'Hee Haw' picks, grins its way to video

Grand Junction Sentinel ^ | 5/18/04 | Associated Press

[billbears]

Well of course Andy. What do you take me for, a yankee? ;) But I can't find it season by season. Have you seen it yet?

[gcruse]

Think of the V in DVD as a thong....

[eastforker]

Hee Haw was scoffed many times by Maude, but, I understand Bea Aurther was also a marine, so it said on one website.

[Soaring Feather]

Population 142 and 150 hogs. Salute!

[Billthedrill]

Timeless stuff - so corny it went all the way back around to funny again. And it contained a repeating joke that constitutes the best medical, political, moral, theological, and technical advice in life:

Patient: "Doc, it hurts when I do this."

Doc: "Well then don't do that!"

[FeliciaCat]

Hee Haw. Gawd,does that bring back memories...I was no more then 5 or 6,my step-sister and I would watch it every Friday,while my stepmother gave Grandma her weekly wash & set with the blue rinse.

[jwpjr]

'and was really looked down upon at the time'

I was doing the midday on the air shift for the #1 country music station in Mobile, AL when Hee Haw hit the air. I remember very well how badly it was received by the world of country music. I always enjoyed it from the very first show, but I guess my tastes in country music were just not in time with the times. The late 1960's were a GREAT time for country music! Remember John Wesley Riles and his only hit? Talk about a one-time-wonder!

[job]

some body please explain the "My wife ain't got no mule joke to me."

Was Buck wasted on a lot of those shows???

and about the pop. 142, 150 hogs, Oklahoma has a little over 3 million people, and over 5 million head of cattle.

[GSWarrior]

Have you heard Loretta Lynn's new CD?
Great lyrics, same great voice. But not exactly hard core honky tonk.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[dfwgator]

I loved watching Roy Clark play.

He's one of my top 10 all-time guitarists.

[arasina]

[Jimmy Valentine]

"I detest Hee Haw"

How do you feel about the dog shows? ;)

[Moose4]

My father would sit down and watch this show every Saturday night at 7:00. He never missed it. No matter what I wanted to watch--some sporting event running late, say--he'd turn it over on Hee Haw and get really annoyed if it was pre-empted. I DESPISED it as a kid.

Of course, this was before I realized the, uh, finer points of Misty Rowe and Barbi Benton, and all the rest of the girls.

Now I look back on it fondly, not just for the discreet country T&A, but because it's a link to a simpler time. And also, it's politically incorrect enough that it could never be made today.

}:-)4

[GSWarrior]

My dad was the same way with the Lawrence Welk Show. I hated it. Now I kind of like it for the same reasons--a link to a simpler time.

[hardhead]

I saw Grandpa at a couple of bluegrass festivals in VA and WVA. In person he tended to do a little more pickin'.

[reagan_fanatic]

I used to love watching that show on TV when I was a kid. Glad to see it coming out on video! YEE-HAAWW!!

[TSgt]

"a link to a simpler time."

You can say that again my friend.

I would give it all up to go back there...

[Xenalyte]

Didn't cotton to the dog shows much either. I also couldn't abide their third favorite show, which was whatever golf tournament was on. Ugh.

[redhead]

Go HERE to buy the series.