# Did you like Green Acres? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753 "2017-03-22T13:26:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/61 "2017-03-23T02:56:31Z")
I was never a big fan, and I did like the Beverly Hillbillies, at least. I don’t think Petticoat Junction was on Nick at Nite. I liked a lot of old shows, actually. But Green Acres never really appealed to me. I’m honestly unsure why. I was a kid/teen at the time, mind you. Definitely thought the wife was a lot older than she was, BTW. I had no idea she was supposed to be a lot younger. I thought she was probably a little bit older than the husband. I suspect it’s the same way young adults from 1960s photographs look older to me today. The way she dressed and held herself seemed older. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/62 "2017-03-23T03:43:07Z")
Green Acres is one of the finest comedies to air on American television. No, I’m not a boomer. But that show was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/63 "2017-03-23T05:20:36Z")
Count me in the ‘I love Green Acres!’ crowd, and I’m not a boomer either. Grew up with GA on Nick At Nite in the 80s and TV Land in the 90s, and went on to get the first two seasons on DVD (need to get season 3 and wish they’d release season 4). ‘Rural Twilight Zone’ is a brilliant and humorously accurate description of this forever great show. It’s hard for me to pick an absolute favorite character, but I’d probably have to go with **[Hank Kimball](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jn32OCQ7ns)**. Fun fact about Alvy Moore playing Hank: The outfit he almost always wore as the character was based on his get-up in _War Of The Worlds_ in 1953. Favorite episode is tricky as well, but if really pressed, it might just have to be the one about the ‘Name That Tune’-esque radio contest where all the songs literally sounded the same. I couldn’t imagine that episode, as well as the series, if someone else instead of Vic ‘_The Addams Family_’ Mizzy had done the music. Oh, and I’m still waiting for the Blu-Ray release of **[_Frankenstein Meets Mary Poppins_](https://www.flickr.com/photos/41645299@N00/sets/1176548/)**. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/64 "2017-03-23T06:13:46Z")
I loved it. I think I loved everything on TV as a kid in the 60s. My sisters and I loved to sing the theme songs. I could give you the Green Acres theme word for word w/o looking it up but I will spare you. We grew up in a city but had many rural family members. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/65 "2017-03-23T12:23:58Z")
> [@Periwinkle](#): > > My sisters and I loved to sing the theme songs. I could give you the Green Acres theme word for word w/o looking it up but I will spare you. You can sing it to the tune of Purple Haze. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QLxrMZLSbCw/hqdefault.jpg "Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze meets the Green Acres theme song parody") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLxrMZLSbCw) ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/66 "2017-03-23T13:28:03Z")
I still love that show. My friend noticed that Oliver gets pissed off within 1 minute of the beginning of every show (or so it seems). Also that whenever Lisa mispronounces a word, magically everyone in town (except Oliver) pronounces it that way too (to Oliver’s dismay). Throw in Haney and Kimball and it’s just sublime insanity. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/67 "2017-03-23T14:58:57Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Alan Hale Jr. does a nice slow burn, and for some reason I only just now realized he breaks the fourth wall a lot. Oh my God! I never noticed until now but he got that from Oliver Hardy didn’t he? Ollie would turn and look at the camera when Stan exasperated him exactly the same way Skipper would when Gilligan did. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/68 "2017-03-23T16:44:42Z")
Of the CBS country comedies this was the best. While Lisa and Oliver were not much, the secondary characters made it. It had Pat freakin’ Buttram for goodness sake! You have to “get” the surrealism of it all. Arnold the Pig and all that. It’s an extended _Twilight Zone_ episode. Submitted for your approval … ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/69 "2017-03-23T17:05:52Z")
[quote=“Turek, post:65, topic:782753”] You can sing it to the tune of Purple Haze. [/QUOTE] **[You can also sing the _Green Acres_ theme to the tune of “A Day In The Life”, albeit with an edit or two to the middle and closing sections.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtakUulufNk)** ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/70 "2017-03-23T19:30:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > One thing about the show, I think there were three episodes with flashbacks to how Oliver and Lisa met, and they all contradicted each other. Makes it more funny! Still a funny show, after all the years. Still watching, have antenna tv no more expensive dish or cable! Beverly Hillbillies not so funny after all these years Gilligan’s Island…not needing to watch that again but, passable if nothing else is on. F-Troop-ick That Girl-Still love! The Munsters, take it or leave it McHale’s Navy-Tolerable but nothing funny about it Family Affair-I get up early on Sundays to watch it at 6am Mr Ed-still funny My Favorite Martian-Its ok Somehow Hogan’s Heroes I still find entertaining and Get Smart-too freaking dumb now-nice music though The Addams Family-tolerable Dick Van Dyke Show -great show, almost 100%, I have a few favorites I could watch over and over-its a sign of quality like Frasier is Bewitched-I like the ones with the second Darrin Andy Griffith Show-some episodes not so much I Dream of Jeannie-mostly good I’ve always like Gomer Pyle-most of them now, not so much Petticoat Junction & The Beaver-not really enjoyable Hazel-always loved this show, still do My 3 Sons-good show mostly Father Knows Best-most shows good > [@What\_Exit](#): > > I left off the 50s & 70s ones. Oh really? I saw this one called “I married Joan” like 15-20 years ago, that was pretty good Now I watch Our Miss Brooks, never seen it before but I like it The Ghost & Mrs Muir was on for a while, they took that off and the Nanny and the Professor-replaced the shows with some unheard of show! I loved N and the P when I was young, not now. Its ok though I watch Donna Reed, good show ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/71 "2017-03-23T19:44:41Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I think the show meant to be profoundly absurd and not demeaning to rural folk. It’s like Oliver walked into an alternate universe. Like the time Lisa made Oliver “hotskabobs” for breakfast, pancake bits on a skewer. Eb walks in and to Oliver’s amazement, says “Oh boy, hotskabobs!” Then Oliver discovers that Lisa had used one of his tractor parts for a skewer, he goes to Mr. Drucker’s store and describes the part. Drucker says “you could just use one of these hotskabob skewers” and pulls one off a rack. Just silly and ridiculous. I don’t think the intent was to insult, it’s just an over the top farce. I, too, enjoyed the absurdity of the show. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/72 "2017-03-23T19:56:58Z")
Turek and TheInevitabkeMaven, I love the theme song takeoffs! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/73 "2017-03-23T20:42:40Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > Our Miss Brooks, never seen it before but I like it > The Ghost & Mrs Muir was on for a while, they took that off and the Nanny and the Professor-replaced the shows with some unheard of show! I loved N and the P when I was young, not now. Its ok though > > I watch Donna Reed, good show I forgot Ghost & Mrs Muir, liked it as a kid, can tolerate it still. I like Nanny & the Professor but it was a 70s show, so I skipped it on my list. I never saw Our Miss Brooks, but that was a 50s show. I think of Donna Reed Show as 50s but I see it spent more time in the 60s. I don’t really recall it at all. The little I’ve seen of it more recently seems like crappy 50s fare like Father Knows Best. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/74 "2017-03-23T21:33:01Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I watched Petticoat Junction and the spin off Beverly Hillbillies. > > I never could enjoy Green Acres. It portrayed all the supporting characters as dumb and incompetent. > > A lot of humor could have been mined from a city slicker trying to learn to farm. But instead they made everybody Oliver met stupid and incompetent. Starting with the man & woman he hired to remodel the farmhouse. Even the telephone installers were too lazy to install the phone inside the house. > > Apparently there wasn’t a farm equipment dealer anywhere near Hooterville. Oliver drove that junk tractor the whole series. > > The final straw for me was the episode where Oliver sues Haney. Yes, the judge and the other lawyer was incompetent too. I quit watching after that. > > I enjoyed Petticoat Junction because it didn’t disrespect the characters. They were funny without being slapstick buffoons. Even some of the Beverly Hillbillies characters had a shrewd dignity. Jed was no fool. Jethro was the main idiot in that show. > > As a person living in a rural area , I felt Green Acres was just insulting. > > Did you like Green Acres? Did you grow up in a rural area? Yep. And for the same reasons. _Everyone_ other than Oliver (who was clueless) was stupid. or insane. Or both. Well, other than Sam Drucker, who was a carry over from Petticoat Junction, and so doesnt count. On Petticoat Junction, Kate was quite smart. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753/75 "2017-03-23T21:42:45Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > Beverly Hillbillies not so funny after all these years > > Gilligan’s Island…not needing to watch that again but, passable if nothing else is on. > > F-Troop-ick > That Girl-Still love! > The Munsters, take it or leave it > McHale’s Navy-Tolerable but nothing funny about it > > Family Affair-I get up early on Sundays to watch it at 6am > > Mr Ed-still funny > My Favorite Martian-Its ok > > Somehow Hogan’s Heroes I still find entertaining and > > Get Smart-too freaking dumb now-nice music though > The Addams Family-tolerable > > Dick Van Dyke Show -great show, almost 100%, I have a few favorites I could watch over and over-its a sign of quality like Frasier is > > Bewitched-I like the ones with the second Darrin > Andy Griffith Show-some episodes not so much > I Dream of Jeannie-mostly good > > I’ve always like Gomer Pyle-most of them now, not so much > Petticoat Junction & The Beaver-not really enjoyable > > Hazel-always loved this show, still do > My 3 Sons-good show mostly > Father Knows Best-most shows good Beverly Hillbillies not so funny after all these years, yes Gilligan’s Island…not needing to watch that again but, passable if nothing else is on. F-Troop-Has moments. Wrangler Jane! That Girl-meh The Munsters- fantastic theme song, show is meh. McHale’s Navy- Have not rewatched it. Family Affair-never cared for it Mr Ed-Meh My Favorite Martian-Has moments Hogan’s Heroes= still find entertaining Get Smart-too freaking dumb now-nice music though- yep. The Addams Family-best show of the period. Dick Van Dyke Show -great show, almost 100%, Bewitched- Have not rewatched it Andy Griffith Show- varies wildly. I Dream of Jeannie-Have not rewatched it Gomer Pyle-never funny to me- or my Dad the Sgt. Petticoat Junction: great theme song, dated now ---
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I was a kid in 4-H in a rural community when _Green Acres_ was on, and we thought it was hilarious. It seemed like a great send-up of our local county agent and crazy neighbor and useless handyman, so it was almost true. Once a year each 4-H club presented a skit in an evening “Share the Fun” activity. Two of the funniest ones I remember were a send-up of _Green Acres_ and the other an almost exact copy of _Hee Haw_. We weren’t insulted - instead we found it an honor to be mocked. It was a sad day when CBS canned all of its rural comedies. ---
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> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Yup. Yup. Couldn’t have put it better myself, won’t even try. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-like-green-acres/782753.md?page=3)