Were you guys offended by Jed Clampett or did you find him amusing?
We found it amusing. Like the Snuffy Smith cartoon — a caricature.
But don’t call an East Tennessee redneck “Jethro” or a Southwest VA hillwilliam “Snuffy” unless you’re looking to duke it out . . . .
Yep...I found it very funny...Like “’Lil Abner” in the comics....
When I was in sixth grade (just like Jethro Bodine) my class wrote and presented several skits related to Tennessee history. As the final one, we did a “send up” on the Beverly Hillbillies, with the our Principal taking the place of the banker and the story being mountain folk (from way back in the hills) coming to our school.
As I recall, we made the Principal the butt of the jokes, like the TeeVee show seemed to do with the banker. Jed was a lot like Andy Griffith - he seemed to be the only grown up.
I found him very down to earth. Would make a good neighbor.
Jed was from Arkansas
I remember a lot of my relatives were angry about the Beverly Hillbillies at first, but I don’t think that lasted long.
The part I didn’t like was when the Clampetts mistook one animal from another. Nobody who grew up on a farm would mistake a camel for a cow, even if he had never heard of a camel before. I’ve known city folk who were ignorant as they could be about animals, but country folk are very perceptive about critters.