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The Vulgar Ring Story

Episode Number: 60    Season Num: 2    First Aired: April 12, 1967    Prod Code: 058
Lisa says that woman in her family must marry an American every fourth generation to keep the huge ring she now wears. She regales Hooterville with the story of her great, great grandmother, the Queen of the Gypsies, and her courtship of an American artist, Cornelius. Much stealing and dancing is involved.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Dick Chevillat, Jay Sommers
Director: Richard L. Bare
Star: Eva Gabor (Lisa Douglas),  Eddie Albert (Oliver Wendell Douglas)
Recurring Role: Tom Lester (Eb Dawson),  Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball),  Frank Cady (Sam Drucker),  Pat Buttram (Mr. Eustace Haney),  Oscar Beregi (Bela)
Guest Star: Walter Woolf King (Father),  Doris Packer (Mother)

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Quotes

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Father: (to Linda) He wants to paint you.
Linda: What color? (edit)
Cornelius: (asking Linda's father for permission to paint her portrait) I'd like to put her on canvas.
Father: Well, that's between you and her. (edit)
Eb:(admiring Lisa's ring) What a ring!
Oliver: It looks like a golf ball with diamonds. (edit)
Cornelius: (meeting Linda for the first time) Oh! You understand English?
Linda: No, I was reading your Hungarian subtitles. (edit)

Trivia

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Where's Hooterville?: Kimball says he keeps his watch on Washington time, where it's lunch hour. It's 10AM in Hooterville, putting their town in the Mountain Time Zone. This would be nowhere near Chicago which is the city Oliver and Lisa often fly into when taking trips. (edit)
While checking the kitchen sink trap for Lisa's ring, he finds a scarf in the pipe and the heel of a shoe. Lisa asks him he found the rest of the shoe. (edit)
Lisa says the ring was smuggled past the Nazis in a vat of "chickens fat". (edit)
Coming in late on Lisa's story, Haney thinks she's talking about a movie he's seen featuring Slim Sommerville singing "There's Nothing More Refreshin' Than a Good, Long Depression." (edit)
Lisa claims that her ring once belongs to her great, great grandmother, the Queen of the Gypsies. To retain the ring, every fourth generation of their tribe must marry an American. (edit)

Allusions

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Thinking Lisa's gypsy story is actually the plot of a movie, Haney says he hasn't "seen a good musical since The Big Broadcast of 1932." The Big Broadcast of 1932 starred Bing Crosby and Burns and Allen. (edit)
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