The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series)
Possum Day (1965)
Buddy Ebsen: Jed Clampett
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Quotes
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Milburn Drysdale : Why are you going home?
Daisy Moses : For the Possum Festival.
Jed Clampett : You ain't forgot it's comin' on for Possum Day, have you?
Milburn Drysdale : Of course not. You can celebrate it right here.
Daisy Moses : Bah! We tried that last year.
Jed Clampett : It ain't much fun when you're the only ones celebratin'.
Daisy Moses : We drove all over town yellin', "Happy Possum Day!"
Jed Clampett : Folks looked at us like we was hangin' off our hinges.
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Mrs. Margaret Drysdale : You wouldn't want to miss the honor of being queen.
Daisy Moses : It ain't just the honor, why there's a fortune in prizes, startin' with the weighin' in ceremony.
Jed Clampett : First off, the queen gets her wight in possums.
Mrs. Margaret Drysdale : How exciting.
Daisy Moses : And that ain't all. Then comes the lettin' out ceremony.
Jed Clampett : On Possum Day, all the prisoners gets let outta jail.
Daisy Moses : And from then on, its just one big to-do after another.
Jed Clampett : Mule-shoein' contest.
Elly May Clampett : Mud wrasslin' and rock thowin'.
Jethro Bodine : Crawdad-eatin' contest.
Daisy Moses : Prizes for the longest hair and the biggest feet.
Jed Clampett : Keep talkin' like that and Mrs. Drysdale will hop right on and go with us. Ain't that right, Mrs. Drysdale?
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Daisy Moses : I still say we're gonna find her sugar is mostly sand.
Jed Clampett : You been grousin' for 3 years cuz Mrs. Drysdale ain't a good neighbor. Now she's tryin' to be one and you're still peckin' at her.
Daisy Moses : Jed, I've heared of sweet milk turnin' sour, but never the other way 'round.
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Milburn Drysdale : Well you have Miss Hathaway's word. Her Possum Festival is going to be just like the one back home, only bigger and better.
Jed Clampett : What do you say, Granny?
Daisy Moses : I say lets go back home to Sibley.
Milburn Drysdale : Why?
Milburn Drysdale : Cuz back there, I got a good chance of bein' Possum Queen.
Milburn Drysdale : You can be Possum Queen right here.
Daisy Moses : Aaah! I can't win an election in Beverly Hills.
Milburn Drysdale : Oh yes you can. Right Miss Hathaway?
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Mrs. Margaret Drysdale : I'll stump Beverly Hills from one end to the other.
Daisy Moses : Sit down, Granny.
Jed Clampett : So will Mrs Drysdale, and she knows everybody and her dog.
Daisy Moses : Just drive the truck, boy.
Mrs. Margaret Drysdale : I've got experience on my side. I've run for Possum Queen 47 times.
Jed Clampett : Yeah, but you ain't never won.
Jed Clampett : [Granny starts hitting Jethro] Sit down, Granny. Drive the truck, boy. Sit down, Granny. Drive the truck, boy.