Writer:	Dick Chevillat, Jay Sommers
Director:	Richard L. Bare
Star:	Eva Gabor (Lisa Douglas),  Eddie Albert (Oliver Wendell Douglas)
Recurring Role:	Pat Buttram (Mr. Eustace Haney),  Hal Smith (Carl Bevins),  Robert Foulk (Roy Trendell),  Kay E. Kuter (Newt Kiley),  Tom Lester (Eb Dawson),  Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball),  Frank Cady (Sam Drucker),  Hank Patterson (Fred Ziffel)
Guest Star:	Stephen Coit (Woody Shankel)

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Sarah: (a recording playing on the phone at Drucker's store) Your Hooterville operator is having rump roast trouble. Call back in an hour.
Oliver: They got to be kidding!
Lisa: People don't kid about rump roast trouble.
Newt: Rump roast trouble? That's a new recording. At least it ain't in the phone company album I have.
Oliver: They put out an album?
Sam: Yeah. The company gives 'em out to you as a bonus if you don't complain about anything for a whole year. (edit) Oliver: (launching into a patriot speech at Drucker's store) Isn't that a fine attitude for the president of the phone company! Doesn't he realize what the telephone means to the American farmer?
(fife begins playing "Yankee Doodle")
That thin strand of copper wire is his lifeline to the outside world! It's his means of communication with the marketplace. It tells about what to do with his crops. What the weather will be. And in time of need, it brings the doctor! Without the telephone, the American farmer's isolated! Cut off from civilization!
(edit) Oliver: (at Drucker's store, complaing about the phone service) I tried to get a call through to the Hoyt-Clagwell factory in Fargo, North Dakota.
Sam: Even if Sarah was there you couldn't get through to them. She doesn't have a Fargo hole on the switchboard.
Oliver: Call Chicago! They route it through there.
Lisa: Maybe they don't have a router hole.
Oliver: Every phone company's got a router hole! Well, not a router... (edit) Oliver: (to Kimball who's on the switchboard) I want to call the Hoyt-Clagwell factory in Fargo, North Dakota.
Kimball: Let's see. Gee, I don't think we're going to be able to help you. We don't have a Fargo hole.
Oliver: Forget it!
(edit) Lisa: (as Oliver leaves to address the "public futilities commercial") Are you going to take the fifer with you?
Oliver: The fifer?
Lisa: The fellow who always plays the fife during your speeches. (edit)

The phone company is closed on Fridays because Sarah is at the beauty shop getting her hair done. (edit) Besides "Rump Roast" recording, other selections on the phone company's album include "Operator Out to Lunch", "Operator at Dentist", "Operator Having Her Hair Done", and "Operator Taking The Christmas Tree Down". (edit) Huh?: Roy Trendell, the owner of the phone company, says that Sarah the operator is his mother. In episode #10 Don't Call Us, We'll Call You, Hank Kimball says that Sarah is his mother. (edit) Trendell obtained the phone company the same way Oliver does: by complaining about the lousy service until the fed-up owner handed him the keys to the business. (edit) Three of the front page stories in the "Hooterville World Guardian" are "Douglas Blows Top at Phone Company", "Irate Subscriber Circulates Petition" (featuring a photo of Oliver in a dramatic pose) and "Sarah's Recipe for Rump Roast". (edit)

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