Very cool stuff today. I loved the Beverly Hillbillies. Growing up in rural West Virginia, the show was a staple of my childhood. I'm going to have to hunt down a few episodes. Internet, don't fail me now.
RT-Medic-with-shotgun said:I watched this show daily as a ki. Superpowers for granny could count super strength, jed has the eyes of a bird of prey & could apply them to shooting, Ellly could communicate with animals, and all of them were stronger than Jethro.
Clearly, it's been too darn long. I need to track down ALL NINE SEASONS and WATCH THEM ALLLL.Redd the Sock said:Please. Jethro was the weakest of the 4. Elly continuiously beat him up. One episode had her date a weightlifer and she lifted his 200 pound barbells like plastic patio furniture. Granny once beat up the number one kartae champion in the world hired as a bodygurad for their banker. Jed never showed a temper on screen, but it was implied he had the same muscle.
Then of course they all could shoot flies with a shotgun at 300 yards. The joke was that gopher in the opening was the only shot Jed ever missed.
It was sort of a running joke that their manual labor and work ethic made them super strong while the soft, rich people (even the strong man that lifted weights) were all weaklings in comparison. Same thing with their shooting abilities. They made the stuff "hillbillies" would be good at, like being strong from manual labor and great shooting from hunting, into super human abilities simply as a way of creating a joke and further separating the Clampets from the people of Beverly Hills.Redd the Sock said:Please. Jethro was the weakest of the 4. Elly continuiously beat him up. One episode had her date a weightlifer and she lifted his 200 pound barbells like plastic patio furniture. Granny once beat up the number one kartae champion in the world hired as a bodygurad for their banker. Jed never showed a temper on screen, but it was implied he had the same muscle.lacktheknack said:Meh, I'm not sure what he's on about. Jethro was enormously strong, yes, but Granny, Jed and Ellie May didn't have any "superpowers" to speak of.Electromagnet said:And now I'm very interested in this. Could we get a follow-up episode about this?The Grim Ace said:the fact that the Clampetts basically all had super powers.
OT: I LOVED THIS SHOW AS A KID!
Then of course they all could shoot flies with a shotgun at 300 yards. The joke was that gopher in the opening was the only shot Jed ever missed.
YES, 1000 times YES.Quiet Stranger said:Next episode: Hogan's Heroes!
I love Beverly Hillbillies, such a good show.
There were some points in the world, normally closer to the late 1800s early 1900s where there was enough pressure that the oil was floating on top of the land below it. Some areas in the wild weren't always very well traveled by people who looked for the stuff, so it's not impossible to hit a shallow well in an area where nobody's looked for oil.Draconalis said:I'd never really noticed this before...
But how is a bullet going to penetrate enough ground to strike oil? That just doesn't make any sense at all...