My Donahue/Oakland Avenue mistake

There's a million reasons for me to go back through the episodes and listen to them.  On top of keeping tracking of a squillion insignificant doo-dads is the fact that some episodes have only been heard in order ONCE by me before I began the website.

Now I certainly have listened to each episode more than once but not always in order.

Therefore, despite the fact that Vic and Sade is not a serial and each episode is a "stand alone",  in fact, continuity does exist and if you are keeping track of such things, well you had better listen in order.

I say all of that to tell you that I made a mistake somewhere along the line.  I confused things on one episode with another and not only that, I simply made a mistake in what was said in the script.  And since I didn't check it at the time, it has snowballed and not only is one episode wrong but now there are at least two that I have that aren't correct.

I was under the impression that the Donahues had moved to a house on Oakland Avenue (when they moved and left coal in their house.)  But in episode 40-07-22 Mr. Donahue Asks for Demotion, we learn that the Donahue's had hoped have enough to build a house on Oakland Avenue.  Which leaves about a 99.99% probability that when they moved (and eventually moved back into their old house), they didn't move to Oakland Avenue!

So I made a mistake.  Sometimes my conjecture, sloppiness, speed, scope of work under my nose, planning, ideas and just being an overall half-wit will lead to mistakes.  I do plan on correcting each mistake I find.  I do want to be legit here.  I do want to preserve things as best as possible.  I do want to uphold the integrity of this fine series and the work done by all of those who have come before me.

I deplore making mistakes but they are inevitable in a project of this size and nature (imagine if I had all 3000+ shows to work with!)

And hopefully, this second straight run through the audio will eliminate all other problems that may exist.

The fouled-up episodes will be fixed today.

Notes solve a lot of mysteries - but not all

Just this week we have some old issues tied up thanks to notes from Barbara Schwarz. It's nice to have a resolution to questions from audio episodes and some from the notes themselves.

Some issues remain unresolved - like why did the Donahues move or threaten to move several times?  We suspect it's all about Mr. Erickson, the fact that he wouldn't fix up their house, plus the fact that Mr. Donahue's career was on the upswing and they wanted to move to Oakland Avenue, which apparently was Mis' Donahue's 'dream' (my words, but taking an inference from things said in various episodes.)

But the fact of the matter is, we don't know and we may never know, thanks to Proctor and Gamble - or the war effort.

[There's a funny surprise twist about Mr. Donahue coming in an episode very soon, probably today.]

There's another big mystery or two that will be resolved in The Crazy World before the end of the year.  Actually, one may be resolved in the Character website (which very, very few people bother to view despite the fact that I spend HOURS there working.)  I add stuff to characters from notes so even if you have viewed a regular character before, it's likely to have changed a bit since you've seen it.  There is stuff added all the time (especially since my last push which began near the end of October.)  And it's my guess is that I had added some 2500-5000 words to the various characters - many things that are NOT in The Crazy World and could only be found in notes.

But hey, you don't care about it, fine.

Anyway, many of the remaining episodes have very short notes pertaining to them.  I can see this as Schwarz seeing the end and wanting to finish...  Maybe, maybe not.

One day, maybe after I finish the episodes, I'll write a piece about the still unresolved mysteries of the show.  It would be nice if you thought of one, you could send me an email or leave a comment.