Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

George Redding It seemed that, as the saying goes, that if you saw it once you saw it a million times, and I feel that the show was more stupid as the years went along. I was definitely impressed, I will say, with the veteran actor Eddie Albert (who played Jeff Douglas) and the appealing actress Eva Gabor, who played his wife who in the series was a high society lady from New York, did a good turn at her role. The other actors were there for decorative purposes only. The basic story line: a man goes to New York to study law and there meets the fashionable lady from the Big Apple itself whom he marries before they return to his dystopic hometown Hooterville, a corny farce of a country town. Think about the stupidity of the thing: when the telephone rang someone there had to step outside on the phone pole to answer it. And too, the county agent, (played by Alvy Moore) literally could not remember one thing to the next when anyone was speaking to him. Pat Buttram, (Gene Autry's sidekick from back in the '30's)tried to sell Eb a coat for that boy who was planning to go to college (though Eb ended up not going); the coat was an anachronism: it was a raccoon-collared coat for boys who went to college in the twenties. And too, far more ridiculous than that, the pig Arnold Ziffel was trying to be a movie star in Hollywood! REALLY! Nominally it was a comedy, but at the same time it was an insult to people's intelligence. It was an absurdity replete with a multitude of far too many groaners, and I personally feel that that is being diplomatic to say that.

brian_m_hass This American sitcom is about a Harvard educated attorney named Oliver Douglas who decides to give up city life to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a farmer. He convinces his reluctant wife to move with him to the farm, where the couple resides in a run-down shack. The Douglases find themselves surrounded by a community of eccentric characters from the small town of Hooterville.The situations depicted in the series were often surreal. Oliver Douglas always insisted on wearing suits while doing his farm chores. The Douglases had to climb out of a bedroom window and up a telephone pole to answer their telephone. A neighboring farm couple adopted a pig and raised it as if it were their own child. Although Oliver Douglas had to persuade his reluctant wife, Lisa, to move to the community with him; Lisa was the one who was eccentric enough to fit in with the rural community far better than Oliver himself did.This series is easily one of the best-remembered sitcoms from the late 1960's and early 1970's. The show is connected to two other sitcoms, "Petticoat Junction" and "The Beverley Hillbillies." The series is fondly remembered by people who lived through the period when it was first aired. The show's characters are still easily recognized by the public decades after the series ended. Modern audiences will still find the show's zany situations entertaining. The sitcom is highly recommended.

Jeffrey R. Dzik I watched this show every Saturday night on and off with my babysitter through much of its run. For someone 10-15 years old, it was funny slapstick with eccentric characters. As an adult, recently, I reviewed the DVD's and discussed it with other adults. Oliver was supposed to be the "voice of reason" although he reveals that he can be a bit eccentric himself. Lisa is the ardent consumer. Mr. Haney is the capitalist and Mr. Kimball is the inefficient bureaucrat. You've got Mr. Drucker trying to sell whatever he can get his hands on. The Monroe brothers represent the shady repairmen we deal with everyday who can't fix it right the first time. Others are just simple country folk. The show mimics real life in many ways and the real humor is how Oliver Wendell Douglas deals with the incompetent, inept bureaucrats and society as a whole. Kudos to the cast of supporting characters. I loved Barbara Pepper as Doris Ziffel. Eva Gabor was wonderful as was Eddie Albert, one of the great "straight man' roles of television.

tonedeaf06 Green Acres is my favorite sit-com ever. There are many excellent ones over the years and perhaps some better, the Andy Griffith Show is close for me, but none make me laugh or allow for complete, escapist zaniness as does Green Acres. Top-notch acting & writing, incredibly wacky characters, bizarre situations and story lines, Green Acres has it all. I do not know about any Kafkaesque similarities or other "deep" meanings. I DO know that Green Acres makes me laugh and lets me escape my sometimes grim world to a place where anything can happen and often does. Of course the glue holding this menagerie together was Eddie Albert as Oliver Wendell Douglas. His brilliant "playing-off" of all the lunacy around him is top-notch. I also felt a real chemistry between Oliver & his wife Lisa (Eva Gabor). One thing I felt was left out of some of the other comments was the great use of editing in the show. The quick cuts and capturing of the sometimes hilarious reactions of the actors really added to the show in both pacing & comedic effect. Truly a charming and insane treasure!!!