Quotes
 Milburn Drysdale: When I give my word, I expect you to keep it. Jane Hathaway: When the other little kids played hide and seek, Little Milby started his first business.
Milburn Drysdale: Every kid had a lemonade stand.
Jane Hathaway: He opened a pawn shop!
Jed Clampett: Boy, I`m gonna give you 24 hours to clean up all this mess.
Jethro: Aw come on, Uncle Jed. I`m gonna clean up. I`m gonna set this world on fire!
Jed Clampett: You`re gonna clean up alright. Everything. Or you`re gonna end up with the seat of your britches on fire.
Granny: Elly May done popped the buttons off her shirt again.
Jed Clampett: Elly May carries herself proud with her shoulders throwed back.
Granny: It ain`t her shoulders that have been poppin` these buttons.
[repeated line]
Jed Clampett: Well doggies!
Granny: Vittles!
Jane Hathaway: Now, Chief, in all fairness to the employees, you do not display much holiday spirit.
Milburn Drysdale: What do they want from me? I gave them half a day off on Christmas!
Jane Hathaway: If you would only display a little generosity: a Christmas bonus, a few gifts!
Milburn Drysdale: I refuse to commercialize Christmas just to kowtow to my pampered employees.
Milburn Drysdale: Miss Hathaway, are you responsible for the employees of this bank referring to me as Ebeneezer Scrooge?
Jane Hathaway: No, why do you ask?
Milburn Drysdale: When I came through the lobby just now they all chanted in unison `Here come da Scrooge! Here come da Scrooge!
Jane Hathaway: Most places do something for their employees at this time of year.
Milburn Drysdale: Well, I`ve given them Christmas Day off.
Jane Hathaway: Chief, most banks even give a holiday bonus.
Milburn Drysdale: I`ve already thought of that.
Jane Hathaway: You have?
Milburn Drysdale: Just this morning I said to myself, `Milburn, you`ve got to give those loyal employees of yours a Christmas bonus.`
Jane Hathaway: But, Chief, that`s extraordinary!
Milburn Drysdale: I thought so, too. Fortunately, a cold shower brought me to my senses.
Jethro: [Jed and Jehtro are discussing a "fast" girl back in the hills] Uncle Jed, she handed me a big old sugar cookie, looked at me and said, "Jehtro, if you had a choice between that cookie and me, which one would you take". Uncle Jed, that`s when I found out just how fast she was!
[Jed leans in close to hear the rest of the story]
Jethro: I had to run nearly a mile to get away from her with that cookie!
Jed Clampett: [Disgusted] Jethro, some day me and you got to have a long talk.
Jed Clampett: [Jethro has decided that he`d like to become a Bullfighter, and has asked Jed if they can get a bull, so he can practice. Jed presents the idea to Granny] Granny, I got a idea. Let`s get us a bull.
Granny: What?
Jed Clampett: Now, hear me out. We been wantin` to have a good ol` fashioned barbecue.
Granny: But, Jethro`ll go to fightin` it!
Jed Clampett: Not for long. `Pears to me they ain`t nothin` a man can get his fill of, faster, than scrappin` with a bull.
Granny: Ain`tcha afraid he`ll git hurt?
Jed Clampett: Nahh. A good stout bull can take care o` hisself.
Granny: Well, if there`s one thing Jethro`d like better than fightin` it, it`d be eatin` it!
Jed Clampett: This way, he can do both!
[to Jethro]
Granny: And how do we do that, Mr. Sixth-Grade Graduate?
Widow Fenwick: [buxom elderly millionaress who wants Jed to come in with her as a business partner on a real estate development venture she calls Honeymoon Lane] I need a partner who will come into Honeymoon Lane with me. I have the license, and I have the heavy equipment.
Jed Clampett: Well, ma`am, them`s the kinda things a man likes to find out fer himself.
Granny: How do you like yer possum, Lowell, fallin` off the bones tender or with a little fight left in it?
Lowell Redlings Farquhar: [looking slightly nauseated] I`m really not hungry.
Female Bank Robber Masquerading As "Doublenaught Spy" Recruiter: We`ll never find another... BRAIN... like his!
Male Bank Robber Also Masquerading: He`s a double-zero if I ever saw one.
Lafe Crick: Now, no more a` this chasin` after other girls. Can`t no boy love TWO girls.
Jethro: Well, that leaves out Essie Belle. She`s about two girls and a HALF!
Jed Clampett: When Mrs. Drysdale gets home she`s gonna call the PO-lice!
Jethro: No she won`t. I gnawed the stump so it`d look like a BEAVER done it!
Milburn Drysdale: [dictating a letter to Miss Jane] ... and furthermore, if you are late on your mortgage payment one more time you will be thrown out into the street...
Jane Hathaway: Chief, she`s eighty-five years old and in a wheelchair!
Milburn Drysdale: Oh, I`m sorry, I didn`t know... change that to read, you will be wheeled out into the street.
Jed Clampett: [to an obviously revolted Mr. Drysdale] That`s the thing about salted down possum, it`s just as good the second day.
Jed Clampett: [On Jethro`s intelligence, or lack thereof] If brains was lard, that boy wouldn`t have enough to grease a skillet.
Dub Crick: [to his equally shiftless father Lafe Crick] I knew you`d be proud a` me... it`s the most I ever stole.
Jed Clampett: [bounces a golf ball on the kitchen table, thinking it`s a "golf egg"] Strictly speakin`, I don`t think these are fresh laid.
Trivia
Mr. Drysdale`s bank was the fictitious Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills.
The Clampetts` bloodhound name was Duke.
The theme song was #44 on the charts in 1962.
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* The 1971 cancellation of the series resulted from CBS` desire to erase its image as a "rural network." In the process, other rural shows (including "Green Acres" (1965) and "Petticoat Junction" (1963)) were canceled as well. The general feeling was that "CBS canceled every show with a tree in it".
Future Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne appeared in the first episode.
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# Buddy Ebsen was offered the role of Jed Clampett on the strength of his playing a similar role in Breakfast at Tiffany`s (1961).
Jed Clampett was originally written as a rather dumb hick, but Buddy Ebsen would only agree to take the role if it was rewritten to make Jed smarter. The character of Jethro was written as someone to give all of the "dumb" Jed`s lines to.
The mansion in Beverly Hills where the Clampetts lived was actually the Kirkeby mansion in Bel Air.
An agreement was made between Filmways Productions and Arnold Kirkeby to film the exterior of the Kirkeby mansion. The agreement stipulated that the grounds had to be cleaned up after filming, and the address of the Kirkeby mansion was never to be divulged to the public.
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# Just before the fourth season got underway, Mrs. Kirkeby apparently broke the agreement her late husband had made with Filmways Productions, since the mansion`s address was leaked and caused an endless stream of tourists to come to the mansion looking for Jed and Granny. Filmways was not allowed to film the mansion`s exterior or film any long shots of the mansion grounds after that.
As well as serving as animal trainer, Frank Inn actually provided the animals used on the show as Elly May`s "critters".
The Clampett`s truck was a 1921 Oldsmobile. It was loaned by Cousin Pearl when the family moved to California.
The names of Ellie`s two pet chimpanzees were Skipper and Bessie.
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# Veteran character actress and voice artist Bea Benaderet was originally considered for the role of Granny. Revisions in the character were made so that she would be more like "Mammy Yokum" in Al Capp`s "Li`l Abner" cartoon strip. Benaderet was too large and "busty" to fit that image. It was reportedly Benaderet herself who suggested Irene Ryan for the role, who by all accounts came in and "blew everyone away" with a wonderful screen test, which still survives today and is included as an extra on the DVD set.
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# Series creator Paul Henning got the idea for the show while on a trip through the South in 1959, visiting Civil War sites with his mother-in-law. He wondered what it would be like to take someone from the rural South in the Civil War era and put them down in the middle of a modern, sophisticated community. Originally it was to have been set in New York, but because of cost considerations the setting was changed to Beverly Hills.
In the first season, Max Baer Jr. occasionally played Jethro`s twin sister, Jethrine. Linda Henning, daughter of series creator Paul Henning, provided Jethrine`s voice.
Jed Clampett`s late wife`s name was Rose Ellen.
Jethro`s father`s name was Fred Bodine.
Sonny`s real name was Adonis.
Sonny was Margaret Drysdale`s son from a previous marriage. His actual last name was never revealed and he was always known as Sonny Drysdale.
Margaret Drysdale`s father`s name is Lowell Fahrquar.
Buddy Ebsen had seriously considered retiring from show business just before production began on the pilot in December 1961.
# Rose to #1 in the ratings faster than any other show within the first three weeks since its debut, a feat still unmatched to this day, where it remained for two years. The following eight episodes that aired during the wake of President John F. Kennedy`s assassination are the most watched half-hour shows ever.
At the end of the opening credits you can see Jed start to point out something to the others towards camera left. In the network broadcasts, the camera changes to show that Jed is pointing to a billboard for Kellogg`s Corn Flakes, the sponsor of the show. As the car drives past it, the theme song continues, changing to the then current slogan "K-E-Double L-O-Double Good. Kellogg`s, just for you".
During the early years of the show, rumors persisted that Irene Ryan was actually even younger in real life than Donna Douglas, but wore extensive makeup to dress as Granny. However, Ryan was born in 1902 and Douglas in 1933, making Ryan 31 years older than Douglas. Buddy Ebsen used to joke, long after the "Hillbillies" had ended, about how anyone could believe such a thing.
Louis Nye, who portrayed Sonny, Mrs. Drysdale`s son, was only 8 years younger than Harriet E. MacGibbon, the actress that portrayed Mrs. Drysdale.
On June 29th 1966 the Dutch broadcasting station NCRV aired what they claimed to be the last episode. With the absence of the Internet, facts like these were hard to verity by the viewers. From 1973 to 1974 the NCRV aired the unaired episodes in the Netherlands.
The entire first season (all 36 episodes) as well as the first 19 episodes of the second season are the only episodes in the public domain. The 20th episode of the second season to the end of the series are still under copyright protection. These 55 episodes ended up in the public domain because CBS, having bought the rights to the series shortly after its cancellation, neglected to renew their copyrights. As a result, these episodes have been unofficially released on home video and DVD on many low-budget labels. In many video prints of the public domain episodes, the original and much-loved theme music has been replaced by generic music due to copyright issues.
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