I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier

IMDB ^ | 9/28/66 | Green Acres

[DallasBiff]

The draft board sends Arnold Ziffel a conscription notice without realizing he is a pig.

[DallasBiff]

This episode is hilarious. Arnold the pig gets drafted and then the female Ralph Monroe gets drafted. Lots of funny double entendres and govt. bureaucracy.

The episode was made over 55 years ago and it seems like the craziness of today.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Green Acres has always been on of my favorite shows since I learned what reruns were in the 1970s. The precursor to Green Acres was a short lived radio show called Granny’s Green Acres.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Sorry for the typos. Make that “Granny’s Green Acres”. It’s very funny and can be found on old time radio show podcasts and at archive.org.

[steveo]

Happy Birthday Oh pig O mine...

[lefty-lie-spy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granby‘s_Green_Acres?wprov=sfti1

[punknpuss]

We’re watching the episode where Arnold is going to Hollywood after his debut in the Hooterville Theater. I don’t think any comedy has ever made me laugh as much as this program.

[DallasBiff]

I also loved the “suicide” door Lincoln Continental, the Douglas’s drove.

[DPMD]

The probably unintended irony of the episode is that the pig would fit right in today.

[Salamander]

I loved Lisa always saying “Shoost him” every time someone annoyed her.

[Deplorable American1776]

They don’t make those shows anymore. Think about the shows that they had back then - Gillian’s Island, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillsbillies, Leave it To Beaver, Family Affair and My Three Sons ( if they reboot that, Steve Douglas would be gay or a pedo or both) amongst others.

[DFG]

Green acres is the place to be
Farm livin’ is the life for me
Land spreadin’ out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside

New York is where I’d rather stay
I get allergic smelling hay
I just adore a penthouse view
Dahling I love you but give me Park Avenue

The chores, the stores
Fresh air, Times Square

You are my wife
Good bye, city life
Green acres we are there

[higgmeister]

It's weird.   There is free streaming on Pluto and Tubi but this episode is missing from the list.

[John Milner]

I think it’s Park Square, not Times Square.

I love how good they were at making TV themes tell the gist of the show’s theme. The all did in those days. Very clever writing!

[Secret Agent Man]

Here’s your example of where men are forced to do something with their bodies against their will, on fear of imprisonment or death by government, during wartime.

End the draft and selective service. my body, my choice. I’m not saving people that I don’t believe deserve me sacrificing myself for. Let the leaders who effed things up in the first place fight each other, thunderdome style.

[EvilCapitalist]

Petticoat Junction is one of my favorites. And there’s 3 reasons to watch it.

[Republican Wildcat]

I was going to come onto this thread and make a joke about that episode based on the headline...but then I see that episode is indeed what this thread is about. :-)

[Republican Wildcat]

Interesting they made that show and Green Acres take place in the same town in the same storyline.

[Republican Wildcat]

This episode is in the rotation on MeTV which is an over the air station in most markets.

[higgmeister]

I thought it odd that Roku has six seasons of Green Acres streaming on multiple platforms which is about 150 episodes but this particular one was not there.   Why?

Then I checked on our Xfinity cable and that episode list jumps from season two episode one to season two episode four.   Curiouser and curiouser.

[SamAdams76]

I remember that show as a kid. The farmer was always wearing a shirt and tie, even when working in the fields or mucking out a barn.