The Mothers-In-Law (TV Series) A Little Pregnancy Goes a Long Way (1968) User Reviews

Craving Morning Sickness

[wes-connors · 6/10 · 26 December 2016]

An expectant mother doesn't have to have weird food cravings and morning sickness, according to Suzy's doctor. Suzy (Deborah Walley) doesn't have them until Eve (Eve Arden) and Kaye (Kaye Ballard) start recalling their own pregnancies. Kaye's pickled pigs-feet topped with whipped cream and raw oysters makes Suzy feel sick. Eve adds sauerkraut to her yogurt, chicken livers and fudge sauce. Now, Suzy is having cravings and morning sickness. Jerry (Jerry Fogel) complains to Roger (Richard Deacon) and Herb (Herbert Rudley) about the meddling mothers-in-law and they suspect a trip to Hawaii is being arranged. This episode is fairly typical, with misunderstandings tied to the baby storyline.

****** A Little Pregnancy Goes a Long Way (9/29/68) Elliott Lewis ~ Eve Arden, Kaye Ballard, Deborah Walley, Herbert Rudley

Everything You Were Told Is Wrong

[richard.fuller1 · 6/10 · 2 September 2012]

This was a really strange little episode, showing how the sixties pretty much played out; everything the older generation was told was incorrect, the younger generation knew better.

I'm surprised the baby boomers didn't have a new way for having sex, tho granted, they all seemed to believe their parents never loved one another.

But in this episode, the three women, Kaye, Eve and Suzy are talking about morning sickness.

"Oh, Mother, Dr. OB says that morning sickness is all in your mind." Having witnessed a female go thru it, I definitely know that isn't true, but then the same is said about cravings (peculiarly called the craves here).

I was rather befuddled. I was astonished the younger generations still believed it takes nine months to have a baby.

"Oh, mother, that's just to keep you fat and lazy. It only takes a week to have a child now." In truth, this is how it was in the hippy sixties. I just haven't seen it so blatantly tossed out in a show like that in a while, I guess. It sounded fairly amusing.

As for the rest of the story, for some strange reason, a man surprising his wife with a cruise to Hawaii caused Kaye and Eve to believe their husbands would do the same for them. Even after the husbands said they weren't.

"Oh, they are just trying to surprise us." Really odd episode, but that "Oh, mother, Dr. OBGYN says" bit had me amused.

If the pregnancy cravings don't make you sick, you weren't listening.

[mark.waltz · 7/10 · 22 February 2021]

Banana split with radishes? Cold chicken livers with sauerkraut juice? Covered in fudge sauce? You get the drift. Overplayed comedy just for the "eew" factor since Suzy is pregnant and Kay and Eve end up with pregnancy cravings. Eve and Kay are concerned about the eight stressful things things about pregnancy which, for the grandfathers to be, knocks two things off the list they were aware of being at the top of the list.

Herb and Roger decide to find a way to get the grandmothers to be off that list as well and out of the way, not an easy task. Misunderstandings galore make Kay and Eve think that they're going to Hawaii, and of course this leads to some over the top physical comedy with some funny visuals. A bit far fetched and even convoluted, but funny in spite of those bizarre twists.