Category: Humor
Stay out of Trouble (by Jenny G)
Summary: Mrs. Hennesey’s Trading Post and Whiskey Emporium provides the Cartwright boys with shelter from some nasty weather and quite a lot more than they expected, or Adam wanted. A comedy of errors.
Rating: T (9,800 words)
Three Brides for Three Brothers (by Monette)
Synopsis: At age 16 Joe is already smug about the number of girls he dates, and teases his brothers about being too slow to get hitched. Hoss and Adam find the perfect vengeance when a widow woman and her three daughters come looking for Ben’s help with her son’s unjust guilty verdict. Ben is suspicious, but when he eventually catches on not only to what the elderly woman was up to but also why Adam and Hoss have planned such an elaborate party celebration, he sits backs and waits for the fun.
Rating: Teen
Words: 12,477
Death of Letter S (by the Tahoe Ladies)
Summary: We saw it happen in The Gift, first of all. Then in Ponderosa Explosion, and again in The Stallion. Made us wonder what the others thought. This should explain it, somewhat. Maybe…..
Rating: T (1,515 words)
No Winning (by the Tahoe Ladies)
Summary: A casual question ties Ben in knots.
Rating: K+ (1,060 words)
The Cartwright Family (by LindaBl)
Synopsis: A cute new song about the Cartwrights
Rating: G Words: 270
Recollections of a Hairpiece (by Lily of the West)
Summary: an uncredited member of the Bonanza Cast finally gets to tell his story
Rated: K+ (1,105 words)
Little Joe’s Island (by LindaBl)
Synopsis: Little Joe has another crazy dream. All the Cartwrights and Hop Sing are aboard the Dixie I when it is shipwrecked. [It is a comedy parody which combines Bonanza and Gilligan’s Island]. There’s even a song you can sing along 🙂
Rating: G Words: 1730
The Wizard of POZ meets the Ponderosa (by LindaBl)
Summary: A funny parody of Bonanza and The Wizard of Oz
Rating: G
Fountain of Youth (by DebbieB & JennieA)
Summary: With Marie away in San Francisco, Ben is left to the mercies of his three young sons. Will he survive or die of embarrassment first? Will his resolve stand strong or will he crumble under the pressure? Can he out think a three year old when his older sons provide no moral support and seems to always be laughing at him behind his back? Ben has asked himself these same questions more than once since Marie went away.
Rated: PG (5, 300 words)
To Keep the Vultures at Bay (by Helen A)
Summary: What the boys go through To Keep the Vultures at Bay.
Rating: K (1,475 words)
The Friendship – A Parody (by LissaB)
Summary: What happened after the director yelled cut, or worse yet, what was left on the cutting room floor.
Rating: K+ (1,185 words)
Adventures Inn (by JennieA)
Summary: Little Joe gets lost in a blizzard but finds out being by himself really isn’t so bad. Features the entire family.
Rated: G (9,850 words)
The Great Aunts (by KateP)
Summary: Ben’s aunts visit the Ponderosa – a story suggested when I became a great-aunt for the first time and someone said that Great-Aunt Kate sounded like a Bonanza character.
Rated: K+ (7,525 words)
Seeing Sta*s (by Lily of the West)
Summary: A silly little follow-up to Enter Mark Twain.
Rated: K+ (845 words)
Topsy Turvy (by JennieA & DebbieB)
Summary: When seventeen year old Joe wakes, the sun is shining bright, the birds are singing and everything is prefect in his world, that is until his bedroom door is pushed opened by a strangle little kid who looks somewhat like his older brother, Hoss. Ben suddenly appears, babe in arms and when his father refers to the infant as Little Adam, Joe realizes that his world has just been turned Topsy Turvy.
Rated: G (9,300 words)
