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Is the TV show "Green Acres" too silly to watch?


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Not so much “silly", as it is dated and offensive.

Some examples:

The premise was improbable when it aired - A wealthy man forces his wife to leave the city, and live with him in the country. Divorce attorneys were quite common in the 1960s, and his wife could lived quite well back in New York City on the half of the marital assets she would have received following the end of their marriage.

The husband mistook an idea for a plan - Oliver wanted to live on a farm , but barely had a clue as to what was involved. He was a dilettante in a field of endeavor where they get hurt or go broke.

The townspeople were either none too bright or on the grift - Basically the series is an endless array of stereotypes, most of them negative.

Oliver is often shown to be frustrated by and exasperated with everyone despite the fact that moving to the area was his terrible idea - Basically he was kind of a dick, because he would quickly grow irritated and annoyed with others, when the problem was usually his doing.

The series didn't have a great deal of respect for women - They are all either dingy or naive. The men are the only ones who make sound judgments and the women are mostly along for the ride.


Green Acres was another in the 1960s CBS Television network's “Let's get a chuckle from the antics of rural White Southerners” series of programs. Although the network purged the majority in 1971, it still went back to the well a few short years later with The Dukes of Hazzard, where none of the series leads were themselves Southerners.

Green Acres isn't silly as much as it's archaic and stereotypical. It's amusing to watch for short periods of time. However it's nearly six decades old and it's age definitely shows after a few episodes.

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Nope. Next.

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Ridiculous. The Simpsons actually got some of its inspiration from Green Acres. Especially the sight gags..




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Yes it is, an annoying show with not one serious sentence uttered by anyone. It's an ugly show to look at too.

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STFU....lmao...

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I always enjoyed the surreal nature of the show. That Mr Douglass appears to be the only sane man in town was amusing. How everyone else was in perfect sync (at Mr Douglass expense) was amusing.

That Lisa would see the opening credits, occasionally, while Oliver couldn't, was meta waaaaaaaaay before meta was a thing.

It has it's better seasons and episodes like any other sitcom, but I still get a laugh from the show and enjoy it more than most sitcoms on the whole.

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It's incredibly silly and once I started watching, I couldn't stop. It was available on Prime for a while and it's one of those series I have been tempted to buy.

'The series didn't have a great deal of respect for women - They are all either dingy or naive. The men are the only ones who make sound judgments and the women are mostly along for the ride.'

The women were dingy or naive? LOL And the men were almost all portrayed as blithering idiots on the show.

Without conflict of some sort, these shows would all be as boring as Democrats.

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Freaks never shut up.

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I think it's funny as heck. Everything is absolutely absurd. As someone else said here, Oliver is the only sane man in an insane context, so they can get away with such dumb humor, that's what makes it funny. There is no reason to take anything about this show seriously. It's like a sitcom Laugh-In, just an excuse to make gags, and it was done with a bit of style, imo.
So it's hilarious if you take it for what it is.

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