Skiing Down the Alps Into Paris ("Green Acres")

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I was watching a rerun of Green Acres, which by the way, at 12:30pm if you’re in Chicago IS the place to be, they had an episode where Lisa’s uncle comes to visit her.

He’s acting all secretive and saying a man is after him.

Throughout the episode people keep making references about “Skiing down the Alps into Paris,” which as Oliver points out, “you can’t do.”

Anyway since it’s repeated so much I was thinking it’s got to be a topical reference of some sort.

Since this was the 60s, and most series were doing James Bonds spoofs, I was wondering if this was a play on a James Bond movie phrase?

If so which one. I don’t watch the movies so I don’t know.

If it’s not a Bond reference, and I’m not sure it is, any other ideas?

BTW the mysterious man chasing Lisa’s uncle was actually

a man trying to serve him with papers to collect back alimony

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No, it’s probably not a topical reference. Green Acres always repeated gags – someone would say something absurd, Oliver would try to correct them.

The best example of this was when they were going to Washington DC. Lisa talked about seeing the sights – the Capitol, the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower . . . Oliver interrupted to tell her the Eiffel Tower wasn’t in Washington DC. Later, Sam Drucker said the same thing. Oliver kept trying, but everyone kept mentioning it.

Of course, when they got to Washington, guess what they saw outside their hotel room? :slight_smile:

But look at the many repeated gags they did on the show: Lisa’s hotcakes, the telephone on the pole, the door to the bedroom, plugging in electrical items by number, etc. It was standard that they repeated gags just for the sake of repeating them.