I mean the Clampetts were worth 25 million dollars! They couldn’t have gone to Rodeo Drive and snagged themselves a couple o’ Gucci lizard skin belts on Rodeo Drive?!?!?!?!
(minus one Rodeo Drive up there)
:o
Maybe Ellie May had an aversion to killin’ lizard critters for makin’ duds?
What would have been inexplicable was if Jethro walked around in a smoking jacket and spats, sporting a top hat & monocle, then still wearing a rope belt.
Oh yeah, Ellie May loved her critters.
Maybe rope belts are just better.
To keep their pants up! Sheesh!
Well, they’re hillbillies.
And…the’re cousins.
And, they both wear rope belts.
Therefore–they have a mutual intrest in bondage, & want the world to know.
Yeah, I doubt Ellie would wear any animal byproduct and would probably whip Jethro as well if he tried to do the same. I’ve not watched in years but I doubt if there were too many leather chairs or trophy game mounted on the walls either.
OHMIGAWD!!! Lola’s right! There was no reason for them to be wearing rope belts!!! Just think of the message that sends to the viewers of the show!! The inaccuracy of it all!!!
We gotta call CBS right away (BH was a CBS show, wasn’t it?) and get them to correct this - if Spielberg could CGI guns into phones in ET, they should be able to CGI their belts into Gucci…
Where was Television Without Pity.com back then - we could’ve pointed out the error!!!
The horror!!!
:smack: 
Yeah, I didn’t get that, either. You would think, living for all that time in a big mansion in Beverly Hills, with millions of dollars at their disposal, they would have noticed what the people about them were wearing, doing, and eating, and adapted their own lifestyles to better fit the local norms.
Or that that banker guy would have taken them to the haberdasher, at least.
It just didn’t make any sense.
OK, I’m probably being completely whooshed here, but isn’t that the entire premise of the show? They’re hillbillies living in Beverly Hills. It wouldn’t be as “funny” if they completely fit in, right?
Well, they coulda worn real belts, is all.
:rolleyes:
They did spend the entire run of the series calling it the “cement pond” in the back yard, right? How long does it take to learn to call it a “swimming pool?”
Answer: They were STUPID.
This is explained by one of the oldest axioms on the books. Surely you’ve heard it before: “You can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy.”
Drat. I wanted to say that.
Slight hijack: Remember the “Beverly Hills Billy-yard” mounted on the wall? 
To the point: I think that the idea of the rope belts in contrast to everything else was to show their “slow-wittedness”, as well, as their charming “if it works don’t fix it” attitude.
From The Karate Kid:
Mr. Miyagi: In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants.
I had an old car in which the seat belt was busted and I literally just tied myself in with the belt straps each time.
Maybe Ellie just busted her buckle.
Here is the real question–
If Jed was a multi-millionare-- why did he never have any dates? Jethro did. Ellie Mae did. Jed had the actual money, yet all he seemed to do is sit around a widdle on a stick every night. Where were the hoochies? This is California after all.
The producers should have been ashamed of themseleves for such a plot hole.
Oh, Jed had some poon tang, but he never brought it to the mansion because Granny would be spying and gossiping about it to cousin Pearl over the telly phone. Just like when Jed found that French lady’s dog and she kissed him…Granny and Pearl were cackling like hens around him. How’s that for killing his mojo risin’.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeell Doggie, I ain’t never thought about that before. Seems that Jed got citified after all.
As an Aside anyone ever catch the horrible reunion they made where Jed returns to the hills and Mrs Hathaway, working for then president Jimmy Carter (oh the irony) has to find some of Grannies moonshine to solve the energy crisis?
What a dud. Granny was dead so they replaced her with Grannies Granny. Gethro and Ellie Mae finally got their belts from the looks of it.