# Jed Clampett was not "shootin' at some food" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jed-clampett-was-not-shootin-at-some-food/847025 "2020-01-26T23:03:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jed-clampett-was-not-shootin-at-some-food/847025/81 "2020-01-29T06:26:48Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee converge on the Mississippi. Clan Clampett could be spread throughout the region. Except that the mountainous part of Tennessee is in the east, farthest away from the Mississippi. (Which reminds me of something that’s always bothered me in the _Sports Night_ episode “The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee”. Executive editor Isaac gives an on-air editorial in support of six football players who refuse to play until their school takes down the Confederate flag they fly in front of the main building. They play for (the fictional) Western Tennessee University, located in…Chattanooga. Chattanooga is on the Georgia border, and on a clear day from Lookout Mountain above the city, you can see North and South Carolina. By no stretch of vocabulary can it be described as “Western Tennessee”. What the hell, Aaron Sorkin? I thought you did better research than that!) ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jed-clampett-was-not-shootin-at-some-food/847025/82 "2020-01-29T09:59:57Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Where WERE the Clampetts from? Kaintucky? The Ozarks? > > If the former, they could have moved up to a mansion in Bluegrass country, raised horses for the Derby, and invested in Clampett’s Fine Aged Bourbon distillery. If the latter, they could have become the cream of sassity of Branson, Missouri. Baldknobbers Jamboree opened the first live music show in Branson in 1959\*, just a couple years before the oil strike - > **[Branson, Missouri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branson,_Missouri)** > > Branson is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. Most of the city is situated in Taney County, with a small portion in the west extending into Stone County. Branson is in the Ozark Mountains. The community was named after Reuben Branson, postmaster and operator of a general store in the area in the 1880s. The population was 12,638 at the 2020 census. > Branson has long been a popular destination for vacationers from Missouri and around the country. The collection of entertainment theaters along ... More, there, about the show creator’s Ozark connection, as well as his daughter, who played Betty Jo in Petticoat ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jed-clampett-was-not-shootin-at-some-food/847025/83 "2020-01-29T10:13:30Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > I wish I could find this exact scene but no luck so far. Jethro is going to school and tells Uncle Jed about his “cipherin’” class: “Today I learned pi R square.” As he walks away Jed shakes his head and says “I don’t know what they’re teachin him in that school. Everyone knows pie are round. _Cornbread_ are square.” Another time, Jethro was visited by a military recruiter, who tested his ciperin’ skills, and was less than impressed. He asked Jed, “You say this boy had 12 years of schooling?” “Yep. Clean through the sixth grade.” “And graduated highest in his class?” “By a good two feet.” ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jed-clampett-was-not-shootin-at-some-food/847025/84 "2020-01-29T10:19:11Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > According to Wikipedia, Green Acres was adapted from a radio show called Granby’s Green Acres. The radio show aired a couple years after the movie The Egg & I was released, so maybe the radio show was inspired by the movie, although Wikipedia doesn’t mention it. A book, set in upstate Washington. In the book, the female lead is a fairly young and naive city woman (too her chagrin, her family calls her "child bride’), not particularly rich or hoity-toity, who follows her husband to start up a chicken farm. Surrounded by forest, and the only neighbors in walking distance are Ma and Pa Kettle. > [@](#): > > …when up from the ground came a girl in the nude. No clothes that is… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jed-clampett-was-not-shootin-at-some-food/847025.md?page=4)