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Favorite quotes from Green Acres?


What lines stand out the most or are most memorable to fans on the board?

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Actually I LOVE Oliver's lines and reactions.

I love,

"Oh for the love of...."

"What the?!?"

"Of all the...."

"Oh you dirty..."

After watching G.A. I find myself using those lines! lol

Question your prejudices.

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Me, too.

"What the?!" was the precursor to today's WTF

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I am just watching an hilarious episode where Lisa's mother has come to visit, having just become a countess in Sicily. Lisa tells Oliver that she has bought a palace without a kitchen, but if she'd bought a palace without a bathroom, she could have been made a queen. "I always say, it's better to be a clean countess than a dirty queen". I'm still rolling on the floor in stitches.

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As I wrote in one post I think there are some suggestive things on G.A.

Like when they are at a town meeting and Kimball is taking notes out loud and Oliver says "Do it quitely to yourself!!" And Kimball replies, "Why would I want to do it quietly to myself?" And Oliver gives a shoked look.

And when they are trying to make Oliver the King of Hooterville they all start saying "Hail, hail hail" and Oliver says, "Oh HAIL!!" Sounding like, "Oh hell!"

I'm surprised that one got by in the 60s!

Question your prejudices.

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Oliver to Eb

"I'm not your father!"

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There was one where they were telling Eb the story of how they met. They were showing it in flashbacks, and at one point Oliver turns around and Eb is there in one of the flashbacks.

Oliver: What are you doing here?!
Eb: Well, it seemed like a good story so I wanted to come (or something like that)!

Just a really funny bit. This show was hilarious and really underrated.

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Eat Hootersville rutabagas!

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Hank Kimball: Your secret is safe with me. Even if I'm captured I won't talk. They can beat me...they can torture me...they can even brainwash me.

Oliver: That wouldn't take any more than a damp towel.

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Pernundell.

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Fred Ziffle: "I know he's dead. I went to his funeral."

Oliver: "Are you sure?"

Fred Ziffle: I don't know how they do things in New York but around here they don't give a man a funeral unless he needs one." LOL

Another one: After Oliver accidentally drops a hammer on Lisa and she "gets amnesia" (even though she's just scamming Oliver for a trip to the theatre)

Drucker's General Store:

Fred Ziffle: "How hard did you have to hit her?" LOL

K/H D

98% of Democrats/Socialists/MARXISTS give the rest a bad name.

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"why don't we join Czechoslovakia?"
"Why don't we join something we can spell?"
......get's me every time!!!!!!

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winter,
You came close.

It really was PeRNinDeL.

Let them figure that one out!


Stupid!?! I never called you stupid! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!

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Ralph and Alf were arguing about something, maybe what time they had to get up in the morning, and Alf tells Ralph, "Mom was right, you've got the instincts of a hippie!" This predated the "Summer of Love" in 1967 which made it particularly funny.

Wherever you go, there you are.

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This episode was just on this past week. Laughed even after I read your post!

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"Pernundell" is actually spelled "PRNDL".

It's a referencing to the older column mounted automatic transmission gear selector. The lettering stands for Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive and Low. Many early automatics had only 2 forward settings.

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ha ha ha ha ha

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I constantly say "For the love of..." and Eddie Albert gets all the credit/blame. And every time I see some cheesy product or weight-loss drug being sold on TV, I launch into Mr. Haney and star saying, "Mr. Douglas, can I interest you in a gen-u-wine..."

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Still LMAO.....Lisa says to Oliver...the "Infernal Revenue"...you know the one you are always cheating.....yes she called it "Infernal".

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Ralph Monroe: How doody Mr. Douglas

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I'm probably messing this up but... "Oliver dahrling, vhy is it vhen ve tell zee people vhere ve live, zay alvays say "Zee Haney Place?!!!"

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Ralph (to Hank): If you weren't so sexy, I'd beat your brains out.

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OLIVER: Gee, that's funny!

Fred Ziffel: Then why ain't cha laffin?

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