Melissa Gilbert Goes Disco With Two Bottoms

Those are some amazing locks. With hair like that, who needs talent?

Gurl ! I mean GURL! Who the hell thought this was a good idea?????

Knickers...I can't.

Dick Clark’s Live Wednesday?

I have it on good word that, after this production, she came after the dancer on her right, enraged that he missed a "Whoo" lipsynch. He was traumatized by how badly she beat him with her shit training-bra.

Half pint, Noooooooooo!

No roller skates?

Two bottoms bell bottoms?

Their oxfords tried to make a comeback in 2018 .

I prefer their more stovepipe legs to over flared stuff I see this season.

We could resuscitate jazzercise if we let older gents skip and prance. Probably a few broken hips. All for art and health.

You're not in Walnut Grove any more, bitches!

This is just terrible.

Sweet Jesus!

That's one very concealed shitbra.

Melissa Sue Anderson saw this and laughed. And laughed. And laughed.

Who's the tone-deaf leprechaun hanging out with Adam and Steve?

What talent!

The choreography needs more gyration, a bit of tongue-flicking, and lots of crotch-grabbing, IMO.

They really tried hard to make her happen post-Little House. But she just faded and got married.

Triple threat, I wonder if this was her informal "audition" for the Annie movie

I don’t know why she didn’t become the next Donna Summer.

I think I heard this at '54, or maybe that was the qualuudes taking.

Well she's not as graceful as the two boys but she can move. Her singing sounds like a double vocal. And what's with the tie?

Finally, a chance for her to put those stupid damn dance lessons I paid for to good use. Too bad I can't say the same about the voice lessons.

Wasn't too she old to play Annie?

Kristy McNichol and other "aging out" kiddie stars tried this route.

Results may vary.

She had Tim Scott gums before they were cool.

The Girl Scout vest paired with newsboy knickers was a popular fashion trend of the cocaine era, because it screamed, “SELL THOSE COOKIES! GO, GO, GO!”

Did Kristy McNichol sing?

Back to the prairie with ya!

I’m glad you asked, R28.

Oh yes

[quote] Wasn't too she old to play Annie?

They were going to age Annie up to sixteen and change Miss Hannigan's orphanage to a bordello. The studio was fine with the update to hold onto Gilbert's untested but considerably major box office appeal, but balked at refreshed opening number, "Hard Cock Life." Of equal concern was Daddy Warbucks assuring Annie she was safe with him via his ode to masturbation, "I Don't Need Anything But Lube". The chorus to "We've Got Annie" was equally problematic ("Who Hasn't Had Her Already? *)

Still don’t know how she got Rob Lowe.

<- She got MMF threesomes for him with guys who wanted to fuck Half-Pint.

She loves the nightlife, she's got to boogie

She certainly was a homely girl. And that voice! Yeesh.

she sounds like she took a hit of helium

No robot.

I’m sorry but she’s no Danielle Brisbois.

Danielle's natural voice sounds pretty good, considering there was no autotuning going on like there is these days.

Danielle was actually in the Broadway cast of “Annie,” as orphan #2, I believe.

She (Brisebois) also had a successful songwriting career from the early nineties through 2010s.

I thought Danielle was Phylicia Rachad in that clip.

Kristy and Jimmy tried the sibling duet thing on their show.

I learned all of those steps in Miss Ludie's basement, but I never thought I would see them done on TV.

This is why Mary went blind.

R41, Danielle was the original Molly on Broadway, which I believe is what got her the gig on All in the Family/Archie Bunker's Place. She was a super cute kid. OP's post just screams, "I have an overbearing stage mother who will exploit her little angel as many ways as possible." I would have loved to see the rehearsals for this "number" as Half-pint's deer in the headlights expression through much of the choreography, suggests not a natural aptitude for dance to go along with her glaring lack of vocal talent.

Has anyone got the video of young Sara Gilbert's hip hop version of "Big Spender"?

What was the roller skating sequence in Danielle's video? Loved how she was singing a little ahead of the band and they were desperate to keep up.

R44 - is Jimmy singing in that clip or faking it? all I can hear is Kristy.

The clip of Jonathan Gilbert singing "Push, Push, In The Bush" has sadly been lost to time.

The queen with the mustache sitting in front of Dick Clark is THRILLED for this before it begins.

Kim Fields was also on Bandstand without roller skates. What a missed opportunity!

Why? Ha! Ha!

R41- There's a video on youtube of the 1980 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade- Danielle is on the Ocean Spray parade float singing Tomorrow from Annie. She was only 11 years old at the time and sings beautifully. I was really impressed.

Here is the video. She starts singing at 1 hour 25 minutes and 29 seconds.

R36- Wrong.

She looked absolutely adorable there.

You're on the wrong thread. We are not talking about Lens Dunham.

r56 you're blind. She has huge buck teeth and a terrible voice.

I'm glad you love your days watching Little House and thinking Half Pint was the MOST, but...NOPE. This was a horrible performance, and she was indeed homely. Much the way Kristy McNichol was on Family and everything else.

I'm almost sure you're the person who kept arguing about Kristy a few months back. It's fine for you to love them, but in all honesty, neither of them were attractive. they were really awkward looking kids.

R57- Yes, I agree about Kristy she was not at all conventionally attractive back then especially compared to her tv sister Nancy Maitland- who was very pretty bordering on beautiful BUT

Laura Ingalls/ Melissa Gilbert was a very cute girl at that time- I'm not a Lesbian I'm a gay male but still.

[R55], did you catch that Dean Butler (Almanzo -LHOTP) performed before DB? Great clip!

Laura and Mary

Oh my god, Melissa Gilbert vs Melissa Sue Anderson. Gilbert was an annoying little fuck and Anderson was beautiful and poised.

They were aiming for “precocious” with kids at that point. In Living Color” did skits about it.

[quote]Melissa Gilbert Goes Disco With Two Bottoms

Two bottoms is an understatement!

R59- It’s funny that the clip I posted about Danielle has Almonzo singing right before her considering this thread is about Melissa Gilbert.

What a contrast- Dean CANNOT sing at all - he’s awful

Then we have Danielle at only 11 years old belting out Tomorrow. She’s so adorable in this video with her slightly cross eyes.

Love the “Whoooooo”s

Two things -1. MG has AMAZING hair! 2. She must be in incredible shape. She wasn’t even out of breath after all that dscoing!

I thought she did a good job. I was entertained.