# TVLand Bringing Back "Green Acres," Dahlings! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 29, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807 "2004-02-29T23:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [April 13, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/41 "2004-04-13T11:29:41Z")
Mr. Haney was my fave: the quintessential crooked entrepreneur. Anyone remember the time he took over the phone company? Life imitated that episode (with the breakup of the phone company) a few years later. You got your Nostrodamus, I got my _Green Acres_! I have always believed that the following events took place in the years following the show: Haney salted away the money he made bilking Douglas. He stole his beautiful blonde eastern European wife, lost weight, bought a new wardrobe, got rid of his accent, and changed his name to that which we know him by today: _Donald Trump._ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/42 "2004-04-13T13:10:34Z")
I must admit I was delighted when Mr. Haney drove up and tried to sell Oliver “a gen-yoo-wine Anna Held milk bath.” ---
**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:** [April 13, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/43 "2004-04-13T14:19:24Z")
Among my favorite items offered for sale by Haney: - a really ugly sculpture by one Fettichini Monstrositi (in response to Mr. Douglas’ asking. “What is _this_ monstrosity?”) - a baby elephant formerly owned by ‘The Marijuana of Rinkatupu’ (shades of the Trump Taj Mahal?) - a pair of ‘wavin sticks’ to a visiting orchestra conductor ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/44 "2004-04-13T14:53:40Z")
Mr. Haney: “How would you like this gen-you-wine Eggslicer?” Oliver: “Why, that’s a _harp_, you . . .” Mr. Haney: “Right you are: made by the famous harp-marker, Gustav Eggslicer!” ---
**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:** [April 13, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/45 "2004-04-13T15:29:23Z")
Oh, for the love of… ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/46 "2004-04-13T15:47:36Z")
Well, I’m glad you like the show and all, but I lost a BUNDLE at the Hooterville Monkey Racing Track… ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/47 "2004-04-13T15:56:03Z")
> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#): > > - a pair of ‘wavin sticks’ to a visiting orchestra conductor I already have a wavin’ stick… ---
**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:** [April 13, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/48 "2004-04-13T16:10:49Z")
Get ready to buy another… ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/49 "2004-04-13T19:30:33Z")
My favorite running gag is how only people with an IQ below a cetain level–meaning everyone except Oliver–can communicate with Arnold the Pig. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Milburn_Drysdale)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807/50 "2004-04-14T01:01:33Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > —Raise hands: how many of us said, “Zis has been a Filmvays Presentation, dahlings” with her at the end of the show? Yet another reason why Evie and I are such old friends! I remember an episode that was completely subtitled in Japanese. I was trying to explain to my aunt why “GA” was such a great show and I didn’t have to - she was riveted. A friend used to call me at work and tell the receptionist he was “Sam Drucker.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvland-bringing-back-green-acres-dahlings/231807.md?page=2)