Wonderful character development!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

As a kid my sister and I were not allowed to watch Green Acres. My dad said it was too stupid to watch and this made it all the more attractive to us kids. At the time I did not understand the deep hidden comedy within the comedy. Now I am living in a small town in upstate NY very much like Hooterville. For instance when I went to the dump to get rid of some stuff the man there explained to me that "this is not a dump, it is a solid waste transfer station!"... and I needed a permit and had to pay for a sticker etc. This was the same guy who I met at several other town government offices..sort of like Mr. Haney. Our electric and phone service go out all time. I just love it!

Green Acres is brilliant. It's Oliver Douglas's American dream turned surreal nightmare week after week. It's like Dali meets Bunuel meets American Gothic. The logic is completely twisted. But it is consistent. And Oliver is the only one not in on the joke. The writing is first class. Read some of Mr. Kimball's dialog written down some time. It is beyond belief. I recall several mind blowingly funny episodes. The one where they decide to have their own college bowl game. The Rudabaga (sp?) Bowl. Lisa gets in a hot air balloon, flies across the country tossing out rutabagas and exclaiming: "eat Hootersville rutabagas." The episode where Mr. Haney pulls up with a full-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower in the back of his truck. Oliver asks Eb where Haney gets this stuff. "I think his mom knits 'em" exclaims Ed. But my particular favorite is the one where Arnold gets drafted to go to Vietnam. He has a whole scene with a horse who has just returned from Nam. It is subtitled and the horse waxes harsh and poetic about his time in Vietnam. There are things in this series that go beyond the bounds of anything ever tried in American TV. Green Acres rocks!

"Green Acres" is a surrealist, subversive sitcom classic... one of TV's greatest comedies. Eddie Albert is Oliver Wendell Douglas, the big-city lawyer who escapes the rat-race with his wife Lisa to live the "simple-life" of a country farmer. The trouble is everyone in the small town of Hooterville is insane.Tom Lester is Ebb, the twenty-something farmhand who seems almost intentionally obtuse. He insists on calling Oliver & Lisa "Mom & Dad" in spite of the fact that they are not his parents. This infuriates Oliver who frequently reminds the boy that they are not related. Ebb is a gangly innocent, so lanky that he can get a laugh just by standing up straight. His Adam's apple is constantly in the act of escaping his neck, and will one day surely succeed.Alvy Moore is Hank Kimball. Well, he's not REALLY Hank Kimball- he just plays him on TV. Well, not ON the TV... more like IN the TV box. Well, not really IN the box...Pat Buttram is Mr. Haney, the king of charlatan salesmen, always ready to sell Oliver a completely unnecessary item at a reasonably outrageous price. He takes a pride in gouging Mr. Douglas that borders on perverse.Arnold Ziffel is the TV-loving pig with human parents who had a brief career as an actor in Hollywood. Long-story...And don't forget Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas, a Hungarian princess who never met a word she couldn't shlaughter...This show is painfully funny... listen for the fife and drums every time Oliver gives his "American Farmer" speech. Enjoy the brilliant sight gags and the sweet pride that Fred & Doris have for their pig-son. Watch Eddie Albert go six seasons without ever finishing a sentence... the delirious insanity of "Green Acres" paved the way for future TV towns like The Simpsons' Springfield.If you haven't seen "Green Acres" it is worth seeking out. I suggest watching at least 2-3 episodes at a time... it's funnier that way. But when it starts making sense it's time to take a break.GRADE: A

Both the late Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor found their niche in this mid 1960s television classic.Green Acres is the place to be.Fun living, etc.N.Y. is where I'd rather be.I get allergic smelling hay.Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue.The chores...The storesYou are my wife...Goodbye city life.Green Acres, etc.This show theme song, abbreviated since I can't remember all the exact words, depicted the ongoing struggle between Oliver Wendell Holmes (Albert) and his wife, memorably played by Eva Gabor.Fed up with urban life, Oliver moves the clothes-horse Eva to the country to embark on a new life filled with fresh air. The show depicted the weekly adventures of these two people attempting to adjust to rural life.The basic theme here was that love conquers all. This marvelous show certainly did.