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Episode that always bothered me.


When Sam's cousin comes to town after finishing her service in the military. Those ladies at the town social are so rude to her when she accidentally messes up the cake. There are much worse problems in the world than how a centerpiece looks at a town gathering. They act like it's the end of the world. I always felt the old hags should've been put in their place and told off, not only for being so nasty to the poor woman for making a mistake, but also for disrespecting a veteran. Rotten old biddies!

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She did take on a job that she probably shouldn't have because she had no idea what she was doing but the women were so rude and dismissive to her and acted like she didnt even exist. She had an opportunity to help out and she took it I don't blame her. They sure wanted an elaborate cake tho and were so anal about the cake being so perfect and acted like the whole event centered around the cake....a cake thats gonna be cut up at eaten anyway.

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Still trying to figure

Is that the one
where her cake
is so gluey
that they use it
to plaster posters
to the wall

Or does that one
come from
a different episode
or
a different series

Sitcoms
often try to
go to extreme lengths
to stretch a gag

This one must be
that the lady
was away from cilvilization
for so long
that she cannot bake
a straight cake
to present
to the Homefront ladies

Try that one today right

especially
with returning vet

Not a pretty picture
these days right

But
by the same token
try taking a cake
to any town hall social
whether homemade
or store bought
or assembly line restaurant stuff

And just step aside
and hide behind someone fluffy
to listen
to those town hall social ladies
tear it apart
tear you apart
tear your oven apart
tear your shopping trip apart
and tear your assembly line
restaurant trip apart
all apart

That just goes to show
that there's no way to win
over those town hall social ladies
not even if you return
from Confederate Battlefiends
with your forehead all bandaged
and your arm in a sling
and your leg in a splint

Try baking a cake that way right
but no matter what
they're going to pick on your cake
whether it sticks to the wall
or slants over the hillside
or floats over their punch
or melts in their freezer

just cannot win
just cannot win
just cannot win those feuds

Thus
no matter who tries
really hard to do some good
they're going to pick on you

So just be sure
to wear those plastic aprons
when the food fights break out
at town hall socials

And that is all because
even in church
even in church!
they're going to pick
on your cake
and no minister
priest nor rabbi
can champion ever donor

Which just goes to show
that you need to teach
the Clergy
how to store up
a bunch of wisecracks

And if that don't
take the cake
then it's high time
to pick on the pie

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♪  Not even Mad Scientists
get it right every time

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I think you're referring to the episode where Opie and his friend make a gossip newspaper based on comments from the adults. Early in the episode, Aunt Bea jokes that a woman in town makes chicken a la king that tastes like wallpaper paste. The joke ends up being on her though, because when she goes to the woman's house to take the newspaper Opie left, containing the chicken a la king insults, she's forced to ask the woman for the recipe as a cover. The woman then says she'll do her one better and she can bring Andy and Opie to dinner since she has a whole casserole left over.

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