Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 10, 2016

Geeez..thanks a man named jed a lot mountaneer Jef!!

The Myth! The Legend! Point a shotgun at the ground, and oil will come spurting up to make you rich! Move away from there!! Give ’em hell, Granny!

Thanks, Jef. I just went from old to ancient in four panels.

Thanks for dating me like that, Caulfield.

My mental TV theme song library missed a track – once I saw the punchline, the “Green Acres” theme song jumped into my head! WTH!

I think Caulfield makes a wrong assumption in panel #3. Just about the whole nation was into that show when it first came out. His Grandparents would have been too I’m sure.

For those of you too young to remember:

Come and listen to my story‘Bout a man named JedA poor mountaineer,Barely kept his family fed.And then one dayHe was shootin’ at some food,And up through the ground came a-bubblin’ crude.

Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

Well the first thing you knowOl’ Jed’s a millionaire,Kinfolk said “Jed move away from there”.Said “California’s the place you outta be”.So they loaded up the truckAnd they moved to Beverly.

Hills that is, Swimming pools, movie stars.

Well now it’s time to sayGoodby to Jed and all his kin,They would like to thankYou folks for kindly droppin’ in.You’re all invited back again to this localityTo have a heapin’ helpin’ of their hospitality.

Hillbilly that is, sit a spell, take your shoes off.

Y’all come back now, y’hear?

“The Ballad of Jed Clampett” was the theme song for The Beverly Hillbillies TV show and movie, providing the back story for the series. The song was written and composed by Paul Henning, and sung by Jerry Scoggins, who was accompanied by bluegrass musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

-Wikipedia

Welcome to Mayberry, Caulfield.

The great Béla Fleck often works a bit of it into his concerts – hearing it inspired him to take up the banjo.

wow, I thought it was going to be the theme to Gilligan’s Island

Caulfield has been 8 at least since 2001 so it’s hard to believe it ended long before his parents were born

Given the right actors and script, the ‘stranger in a strange land’ motif can be hilarious.TBH was one of the best combinations ever produced and still makes people laugh regardless of the total silliness. None of the current sitcoms that I have viewed do that.

I watched reruns when I was a kid, im nobodys grandfather.

I must be old as I remember watching it the first time around. Best episode was when Granny sold something to somebody she hated for the price they offered. Jethro asked why she did that and Granny replied to the effect, Because she will always wonder if she could have got it cheaper!!

tripledent gum, anyone?

Thanks, Caulfield. Now I got it in my head.

It was after my time watching a lot of TV, so I didn’t watch it, but I saw bits of it. However: http://www.gocomics.com/the-bent-pinky/2014/09/12

“Miss Hathaway, Jethro wants to be a rock star!”

I had “F-Troop” stuck in my head last week.

All of those early/mid 60s sitcoms had the greatest opening tunes, giving the backstory in 60 seconds. One non-sitcom that I really loved: All but one man died, there at Bitter Creek — and they said he ran away. BRANDED — marked with a coward’s shame… He was innocent — not a charge was true — but they said he ran away. BRANDED — What do you do when you’re BRANDED, and you fight for your name?

“Those theme songs for triumvirate of “Beverly Hillbillies”, “Petticoat Junction” and “Green Acres” I am familiar with. "-—————————————————Back in the ‘60s a lot of sitcoms (and as someone else mentioned, dramas like “Branded”) had themes that set up the show..“That’s how they became the Brady Bunch," “… three-hour tour,” “… and that’s Uncle Joe, he’s a moving mighty slow, at the Junction…,” and many others had narrative theme songs. Wonder what the last one was. “Cheers” was close to a narrative — it described the milieu without listing characters or the setup. Was it the last one?

Geez, thanks. Now I have it stuck in my head. As one of them thar hillbillies might say…Dang it!

Yep. I’ve been watching some of the old ones on ME TV as well.

Well, they were playing the Gilligan;s Island theme on the national news when those 3 guys got castaway !

That was about when I was in third grade, and our teacher kept referring to it as the “Hollywood Hillbillies.” Looking back I think she did it on purpose.

Just think of the theme from Andy Griffiths show — it will push out the Beverly Hillbillies.

Gilligan’s Island.

my child is Caulfield’s age and I’ll happily sing“A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse of course, unless of course that horse is the famous Mr. Eddddddd.” around the house.