Review of The Beverly Hillbillies

Jed Clampett was a Tennessee hillbilly who struck oil one day while hunting for some food. Then some city slicker came and hustled him out of his land, which got "Granny" in an uproar when she heard he sold his land for about thirty dollars in some new special type of money. It was called "million" dollars. Granny would never have been taken in by that city slicker. This show was just hilarious. It was also funny. It also made you bust out crying with laughter. It was also hysterical. Did I mention it was hilarious? Because you not only had Jed and Granny moving to a mansion in Beverly Hills, you had the two "young uns", tomboy Ellie May, who was prettier than she realized, and sophisticated Hollywood producer, double naught spy, streetcar conductor Jethro Bodine, who was so embarrassed by his hillbilly relatives, and was so afraid they would ruin his sophisticated image. Then you had two more characters who really made you bust out laughing. Scroogish banker Milburn Drysdale and his perfectly deadpan honest secretary, Jane Hathaway, maybe the best straight "man" in history, and that does have a lot of connotations to it. These two were always there in times of greed, I mean need. For most people, Granny was their favorite, but I just couldn't get enough of Jethro and Mr. Drysdale. To say their characters were over the top would be an understatement. For the slapstick specialists involved in this show, dying was hard, and comedy was easy.