This episode is hilarious. Those rich folks think they're financial genious...trying to figure out what is crawdead.
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One of the first if not the first espisode is hilarious.. They had just been offered money for their oil... Jed said "They are going to pay us with these differant kinda' dollars.. what'd he call them dollars again Granny..?." Granny said: "ahhh... I rekin he called them MILLIONS jed.."
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Check out Jethro in the double naught seven episodes if you really want to bust a gut
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i think the concept of the show is genious. bunch of hillbillies and bunch of rich people who has lost common sense...instant comedy.Comment -
You guys shouldnt be making fun of durito and donjuan like this.Comment -
Is Barnaby Jones still alive, or what ever Uncle Jed really name wasComment -
Thanks, now that you gave me the name I checked dead or alive he died in 2003 at age 95
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Not a week goes by where I don't compare something to what I saw on this show.
The Beverly Hillbillies either was good and hit a nerve with me or else some episodes fell short.It's almost like they had 2 or 3 different writers and some were funny and some weren't.I never understood all the Shorty Kellen or whatever his name was visiting them all the time deal.
OK,that said,there must have been 40 absolute classic episodes I still roll around laughing just thinking about.The one where Jethro wanted to open a restaurant was one of my favorites.They called it The Happy Gizzard and it was hilarious.It was a total dump situated on Rodeo Drive or Sunset Strip?amongst all the 5 star joints.Drysdale always found 3rd rate stuff for the Clampetts to buy when they wanted to acquire pie in the sky risk investments.
Then the phrase Jethro always used where he said he couldn't make up his mind if he wanted to become a brain surgeon or a fry cook was great.It sort of reminds me of politicians where if they didn't become presidents,senators,congressman or governors they would be only qualified to do that crap.
Then there was the episode where Jethro wanted a swinging bachelor pad so Jed bought him a Jellystone Park style camper to turn into his pad and Jethro took a broad to the ocean shore.Jethro didn't know about high tide and the camper turned into a boat.hehe!
Then there was the one where Jethro wanted to become a rock star so he invented the Bodineaphone and almost got electricuted.
The one where they thought Gloria Swanson the movie star was broke was funny too where they saw her wearing leopard skin jackets and they thought she was killing her pets to make clothes.
I had a sister who was taller and blond and we used to watch the reruns together.Whenever the episodes with Jethro's twin sister Jethrine were on,I would tease my sister that if she gained weight she would start looking like Jethrine a few years down the road and I used to get the beejeesis beat out of me.hehe!
Geesh,I could probably add 100's of more tidbits from that show.I guess for the longest time,Max Baer Jr.that played Jethro was really embarrassed about having played him.I saw him recently on tv though and he talked fondly of it.When I was in Reno a few years ago,there was talk that Jethro and a group of investors wanted to build a casino there in the theme of The Beverly Hillbillies.Hell,Jethro's old man,Max Sr.was probably funnier than Jethro.Watch how he's portrayed in the boxing movie,Cinderella Man.
When someone puzzles me I still use Jed's famous phrase,The dickens you say and I still refer to the small town I was born and raised in as Bugtussle.
One of my favorite episodes was on TV Land today about the meteorologist named Justin Anderson where the Clampett's kept asking him his name and they thought he was embarrassed about his family thinking he was saying he was just an Anderson.That one cracked me up.Comment -
Speaking of old sitcom guests that died
Today on ABC radio news it said that the guy that played Sam,Allice's boyfriend on the Brady Bunch died.He also was a regular on Gomer Pyle and All in the Family as well as being on just about every 50'sto 80's sitcoms from Andy Griffith to ??.It said he was 84.I thought he would have been older because he looked like an old man when I was a kid and now I'm older than him when I remember him on tv.hehe!I thought the guy was dead 20 years ago.Comment -
Sad news his name was Allan Melvin
I remember him on Brady Bunch and Andy Griffith, Funny episode where he kept sweeping his trash from his store in the streets and Barney wrote him a ticket and Sam said if he ever saw Barney out of uniform he would get him good.
So Barney wore his uniform everywhere.Comment -
I remember the banker Milburn Drysdale, whenever he fainted his secretary would revive him by fanning him with a wad of $$$$.Comment -
How about the "ce-ment pond" (swimming pool), "fancy eating table with the pot-passers (billiards table and cue sticks), and the ghosts who played music in the walls which was always followed by someone knocking at the door (doorbell).
I watched the Hillbillies as a child, but it wasn't my favorite show. But now I enjoy it more primarily because of its innocence and simplicity.
And even though I was a pre-pube, Ellie Mae was my favorite character.
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Well-doggie, show was a trip. I'd love to have fvcked Ellie on promises that afterwards Id help her feed the critters, she'd proably fall for shiit like that. Come dinner time I'd split, kinda allergic to possum innerds.Comment -
That would work...until you tried to split...then she'd wip your f*ckin' as*
I love the episode where granny is chasing Jedthro around the house and Jedroth puts out a chair to get in her way as she is running around the corner.... She trips and fails over the chair and gets back up and keeps chasing it...
"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllll-Doggy!" That was one of my favorite quotes.. Good one HB..
That show was sweet!
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yeah, Granny actualy reminds me of my Granma. man she would throw a sandle like a boomerang. always would nail me smack dab in the middle of my back. God I miss her, may she R.I.PComment -
i think that was the first episode, that show was silly.One of the first if not the first espisode is hilarious.. They had just been offered money for their oil... Jed said "They are going to pay us with these differant kinda' dollars.. what'd he call them dollars again Granny..?." Granny said: "ahhh... I rekin he called them MILLIONS jed.."
i watched a lot of those old sitcoms when i was little, they were in syndication already by my youth, but local channel WDRB 41, before they became the FOX, used to play alot of those old sitcoms and campy B-movies on Saturdays, i remember watching "Clash of the Titans" and "Flash Gordon"(the one from the late70's or early 80's not the original B&W one). the sitcoms i used to watch a lot of were, Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligans Island, I Dream of Genie, BeWitched, Munsters, I Love Lucy, Honeymooners, etc.Comment -
The Beverly Hillbillies
Bodineaphone
Brain surgeon
Double naught spy
Jethro the Magnificent (magician)
This 40-yo show still cracks me up, even though I've seen almost all of them.
One not mentioned yet is when the Clampetts take in a group of hippies (remember, it was the 60's) and Granny was talking about smoking crawdads (for dinner). Well, the hippies took the crawdads out of the pot and started to "smoke" them like a joint, getting pinched on the lips Another show along the same line of comedy is Green Acres. And the interesting thing is that many of the actors in these shows were movie actors in the 40s & 50s: Buddy Ebsen, vaudvillian dancer and chosen to be the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz until he had a reaction to the silver makeup on his skin, Irene Ryan, Eddie Albert (in lots of WWII pics), Eva Gabor; all never big name Hollywood stars, but did lots of great TV in the 60s. Even Jethro's dad was a famous boxer: Max Baer. I love these old shows I grew up watching; my current fix is Leave it to Beaver. Very 50s, yet well written and acted.
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