# Beverly Hillbillies continuity glitch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006 "2011-12-13T06:36:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/21 "2011-12-14T14:45:51Z")
Anyone consider the theory that maybe the target (deer, rabbit, fly) simply moved at the last moment? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/22 "2011-12-14T15:46:11Z")
> [@Lare](#): > > Anyone consider the theory that maybe the target (deer, rabbit, fly) simply moved at the last moment? He was shooting at some food. Flies aren’t food, they’re trophies. They mount the heads over the fireplace. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/23 "2011-12-14T15:49:21Z")
Why would you think they cared at all about continuity? Few 60s shows bothered, and no sitcoms did. If it was funny, they did the joke and it didn’t matter what they said before. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/24 "2011-12-14T16:00:49Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Why would you think they cared at all about continuity? Few 60s shows bothered, and no sitcoms did. If it was funny, they did the joke and it didn’t matter what they said before. Thou hast been whooshed. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/25 "2011-12-14T16:45:49Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > There’s an actual Bug Tussle in Oklahoma Interesting. Must be a Cherokee thing. ---
**Author:** ![TheUthaBrutha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@TheUthaBrutha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUthaBrutha)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/26 "2011-12-14T17:07:37Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > There’s an actual Bug Tussle in Oklahoma–it gained some fame thirty or forty years ago for being the home town of then - Speaker of the House Carl Albert. Yeah the Clampetts are Ozark Mountain folk. Every Tennessee reference is always directed at Granny, who is not a Clampett or a Bodine. The closest thing I recall to Jed being close to Tennessee was Lester Flatt saying he heard about Jed’s good luck all the way in Nashville. That puts them in that Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma area. Plus the creator Paul Henning was from Missouri so it makes sense he’d set it there. And Silver Dollar City is in Missouri and is used as a location for the series as well as being a favorite place of Henning The real mystery is Hooterville. That is all over the map. And on top of that the Hooterville in “Green Acres,” is much different from the Hooterville in “Petticoat Junction.” I like the way Miss Jane says they’d have to drive all night to get to Hooterville. That’s from Beverly Hills??? Lisa says it’s a few hundred miles from Chicago. It doesn’t snow in Hooterville so it’s a warm place. The Shady Rest Hotel is 25 miles from both Hooterville and Pixley. It’s right in the center between the two towns. But somehow in “Green Acres” Oliver’s house is in Hooterville, the barn is in Pixley and the farm is in Crabwell Corners :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/27 "2011-12-14T18:38:57Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > He was shooting at some food. Flies aren’t food, they’re trophies. They mount the heads over the fireplace. Right next to the billy-ard. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/28 "2011-12-14T19:10:11Z")
For that matter, there is also a [Bugtussle, Kentucky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugtussle%2C_Kentucky), right on the Tennessee border. And how did Lester Flatt (from Tennessee) and Earl Scruggs (North Carolina) manage to court Pearl when they were all kids, if Pearl was out in Arkansas or Missouri somewhere? The Clampetts never name a state. They are from “the Hills.” Trying to locate “the Hills” on a map is like trying to locate _The Simpsons_’ Springfield. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/29 "2011-12-14T19:28:33Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > He was shooting at some food. Flies aren’t food, they’re trophies. They mount the heads over the fireplace. Depends on how hungry you are. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/30 "2011-12-15T00:28:41Z")
That’s really bizarre. The same thought occurred to me on the same day (yesterday), involving the scene where ‘to make it fair’, they bounce the bullets off a rock to hit a nail or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/31 "2011-12-15T01:08:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I think you’re wrong about that. As I recall, they were shooting the flies while they were still on the wing. Waiting for them to land on the wall would be unsporting. They were also known to light matches. [QUOTE=johnpost] i will overlook any flaws in a show that help make Flatt and Scruggs more popular. [/QUOTE] Word to your granny… ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/32 "2011-12-15T01:55:42Z")
> [@TheUthaBrutha](#): > > …I like the way Miss Jane says they’d have to drive all night to get to Hooterville. That’s from Beverly Hills??? Lisa says it’s a few hundred miles from Chicago. It doesn’t snow in Hooterville so it’s a warm place… There was an episode of **Green Acres** where the local community theatre group staged a play of an episode of **The Beverly Hillbillies** :smack:. IIRC Lisa played Ellie Mae. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/33 "2011-12-15T03:19:06Z")
Yeah, and _Petticoat Junction_ was a 60’s show about three prostitutes at a train depot. Oh come on, like you didn’t know? “Petticoat Junction”? I gotta admit, classier than Crotch Cove or Pussy Hollow. Three young women with no visible means of support living in a hotel in the middle of nowhere? Under the watchful eye of an older matron? And creepy “Uncle” Joe? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/34 "2011-12-15T04:05:11Z")
> [@TheUthaBrutha](#): > > The real mystery is Hooterville. That is all over the map. And on top of that the Hooterville in “Green Acres,” is much different from the Hooterville in “Petticoat Junction.” But Sam Drucker ruled them both with an iron fist. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/35 "2011-12-15T05:57:48Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I would just like to state, for the record, that my younger brother has shot flies out of the air. With a rubber band. I’ve witnessed it many times. Where is his shrine? Because I would like to prostrate myself before it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/36 "2011-12-15T09:10:12Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Was it a deer? I remembered it as a rabbit. > [@runner pat](#): > > He was shooting at some food. Flies aren’t food, they’re trophies. They mount the heads over the fireplace. > [@cochrane](#): > > The opening to the TV show doesn’t show what Jed was shooting at. He was shooting at some food. There’s only one type of food that interests a Beverly Hillbilly. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2KqO3B38eAI/hqdefault.jpg "Beverly Hillbillies for Kellogg's Corn Flakes (Girl-Up)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KqO3B38eAI) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006/37 "2011-12-15T10:24:31Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > He was shooting at some food. There’s only one type of food that interests a Beverly Hillbilly. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KqO3B38eAI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KqO3B38eAI) You can tell Jethro’s from the backwoods by the way he’s eyeing his cousin. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beverly-hillbillies-continuity-glitch/606006.md?page=1)