History Series / GreenAcres

* CutShort: Thanks to UsefulNotes/TheRuralPurge, the show ultimately ended up without a series finale. The last episode to air was "The Ex-Secretary," which was a [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot backdoor pilot]] about Oliver's former secretary trying to fix a timepiece. [[note]] It's worth nothing that the last episode to be produced was actually "King Oliver I," where Hooterville becomes its own nation after being hit with a tax burden.[[/note]]

-->'''Mr. Haney:''' As the days passed, things got worse... creeks dried up, and the riverbeds didn't have a trickle of water in 'em. The reservoire was empty, and just as I predicted, Mr. Douglas came to me, begging on his knees...

* MultiPartEpisode: "A Star Named Arnold Is Born", where Oliver and Lisa chaperone Arnold while he gets a screen test in Hollywood, is a two part episode.

* SteamNeverDies: The wood burning Hooterville Cannonball makes a few appearances, along with Engineer Charlie Pratt and Conductor Floyd Smoot.

* ZanyScheme: During the final season, Eb came up with several of these to raise money for his fiancee Darlene Wheeler, including subletting his two acres of land as a dump, an overnight trailer camp, and a honeymoon suite. The ideas of hosting the wedding at a car wash and in a department store window are also rejected.

''Green Acres'' is a {{Sitcom}} produced by Creator/{{Filmways}} and originally broadcast on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1965 to 1971. Created by Jay Sommers, it is a loose adaptation of his 1950 radio sitcom ''Granby's Green Acres.''

''Green Acres'' is a {{Sitcom}} produced by Creator/{{Filmways}} and originally broadcast on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1965 to 1971.

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: "A Square is Not Round"]] and [[spoiler: "Oliver and the Cornstalk"]], although the latter isn't a dream for the whole episode, just some of the second half.

* GagHaircut: [[spoiler: Eb]] at the end of "Uncle Ollie" briefly adopts Oliver's hip nephew's hairstyle.

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** The episode "The Ballad Of Molly Turgiss" deals with Oliver trying to get the denizens of Hooterville to tell him about the legend of the eponymous ghost woman. Every time Molly's name is mentioned, strange things happen, such as things getting thrown through the air, pickle barrels falling apart, Mr. Haney's truck starting up on its own, etc. [[spoiler: In the end, Molly promises not to do those things anymore after Lisa has a talk with her and makes her beautiful, though she does manage to break the promise for a few seconds by smashing Oliver's guitar over his head because she doesn’t like the song that he wrote about her.]]

* AccidentalPervert: In one episode from the last season, the Green Acres farm becomes something of a summer camp, where a number of little boys, and one girl (see CousinOliver) stay with the Douglases; one day, Lori stays home alone with Lisa because Oliver had taken the boys skinny dipping at the lake... in fact, when they get home, and Oliver sneezes from possibly catching cold, one of the boys remarks maybe he shouldn't have taken off ''all'' his clothes. [[PaedoHunt Now, imagine a camp counselor swimming with your kids, all naked]].

* AccidentalPervert: In one episode from the last season, the Green Acres farm becomes something of a summer camp, where a number of little boys, and one girl (see CousinOliver above) stay with the Douglases; one day, Lori stays home alone with Lisa because Oliver had taken the boys skinny dipping at the lake... in fact, when they get home, and Oliver sneezes from possibly catching cold, one of the boys remarks maybe he shouldn't have taken off ''all'' his clothes. [[PaedoHunt Now, imagine a camp counselor swimming with your kids, all naked]].

* TheAllegedExpert: The Monroe brothers are supposedly the best contractors in Hooterville, but make an absolute mess of remodeling the Douglas's home. To be fair, all they'd ever built before were chicken coops.

* DraftDodging: In the episode "I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier" (S2E3), Arnold receives a draft notice while the Douglases are pig-sitting him for the Ziffels. HilarityEnsues when Oliver has to convince the draft board, the army, and the FBI that Arnold is a pig. Just when he gets them to understand, [[GenderBlenderName Ralph Monroe]] is drafted, and Oliver has to convince them that she is a woman.

* RunningGag: Several. The telephone pole telephone, the closet door falling, the front doorknob coming off, characters seeing the "Written by" and "Directed by" credits, Arnold doing un-piglike things, Haney turning up almost instantly upon Oliver expressing a need for something, Lisa's 'hotscakes' and general non-existent housekeeping skills. In fact, it got to a point where series director Richard Baer began complaining to creator/writer Jay Sommers about repeated use of the same gags.

* RooflessRenovation: The Douglas' home is never completed, despite (or rather, ''because'' of) the Monroe's best efforts.

Oliver Wendell Douglas (Creator/EddieAlbert), a successful New York lawyer, and his elegant socialite wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) move to the little country town of Hooterville and buy a little farm that is not in good condition. Oliver intends to set himself up in a simple country life as a farmer, but neither [[TheSimpleLifeIsSimple the reality of country life]] nor the insanity of the locals allows it. Lisa hates the country, but is much better than her husband at dealing with the locals: her idea of haggling with Mr. Haney, the door-to-door salesman, is to lower her price when he lowers his--and it works for her... Hooterville also has a resident genius: Arnold the pig.

* OverprotectiveDad: Mr. Wheeler, father of Eb's sixth-season fiancée Darlene, who thinks Oliver is an alcoholic and a radical fanatic, and even makes Eb and Darlene sit apart so they don't get involved in any pre-marital hijinks.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" actually features the [[TropeNamer trope-naming]] item.

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* Alf and Ralph Monroe (Sid Melton and Mary Grace Canfield), a brother-and-sister carpenter team who are contracted to fix Oliver's derelict farmhouse. Although the Monroes show up at intervals to (supposedly) work, the house remains in a state of half-construction for the duration of the series.

* PlayingGertrude: Oliver's mother was played by Eleanor Audley, who was only a year older than Eddie Albert.

-->-- the show's ExpositoryThemeTune, written by Vic Mizzy