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Melissa Gilbert<\/strong><\/a> has entered the chat regarding Jason Bateman<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s allegations that he experienced hazing on the Little House on the Prairie<\/em> set.<\/p>\n \u201cWho? Who did this to you?!?! I will kick their tush\u2026.no one smacks down my little bro ! @people #iwillcutabitch,\u201d the actress wrote alongside a repost<\/a> from People<\/em>\u2019s Instagram page after Bateman, 56, made the claims on a September 18 episode of Hot Ones<\/em><\/a>. (Gilbert, 61, portrayed Laura Ingalls Wilder on the series, while Bateman played James Cooper Ingalls, her onscreen little brother.)<\/p>\n During the Hot Ones<\/em> episode, host Sean Evans<\/strong> asked Bateman if it was true that “the older kids in the cast played an April Fool’s joke on you by telling you that your character had died.”<\/p>\n Bateman said that while that rumor was \u201cuntrue,\u201d he did allegedly experience other crazy antics on set.<\/p>\n Melora Hardin Says \u2018Little House on the Prairie\u2019 Star Michael Landon Knew How to Talk to Kid Actors<\/a><\/p>\n “What they did do is they pinned me down on the ground, straddled me with knees on my shoulders and gave me noogies or whatever they call it on my chest,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n Evans, 39, then asked, “There was a hazing ritual on Little House on the Prairie<\/em><\/a>?” to which Bateman responded, “Yeah.”<\/p>\n Bateman said that “they knocked on my chest like I was a front door.\u201d In the end, though, it was actually Bateman who got the last laugh.<\/p>\n “I went to the makeup artist and said, ‘Put a big black-and-blue mark all over my chest,'” he recalled. “And then I went to their parents and I said, ‘Look what your kids did to me.’ And that was good. I got them in trouble.”<\/p>\n