Oliver vs. the Phone Company

Season 3, Episode 4, Aired
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Oliver is finally fed up with the lousy service of the Hooterville phone company. He petitions the state "futilities commercial" for improvements, but they can't help; Hooterville needs at least forty-two customers to be covered by the law. Tired of hearing Oliver boast about how he could run the company better, the owner hands him the keys to the place.moreless
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      • 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

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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

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