A Firm Hand

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The Misadventures of Annie Moo

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Before anyone asks, no I'm not trying to encourage violence or brutality on children or animals in any way. In case some of you have forgotten, this is Mrs. Baker, one of the mother figures in my miniseries "The Misadventures of Annie Moo" which was inspired by many farm animal movies and shows, especially Home on the Range, comedies like I Love Lucy, and famous novels like Tom Sawyer. Mrs. Baker is the headstrong, naïve, strict, overprotective, firm farm lady who runs the farm and feeds all the animals. So she's a mixture of Aunt Polly, Ricky Ricardo, and Wilbur from "Mr. Ed" show, people who try their hardest to do what's best for someone who is troublesome, loopy, and mischievous which makes it difficult for them to not lose their temper enough to resort to disciplinary methods, depending on which time period the story takes place where such things were a common practice back then, even when you look at the show "Little House on the Prairie". So what is happening here? Well you might say Annie Moo is responsible for one of her shenanigans where she could have either endangered herself and the entire farm, nearly put the entire farm in debt where the bank almost foreclosed on the farm, caused unintentional damage to one of the neighbor's yard or equipment which is hardly replaceable, or might have been riding in some kind of machinery that got out of control which she had no business messing with in the first place, especially if it might have meant real damage to other properties that would get real costly. Once that happens, someone might have given Mrs. Baker advice or options on what to do about Annie Moo before she does anything reckless or damaging again, to which Mrs. Baker reluctantly takes up as she goes to find Annie Moo in the barn, hoping she can at least lecture her enough into understanding what her shenanigans caused and why most of the townspeople are mad about it, and what would have happened if the farm went into debt that she'd have to sell off the entire house, the farm, and the animals which she doesn't want to happen anytime, not even to Annie Moo. So before she takes the neighbor's advice, Mrs. Baker tries to talk some sense into Annie Moo and see how she responds to her words on what happened and why she feels upset and deeply disappointed about all that happened and would hate to having to resort to using a firm hand to get her point across. Which is why she at first tries reasoning with Annie Moo to show that regardless of how she behaves, she is still loved and will never be given away, and can tell what Annie's responses are by her body language that's she's been able to understand for years. When Annie's response comes off as a silent treatment, snort, or other negative reaction as if stubbornly refusing to admit any kind of faults, Mrs. Baker finally caves in to what she is about to do when telling Annie that she tried to be reasonable and fair, but if that's her response, there is only one other way to settle this, shaking her head shamefully as she goes to get the switch. But don't worry, according to anime English dubbed versions of Tom Sawyer and Swiss Family Robinson, such scenes were edited out of precaution just like it will be for my cartoon shorts.

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