And They Call it Puppy Love | |
Season 3, episode 7 | |
Air date | November 10, 1989 |
Writer(s) | Rob Dames |
Director | Bill Foster |
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And They Call it Puppy Love is episode seven of season three. It originally aired on November 10, 1989.
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As Michelle is about to eat a sandwich, Danny asks her if she wants to help him separate the laundry. He tells her that colors go in one pile and whites go in another. So, as he goes to get more dirty clothes, she puts a slice of white bread on the white pile and the lettuce and tomato on the colors pile.
Synopsis[]
In the backyard, Joey is reading a newspaper and listening to music with headphones, and Michelle comes in pulling along a toy dog on wheels when a golden retriever (named Minnie) enters and takes Joey's PB&J sandwich. Michelle watches with her mouth wide open. When he goes to take a bite, he accuses Michelle of taking it, but she says, "The doggy ate it." He thinks that she means her toy dog. But then the (real) dog comes back.
The girls want to keep Minnie, but Danny is not sure that he should allow that. With Minnie around, he does not want the family to be fooled by her look of innocence on the outside, as on the inside is a "jungle beast". But no one is thinking that, as so far, the house is intact, and nothing's been destroyed by Minnie as of yet. But the only thing that she does destroy is Michelle's tower of blocks.
Jesse is not exactly thrilled when Minnie picks his bed, of all places, to give birth to a litter of puppies.
Minnie's owner, Frank Flood, who is from Ohio, arrives to pick up Minnie after the guys call the number on Minnie's tag and tell Frank where Minnie is at. Frank, after arriving and retrieving Minnie, decides to give the family one of the puppies in return, and Danny allows the girls to accept the puppy from Frank. Michelle chooses the one who loves Jesse's bed.
Jesse loses his driver's license when it expires, and he says Danny's not driving him to the DMV to renew it because Danny "drives like an old lady". He decides to take his motorcycle with him, but Danny threatens to take away the keys to that if he doesn't get his license renewed ASAP. In any case, he ends up failing the driver's exam because he cheated on it the first time. So, he has to retake the exam, and he is not sure of his chances of passing it this time.
Trivia[]
- The episode title is the first line from the chorus of the song "Puppy Love" (Paul Anka, 1960; Donny Osmond, 1972)
- Minnie is played by a male dog.
- A couple of the screenshots from this episode can be found on the 2nd Season DVD box set (probably a mistake)
- This is the first episode in which the family dog Comet appears, although he does not yet have a name.
- Michelle's toy dog is similar to Slinky Dog from the Toy Story movies.
Goofs[]
- Just before Minnie runs into Michelle's room, Michelle is seen setting blocks on buckets. When Minnie comes in, Michelle is now sitting too far away from the buckets to have reached them. Then when Minnie runs into them, she knocks one bucket down. In the next shot, that bucket is standing upright again and there is a different assortment of blocks on the other one.
- When Michelle runs out of her room, a camera wire can be seen on the bottom right of the screen.
- When Joey sets his sandwich down, it is toward the edge of the plate. When Minnie picks it up, it is near the middle and the crust is darker than before.
- When Jesse discovers Minnie in his bed, a stain on his shirt disappears between shots.
- When the girls lead Minnie and the puppies into the living room, one puppy can be seen walking at the rear. It disappears between shots.
- Minnie's dog tag says that she lives in Ohio, but Jesse later asks her owner if he can drive the girls to visit the puppies once in a while. This would be impossible given his family and work obligations and that the Ohio state border is 2,300 miles from San Francisco.
- Danny tells Stephanie that he checked in on the local animal shelter in San Francisco and that nobody reported Minnie missing. However, in the beginning, Joey reads from Minnie's tag that she is from Ohio. Her owner's address and possibly a phone number are likely on there as well, which negates the need to call the animal shelter. It's also unlikely that the owner would report Minnie missing to an animal shelter in California.
- At the beginning of the episode, when Joey takes a bite of his sandwich you can see how he meant to put it at the end of the plate, so it was easier for Minnie to eat it.