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i love it its really cute

I don't care who knows. I shall admit it publicly. I loved this show. It was funny, and the humor often was subtle and it dawned on you later. The running gags really never got lame.

Started out fairly strong, increased through the next three seasons and tapered off the rest of the shows. The show fell out of favor as the nation lost it's collective sense of humor due to the anger and strife over many issues of the 60's and early 70's.

makes andy griffith's cast of characters look like rhodes scholars. so stupid it wasn't funny.

If you believe some of the reviews on here this show is television's answer to Restoration Comedies, or the works of Moliere.

It falls just a tad short of that. It was a not untypical sit-com of its era, putting people in a situation out of their natural element.

Not exactly Pulitzer Prize stuff, and not especially better or worse than several of its contemporaries.

"Green Acres" was a bit too slapstick and oftentimes too silly for my personal tastes; however, the surreal, eclectic citizens of Hooterville did have some appeal (resulting in three stars). As the straight man, Eddie Albert (Oliver Wendell Douglas) was game enough but Eva Gabor (Lisa Douglas) got to be irritating. The concept was clearly derived from simply reversing "The Beverly Hillbillies" (overall a better show) and building on "Petticoat Junction", and the screenwriters often exchanged and referenced characters from these predecessors. This may have helped jumpstart the series, but ultimately degraded any originality. As for the supporting cast, the slowwitted Eb, Hank and Mr. Haney frustrated me as youth, but as an adult I found them more interesting. In some ways, "Green Acres" inspired the oddball citizens of Cicely, Alaska in "Northern Exposure" (with that latter series being more cerebral and less goofy).

The greatest sitcom of them all? Possibly. "Greenacres" was set in Hooterville, the same fictional town that "Petticoat Junction" was set in. Characters and sets from "Petticoat Junction" appeared regularly on "Greenacres".

Best show in the history of tv. Its so funny!! Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert were casted perfectly in these rolls that made them into even bigger stars!

A silly, goofy show that was a funny as they come. "Oliver...would you like some hotcakes?"

I love this show, loved it when it was new, and love it in reruns. Had the pleasure of meeting Ebb (Tom Lester) on one occasion. Really nice man and enjoyable to talk with. Green Acres is the place to BE!

A great comedy that never grew old. The gags were always funny and it seemed to just build and build. One of my favorite things was how Lisa always spoke incorrectly. Oliver would try to correct her only to hear the same word used in the subsequent themes, either by Eb or Mr. Drucker or Mr. Ziffle. Great slapstick comedy. A spin off of Pettycoat Junction.

I remember this show though it hasn't been on British TV for over 35 years.
It was gentle and funny.

I really like this show, even more as I get older. My grandfather had a farm and I remember life as being great there at that place where things were less hectic. This show could get very frustrating, however, and I had to learn not to feel too sorry for Oliver.

A city boy moves to the country and somehow ends up in the Twilight Zone! Eddie Albert is superb as Oliver Wendell Douglass and Ava Gabor, as Lisa, plays the ditzy blonde socialite with great comedic flair. The entire cast is a hoot as Oliver tries to make sense of the strange goings on that continue to get curiouser and curiouser as each episode unveils. Hooterville is the perfect name for the town as each of it's members appear to have been smoking some powerful stuff and are seemingly incapable of seeing the world through the same eyes as the straight-laced former attorney. Maybe some of us need to lighten up a bit as well. This was harmless, lightweight stuff are far superior to most of the hypersexual, Dad is a dumbass, male-bashing drivil that has been passing for comedy for most of the past 20 or so years.

One of the best sitcoms to ever be aired. ahead of it's time in it's blend of plain old slap stick and the surreal. I love watching the near flawless timing and interaction between the charictors. No one ever seems to be trying to steal the scene, no one is trying to out do the other or seems to be worried about who got the bigger laugh. They were a team and acted that way. When I was a kid, every boy on the block had better have been able to do a passable mr. haney or kimble to earn his laughs on the bus. In a time of pouty, self absorbed and self destructive celebrities, I enjoy putting in my Green Acres dvds and returning to a different place and time. Where sitcoms were meant to uplift and refresh the spirit with simple good natured laughter and just plain silliness. The cynics can have the sardonic and obnoxious fare that is offered up today. Give me clean fun every time! Green Acres, dated ? sometimes,corney ? yeah, timeless ? absolutely ! Just look at this site, decades after the show is off the air we are posting our love for it. Do you think anyone will be buying Aly Mcbeal dvds fourty years from now ? Green Acres represents the best of t.v. was supposed to be, an entertaining show that everyone in the family could watch and mom and dad didnt have to stop and explain some overt sexual or deviant comment or act to their kids. Think I'm a cornball for liking shows like Green Acres ? if thats the case then I wear the lable with pride.

I watched it whenever it was on. I watched a rerun some time back and it still holds it's own.

One of the few shows that stand up to repeated viewing.Never fails to make me happy.

the anti beverly hillbilles-witty-albert and gabor lost in hooterville.don't but a used cow from mr. haney.

I watched it from the beginning in 1965, had the opportunity to speak with the President of Columbia House and he was nice enough to send me 14, 4 episode (2 hours each) VHS tapes as a compliment. Thanks to Columbia and God Bless Eddie Albert.

What a great show. The jokes were non-stop and the characters were great, especially Ralph the alternative lifestyle handywoman, Lisa the hotcake queen, and Arnold the Pig who was the smartest resident in Hooterville.

Crazy, silly, surrealist. If Ionesco wrote for TV, he could not have done better. Operates on many levels. And what animal gag in the history of TV can compare with Arnold Ziffel?

Man I sure did want to hump Lisa. BAAAADDDLLY.

It was always just to confusing to me to follow. But it did have some funny moments.

Green Acres is my favorite tv show. it is the best. i think that Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor are one of the funniest tv couples i have ever seen!!!!! the show is awsome. i love it and thats why i give this show 5 stars.!!!

Very rarely does something as brilliant as Green Acres come along. The writers had the inate ability to appeal to two different audiences at the same time. Slapstick on the surface, deeper humor to those who watched with a closer eye. What a cast. Brilliant brilliant brilliant!!!

Very funny. A show about a lawyer who gives up his practice to the dismay of his beautiful Hungarian wife, and moves to a small and insane hick town and adopts a half-wit 30 year old named Eb as a farm hand/son. I love it.

okay i originally had 3 stars for this but i changed it to a 2. This show consists of stupidity (Lisa) and grouchines (Oliver). It stinks. It's pointless.

The ULTIMATE sitcom of all time...! Forget today's nonsence, this show had it all - lots of laughs and silliness; wierd at times, but so true to the heartland of America still to this day! Episode 44 is my personal favorite - Ck. it out, yes!

I like the theme song!

One of the best written sitcoms ever! Perfect cast.

This was a rather stupid, corny show!

Hilarious. Great offbeat characters. Lots of nonsensical plots. Oliver seems to be exasperated all of the time. Everyone else is just honky dory.

The loopiest sitcom of them all. It's surreal and goofy and with one of the best casts of supporting characters ever. What a delight!

This was one of the worst TV sitcoms of the 60s it did not make any sence.

Liked the theme song and Lisa...that's all...well maybe Arnold the pig!

Green Acres is the greatest show. It if full of humor in every show, and is based in a country which most sitcoms are all in cities now. Green Acres has clean humor and no curse words or sex like the annoying shows do now. It's a classic!

There hasn't been a better sit-com on TV.A real down to earth comedy.

One of my favorite shows of all time. Eddie Albert as Oliver was so funny ! I loved his farmer speeches. And Arnold the pig, what a hoot !!

If a show can keep me laughing for almost 40 years, then it's great. Oh dear, I'm OLD!!!

Regarding Ralph, She was'nt a lesbian. She was engaged to Mr. Kymbal, BUT Mr. Kymbal wanted to remain single. So throughout the show the couple needed $87.00 to get married and Kymbal kept coming up with ways no to meet the goal.

You rarely find surrealism and wit like this anywhere, much less on American TV! An all-time favorite!

I LOVE GREEN ACRES SO MUCH!!

Faboulllllous dahling!

The best show in the history of television...EVER!!! Eva Gabor rocks!!!

The best collection of characters and illogic ever put on TV.

A classic...Good clean fun!

One of the greatest television series ever! Often overlooked (overshadowed?) by The Beverly Hillbillies, but is actually much funnier! I dare you to sit through an episode without laughing!

Green Acres is the Place to be! This is what TV was all about, crazy humor with no cussing, bad language, or anything offensive except maybe to a liberal. I have always loved this show. It was so simple, yet was really funny at the same time. I especially liked the Hoyt Klagwell tractor that Mr. Douglas had. Eva Gabor was also truly great as Lisa. I hope they never try to redo this as a movie. It is a true classic. Paul Henning is a genius. I understood that two people wrote most of these shows on Green Acres. I tend to believe that in that the continuity was too good to have been done by a large staff. BTW - does anybody know where the show was filmed? I have never heard whewre the studio was. for that matter, where were the Beverly hillbillies and Petticoat Junction filmed? These were also Paul Henning? Anybody remember the episode where Fred Ziffel is knocking on the douglasses door, and the credits text keep sneeking up on him? I like it when the credit would also be on some object, loaf of bread, eggs, cereal box, etc.

This show gets better with the passing of time. It has some gags no other one had: (1) The little invisible flute that played when Oliver gave one of his speeches. Everyone heard it except for him; (2) The inability of Oliver Wendell Douglas to complete a sentence without someone, somewhere interrupting and cutting him off in mid-sentence; (3) Best of all, Hank Kimball. He was perpetually confused, and always derailing things. My favorite moment was when he called an emergency meeting of farmers, tried to show them slides relating to a pestilence, and accidentally had inserted his own baby pictures into the projector...then forgot the original purpose of the meeting and started narrating his home pictures instead! Nobody else but Alvy Moore could have played the role so well.

I love Green Acres. It is so funny, with the conniving Mr. Haney and the confused Mr. Kimball. And of course Mr. Ziffell and Arnold. It's so clever. Lisa can't cook or clean, buw who cares? She is so beautiful! She has a gorgeous face and is such a sweet woman. I adore her accent. And I love the jokes about Oliver's lousy farming. It's a family show that's ahead of it's time, breaking down the fourth wall. It's a very funny and clever show.For instance, I love the episode in which Oliver's toaster doesn't work because he doesn't say five. Everyone else in Hooterville knows that you have to say numbers to get the toaster to work. Oliver's toaster is the number 5 model. It's wonderful, a normal and rational person living in a world in which everyone else in insane but thinks that Oliver is nuts because he's different from them.

Yet another great from the 60s! Family-friendly comedy with a great twist, laugh track and awesome comedy. From slapstick, crazy dialogue, and even BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL (In what other show do the characters actually react to the credits?)--Green Acres is another example as to why the 60s must have been the best decade for sitcoms--PERIOD.

I looked forward to seeing this wholesome humor every week as a little boy at my grandma and grandpa's house. Later in life I found it even funnier, from the goofy farmhand kid who looked up to Oliver Douglas as a kind of 'dad' to the Government Farm assistor who couldn't remember a damn thing from one sentence to the next. It was a humorous modern spinoff of the old Ma and Pa Kettle movies without the kids. Lastly, I have to say, Eva Gabor imprinted on me as a seven year old boy just what a lady should be like. She was glamorous, funny, helpful and beautiful. She was the first love of my young life and I still believe she's one of the most beautiful women who has ever lived. All the things I looked for in a wife and eventually found were from her. How successful was I? I married a petite blond who wears Fredericks of Hollywood lingerie to bed every night and stands by me as I tend to my animals on a small piece of property out west. Not Hooterville.

So ahead of its time. Oliver was the original Dick Loudon, Hooterville was in the same universe as The Simpsons' Springfield and Arnold was out of this world! Irishgit obviously didn't git it. So surreal and brilliant! (And no, they didn't eat Arnold after the show went off because there was a hundred of them over the years!)

Check out Jump the Shark! This show is considered one of tv's best according to that site! I just loved a frustrated Oliver muttering those incomplete sentences, For the love of ..., etc. A TRUE CLASSIC!

Matt Groening has admitted Green Acres was one of his inspirations when creating The Simpsons. Way ahead of its time! Like Your Show Of Shows before it, SNL and Mad TV owe more than a wink to the citizens of Hooterville. Daring television! Love the episode when Oliver gets a crown when he takes a bite of the brand of OLEO margarine Lisa just switched to, making fun of the Imperial commercials. So many classic moments. Bring it back, TV Land!

THERE ARE NO IN-BETWEENS. EITHER YOU GET IT OR YOU DON'T. FORTUNATELY MOST OF US DID, AS THE SERIES LASTED 6 YEARS AND PROBABLY WOULD HAVE RUN A COUPLE MORE IF CBS HADN'T DECIDED TO GO AFTER URBAN DEMOGRAPHICS AND LET GO OF ALL THEIR COUNTRY-FRIED PROGRAMMING IN THE PROCESS. UNDERAPPRECIATED IN ITS TIME AND EVEN TODAY, GREEN ACRES WAS THE FORERUNNER FOR SUCH CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SHOWS AS CLASSIC COMEDIES NEWHART AND THE SIMPSONS, AND EVEN TWIN PEAKS OR MOONLIGHTING. WITHOUT A DOUBT, GREEN ACRES WAS WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME AND WAS ONE OF THE FEW PROGRAMS IN THE MEDIUM'S HISTORY THAT GOT BETTER OVER THE COURSE OF ITS RUN. IT UNFORTUNATELY WENT OFF THE AIR AT ITS CREATIVE PEEK. OFTEN DISMISSED FOR ITS COUNTRY SETTING BY THOSE WHO DIDN'T GET IT OR, EVEN WORSE, NEVER SEEN IT OR DIDN'T GIVE IT A CHANCE, GREEN ACRES WAS MORE THAN CORNPOKE COMEDY - IT MADE YOU THINK. THE RUNNING GAGS, SUCH AS LISA'S INABILITY TO LEARN HOW TO COOK, OLIVER'S UNWAVERING IDEALISM, ALWAYS READY TO STAND UP FOR WHAT HE THOUGHT AMERICA WAS ALL ABOUT DESPITE THE CONSEQUENCES, HANK KIMBALL'S GROSS INEPTITUDE (WHICH NEVER CEASED TO AMAZE OR AMUSE US) AND THE OTHER RESIDENTS' BLATANT NAIVETE AND ALMOST-CHILDLIKE INNOCENCE WERE ALL HILAROUSLY WRITTEN AND BRILLIANTLY PORTRAYED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY CAST. THE RURAL BACKDROP OF HOOTERVILLE WAS THE PERFECT PLACE TO TAKE A SATIRICAL LOOK AT SMALLTOWN AMERICA'S MINDSET AND MORES. IT WAS THE OBVIOUS PREDECESSOR TO MATT GROENING'S SPRINGFIELD. GREEN ACRES TOOK CHANCES AT A TIME WHEN OTHER SITCOMS WERE TAME AND CONVENTIONAL, POKING FUN AT SUCH 60S' TABOO SUBJECTS AS POLITICS (SUCH AS ACTORS WHO BECOME POLITICIANS AT A TIME WHEN REAGAN WAS ELECTED CALIFORNIA'S GOVERNOR), THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CLASSES IN OUR SOCIETY, EVEN THE WAY WE PERCEIVE OURSELVES. OFTEN, LISA AND OLIVER SPOKE DIRECTLY TO THE HOME AUDIENCE, BREAKING DOWN THAT FOURTH WALL AND MAKING US REALIZE THIS WAS JUST A TV SHOW 20 YEARS BEFORE MADDIE & DAVID WERE PHRASED BY CRITICS FOR DOING THE EXACT SAME THING ON MOONLIGHTING. THE SHOW BROKE GROUND FOR MANY SHOWS AFTER IT YET HAS NEVER BEEN GIVEN ITS DUE. GREEN ACRES WAS A GEM AND, ALONG SIDE ALL IN THE FAMILY, MARY TYLER MOORE, SOAP, THE SIMPSONS AND ROSEANNE, RANKS AS ONE OF MY TOP TEN FAVORITES. ANYONE WHO CHOOSES TO CRITICIZE IT SHOULD SIT DOWN AND WATCH THE SHOW ALL OVER AGAIN AND LEAVE THEIR PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS AND PREJUDICES AT THE DOOR.

My favorite character on this show was Arnold Ziffel the pig :)

A ok show but I agree with the Shroomwoman when she says it was weird. Could'nt stand Mr.Hadley..Arnold the pig I liked better...after all I've read that Pigs are smarter then Dogs and so that's why Arnold could watch TV. Also they are clean (they only roll around in mud when it's hot to cool themselves).

Ahead of its time. Arnold the Pig was brilliant and Ralph the Lesbian carpenter was tv's first alternative lifestyle recurring character.

One of the shows my family enjoyed when it was originally on in the 1960s. It actually could be quite funny without being naughty or going for the double meanings. A humerous fish out of water show where Oliver decides to be a farmer and takes his wife from the fancy NYC life they have known to take up farming. He is a lawyer, who buys a rundown wreck of a farmhouse and spends his days getting to know the locals.mr. and mrs Ziffle, and their tv.loving pig Arnold. {i loved the fact that everyone could understand Arnold when he sqealed but Oliver. Hank Kimble was funny as the always confused neighbor. some of the other characters were funny as well. I loved how Lisa would throw away the dishes after every meal.I joke today how I wish I could have the luxery of doing that. I would give this an almost four. funny for the most part with a bit of hokiness.

A great surreal comedy, built on the premise that everyone was in on the joke except hapless Oliver Wendell Douglas. Classic take on the City Slicker more than meets his match among the Hayseeds. Eddie Arnold was solid as the pompous blowhard and essentially ineffectual Oliver, Eva Gabor was charming and quite funny as Ditz of the 20th Century. The supporting characters made this show, however: from the genial grinning idiot Eb Dawson to the inept yet arch Monroe Brothers (Alph and Ralph), from the terminally confused County Agent Hank Kimball to the conniving and avaricious Eustace Haney, plus Newt Kiley and star of the show Arnold Ziffel, this was a roster of comic foils of classic dimensions. Plus, the ongoing gags, like the fyfe music playing when Ollie got going on his rants, the meals Lisa attempted to cook, Ollie's feeble results at harvesting with his 1913 Hoyt-Clagwell tractor, Mr. Haney's endless scams to separate Ollie from his money, the fact that Hooterville was in this ultimate timewarp, i.e. Tom Mix and William S. Hart films playing over in Pixley, etc., displayed some very inventive writing. In addition, some of the ideas they came up with on this program were genius: Arnold the Pig talking to other animals with subtitles in English at the bottom of the frame; Lisa in bed at the start of the show having dreams about the opening credits; the time Sam Drucker was selling board games like "Scribble," "Cabbage" and "Monotony"; that friends of Lisa from the Old Country just couldn't get Ollie's last name right, etc. All truly great stuff. The people who wrote and produced this show had to have been on acid.

One of the better shows from that bad era of television, but still it wasn't that entertaining or even funny. I guess you just had to live it....but to watch it now...give me a break...:(

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