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Green Acres is actually a pretty funny show, a spin off of Petticoat Junction.
It was a spinoff of The Beverly Hillbillies. You see, The Beverly Hillbillies was about a group of country bumpkins who move to the big city, and Green Acres was about city slickers who move to the country!
I always preferred the Hillbillies, although I'm not sure why exactly...it's not like I was worried the premise got diluted.
The Catalog of Cool loved Green Acres, though admittedly they considered the entire show to be surreal.
Given the sentient pig and Oliver sending a bear running by feeding it one of Lisa's flapjacks, I'd say surreal is the word.
You see, The Beverly Hillbillies was about a group of country bumpkins who move to the big city, and Green Acres was about city slickers who move to the country!
Wacky!
I always preferred the Hillbillies, although I'm not sure why exactly...
Mr. Drysdale's lesbian secretary?
And Carey Mulligan, aka Sally Sparrow from Doctor Who's "Blink" episode!
Oh, I knew that one already. She's the reason I watched it in the first place.
I remember one Hillbillies ep where the Clampetts decide to go back to the country and give the estate to three college girls who dropped by to interview them. Every time the girls referred to the total worth in the show, it kept getting higher.
However, it turned out that Jethro had been too spoiled by luxury to go back to the woods, and even Granny missed the cee-ment pond.
However, it turned out that Jethro had been too spoiled by luxury to go back to the woods, and even Granny missed the cee-ment pond.
I thought it was because they enjoyed controlling the means of production and exploiting the working class. I guess I misremembered.
It was a spinoff of The Beverly Hillbillies.
Petticoat Junction was also a spinoff of one of the two.
I misheard the Green Acres theme song and thought Lisa sang, "Goodbye 'til July!" Which greatly confused the 5-year-old me, especially during July. Although it fit in with the surreality of the show, and the fact that Lisa "got" the surreality in a way Oliver never could.
She was also in the Keira Knightly P&P, as Kitty Bennett.
That's not even her only Austen. She was also in
Northanger Abbey.
It's sort of crazy. The only thing the cast missed is
Mansfield Park:
Emma (TV): Olivia Williams (Jane Fairfax)
Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright): Carey Mulligan (Kitty Bennett), Rosamund Pike (Jane Bennett)
Sense & Sensibility (Ang Lee): Emma Thompson (Elinor Dashwood)
Sense & Sensibility (TV): Dominic Cooper (Willoughby)
Persuasion (TV): Sally Hawkins (Anne Elliot)
Northanger Abbey (TV): Carey Mulligan (Isabella Thorpe)
British TV and cinema scene = super tiny.
On a related note, I just watched Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky and she was fantastic in it. It makes me put the entirety of the blame for the misfire that was the ITV version of Persuasion squarely on the director's head. Hawkins would have been a great Anne Elliot in a better hand. (But OMG the RUNNING. And the stupid pointless misplacement of Anne's pivotal speech!)