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Green Acres

Never Take Your Wife to a Convention

Season 2, Episode 20, Aired Feb 08, 1967

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The only thing Oliver learns at a farming convention is how to get a hangover. He and Lisa meet up with Charlie, a former gangster-turned-farmer, and Wanda, his floozy dancer wife. The more Charlie talks about his farm, the more Oliver's convinced that his shady days are not in the past.moreless

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Phil Gordon

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Jesse White

Charlie
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Barbara Nichols

Wanda

Eddie Albert

Oliver Wendell Douglas
Eva Gabor

Lisa Douglas

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- Believing Oliver and Lisa to be broke, Charlie gives them jewelry, a fur coat, a blue tractor, automatic milker, a combine, and 30 head of cattle.
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- Charlie gives Eb a $50 bill to give his "hired hand" Louie "Howdy, neighbor!" lessons.
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- The hotel desk clerk claims not to have a reservation for Oliver Wendell Douglas, but he does have one for Oscar Mendel McDougal.
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- Wanda: You do your own cooking!?
  Lisa: Yes.
  Wanda: Oh, your poor kid. Here, have a bracelet!
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- (Oliver finds Lisa operating a butter churn)
  Lisa: What does it look like I'm doing?
  Oliver: You're not churning butter?
  Lisa: I'm washing your socks!
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- Lisa: (explaining how she knows Charlie) Charlie's father was my mother's bootlegger.
  Oliver: Bootlegger?
  Lisa: Only doing prohibition.
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- Louie is reminded that he no longer works for Frank Nitti. During the 1930s, Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti was the top man of gangster Al Capone, running the illegal alcohol business of the infamous Chicago mafia.
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- Oliver refers to Wanda as Ma Barker. According to folklore, Ma Barker was the head of a criminal gang, made up of her four sons, who went on a huge crime spree during the 1930s.
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