I ran into Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram) at a Whole Foods market in 1988 give or take a year. He couldn't have been nicer. He could not stop talking about Green Acres and even gave me a few good stories of Arnold Ziffle.
I enjoy watching retro TV stations nowadays. Those 50s and 60s shows sure are different as I watch them as an adult. Mr. Buttram shows up on so many of those shows. He almost always plays rural types. Great characters and writing.
Some of the things that cracked me up about Green Acres were Oliver's wearing three-piece suits to do farm work and the quality of work (like the masonry on their fireplace) the Monroe Brothers did. A classic moment was when Oliver tried to impress upon someone the quality of the house's construction. Declaring "That's solid oak!" he stamped his foot on the floor and crashed through it.
Oliver should have sent away for the biggest double wide trailer they could get and live in it while they Renovate his house. Apparently it took till they where elderly to get it done if you go by the show return to Green achers. They could have give the double wide to Ed and his wife when there house was done.
Mrs. Douglas every time I see you it reminds me of a speckled hen sitting in a little green wagon. OMG I am seriously laughing so hard I'm in tears. This show is priceless.
I knew people like Mr Haney growing up and stayed as far away from them as possible!!!! I never bought a truck or car from then either!!! They were fun to talk too...and I learned a lot...but you had to watch your back around them!!!!😊
@@luthermcgee3756 Yes Luther.. .really.. .check it out: "On September 9, 1942, Albert enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November 1943, when, as the pilot of a Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.[9]"
Their outdoor shower system is like what Betty Jo and Steve Eliot had at their cottage. Makes ya wonder how they got clean during winter. LOL. Glad I watched this new. It is still hilarious.
One episode had this classic give-n-take..... Douglas: How come every time I need something, you just happen to have it on your truck? Haney: Let's look at that another way. How come every time I have something on the truck, you happen to need it?
Yep .that's becoz he always deprives Mr.Douglas of what he needs .he sold a house but removed all furniture .he sold a farm with a Hoyt Clagwell thingamajigee . Alice ,eleanor, I bet they were in on it too ..he creates artificial demand and then provides supply . The biggest salesman of all salesman in the universe .I swear he would have even made money out of Joseph and Mary for the Nativity .. The only thing he didn't expect was there would be a bootleggers still in the basement ..
@@gingergranttech Haney also took over the phone company from Mr. Douglas, and then there was the water outages, that Haney would switch from one resident to another, leaving one resident totally without water.
There's been a lot of screwball characters in shows over the years but you have to put Mr. Haney right up near the top. He could sell snow to an Eskimo.
6:46 The Start of Comedy Genius😂That Hoyt Clagwell Tractor to me is one of the funniest characters on the show😂Just the slightest touch and that Amazing Tractor ALWAYS FALLS APART AND I LAUGH MY ASS OFF EVERY TIME😂Poor Mr. Douglas😂Hell that Tractor can't even pull a Tree Stump out of the ground,but poor Mr. Douglas can pull the Tree Stump out by hand,LMFAO this scene is so FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've never seen the early episodes of the show so it's really interesting to see the way Lisa is acting here in the first episode. Her voice and attitude are very very different. I always wondered why the theme song portrayed her as wanting to live in the city, but in the show she didn't seem to mind living on the farm, aside from wanting to visit New York every now and then.
I bet you that all car sale reps. and politicians from all parties must be trained and graduate from the must have "HANEY COURSE" before they interact with the public. Lol
KINGFISH taught Mr. Haney Phil Silvers AND THESE CAR SALESMAN. I love all three actors HATE car salesman. They're ALL the BEST SWINDLERS CON MEN LIARS AND MONEY MAKERS OFF GOOD PEOPLE I'VE SEEN. Love Amos and Andy and Green Acres Good clean fun both shows
How do you get parts for a Hoyt-Clagwell tractor? Are they still in business? I remember that they were based in Fargo, North Dakota. It's no wonder Oliver Wendell Douglas thought he was in the Twilight Zone!
Holy schmoley. Duchess and Napoleon off from Disney's The Aristocats, as well as Miss Bianca and Luke off from Disney's The Rescuers are in this show because they are voiced by Eva Gabor and Pat Buttram.
I took the show far too seriously, as a kid, and I despised Mr. Haney. I felt like Mr. Douglas had the right idea, getting out of the city, and his wife and all the locals tormented him for no reason, or maybe because she didn't want to leave the city. The fact that she and the locals got along great and HE was the stuffy one made the show very frustrating to watch, but I couldn't NOT watch. They might have the magic pig on that episode! Watching as an adult, I now enjoy it on 2 levels, because I remember how I was as a boy, who didn't quite understand most of the humor in the situation. Now, I watch it and I think "He's rich. Why's he so upset? If he weren't such a stuffed shirt, he'd build a mansion for Mr. Haney and have him over to tell lies at dinner! "More potatoes, Mr. Haney? Have some more brisket." He'd be dead of heart disease in 5 years, stuffing himself at my place.
Green Acres was a made for TV series of Marx Bro's movies... Mr. Douglas as Groucho... Haney as Chico... Lisa as talking version of Harpo...with the rest of the cast taking turns using Marx Bro characters... maybe that's an over simplification but all the similarities are there... the Marx bro's depended on absurdity, misunderstanding, mispronunciation, play on words, frustration and unexplained jokes... Paul Henning and his writers used these techniques to a T in the Green Acres show... all the absurdities Mr. Douglas is continually faced with are all normal to the rest of the cast... the writers knew how to use "benign violation" to it's fullest extent.
Nah...Oliver was a flustered sad sack fish out of water who always got the short end of the stick. Groucho was a fast talking, slippery smart ass that didn't take shit from anyone.
@@hugginkiss1027 ... try rereading my comment... I said "similarities" and though Groucho dished it out more than Oliver, Groucho was also flustered by likes of Chico and Harpo in numerous scenes... and there's numerous times when Mr. Douglas gets his licks in. Watch the scene in "Day At The Races" (it's on you tube) where Chico slicks Groucho out of money for "racing tip" guide books and compare that to Mr. Haney trying to scalp Mr.Douglas every chance he gets
Does anyone else find it impossible to hear this guy talking without thinking about the Sheriff of Nottingham from Robin Hood or the dogs from the Aristocats?
They love their country here in Sierra Vista, Arizona . . . gives them money. Just waiting for America to send them a new greenhorn . . . (a little green behind the ears).
