S2.E14

Never Trust a Little Old Lady

Episode aired Dec 28, 1966
TV-G
26m

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Frank Cady, Kay E. Kuter, and Hank Patterson in Les arpents verts (1965)

It's tomato planting season and Oliver needs useful weather information. Hooterville relies on WPIXL-TV's Mildred, a little old lady who prances out of her dollhouse, or Walter, the singing ... Read allIt's tomato planting season and Oliver needs useful weather information. Hooterville relies on WPIXL-TV's Mildred, a little old lady who prances out of her dollhouse, or Walter, the singing weatherman. Both are always wrong so Oliver contacts the Weather Bureau which predicts war... Read allIt's tomato planting season and Oliver needs useful weather information. Hooterville relies on WPIXL-TV's Mildred, a little old lady who prances out of her dollhouse, or Walter, the singing weatherman. Both are always wrong so Oliver contacts the Weather Bureau which predicts warm days and nights. The plants are in the ground when Hooterville suffers the coldest night... Read all

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Weather Updates, Hooterville Style

One of the first truly bizarre episodes of the series. There were hints of it earlier, but this episode really highlights the fact that Hooterville and its citizens are not like the rest of the world.

We learn that the residents of Hooterville have a unique way of predicting the weather - they watch the local news out of Pixley to see whether a little old lady, or a little old man, come out of a house apparently constructed on a set in the studio, something akin to one of those old Swiss clocks. But this isn't a clock. These are two actual people who apparently have done this for years. No further explanation is given. Only Green Acres would open with something this strange, then feel no need to elaborate.

The rest of the episode deals with the farmers reacting to the wildly shifting predictions. It's a fun episode, and unlike prior episodes, it's not afraid to be weird.

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Trivia
Acting on Lisa's recommendation to use the object of Bob Hope's jokes and converting her crepe suzettes to that very thing, i.e. smudge pots, serve as a big shout out to the famous comedian, who often joked about smudge pots, which were used by citrus farmers in California and elsewhere during severe cold spells. The comedian would joke, for instance, that the smoke from all the smudge pots made it difficult for him to see people he was trying to avoid.

Goofs
The way Hooterville is described geographically, it's West of Mississippi. Their TV and radio stations from Pixley, start with a 'W' as in WPIX. West of the river, stations begin with 'K'. CORRECTION - this is factually incorrect. Two examples are WHO in DesMoines IA, and WBAP in Fort Worth TX.

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Oliver Wendell Douglas: [Eb is dressed for a drought in a swimsuit, jungle helmet & sunglasses] Eb, we've got to go to Pixley to pick up the tomato plants. Now take that stupid outfit off.
Eb Dawson: Pixley's a pretty big town. I ought to wear something.
Lisa Douglas: Eb's right. He might get arrested for undecent explosion.