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Culture

Episode Number: 31    Season Num: 1    First Aired: May 25, 1966    Prod Code: 030
The "Every Other Wednesday Afternoon Discussion Club" decides to bring culture to the valley by starting the Hooterville Symphony Orchestra. Oliver calls the women "nuts" for considering such a ridiculous idea. Undeterred, Lisa calls her conductor friend Sir Geffory, aka "Poopsie", to come and conduct the orchestra. What he encounters is the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Marching Band playing the only song they know.

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Writer: Dick Chevillat, Jay Sommers
Director: Richard L. Bare
Star: Eddie Albert (Oliver Wendell Douglas),  Eva Gabor (Lisa Douglas)
Recurring Role: Sid Melton (Alf Monroe),  Barbara Pepper (Doris Ziffel),  Frank Cady (Sam Drucker),  Tom Lester (Eb Dawson),  Mary Grace Canfield (Ralph Monroe),  Arnold the Pig (Arnold Ziffel)
Guest Star: Pat Buttram (Mr. Eustace Haney),  Reginald Gardiner (Sir Geoffrey),  Tony Fraser (Horace Milford),  Buddy Foster (Emory Duckin),  Virginia Sale (Selma Plout)

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Quotes

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Sir Geoffrey: (to the Hooterville Fire Department band) We're going to start with a simple little piece, Brahms' Lullaby.
Haney: Who wrote it? (edit)
Haney: (trying to sell Sir Geoffrey a new baton) How ya fixed for wavin' sticks? Still usin' the old wooden shaft. Ain't that horrible, Mr. Douglas?
Oliver: (mimicking Haney's squeaky voice) Deplorable! (edit)
Doris: (to Poopsie, after he sees Arnold in the baby stroller) Don't say it. He's very sensitive.
Lisa: Yes, he thinks's he's the Ziffel's son. (edit)
Ralph: (to Oliver) Would you believe I've never heard Beethoven's Fifth symphony..by Tchaikovsky? (edit)
Oliver:(holding his nose) I just walked into a door.
Doris: My friend's always doing that when he's stoned. (edit)

Trivia

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Ralph Monroe reads sheet music. (edit)
Lisa says that she and Oliver honeymooned in Monte Carlo. (edit)
When a shot of New York appears on-screen, graphics appear asking, "What city is this?". After a few seconds, it reads, "If you said New York, you are correct." (edit)
Eb tells the local kids that Mr. Douglas beats him with a baseball bat. (edit)

Allusions

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Mr. Haney tries to sell Sir Geoffrey a Shep Fields baton set. Fields was a big band leader during the 1930s, performing as "Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm". (edit)
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