re: #112 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Easy if you look at the elements involved and the base idea of a “fish out of water” comedy. And Green Acres was essentially a spin-off from Petticoat Junction. By the same producer who did The Beverly Hillbillies - which was a “fish out of water” is the reverse mode of Green Acres.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor as an exotic
- Eddie Albert as the straight man well-meaning city slicker in the country
- And then you can have a whole background of stereotype “real American” country folk to play things off of.

And it essentially runs off the same vibe as “Hee-Haw”, “Petticoat Junction”*, and a number of other shows from that period.

* - And Uncle Joe from this was in a way a sort of rural Archie Bunker. A comedic crank, though never developed the seriousness that a lot of people took Archie’s behavior.

Minor correction: it wasn’t Zsa Zsa, but her sister Eva Gabor who played Lisa Douglas on Green Acres. Though they looked and sounded so much alike, some confusion can be forgiven.

And: fluff as so much of it was, Petticoat Junction wasn’t harmed much by being anchored by the veterans Bea Benederet and Edgar Buchanan (Uncle Joe).