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Pygmalion and Elly

Episode Number: 10    Season Num: 1    First Aired: November 28, 1962    Prod Code: n/a
Sonny and Elly are getting more serious. Sonny loves Elly’s character and tells her how she makes him feel superior. But Jed worries about this courtship. However, Granny does not have any worries and does not want her granddaughter to be an old maid. During their poolside date, Sonny tells Elly how he is burning, and only she can put out the fire. So she pushes him in the pool. He runs home, and Elly tells the family that her charms did it, thinking that since she didn’t have her rabbit’s foot, he caught fire. Granny tells Elly she’ll get Sonny back, and Sonny wants to go back, much to the dismay of his mother. He hopes to tame the hillbilly beauty. Before he arrives, Granny creates a love charm to conjure Sonny Drysdale to her. Jane tells the women it is impossible, but as Elly says the spell, Sonny arrives. After arriving, Sonny tries to mold Elly into a proper city woman. Jed is glad his daughter could become sophisticated, and Granny gives Jed a love charm to use. He says the spell and Mrs. Drysdale comes running over, looking for her son. Sonny comes out, acting like a hillbilly, causing his mother to cry.

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Writer: Paul Henning
Director: Richard Whorf
Star: Donna Douglas (Elly May Clampett),  Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett),  Nancy Kulp (Jane Hathaway),  Irene Ryan (Daisy Moses "Granny"),  Max Baer Jr. (Jethro Bodine)
Recurring Role: Harriet MacGibbon (Mrs. Margaret Drysdale)
Guest Star: Louis Nye (Sonny Drysdale)

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Jethro: Know what my teacher over at Potts’ School said about totin’ a rabbit’s foot?
Granny: What?
Jethro: She said it’s a “superstitious invocation contradicted by scientific knowledge.”
(The clan looks at each other and pauses)
Jed: Hmm. Always nice to know you ain’t been doin’ something foolish. (edit)
(Granny asks Jed if she wants Elly to be an old maid, to which he says no)
Granny: Next year she’ll be too old to get a husband. She’s almost eighteen. (edit)
(Jethro tells Jed and Granny that Sonny is at the pool with Elly)
Jed: I better get right out there and keep my eye on em.
Granny: Now you set still and leave those youngins’ alone. Can’t you remember how it was when you was a boy?
Jed: Yeah. I better get right out there! (edit)
(Jane is trying to teach Jethro French, teaching him how to pronounce “Mademoiselle,” and Jed walks in on them pronouncing “Mah,” which sounds like kissing)
Jane: Try it again.
Jethro: Mmm-mah!
Jane: Well, that’s closer. Try again.
Jethro: Mmmmm-mah!
Jane: Once more.
Jethro: Mmmmm-mah!
Jed: Close in on her, Jethro! (edit)
(Jane sees the love charm Granny made for Elly)
Jane: That is ludicrous, irrational, sophomoric, and pure hokum.
Granny: Ha! Ha! Ha! You didn’t even guess one ingredient. (edit)

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The roles reverse in the later seasons. In this episode, Jed wants to spy on Elly and Sonny, but Granny stops him. However, later on, Granny is the one who tries to spy on Elly May and her dates, and Jed has to stop her. (edit)

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