20 hours ago, Jodithgrace said:

Knowing PBS, the whole thing was explained during the scenes they cut out.

I believe the Christmas special (or as PBS styles it, the Holiday special) is the only one that we get that's not edited.

20 hours ago, txhorns79 said:

I just hope Collette is used sparingly, because I don't want to see time taken from the other characters.

20 hours ago, txhorns79 said:

I thought this was a good way of describing the episode: "scattered."  I do want to tell the writers that it is okay if not every character has something to do in a given episode.    

This is a show that has a huge cast of regular characters, plus stories of the week. Half-hour sitcoms usually have A and B plots, and hour-long dramas often A, B, and C plots, but yeah, CTM always seems to add a letter or two. The episodes were less hectic in the early seasons, perhaps because the plots were largely lifted from Jennifer Worth's memoirs.

4 hours ago, Driad said:

The only couple I sort of know who had quadruplets also gave them names starting with A, B, C, and D, as the parents in this episode did.  I hope the local store carries nail polish in several colors, to help tell the babies apart.

Funny story, when we were in our teens I knew two sisters who were two-thirds of a set of triplets, and one of them told me her parents had planned to do A, B, and C names and picked out boy and girl names for each possibility. They were Betsy and Cindy — and their first-born brother was Michael, because their parents simply could not agree on how to spell their A name (Alan vs. Allen). 

I was glad that there was a quick mention early on about setting up the Shelbys with resources for after the birth of their "twins," because they'll (literally) doubly need them with four newborns.

When Shelagh kept looking worried as she listened for Toni's baby's heartbeat (again and again, as Toni kept talking), of course I was worried about a full-term stillbirth. But as someone said above, we can't have a sad ending in the Christmas special.

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