The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series)

The Courtship of Elly (1965)

Irene Ryan: Daisy Moses

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• Jed Clampett : Miss Jane got herself a fella.

  Daisy Moses : I ain't conjurin' for Miss Jane. I'm conjurin' for my old maid granddaughter. I aim to see her married before she's all wasted away!

  Jed Clampett : Elly could waste away a good bit and still be ahead of Miss Jane.

• Daisy Moses : Write your name on this paper and then burn it. Then take the ashes and put 'em in this hollered-out peach pit.

  Elly May Clampett : Yes ma'am.

  Daisy Moses : Then get 14 petals and lay 'em out on the ground underneath your bedroom window in the shape of a heart.

  Elly May Clampett : Yes ma'am.

  Daisy Moses : Then dig a hole in the middle and bury the peach pit with a lock of your hair.

  Elly May Clampett : Yes ma'am.

  Daisy Moses : Then close yer eyes and spin around 3 times and throw this magic buckeye on the roof.

  Elly May Clampett : What's all this fer?

  Daisy Moses : Well I might as well tell ya. When you do all that and I throw my secret conjure on the fire, you get a fella.

  Elly May Clampett : That's dandy. Just for good luck, Ill hang a horseshoe on the door.

  Daisy Moses : No. No no child, I wouldn't want folks thinkin' I'm superstitious.

• Daisy Moses : Jed, I've been workin' 3 days on this conjure and I aim to throw it in that fire. Now get dressed in your company clothes while I say my spell.

  Jed Clampett : I think I'll wait till you're done. I might have to do some firefightin'.

  Daisy Moses : Magic powder, magic brew/ In the fire and up the flue/ Fetch a man and fetch a minister/ So poor old Elly won't be a spinister.

  Jed Clampett : Spinister?

  Daisy Moses : I'm a scientist, not a poet.

• Daisy Moses : We dasn't wait any longer to get that girl a husband. Cousin Pearl says that folks back home are beginnin' to talk, askin' about your spinster daughter.

  Jed Clampett : That's back in the hills. Out here, girls seen to reach their prime a mite later.

  Daisy Moses : Now Jed, lets not fool ourselves with city talk. You know and I know that prime is 14. Anything over that and you're slidin' downhill.

• Daisy Moses : Now before I let you meet my granddaughter, I got to know all about you.

  Dean Peters : Well, my name is Dean Porter...

  Daisy Moses : That's enough. Elly May, there's a fella down here to meet ya.

• Daisy Moses : Well I'm done waitin' on Mr. do-nothin' Drysdale. He can't even get his own secketary a husband.

  Jed Clampett : Well maybe he ain't tryin'. Maybe Miss Jane ain't ready to git married.

  Daisy Moses : Ain't ready? have you ever seen the way she looks at Jethro?

  Jed Clampett : Kinda like a hungry hound lookin' in a butcher's window.

• Daisy Moses : We deceived ya. She ain't 14.

  Dean Peters : I'll say she ain't.

  Daisy Moses : I don't blame you for bein' upset. No man wants a woman that fer over the hill.