The Legend of Black Jake

A pair of bumbling crooks kidnaps Nels and holds him for ransom. However, Mrs. Olesen refuses to pay the $100 fee required to free her husband, so Nels decides to work with the crooks to get his revenge. In the process, nearly everyone in Walnut Grove finds themselves on the wrong side of the criminals.

Funniest episode. I love this episode.

Funny scenes


Mrs. Olsen fainted after finding out Mr. Olsen has been kidnapped.

Mrs Olsen & the robbers going back & forth, ransom note.

Mr Olsen, pretending to be Black Jake & The ghost of Nels Olsen.

I love it, when Nancy & Willie are trying to rob the bank. Nancy like do you have the gun? Willie ate the gun licorice gun.


Reverend Alden & Dr. Baker robbing the bank. (While Charles & Almanzo thinks their the real robbers.)

All of them, tied up walking into town, tied up.

Harriet, Nancy fainted after seeing Nels. Willie ask him, if he wants go fishing? Nels say sure.

Proving once again that I have no sense of humor, I can't even watch this one. It's too silly for me. It's like For the Love of Blanche. The writers seemed to want to lighten things up and went overboard.

Cool ending, with Willie wanting to go fishing as if nothing ever happened. I like the fact that Nancy was at least in it, even though she did not appear in every Season 8 episode.

This was a awesome episode.It was very funny.You can watch this one over and over. I like the trick mr. olsens plays on mrs olsend about him being dead. The ending is good. lol

This was totaly out of charater for Nels IMO

Harrietfan wrote:

This was totaly out of charater for Nels IMO

Ya,But i don't blame him.

I agree..Ha ha It's funny when they're all tied up walking into town...

MRS. Olesn really thought nels was dead.lol

sweetkrissy2011 wrote:

MRS. Olesn really thought nels was dead.lol

I love the part where he tries to appear as a ghost.

It is classic how Willie is so nonchalant about seeing his father alive. Willie made a great transition from a brat to a down-to-earth likable character during Season 8.

alexczarn wrote:

sweetkrissy2011 wrote:

MRS. Olesn really thought nels was dead.lol

I love the part where he tries to appear as a ghost.

Me too

I did not care for this silly episode. I did re watch t yesterday and I still was not crazy about it

I love this episode. Nels prettending to be a ghost was funny.

Spanky wrote:

I love this episode. Nels prettending to be a ghost was funny.

That part was good.

There are to kind of LHOP episodes there are the sad, deep tearjerkers, and really silly goofy ones. I tend to like the sad ones more, but I liked this one. My sister, Kayla really likes the silly ones, and I find myself re watching a lot of those episodes with her. She really likes this one, and "Lake Kezia Monster" Both really silly!

jessicamarie wrote:

There are to kind of LHOP episodes there are the sad, deep tearjerkers, and really silly goofy ones. I tend to like the sad ones more, but I liked this one. My sister, Kayla really likes the silly ones, and I find myself re watching a lot of those episodes with her. She really likes this one, and "Lake Kezia Monster" Both really silly!

Well then I'm like your sister haha! I like the silly episodes more to be honest, and I did like this one!

I don't care for most of seasons 8 and 9, but this one is so gosh darn funny! After all these years of being henpecked, Nels gets his revenge.
That should have been the episode title, "Nels' Revenge."

Although "The Nephews" is the funniest of the series, "Black Jake" is worthy of honorable mention.

This was a very strange episode... But I really liked it! The crooks were really stupid. I love the whole thing where Nels pretends to have died because Harriet wouldn't give the ransom money, and the whole town believes it! The very best part was when Nels comes into the Mercantile whistling as if nothing ever happened! Harriet and Nancy both faint, and Willie just asks him if he wants to go fishing!

I agree LauraIngallsfan. The crooks weren't that smart. It was strange, but funny.

This is one episode that Nancy wasn't being mean or plotting bad stuff. The only bad thing was to rob the bank to get the ransom money for her parents to released from the kidnappers.

I love this show! I especially like how Nels outsmarts Harriet (she gets on my last nerves everyday)

I also found this show good for a good laugh! I like how the thieves are so stupid and how "Nels' Ghost" visits Harriet after they kidnap her. I also find it really funny how the crooks do so much just for a little bit of money!

It is one of my favorites. Harriet also gets on my nerves and so does Nancy.

I have not seen this episode yet but it is on the dvd I am watching right now, so I think this one will be the next episode I watch. But the episode description sounds interesting so I am looking forward to watching it.