To land the account of popular country singer Homer Higgins, Lucy has Mooney stage an old-fashioned hoedown at the bank.
This episode is much better than I remembered it. If you are a fan of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES-type humor you will find this very funny and enjoyable - well, the first half anyway. Tennessee Ernie Ford basically plays the "Jed' role, Carole Cook is a combination of "Elly May/Granny:", and Robert Easton (who specialized in these hick roles) as "Jethro".
Lucy is portrayed here as proactive and capable, which is always a good thing. She does lie about Mooney's ancestry to sway Ernie/Homer so Gale Gordon shows up in a get-up that makes him kind of look like Mr. Haney from GREEN ACRES. Watch for Mooney's double-take when he sees the cardboard boxes of cash sitting on the floor. He also makes some funny cracks about wife Irma's cooking and her size. The entire scene is a delight, especially for fans of the Paul Henning shows of the Sixties.
I guess the writers didn't have enough good material because the second half, set in the bank, is basically a sequence of countrified musical numbers that feature lots of line dancing and square dancing with Lucy in hillbilly garb. That was never my favorite disguise of hers, but she has very little dialog, so that helps. Gale Gordon and Carole Cook bring some humor into this sequence when they are dancing together.
This episode is much better than I remembered it. If you are a fan of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES-type humor you will find this very funny and enjoyable - well, the first half anyway. Tennessee Ernie Ford basically plays the "Jed' role, Carole Cook is a combination of "Elly May/Granny:", and Robert Easton (who specialized in these hick roles) as "Jethro".
Lucy is portrayed here as proactive and capable, which is always a good thing. She does lie about Mooney's ancestry to sway Ernie/Homer so Gale Gordon shows up in a get-up that makes him kind of look like Mr. Haney from GREEN ACRES. Watch for Mooney's double-take when he sees the cardboard boxes of cash sitting on the floor. He also makes some funny cracks about wife Irma's cooking and her size. The entire scene is a delight, especially for fans of the Paul Henning shows of the Sixties.
I guess the writers didn't have enough good material because the second half, set in the bank, is basically a sequence of countrified musical numbers that feature lots of line dancing and square dancing with Lucy in hillbilly garb. That was never my favorite disguise of hers, but she has very little dialog, so that helps. Gale Gordon and Carole Cook bring some humor into this sequence when they are dancing together.
