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Format:DVD
This is a very helpful series. For all those people that read "Home and Garden" you now have a program that shows the upside to farming.
This is the Complete second season, consisting of 754 minutes of run time; so I suggest that you start early in the day if you have to work tomorrow. And do not be too impulsive and rush out to buy that farm. The package comes with two DVDs and a pamphlet describing in brief each episode. However you better have good eyes as both sides of the DVD are recorded on, leaving no room for labeling.
Fort many this is the first time to be introduced to such strong acting characters as Arnold (rumor has it became dinner at the end of the series). For the rest of us, we have an opportunity to visit old friends and see an episode or two that may have been missed. With any luck we will have the opportunity to buy the next season.
Oliver Wendell Douglas, born on a farm, and stayed there for two days, wants to get back to his roots. The opportunity arises and he purchases the Haney place from Eustace Charleton Haney himself. His wife gets the opportunity to share with him the challenges to adjust to the farm life?
The second season makes the first season seem sane and sedate.
There is an urban legend that when the series finished Arnold became lunch.
If you appreciate this fine program than you will enjoy reading "Under the Tuscan Sun" by Frances Mayes, where the story is retold Italian style.
This is the Complete second season, consisting of 754 minutes of run time; so I suggest that you start early in the day if you have to work tomorrow. And do not be too impulsive and rush out to buy that farm. The package comes with two DVDs and a pamphlet describing in brief each episode. However you better have good eyes as both sides of the DVD are recorded on, leaving no room for labeling.
Fort many this is the first time to be introduced to such strong acting characters as Arnold (rumor has it became dinner at the end of the series). For the rest of us, we have an opportunity to visit old friends and see an episode or two that may have been missed. With any luck we will have the opportunity to buy the next season.
Oliver Wendell Douglas, born on a farm, and stayed there for two days, wants to get back to his roots. The opportunity arises and he purchases the Haney place from Eustace Charleton Haney himself. His wife gets the opportunity to share with him the challenges to adjust to the farm life?
The second season makes the first season seem sane and sedate.
There is an urban legend that when the series finished Arnold became lunch.
If you appreciate this fine program than you will enjoy reading "Under the Tuscan Sun" by Frances Mayes, where the story is retold Italian style.
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Green Acres: The Best Yet
5 Mar 2005
Format:DVD
"Green Acres: Season One" was a little disappointing. Not because of the quality of the DVDs or anything like that. No, it's just that the first season of the sitcom wasn't very funny--or at least not in the sense that later seasons were funny.
The first season was heavily restricted to the sitcom's original premise: a reverse of "The Beverly Hillbillies" (created by Green Acres executive producer Paul Henning and also aired on CBS). The humor was supposed to be generated by the fish-out-of-water city-slicker who lands in Hooterville with delusions about his agricultural aptitude. Comedy was to accrue from the city slickers' attempts to fit into their bucolic setting.
Initially, eccentric Oliver Douglas was supposed to be the comic, and Lisa, his sophisticated wife, the "straight man" reacting to his abberant behavior and farcical farming. Oh, sure, it quickly became evident that she was a terrible cook whose gastronomic repertoir was limited to those horrible "hotscakes." But she had a one-joke routine: she made poor pancakes. (It wasn't until later that she concocted amusing variations on the theme, such as "hotscakes hash").
Gradually, the premise began to change--and the show became a lot funnier. The new humor derived from the surreal goings-on in Hooterville, to which Lisa adopted and Oliver did not, resulting in complete role reversal: Oliver was the straight man, not only for his wife but for the entire psychotic populace of Hooterville. His big stupid grin (seen almost nonstop in the pilot) was replaced by screaming, scowling and sputtering as he struggled with situations that seemed like something right out of the Twilight Zone.
The change evolved through the first season--and was complete by the second season. So the second season DVD set is VERY funny.
Consider the following contents of the Season Two DVD set:
*Lisa nonchalantly observes that one of the chickens is laying cube-shaped eggs--and it's total insanity from that point on as Oliver tries to come to grips with the square-egg phenomenon.
*Arnold the pig is drafted. No one in Hooterville seems to recognize that the porker is ineligible, and no one in the military bureaucracy seems capable of conceiving that the draftee is really a pig. "Noted pig lawyer" Oliver Douglas is the only voice of reason in the sea of ensuing insanity.
So if you were even modestly disappointed by "Green Acres: Season One," you really must own "Green Acres: Season Two."
The first season was heavily restricted to the sitcom's original premise: a reverse of "The Beverly Hillbillies" (created by Green Acres executive producer Paul Henning and also aired on CBS). The humor was supposed to be generated by the fish-out-of-water city-slicker who lands in Hooterville with delusions about his agricultural aptitude. Comedy was to accrue from the city slickers' attempts to fit into their bucolic setting.
Initially, eccentric Oliver Douglas was supposed to be the comic, and Lisa, his sophisticated wife, the "straight man" reacting to his abberant behavior and farcical farming. Oh, sure, it quickly became evident that she was a terrible cook whose gastronomic repertoir was limited to those horrible "hotscakes." But she had a one-joke routine: she made poor pancakes. (It wasn't until later that she concocted amusing variations on the theme, such as "hotscakes hash").
Gradually, the premise began to change--and the show became a lot funnier. The new humor derived from the surreal goings-on in Hooterville, to which Lisa adopted and Oliver did not, resulting in complete role reversal: Oliver was the straight man, not only for his wife but for the entire psychotic populace of Hooterville. His big stupid grin (seen almost nonstop in the pilot) was replaced by screaming, scowling and sputtering as he struggled with situations that seemed like something right out of the Twilight Zone.
The change evolved through the first season--and was complete by the second season. So the second season DVD set is VERY funny.
Consider the following contents of the Season Two DVD set:
*Lisa nonchalantly observes that one of the chickens is laying cube-shaped eggs--and it's total insanity from that point on as Oliver tries to come to grips with the square-egg phenomenon.
*Arnold the pig is drafted. No one in Hooterville seems to recognize that the porker is ineligible, and no one in the military bureaucracy seems capable of conceiving that the draftee is really a pig. "Noted pig lawyer" Oliver Douglas is the only voice of reason in the sea of ensuing insanity.
So if you were even modestly disappointed by "Green Acres: Season One," you really must own "Green Acres: Season Two."
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Improved Character Development In The Second Season
4 May 2005
Format:DVD
Hooterville Corn Crop Threatened by the dreaded Bing bug.
Hank Kimble: Quiet. Quiet please, quiet. As you all know, I'm your County Kimble Hank Agent. I believe I am. I'm Hank Kimble, your County Agent. I guess that sounds better. Well not better. As you know, we have a serious problem on our hands; well not on our hands, but on our corn.
Oliver: Could you put crop dusting equipment on that?
Mr. Haney: Certainly.
Oliver: How much would it cost?
Mr. Haney: Mr. Douglas, the farmers of the valley are in trouble ain't they?
Oliver: Yes they are.
Mr. Haney: When my friends are standing there with their hand out askin' for help, I'm there...
Lisa: With your hand out.
Mr. Haney: Ooh that stung, like a cheap aftershave lotion on a nicked chin.
Hank Kimble: Quiet. Quiet please, quiet. As you all know, I'm your County Kimble Hank Agent. I believe I am. I'm Hank Kimble, your County Agent. I guess that sounds better. Well not better. As you know, we have a serious problem on our hands; well not on our hands, but on our corn.
Oliver: Could you put crop dusting equipment on that?
Mr. Haney: Certainly.
Oliver: How much would it cost?
Mr. Haney: Mr. Douglas, the farmers of the valley are in trouble ain't they?
Oliver: Yes they are.
Mr. Haney: When my friends are standing there with their hand out askin' for help, I'm there...
Lisa: With your hand out.
Mr. Haney: Ooh that stung, like a cheap aftershave lotion on a nicked chin.
22 of 26 people found the following review helpful
The Episode LIST
2 Aug 2005
Format:DVD
1. Wings Over Hooterville
2. Water, Water Everywhere
3. I didn't Raise my Pig to be a Soldier
4. How to See South America by Bus
5. The Ugly Duckling
6. One of our Assemblymen ios Missing
7. The Good Old Days
8. Eb Discovers the Birds and Bees
9. The Hooterville Image
10. You ought to be in Pictures
11. A Home isn't built in a day
12. A Square is not Round
13. An Old Fashion Christmas
14. Never trust a Little Old Lady
15. School Days
16. His Honor
17. It's So Peaceful in the Country
18. Exodus to Bleedwell
19. It's human to be humane
20. Never take your wife to a convention
21. The Computer Age
22. Never Start Talking Unless your voice comes out
23. The Beverly Hilbillies
24. Lisa's Vegetable Garden
25. The Saucer Season
26. Getting Even With Haney
27. Kimball Gets Fired
28. The Vulgar Ring Story
29. Who's Lisa
30. Music to Milk by
2. Water, Water Everywhere
3. I didn't Raise my Pig to be a Soldier
4. How to See South America by Bus
5. The Ugly Duckling
6. One of our Assemblymen ios Missing
7. The Good Old Days
8. Eb Discovers the Birds and Bees
9. The Hooterville Image
10. You ought to be in Pictures
11. A Home isn't built in a day
12. A Square is not Round
13. An Old Fashion Christmas
14. Never trust a Little Old Lady
15. School Days
16. His Honor
17. It's So Peaceful in the Country
18. Exodus to Bleedwell
19. It's human to be humane
20. Never take your wife to a convention
21. The Computer Age
22. Never Start Talking Unless your voice comes out
23. The Beverly Hilbillies
24. Lisa's Vegetable Garden
25. The Saucer Season
26. Getting Even With Haney
27. Kimball Gets Fired
28. The Vulgar Ring Story
29. Who's Lisa
30. Music to Milk by
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