Posted on 09/26/2012 8:17:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I was a 2 year old toddler in Santa Ana at the time, but I enjoyed the show later on. A true classic.
I remember having my dad fill the Ford station wagon with canned food and blankets one night during the missile crisis. We were almost headed to Arizona but the newscasters advised the traffic very heavy out of Los Angeles. Yes, we got reality in big doses in those days.
The liberal commie b!tch got trounced AFTER Buddy Ebsen took out a full-page ad in the L.A. Times telling everyone what a nanny-state-do-gooder she was and how she held up production of the show for days because she was unhappy with this or that. God Bless Buddy for doing everything he could to keep the commie whore as far from a voting seat as possible.
Hell yeah.I remember that.
Great story. Thanks. And I agree, God bless Buddy.
It’s fascinating to me that a supporting cast member would have the influence to hold up shooting for days and still keep her job. I can understood studio execs putting up with that kind of behavior from a Marilyn Monroe-type lead star but from Nancy Kulp? :?
Fascinating story. Where Ebsen, Baer and Misses Ryan and Douglas as nice off-screen as they were on-screen? The ultimate appeal of the show was the fact that the characters were all nice and unpretentious which is why the American heartland loved them while the snooty critics hated them. In a way, the Mrs. Drysdale character probably resembled their real-life critics.
I loved shows like this that the whole family could watch, they didn’t preach at their viewers and they provided some badly need relief from the stress of their times. Shows like “The Beverly Hillbillies”, “Green Acres”, “Gilligan’s Island”, “Get Smart”, etc., live on because they provided folks with the unpretentious entertainment they needed and still needed.
Me too...although I never really liked the show.
Come listen to a story bout a man named Ahmed
Poor Bedouin barely kept his family fed.
Then one day- he was shootin at some Jews
When up through the ground comes a bubblin ooze
Oil that is
Saudi soda.... Persian Perrier
Now the first thing ya know, Ahmeds a millionaire
Kin folk said: Ahmed, Move away from there!
said: Californy is the place that youd do fair
So the loaded up their camel and they moved to BelAir
swimmin pools
movie stars
...Jews....
The Bel Airabs! -From Saturday Night Live, circa 1979
Except for maybe Gilligan’s Island.....
Her hibiscus was ailing.
So can I. I can also sing Weird Al’s parody of it, to the tune of Money for Nothing!
Fascinating post! Thanks...
Irene Ryan was a complete crack-up. I didn't get a chance to eat much dinner that evening -- I was laughing too hard. I was saddened when she passed away from a brain tumor. She, too, had her beginnings in vaudeville.
Douglas and Baer in person seemed very much like their Hillbillies characters -- not in a hillbilly way but in the warmth and friendliness they projected. Their series characters drew a lot from their own personalities. It was a good show from a troubled time. I wish we had more like it today, along with Carol Burnett, Andy Williams who just died (RIP Andy) and many more from that less culturally-conflicted time.
I dunno. I think “Miss Jane’’ would have voted for Obama, (Nancy Kulp) was a lesbian.
U dun fal in th Cment pond? Yooz aw wet if u thinkun Jethro
goin to b drivin a volt. He ain’t goin ta b messin wit al em
stenshun kords. Now mis jane shez yur Obamma voter. Y’all
think she waz chasin Jethro round but she had th cortin an
sparkin noshun fo miss Eleemay kuz she got her wires crost
somware round Beverly hils.
C'mon Donna, you KNEW what you were doing in them tight clothes!
Shazam!
I can
Tony: Want to come with us Granny?
Granny: I can't. I'm going down to the lake to smoke some crawdads.
Fred: Smoke some what?
Granny: Crawdads. But first I need a little pot.
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