# Worst Blow to Civilization Not 'Green Acres' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 3, 2001, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-blow-to-civilization-not-green-acres/96577 "2001-12-03T05:44:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hyjyljyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@hyjyljyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyjyljyj)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-blow-to-civilization-not-green-acres/96577/1 "2001-12-03T05:44:26Z")
Under “Why is there no Channel One?”, you wrote in part, “…the Channel One band (44 to 50 MHz) was reassigned for use by people with mobile radios. Considering how things have turned out, maybe they should have reassigned Channels 2 through 13 while they were at it, thus sparing the nation such horrors as Green Acres, arguably the worst blow to civilization since the sack of Rome by the Huns.” I beg to differ: At least Green Acres had a FEW funny lines, some stellar comic timing, and a cute piglet. (No–Arnold, not Eva Gabor.) The honor must belong to Gilligan’s Island, certainly by far the most fatuous, vapid waste of electrons ever pepetrated on the planet. More horrendous yet? That an entire nation of humans past the age of 35 will be able to sing its entire theme song, note for note and word for word, until sweet merciful death comes to deliver us. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-blow-to-civilization-not-green-acres/96577/2 "2001-12-03T06:00:18Z")
…A threeeeeeeeeee hour tour… ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-blow-to-civilization-not-green-acres/96577/3 "2001-12-03T10:39:12Z")
Uncle Cecil’s [Why is there no Channel One on television?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_372b.html) column is included in _The Straight Dope_ – along with an official Slug illustration. This collection was published in 1984, so it is possible that in the intervening years Cecil has had a chance to develop additional insights as to the relative merits of Green Acres vs. Gilligan’s Island vs. seventeen-plus years of not-always-steller network programming. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-blow-to-civilization-not-green-acres/96577/4 "2001-12-03T15:33:35Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, and thank you for posting your comment. Please include a link to Cecil’s column if it’s on the straight dope web site. To include a link, it can be as simple as including the web page location in your post (make sure there is a space **before** and **after** the text of the URL). Cecil’s column can be found on-line at the link provided by **whitetho**. The column ( **including** Slug Signorino’s illustration) can also be found on pages 372-373 of [the book](http://www.straightdope.com/otheroutlets/books.html) mentioned by the same **whitetho**. * * * moderator, «[**Comments on Cecil’s Columns**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=1)» ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-blow-to-civilization-not-green-acres/96577/5 "2001-12-03T15:34:55Z")
P.S. Looking at Slug Signorino’s drawing, all I can say is if that’s what Arnold the pig looked like in “Green Acres”, she was indeed one cute piglet. ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-blow-to-civilization-not-green-acres/96577/6 "2001-12-03T17:32:15Z")
The Master clearly missed “You’re In the Picture”. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-blow-to-civilization-not-green-acres/96577/7 "2001-12-03T23:47:11Z")
Well, some of us can sing the _Green Acres_ theme song as well. ::wanders off singing:: Greeeeeeen Acres is the place to be, faaaaarm livin’ is the life for me… ---
**Author:** ![BalmainBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@BalmainBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BalmainBoy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-blow-to-civilization-not-green-acres/96577/8 "2001-12-04T01:51:54Z")
If I said “Let Poland Be Poland”, do I win?