Didja ever notice that Oliver was blanked with the idea of talking to Arnold in the first seasons but without making anything about the fact, on the last ones he was talking with and understanding not only Arnold, but his cow too!
@@kurtsnyder4752 yes & that when it Jumped the shark or pig... start having aliens & such I think it was.... .. lol ..... & that's just too much with into fanasyland comedy like Bewitched , I dream of Jeanie ect.... .. lol....
@@oveidasinclair982 Loved Fred too. He was actually almost totally deaf, so he had to memorize his lines and someone would be off-camera and poke him with a yardstick when it was his turn to speak. Arnold actually got a ton of fan mail.
I know , we never had a color T.V. , I think they were like $30.00 dollars more than a black and white ! I saw Star Trek at my neighbors and was just amazed ! My dad was a real tight ass !
@@alanheadrick7997 Ha ! We had the same 3... uh , 4 , and would even watch the Star Spangled Banner " broadcast when the stations went off the air at midnight ! In our town , at 10:00 P.M. , a little sign would pop up in the corner of the screen , " DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILD IS ? " I hated Tuesdays', because at 8:30 we would be playing " kick the can " , and all of the girls would quit and go home to watch Peyton Place ! I hated that show !!!
@@waldoparsnip1025 I also remember Saturday morning cartoons, I think by 10:00am they were finished. I remember my mom always watched soap operas, AAARRG! Funny to think back and remember how little we had, but we were happy.
The three shows that comprised that fictional world, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres are light years better than anything on TV now.
The actor who played Ebb said that over the years they used 19 pigs to play Arnold because they grow big so fast. My favorite is the episode where Arnold blushes, that was hilarious!!
Mr. Ziffle, Hank Patterson was born 1888, He is known foremost for playing two recurring characters on three television series: the stableman Hank Miller on Gunsmoke and farmer Fred Ziffel on both Petticoat Junction and Green Acres.
I do recall in an episode it was validated that Arnold gets straight A’s. The dude is smart!! Poor guy is under-rated in so many ways. I like that he watches so many Cowboy pictures, with the volume turned up too.
Green Acres has to be one of the funniest shows of all time...great cast, Eva Gabor , Arnold the Pig, Fred Ziffell, my favorite was let me think ,oh yeah Mr Kimble...hilarious
My favorite episode was when the selective service showed up wanting to draft Arnold into the armed services to go fight that "crazy Asian war", a lighthearted stab at the President's army. Well we got suckered on that one for sure, and all the rest since.
There was a crossover night when Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, and Beverly Hillbillies all engaged in a connected storyline, but I can't recall details... just Granny Clampett pumping a railroad handcar very fast...!
Absolutely right. There's nothing on modern TV that you want to watch again. I've watched these over & over, and the old black & white Gunsmoke episodes.
Arnold was such a "ham" on Green Acres! LOL. He and Lisa's antics made that show so funny. I would dare anyone to watch it and not have a smile on their face the whole time. Sure wish they made good, whiolesome, funny shows like this again.
I went to Green Acres Elementary School and worked at The Green Acres Grocery Market in my teens and even met Eva Gabor at a party in my 30's. Never met Arnold, though, so my life is still incomplete.
Arnold is one of my favorite pig characters along with Piglet ( Winnie The Pooh), Wilbur ( Charlotte's Web), PB ( The League Of Super Pets), Sunny ( Tokyo Pig), Picky Piggy ( Poppy Playtime), Porky Pig, and The Three Little Pigs ( Disney). 🐷
Wikipedia article states that the character of “Arnold” was always played by a piglet requiring a new piglet each season. The piglets were trained and handled on set by widely used animal trainer Frank Inn (1916-2002).
As a narrator, commercial, and cartoon voice actor in Hollywood since the 1980's, Howard Stern asked me to do a funny radio version of "Green Acres," each episode around two minutes long. We obtained the rights, and eventually it was syndicated to over 350 radio stations across the country. I did all the male voices during the run, and the very talented Sue Blu did all the female voices. Sadly, a fire in my recording studio burned all of the tapes, but one survived, as I had already put it online many years later. This is episode 121: Mr. Douglas Buys a Sexy Pig. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ecu5Ne4Ibqg.html
