Green Acres.....loved it or hated it?

[newyawker99]

I think this was a fun TV show. :D

[meegbear]

1. Loved it ...

as an ad on TVLand said when they were showing it: "It's not dopey, it's surreal."

[regnaD kciN]

31. Truer words were never spoken....

I hated it when it was first on. Of course, I was only 10, and just thought it was stupid. It was only when I saw it some twenty years later that I realized the absurdism behind much of the cornpone humor. In its own way, it was as bizarre as any Monty Python sketch.

[Drifter]

2. I was very young ...

when this show was on, and I didn't really get it.

I loved the theme song, and of course the pig.

Cheers
Drifter

[latebloomer]

3. never was that big a fan

But that theme song!! It has echoed in my mind forever!

"The chores!
The stores!
Fresh air!
Times Square!
You are my wife!
Goodbye city life!" (oops, sexist!)

[mac56]

4. Loved it!

Totally surreal.

Oliver: What are you cooking?
Lisa: Hot water soup.
Oliver: Hot water soup? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Only an idiot would eat that!
Eb: (enters kitchen and sniffs) Oh boy! Hot water soup!

[Sick of Bullshit]

5. I was a kid back then, and it kind of reminded me of my home county

My family even referred to our county seat as "Pixley".

[Bunny]

13. Ha Ha!

I STILL refer to my current town as Hooterville, because, frankly, it is!

[Sick of Bullshit]

23. I got out of Hooterville a loooong time ago

The characters in the real-life Hooterville weren't nearly as lovable as their TV counterparts!

[demnan]

6. This was a great satire

Eddie Albert and Eva were brilliant. And do you remember that goofy farm hand - what was his name?

Just to see Eddie Albert, a guy from the city with absolutely no common sense encounter the charletan salesman and get jipped once again was enough of a thrill for me.

[blondeatlast]

7. LLLOOOOVED it! Yuppie comeuppance

before anyone ever heard of Yuppies!

Best theme song EVER!

[ArkDem]

8. I LOVED hearing Mr. Haney talk!!!!!!!!!!!

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[CO Liberal]

9. LOVED IT!!!

It was farce at its best. Oliver tending the fields in his 3-piece business suit, Lisa and her inedible hotcakes, the totally inept Monroe Brothers (one male, one female). Mr. Haney, Mr Kimball, etc, etc, etc.........

[Bunny]

14. Don't you mean "hotscakes"?

;-)

[mac56]

17. Mr. Kimball was my favorite!

Well...not exactly my favorite...but I really liked him...well...not "liked", exactly, as much as "found him humorous"...well...maybe not "humorous" as much as "comical"...well...

[jmcgowanjm]

10. I sing that stupid song to this day

every word. I use it as a stress reliever.
That and Gilligan's Island.

[newyawker99]

25. Congrats jhcgowanjm!! 600 posts

:toast:

[sistersofmercy]

11. Loved it!

" I get allergic smelling hay." The reruns of Green Acres were just about the only tv show my brother and I would agree on. There was no democracy for tv in our house, he was older and a whole lot bigger, so he was the "Tv Commando King." I guess that's why I don't watch much tv now.

[noonwitch]

18. It was like that with my brother, too, until I learned a neat trick

I let him pin me down to the floor one time, when he was using all his energy to hold my arms down, I kneed him in the groin. He never laid a hand on me again.

[supernova]

12. Loved it!

Can't forget the two painters who couldn't paint.

[Skittles]

15. LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MR. HANEY WAS MY FAVORITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[booksenkatz]

16. Eb

Eb was one of my favorite TV characters ever. Whatever happened to the guy who played him?? I even had "Green Acres" paper dolls, absolutely loved this show.

[peekaloo]

27. Tom Lester at one time was a motivational speaker

in the mid to late seventies I remember going to church with a friend and he came to testify.......immature me couldn't stop giggling, waiting for him to goof up the sermon.

Nice person, even when I asked if Mr. Haney was selling anything out back.......:+

[salmonhorse]

19. It was phunny enough, Mr. Haney et al...

Loved Eva Gabor dressed as an American Indian. As a youth sitting in a holding tank after a demonstration I told the cop; when asked of course, that my name was Arnold Ziffel needless-to-say it was less than a Kodak Moment ~

But a guy across the tank told him his name was Chuck Wagon and so we got no jam w/toast oh well.

[Spirochete]

20. Loved it

every time I hear Arianna Huffington on TV talking, it reminds me of that show. hehe

[TioDiego]

21. Who was the incompetant county agent?

[mac56]

22. Mr. Kimball!

Well, I wouldn't say "incompetent" as much as "unfocused"....well, maybe "equivocal"...or maybe...

[MarianJack]

24. Loved It!

The sane, logical city slicker with the beautiful and somewhat light wife stuck out with the country crazies. Of course everything should work out logically, but always works out crazy!

"Newhart" (where he & his wife have the Inn in Vermont) had essentially the same general idea.

[newyawker99]

26. *singing*

"Green Acres is the place to be
Farm living is the life for me
Land spreading out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan just give the countryside."

[VOX]

28. Not a big fan of rural humor...

You can drop the city folk in with the bumpkins (a la "Green Acres"), or bring the rustics to the city (a la "Beverly Hillbillies"), and it just doesn't send me.

Rural humor was big in the 1960s -- the above-mentioned shows, plus "Petticoat Junction," "Gomer Pyle," numerous others.

Sorry, I've just had my fill.

[SaintLouisBlues]

29. It's the writing

or as I say at home, "It's the writing stupid". It makes all the difference. The same guy wrote the Hillbillies, which
also holds up 30 some years later. I guess Petticoat Junction was from the same team also, but I was never a fan as a youngster. I guess it was the rural humor chick show.

[mitchum]

30. Loved it! "Green Acres" engaged in a lot of absurdist humor...

and was downright Brechtian at times (when Lisa would notice the production credits on the bedroom wall or "There goes that music again" whenever Oliver held forth on the glories of the American farmer)

[Hubert Flottz]

32. I hated the part where!

Arnold Ziffel grew up to be Rush Lameballs!