Green Acres<\/em><\/a>. <\/strong>\u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n2. THE WHOLE RIDICULOUS PREMISE WAS BASED IN REALITY.<\/span><\/strong>
\nIf it seems a bit farfetched that a city slicker would leave a lucrative career in finance to rehab a dying farm without knowing a thing about agriculture, well, at least one person has tried it. \u201cI got the idea from my stepfather when I was a kid,\u201d Sommers, the show’s creator, said in a 1965 interview. \u201cHe wanted a farm in the worst way and he finally got one. I remember having to hoe potatoes. I hated it. I won\u2019t even do the gardening at our home now, I was so resentful as a child.\u201d<\/p>\n7. IT WAS ONE OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER\u2019S FAVORITE SHOWS.<\/strong><\/span>
\nDuring his retirement years, keeping tabs on the residents of Hooterville became one of the former president\u2019s favorite pastimes. The Eisenhowers loved the show so much that they deemed their valet\u2019s pet pig \u201cArnold\u201d and allowed it to freely roam their house\u2014even letting it lounge on slip-covered chairs that their grandkids weren\u2019t allowed to sit on.<\/p>\n9. MR. HANEY WAS BASED ON ELVIS PRESLEY’S MANAGER.
\n<\/span><\/strong>Actor Pat Buttram, who played Mr. Haney, met Elvis Presley\u2019s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, on the set of the movie Roustabout, where Buttram played the owner of a carnival. He got the part of Mr. Haney just a year later\u2014and later stated that he used Parker as inspiration for the Green Acres swindler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stacy Conradt\u00a0and Mental_Floss present 15 Farm-Fresh Facts About Green Acres. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 2. THE WHOLE RIDICULOUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16539,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538\/revisions\/16539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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