Inside the trunk that Granny gets from cousin Pearl which has something for every Clampett is an old fashioned crank telephone. This episode contains one of the funniest sight gags of the series. it is so sunny that you can know it is coming and still laugh out loud at it. Granny sets up the crank phone in the mansion Kitchen & then sends Jethro out to the pole too hook her up to a party line. The set up & physical comedy of this scene is the best in the entire series. Once you watch it, if you watch it again you will laugh before it happens - it is just that funny. Enjoy this one if you get a chance to see it anytime. The joke is so good that Granny refers back to what happened in jokes the next 2 or 3 episodes of the series.
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Everybody hates the phone company!
wrc-906805 May 2024
Satire of the phone company on one level; silly fun humor on another level. Granny claims to have spent hours at her home in the hills listening in on her party line phone. But if you watch the series' first few episodes in season one, neither the Clampetts nor anyone else had a telephone - the nearest one was 40 miles away! Despite this plot flaw, apparently the Beverly Hills phone company does not have party lines anymore. Drysdale tries to berate and intimidate the phone people - with predictable results. A classic episode illustrating the conflicts between the Clampetts and the world of Beverly Hills.
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