Walnut Grove gets its first optometry storyline (on the road to a much harsher eye journey), when sweet, studious Mary Ingalls realizes the blackboard has turned into a blurrier mystery than one of Nellie Oleson’s motives. Enter: glasses. Exit: Mary’s confidence.
While Ma and Pa cheerfully declare spectacles a sign of intelligence and awe (thanks, foks!), the kids at school, egged on by the nastiest of bullies, Nellie Oleson (with the help of Pinocchio-voiced Willy) are less evolved and immediately brand Mary “Four Eyes". Despite the fact that their own hottie teacher, Miss Beadle, wears glasses, Nellie convinces Mary that she will end up an old spinster. (The "sexy secretary" look apparently hadn't arrived yet in 1875).
Mary spirals into self-conscious misery, convinced she’s gone from “pretty” to “permanent book report.” And, whoopsie, the glasses are inconveniently "lost" in the wilderness! (But really just delicately placed in a hollow log).
In the end, Mary learns that seeing clearly beats fitting in, beauty isn’t canceled by eyewear (thanks to Miss Beadle's sexy sexy interaction with her beau!) and glasses are not, in fact, a moral failing. A gentle, heartfelt episode about insecurity, self-worth, and the radical idea that being able to see is… good.
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