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A Home Isn't Built in a Day

Episode Number: 43    Season Num: 2    First Aired: November 30, 1966    Prod Code: 043
Tired of living in a dump, Lisa demands some serious home improvements. Oliver fires the Monroe brothers and hires an architect to draw up plans. Renovations come to a screeching halt thanks to the Monroes' picket line and famous Hootervillian Rutherford B. Skrug.

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Writer: Dick Chevillat, Jay Sommers, Elon Packard
Director: Richard L. Bare
Star: Eva Gabor (Lisa Douglas),  Eddie Albert (Oliver Wendell Douglas)
Recurring Role: Mary Grace Canfield (Ralph Monroe),  Pat Buttram (Mr. Eustace Haney),  Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball),  Frank Cady (Sam Drucker),  Tom Lester (Eb Dawson),  Sid Melton (Alf Monroe)
Guest Star: Richard Erdman (Dillwell Pinkley),  Mike Wagner (Eli Boone)

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Haney: (stopping Oliver from remodeling the house) This happens to be the humble birthplace of a great man, and I can't allow you to un-humble it. (edit)
Dillwell: (explaining a design he's drawn up) That is a bay window.
Lisa: Well, that's silly. You can't see the bay from here. (edit)
Lisa: (to the cow) Eleanor, we still need the butter. Moo when you're ready. (edit)
Haney: (trying to pitch Oliver on an architect he knows) I was thinking about my cousin, Frank Lloyd.
Oliver: Frank Lloyd?
Haney: Right! (edit)

Trivia

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The plaque denoting the Douglases' house as a historic monument was covered by a shutter. Mr. Haney hid it there when he owned the house so he wouldn't be mobbed by tourists. (edit)
Where's Hooterville?: According to Haney, Hooterville is located in the state named after Rutherford B. Skrug, the state's first Governor. The name was changed shortly after he became president of what would become known as the United States. (edit)
According to the bags in the cupboard, Lisa's infamous hotscakes are made with Hal's Hotcake Flour. (edit)
Alf and Ralph's picket signs read "Mr. Douglas is a Fink" and "Mr. Douglas is Unfair to Alf and Ralph". (edit)
Ralph's Uncle Eli, the contractor, is also Mr. Haney's cousin. (edit)

Allusions

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Eb refers to the Douglas farm as "Tobacco Road West". Tobacco Road was a 1941 John Ford film about stereotypical backwoods hillbillies. (edit)
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