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8. Jan, the Only Child

Fed up with the number of people in the household, Jan voices her desire to be an only child. The other kids oblige and treat her that way, but Jan changes her tune when she's excluded from the other kids' activities.

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Jan complains about the lack of privacy and personal space, and declares she wants to become an only child. Her angered siblings teach her a lesson; they grant her wish by ignoring her and staying out of her way. Meanwhile in the subplot, the family plans a square dance at a Hoedown party, and Alice and Carol compete by making strawberry preserves for the dance. Note: This episode caused an argument on-set between Robert Reed and Sherwood Schwartz over lines in the script, particularly a line about Mike remarking on how the kitchen smells like "Strawberry heaven", to which Reed insisted cooked strawberries don't have any odor.

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