is inexplicably absent in this one) undertake to do all the painting, never questioning Joe's crazy color schemes, even though we hear they know how bad they are as they refuse to put their guest into one painted with mismatched colors.
Feasel comes a day early and finds newspapers and wet paint signs all over, including where they put the guest register on the counter for him to sign. Uncle Joe has also brought in a singer named Smokey Harner, to entertain. Somehow, Betty Jo is allowed to dicker with him about how much he will be paid, and she gets him down to a workable price like an expert.
As we progress through the show, we learn that Smokey has a one-song repertoire, On Top of Old Smokey, the one song Mr. Feasel detests. Feasel is checking out early, totally unhappy with the hotel, including the miserable meals prepared by the girls.
Now the doc has pronounced Kate's ankle amazingly healed but she wants to stay in bed to let her family be proud that for once they are running the place nicely without her help. So Billie and Betty and Uncle Joe decide it will make sense to fool her into thinking the convention is still coming, to make her happy for now-as though she won't learn quickly from the total lack of guests, or income, when she finds out they didn't come. They play a record and make noises to fool Kate into thinking the 40 men have arrived. But Kate has decided to come down the stairs and let them see that she is healed, only to see they are fooling her. She quietly returns up the stairs and everyone looks sad.
We don't get any apologies, just cut to everyone, save for Bobbi Jo, sitting at the dining room table when Mr. Feasel returns. He explains that the 40 salesmen are all new and he wants them to start out with the worst hotel experience they will face so they'll be able to handle all the other bad places they will go to. Then he eats some food that Kate has cooked and loves it. Now he will not bring his convention there because the food is too good. Everyone laughs about how Kate's good cooking has ruined things.
Again, I don't see how these high school girls, raised helping Mom run a hotel that regularly serves meals, have not been taught anything about cooking by their mother. It made no sense to suddenly paint everything with company coming real soon-painting is time consuming, it takes some time to dry properly, and they had plenty to do with Mom out of commission to undertake such a thing at that time.
The Smokey character only knowing one song, but ready to open at a club in a nearby small town even though he only knows one song was not really funny, more of a distraction. Impossible to like much about this one-a 3 from me.
