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Alice Sprains Her Ankle
Jimmy_the_Gent430 August 2020
Mike and the kids need to handle the housework while Carol is visiting her sick aunt and Alice is laid up in bed due to a sprained ankle.

An amusing episode for Season 1. Cindy gets some of the funniest bits as she burns toast and drops a salad. Alice also get depressed because she can't go to the Meatcutter's Ball with Sam. The kids all work together after first messing everything up.
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3/10
Unbelievable episode
aqueckboerner13 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This entire episode is unbelievable. Mike, who does absolutely nothing in the kitchen except maybe dishes thinks he's going to be able to help get the kids to do the work when Alice falls and sprains her ankle is unbelievable. What, does he just assume the kids are going to magically be able to know how to cook and clean up when they've never had to do so before? What was Mike thinking? He wasn't even in the kitchen supervising the girls when they made breakfast and dropped it on the floor. Cindy could have burned the house down because she didn't even know how to operate the toaster. Mike is supposedly this awesome tv dad but he didn't even make the boys help the girls with breakfast. Instead he rewards them by giving them cash to buy breakfast somewhere. That's not being a good dad!

Then we are to believe the kids magically made a huge dinner for Alice and Mike when they had no idea how to cook, let alone organize it. This was just not believable. Jan is left to doing laundry and overfills it with too much detergent. Again, no supervision or instruction. Could Alice have not gotten crutches or a wheelchair to help supervise the kids doing the work? Come on now! You cannot just leave kids to figure things out like this on their own. They could destroy the house or burn it down. Poor parenting!
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