They why, pray tell, would Harmony Toys market a LAVERNE & SHIRLEY Secretary set? I don't think they were ever employed as office workers, but I could be wrong. Even then, why...oh why would each item in this "set" be of a different scale? It looks like there's a yellow princess phone and clipboard that are relatively in the same proportion, but then there's a book & trophy case that looks much smaller and a ruler and calculator that are absolutely huge compared to everything else. I guess one could argue that the ruler needed to be a certain size to avoid choking, but unless the calculator really worked (which it clearly doesn't) , why would it need to be so large? Also - they didn't have calculators during the late 1950s, early 1960s when the show was set! These things bother me. In fact what bothers me most are the two items I cannot identify. The white plastic object with red buttons looks like another phone, or answering machine - which are also NOT period accurate and the other white item looks like a dirty cigarette or a rolled up dollar bill (for sniffing coke?)! Basically what we have here is a bunch of plastic crap left over from other toys that they decided to package and sell as a LAVERENE & SHIRLEY playset. I'm not amused.
