# Hee Haw **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475 "2001-10-30T06:26:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/1 "2001-10-30T06:26:39Z")
I admit it. I used to watch Hee Haw when I was a kid. And I thought it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/2 "2001-10-30T06:31:11Z")
saaaaaaaaaaaa-lute! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/3 "2001-10-30T13:16:59Z")
Kinda creepy the stuff we thought was funny, hmmm? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/4 "2001-10-30T13:29:47Z")
_Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me._ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/5 "2001-10-30T13:30:36Z")
I didn’t watch it for the humor. I watched it for the women. Schaaaaawing! They had some real babes on that show. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/6 "2001-10-30T13:54:15Z")
I saw Grandpa Jones in concert at the state fair and got his autograph. Oh yeah - I saw Roy Clark too. That man can play! ---
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/7 "2001-10-30T13:56:46Z")
Just give us a call…BR-549 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/8 "2001-10-30T14:06:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragwyr \* > I watched it for the women. I’ll be even more specific. I watched it for the boobs. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/9 "2001-10-30T14:11:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Dragwyr \* > > I watched it for the women. > > I’ll be even more specific. I watched it for the boobs. \*\* Well, yeah, but see, that way we don’t know whether you were looking at the men or the women… ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/10 "2001-10-30T14:17:17Z")
Good point. They were ALL boobs on that show. I myself watched it for the legs. The women’s legs. Although, come to think of it, that String Bean guy had some pretty shapely calves. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/11 "2001-10-30T14:47:14Z")
I watched it when I was little because my dad watched it, and he would sometimes let me have a sip of his beer. Hee hee, hee Haw Haw. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/12 "2001-10-30T14:51:54Z")
I would like to invite anyone who ever ventures near the Atlanta area to take a trip to the lovely hamlet of Cumming, GA, an hour or so north–birth and final resting place of that Hee-Haw icon Junior Samples. BTW, Gennifer Flowers, in her best-selling autobio, said that she had toured for a while with Roy Clark, _and that he’s quite a ladies man_, with a girlfriend in every town. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/13 "2001-10-30T14:53:51Z")
Heck yeah I watched it. I was at a conference in Nashville about ten years ago, and our keynote speaker was to be Sarah Cannon, the woman who plays Minnie Pearl. I thought, what an insult, having Minnie Pearl speak to us? I mean, come ON! But you know what? She remains one of the best speakers I’ve ever heard. She was funny, and wise, and very good with timing things for a crowd’s reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/14 "2001-10-30T15:40:44Z")
Where, where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and 😛 you were gone! ---
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/15 "2001-10-30T15:49:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skerri \* > \*\*Where, where are you tonight? > Why did you leave me here all alone? > I searched the world over and thought I found true love. > You met another and 😛 you were gone! \*\* Wow, that brings back memories. All the boys in my elementary school classes would walk around constantly singing that. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/16 "2001-10-30T15:51:59Z")
Barbi Benton! rrrrowwrrrr! ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/17 "2001-10-30T15:57:51Z")
Yes, but do any of you remember the Porter Wagoner Show? The pompadours and bouffants on that show were unrivaled. And the women had big hair, too. ---
**Author:** ![PRNYouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PRNYouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PRNYouth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/18 "2001-10-30T16:01:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*Heck yeah I watched it. > > I was at a conference in Nashville about ten years ago, and our keynote speaker was to be Sarah Cannon, the woman who plays Minnie Pearl. I thought, what an insult, having Minnie Pearl speak to us? I mean, come ON! > > But you know what? She remains one of the best speakers I’ve ever heard. She was funny, and wise, and very good with timing things for a crowd’s reaction. \*\* Sadly (as I’m sure you know), Sarah Cannon passed away several years ago. For a long while, there was a lovely little Minnie Pearl museum at Opryland in Nashville. Now that it’s Opry Mills, I don’t know if the museum is still there or not. If it is, you should check it out next time you’re in Nashville (if you haven’t already). ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/19 "2001-10-30T16:01:22Z")
We’re not ones to go around spreadin’ rumors. Really, we’re just not the gossipin’ kind. You’ll never hear one of us repeatin’ gossip. So you better listen close the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475/20 "2001-10-30T16:11:59Z")
Mostly what I remember about Porter Wagoner’s program was–no, not Dolly–but Speck Rhodes, a little guy (possibly the source of the “Speck” sobriquet), who wore a very loud Herb Tarlek sorta outfit topped off with a bowler. And he was easily one of the worst “comedians” to ever land a steady gig (we’re talking 20 years!:eek: ). BTW, I also have a copy of Porter Wagoner’s classic record “The Ballad of George Leroy Chickashea,” which is about a poor fellow who’s constantly at odds with the law. He’s part white, part black, and part (American) Indian, and carries a .38, a switchblade, and a tomahawk. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hee-haw/90475.md?page=2)