Green Acres knowledge base

[BurtWorm]

How much do you know about the show Green Acres? Let's assemble an encyclopedia of Green Acres knowledge one fact at a time.

I'll start: It took place in Hooterville.

[wyldwolf]

1. Its the place to be!

[Semi_subversive]

14. Faaarrrm livin' is the life for me ....

nt

[Red State Rebel]

2. It was a spinoff of Petticoat Junction

[not_in_my_name]

4. Where women

swam in the water supply . . .

[Red State Rebel]

11. I always found that strange too....

[Racenut20]

17. That was the water tank for the train, not the well for drinking.

[mac56]

30. No wonder they called it "Hooterville".

:evilgrin:

[BiggJawn]

45. I would've drank it!

:evilgrin:

Shame the phone guy didn't have an extra 12' of wire when he hooked up the Douglas' telephone.

Must have been GTE or CenturyTel....

[Maple]

3. Eva Gabor

had the perfect solution for dirty dishes.

[BurtWorm]

42. She threw them out the window, right?

Or did she feed them to Arnold the pig?

[Maple]

63. She threw

them out the window...which was always conveniently open.

I always thot it was a great way to get rid of dirty dishes.

Cost you a fortune tho! :D

[XNASA]

5. Oliver Wendell Douglas and Lisa Douglas...

were the featured couple.

[BurtWorm]

6. What was their helper's name?

[Champion Jack]

8. Eb

[Skittles]

7. Oliver Douglas tried really hard to be a farmer

but he SUCKED. :7

[BurtWorm]

26. He was better at being a Park Ave. lawyer.

I always thought it was interesting that the show switched the enthusiasms of Oliver and Lisa for city and country between the theme song and the show itself. In the song, Oliver is brimming with excitement about a move the sophisticated Lisa is dreading, but in the show, it's Oliver who is alien in Hooterville, and Lisa fits right in!

[not_in_my_name]

9. Mr. Haney (sp?)

taught the bush crime family how to sell a whole bunch of crap to people at an outrageous price.

[BurtWorm]

15. Agriculture department agent Mr. Kimball

was a more competent government official than the average Bush appointee.

[Champion Jack]

10. Arnold was the talking pig

who was owned by the Ziffles

[BurtWorm]

12. But only the Ziffles could hear him?

Or was it that only Oliver and the audience couldn't hear him?

[Champion Jack]

23. Hmmmmm good one

I think Oliver was the only one who couldn't understand him.

[Elidor]

13. Greeeeeeeeeeeeen acres is the place to be!

Faaaaaaaaaaarm livin' is the life for me!
Land - spreadin' out so far and wide!
Keep Manhattan just gimme that countryside!

New York is where I'd rather stay!
I get allergic smellink hay!
I just adore a penthouse view
Darlin' I love ya but gimme Park Avenue!

Fresh Air!
Times Square!
The chores!
The stores!

You are my wife!
Goodbye city life!
Green acres we are theeeeeeere!

[not_in_my_name]

16. Great!

I'm gonna have that song on my mind the rest of the day!

[Palacsinta]

18. Help me! The carpenter "brothers"?

The sister-brother was sweet on Hank Kimbel? Can't think of their names!

[BurtWorm]

19. I'm having the same trouble.

[Champion Jack]

20. Alf and ralph?

[not_in_my_name]

21. I think her name

was Ralph - but don't remember the last name.

[grannylib]

22. The big holiday in Hooterville was "Old Mail Day"

All the mail that had fallen behind the counter was cleaned out and delivered...days, weeks, months, late....

[BurtWorm]

24. Haha!

:thumbsup:

[pdx_prog]

35. monroe

Twas the Monroe brothers....:)

[supernova]

55. Thank You

I've been trying to remember her name for forever. Especially this AM when we were talking about theme songs that get you going.

I really identified with Ralph

[not_in_my_name]

25. Sam Drucker

I think he ran the general store in Hooterville - or was the store in Petticoat Junction?

[BurtWorm]

27. I think it was both, actually.

[not_in_my_name]

57. Lisa started a beauty salon

in Drucker's store.

[not_in_my_name]

28. Their phone

was on top of a telephone pole outside the house.

[BurtWorm]

29. Fred Ziffel looks like Captain Beefheart

[BurtWorm]

31. Lisa's favorite recipe was for flapjacks

which were inedible.

[not_in_my_name]

32. And I think she used

Hal's Hotcake Flour.

[BurtWorm]

33. Dang! That's good!

Getting under the Green Acres surface for the real arcana! Excellent.

Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[grannylib]

34. And she called them "hotcakes"

It was about the only thing she could cook and she did it poorly....

[grannylib]

36. The very first episode was narrated

Kind of like the intro to the TV show "The Odd Couple" and it had Oliver trying to farm on the balcony of his penthouse, in containers.

[BurtWorm]

39. Wow! You're good!

Did you write your thesis on Green Acres?

[grannylib]

62. No but I co-own videotapes of the entire series

About 10 of us went in together and bought the whole dang lot on video, and we share 'em

[tekriter]

40. actually it was "hotscakes" with the extra "s"

and do you remember when Oliver used leftover hotscakes to make....


I'm gonna wait for somebody to guess.

[Mr. Jinx]

60. And in one episode the opening credits kept appearing on them

And Lisa couldn't figure out where the words were coming from...

[BurtWorm]

61. I remember that!

It was sort of like ur-Python!

[pdx_prog]

37. They were "hots cakes"...lol

[Richardo]

38. And the power was "electricicle"

:D

[CO Liberal]

48. All The Appliances Had Numbers

And if they added up to more than seven, they'd blow a fuse.

Which happened every time Lisa tried to cook.

[Richardo]

53. I forgot about that - hilarious...

:D

[Andy_Stephenson]

68. and they were pink

That god awful pink.


edit: Pepto Pink

[catmandu57]

51. Sarah was the switchboard operater

Oliver decided too raise hell with the phone co. so he could finally get the phone inside the house. Sahar and son gave the phone co. to Oliver who hired an illeagal alien from Mr. Haney to operate the switchboard. She was snarly and ill tempered whenever anyone was rude she said "I'm gonna pull your plug" and did cutiing people off.
That and going through the closet to get outside, all the Park Ave furniture in the rundown farmhouse.

[Bunny]

70. cosmeteticals

lisa's makeup.

[Richardo]

41. But you could use the cut-out as a head gasket for the tractor...

:D

[tekriter]

44. BING!!! we have a winner...

n/t

[pdx_prog]

43. To me

Hank Kimbell was the funniest. Eb was quite funny....perfect fit just like Jethro Bodine was for thr hillbillies (best damn show ever).

The premise of green acres was that everyone was crazy except for Mr. Douglas.....this situation worked well for Bob Newheart twice!

Caught Norm McDonalds new show the other night.....same premise there too. Grows quite old after a while.....Newheart did it best.

[BurtWorm]

50. He was my favorite too. He had a catch phrase that I can't quite remember.

I keep misremembering it as Don Adam's "Would you believe...?" It was something to show how weak a grasp he had on his own knowledge base...sort of like me, today!

[Richardo]

52. Well, he would correct everything he'd say...

...Well, not EVERYTHING.
Every so often he'd get a sentence right.
Well, MORE than every so often. More like "occasionally".
Well, not "occasionally", exactly....

:7 Hank Kimball, job = County Agent

[BurtWorm]

56. That's it! Well...not 'it' exactly...

;)

[Swede]

46. Don't be stupid,pigs can't peel bananas.............

as Mr.Douglas sales through the air.

[ronnykmarshall]

47. The nearest big city ...

Pixley! Which is really the name of a small town in Kern County, Cal. (Near Delano)

Their newspaper was (on the show) was call the Pixley Pickiune.

[Bunny]

71. Yes - Pixley is the second in the triad of towns.

What was the third? Hint - it's where the Clampett's hail from.
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Ready? It was Bug Tussle!! :)

[Speck Tater]

72. I stopped in Pixley once and asked for directions to Hooterville.

The gas station guy was NOT amused.

[not_in_my_name]

49. Did Eb

sleep in the barn?

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

54. Does anybody else think Arianna Huffington sounds EXACTLY like

Lisa Douglas? I know she came from Greece and Eva from Hungary, but everytime I hear Arianna talk, I hear "Ol-eee-ver!"

[Richardo]

58. Ever since I first heard her.

I always listen with a little smile on my face. ;-)

[BurtWorm]

59. Ah-nold, put dahn dot pitchfork!

I jost med some hots cakes.

[Ishoutandscream]

64. The young man who played Eb Dawson

is a devout, Christian fundamentalist who started his career as a schoolteacher. He was an avowed virgin during the Green Acres years, always hearing jokes about this from the very naughty Eva Gabor.

The last I heard, he was still unmarried and a virgin. He also still travels the country and gives his testimonial to audiences.

[BurtWorm]

65. How disillusioning!

I thought he was probably on methadone by now, ready to begin a second career as poet of junk.

[noonwitch]

66. Mr. Haney always was around with things to sell

Mr. Drucker ran the store. Hank Kimball was the local USDA rep, and the female(and I use that term lightly) of the painters had a crush on him.

[BurtWorm]

67. We know her name was Ralph.

Whar was her brother's name?

[peekaloo]

69. Alf...post #20 is right

I remember Lisa used to make toast by placing the bread in the toaster and then putting the toaster in the oven.

[terrya]

73. The only song the Hooterville volunteer band knew how to play was

"There Will Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight". And they played it BADLY. :-)

[Rowdyboy]

74. Eb was from my home-town....

He's retired, lives in the area, and does a lot of public speaking and fund raising for churches.