Talk:Green Acres

message: I just heard an old radio show called Granby's Green Acres starring Gale Gordon. He had a farmhand named Eb and there was a man named Kimball (or Gimball - not highest quality recording) who was confused all the time.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.181.38.239 (talk) 02:13, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Based on a Radio Show 

message: In the 1990 reunion special, the girl who raised Arnold was not the Ziffels' daughter, she was their niece. And I think it was established in the special that this Arnold the pig was not the "original" character from the series. At one point Arnold is missing, and Daisy goes to file a police report. The police officer (thinking that she's reporting a missing person) asks how old Arnold is. She replies "11" or something like that.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.251.84.28 (talk) 18:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On the other hand, time could have moved slower than in real life.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.33.81.219 (talk) 09:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reunion Special 

message: I think Sony Pictures Television should hand the rights to Green Acres to CBS Paramount Television. Here are the reasons:
*1. It was a spinoff of Petticoat Junction.
*2. Sony Pictures Television is a bad distribution company.
Green Acres shouldn't be a victim of SPT anymore! Jim856796 22:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Green Acres a CBS Paramount series? 

message: The article mentions that Green Acres was satirical but it never explains any of the satrical elements or even mentions satire again. It seems that it would be appropiate to remedy this by including some examples. MafiaCapo 03:00, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Satire

message: I'm not quite sure about this, but isn't there a reference to Green Acres in 
Pulp Fiction, when the vegetarian hitman played by Sam Jackson explains that he would eat
pigs if only they had better personality? I think they refer to Arnold later on...— Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.135.12.110 (talk) 22:53, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's right, he says: "Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charmin' motherfuckin' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?" in a conversation about "filthy animals". 80.171.72.196 (talk) 15:04, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

text: How is Jackson's character a vegetarian? He may not eat pork but he ate some of his victim's burger. 50.230.251.244 (talk) 08:29, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pulp Fiction reference? 

message: * A running gag is that Hooterville is so remote that not only can it only be seen on a map if a fly is not standing on itbut also one time a Air Force Officer has to parachute into Hooterville. This is a plot hole-there is a railroad at Sam Drucker's store and there is also a airport/airplane service-who have never heard of the FAA!-and who while advertise a air route to Washington DC-but end up in PAris! Another plot hole was when Hank Kimball marries "Ralph" Monroe {a woman with a man's name}; although its implied that the marraige will be preformed again-when Sam Drucker gets his licenese renewed-the writers apprently choose not to focus on the crazy Kimball household-Hank is too scatterbrained and "Ralph" never gets anything done right. The only Hootervilles domestic scene-besides the Douglas-are the Zippels.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.53.145.130 (talk) 13:00, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, and I'd go further. Consider the audience and presentation. When Green Acres started airing, very, very few people had VCRs, and there was no expectation that the shows would be viewed more than occasionally, perhaps years afterward. I.e., the show wasn't designed for stop-action scrutiny and online fan critique. One might ask whether Green Acres would have been as good as it was, if the actors, writers and director were self-consciously explaining for DVD all their actions. As in the rule of science — any observation of a thing changes its behavior. Regards, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 15:45, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Running gags/Plot hole

message: This article has two lists which are not encyclopedic.  If someone thinks any of the information is really relevant, put it in the article.  The lists themselves should go.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.106.2 (talk) 16:26, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  time to clean up or delete 

message: The article says Jay Sommers wrote and produced a third of the shows. Wrong. Watch the credits. He's the producer of the series all six years it was on the air. He produced every episode. And he, with Dick Chevillat, wrote just about every episode.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.29.176.57 (talk) 19:20, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Jay Sommers as Writer-Producer 

message: This is a really good article, but I was able to add a little bit of information.
1. The article said Lisa's pancake recipe was used to repair the head gasket on Oliver's tractor. I changed it to state the pancake batter was used to make head gaskets to repair a truck and the tractor.  I'm really not sure about the tractor but pancake batter was used to make a head gasket for a rented truck (a Ford AA?) in the episode "The Price of Apples".
2. I added the Hulu link.
JeffDeWitt (talk) 00:44, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Couple of changes 

message: Green Acres may have the distinction of being the first program to show a married couple sharing the same bed on a regular basis. In a couple of episodes of I Love Lucy, Lucy and Ricky, who were handcuffed to each other, had to sleep with their clothes on while in another, they (as well as Fred and Ethel) shared a roll-away bed in a broken down motel. But Oliver and Lisa Douglas routinely shared a large double bed as early as 1965, well before Mike and Carol Brady four years later; indeed, in another episode, it was implied that The Douglases were about to sleep together on the same couch, the camera turned away just as Oliver took Lisa's hand to help her join him. In this way, the somewhat surrealistic Green Acres was more "realistic" than the Dick Van Dyke Show, where Rob and Laura still slept in twin beds!MARK VENTURE (talk) 12:41, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: The First Truly Married Couple?

message: this is the fictitious name of oliver's tractor. there is a redirect for hoyt-clagwell which sends the user to this page, and yet there is no mention of hoyt-clagwell on this page.
unless people feel the redirect should be eliminated, i'd like to add a section to the page about the tractors used in the show.
Ed WoodWiki (talk) 16:25, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoyt-Clagwell 

message: I (somewhat incorrectly) undid the edit by User:The stuart about "Sarah, the never seen telephone operator, is (Hank's) mother." But that is correct from "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" (S1E10). However, "Oliver vs. the Phone Company" (S3E4) has the phone company owned by Roy Trendell (but notice Hank as operator in photo) and in other episodes, Merie Earle played Sarah Hotchkiss Trendell (Hooterville Operator). Not to be confused with another Sarah ;-) This opinion piece racks it up as a running gag. Should we have a catchall for "Other characters" or should this exist part of the "Hank" section? StrayBolt (talk) 07:02, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, Sarah being Hank's mother is mentioned a few times in the first season. --The_stuart (talk) 00:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sarah and other characters 

message: The problem with leaving pop-culture articles to fanboys is that they are really not very good at follow-through, or even at reading directions. So, I see a few significant holes here, and suspect there are subtler problems.
First, is there some reason the section on the radio precursor isn't placed right at the beginning? resolved
And why is the made-for-TV movie detailed in Reunion film and then again a bit further down in Revivals? (Maybe someone could also explain the difference between a "reunion" and a "revival.")
The pointless nattering needs to be reduced. For instance, there's extensive overshare about Sam Drucker that has NOTHING to say about the article topic, AND this is doubly silly seeing as anyone who gives a damn would be reading it at Sam Drucker. resolved (mostly)Weeb Dingle (talk) 18:08, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I took an axe after the descriptions of the Douglases, not least because they each have their own (fancruft-stuffed) articles.Weeb Dingle (talk) 04:10, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  to be fixed 

message: Please explain this phrase. 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:B136:FEF8:B9C4:7BBD (talk) 09:54, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suicide door ? 

message: May I respectfully draw the attention of readers to S.J. Perelman’s ‘’Acres and Pains’’ (1947), as a worthy predecessor and perhaps an inspiration for this show ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:B136:FEF8:B9C4:7BBD (talk) 10:04, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acres and Pains 

message: If they did say California that would not be too surprising just as Beverly Hillbillies is supposed to be in CA and in fact in Beverly Hills. Pixley is a real CA town in a rural part of central California. 50.230.251.244 (talk) 08:31, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the state ever mentioned?