The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series)

The Clampetts Strike Oil (1962)

Buddy Ebsen: Jed Clampett

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Quotes 

• Jed Clampett : What do you think Pearl? You think I oughta move?

  Cousin Pearl Bodine : Jed, how can you even ask? Look around you. You live eight miles from your nearest neighbor. You're overrun with skunks, possums, coyotes, and bobcats. You use kerosene lamps for light. You cook on a wood stove, summer and winter. You're drinkin' homemade moonshine, and washin' with homemade lye soap. And your bathroom is fifty feet from the house. And you ask should you move!?

  Jed Clampett : [ponders all this]  Yeah, I reckon you're right. Man'd be a dang fool to leave all this.

• Daisy Moses : Well, the first thing to do is get her into a dress. She's gettin' too old to be wearin' a man's duds. Lookee here - she done popped the buttons off her shirt again.

  Jed Clampett : Well, Elly May carries herself proud... with her shoulders thrown back.

  Daisy Moses : It ain't her shoulders that's poppin' these buttons.

• Jed Clampett : [remembering a time Granny broke her hip on the ice]  The poor woman was limpin' fer two days.

• Jed Clampett : I know it don't sound like much, but Mr. Brewster seemed to set great store by the fact he's going to pay me in some new kind of dollar.

  Cousin Pearl Bodine : There ain't no new kind of dollar.

  Jed Clampett : Well it was new to me. I've heard of gold dollars, silver dollars, paper dollars, but he said he's gonna pay me in a... what'd he call them, Granny?

  Granny : Million dollars.

• Jed Clampett : [while asking about Beverly Hills]  Is 'Tom Mix there?

  John Brewster : No, I'm afraid Tom Mix is dead.

  Jed Clampett : Oh yeah, what's the matter with me. Remember Pearl, he got shot at the end of that picture.

• Granny : That there fella's from the peetroleum company.

  Jed Clampett : What's a peetroleum?

  Granny : I dunno. He asked me if he could do some wildcattin' down by the slough. I said "Help yerself, we're glad to get rid of the critters"

• Jed Clampett : Whatcha cookin' tonight, Granny?

  Daisy Moses : Mustard greens and possum innards.

  Jed Clampett : Mmm-mmm. Did you hear that Mr. Brewster?

  John Brewster : Very clearly.

• John Brewster : I think you may have a wrong idea about Beverly Hills.

  Jed Clampett : Is that where you live?

  John Brewster : No, my home is in Tulsa.

  Jed Clampett : Well say, maybe you could get us a place there in your neighborhood.

  John Brewster : Mr. Clampett, let's not beat around the bush. You will love Beverly Hills.

• [first lines] 

  Jed Clampett : Well, come on. Let's find that house we bought.

  Narrator : House they bought? In Beverly Hills? Whoa, hold on, wait a minute! How could a bunch of hillbillies possibly buy a mansion like this? Let's take them back to their home and see how the whole thing started.

• Geologist : Mr. Clampett, you're a very rich man!

  Jed Clampett : How big a rock did you bean him with?

  Elly May Clampett : No bigger than a hedge apple.

• Jed Clampett : They ain't got no snow out there. You could run your still the year round.

  Daisy Moses : I run it the year round here.

  Jed Clampett : Yeah, but walkin' down through the snow to the still always makes you feel so miserable.

  Daisy Moses : I might feel miserable walkin' down, but the way I feels comin' back makes up fer it.

• Daisy Moses : [arriving in Beverly Hills]  They call them hills? Why we got moles that can push up higher ridges than that.

  Jed Clampett : Well leastways they's hills. We'll be among our kind of folks.