Oliver and Lisa's Chicken Lays Square Eggs - Green Acres - 1966

Hooterville at its bizarre best with some terrific scenes featuring Eb, a psycho-toaster, and shifty Mr. Haney.

[@michellepost5232]

I watched this when new. This show is hilarious, and pure classic. Love it.

[@MikeMaxwell1961]

This show was an unsung hero representing all things funky. Such an underrated show! It's like Oliver was in the twilight zone. I love the guy who played the county extension agent.

[@mas5867]

Kimball was the weakest link. Some of moments were great, but too many times it was just stupi.d silliness.

[@jazzmanchgo]

@@mas5867 Wel, I thought the same thing about that damn pig, but apparently it was a fan favorite so they ended up structuring a lot of plotlines around it. Me, I got sick of it (and hungry for bacon) after one or two episodes.

[@DiannaAtherton]

I totally forgot how funny this series was. Have to download season 1. Miss Gabor was priceless. Bless her soul

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

@G Guest old mail day

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

@G Guest I think one of the funniest things about the show was sometimes they wouldn't let Oliver finish a sentence. Then there was: Everybody could understand Arnold but him. Climbing the pole to answer the phone. The Monroe Brothers: Alf and Ralph Monroe. Everybody laughed (even out of towners) when they found out that Oliver bought the old Haney place.

[@oveidasinclair982]

Everyone on that show were priceless, this was the best sit-com ever made

[@kdwaynec]

One of the best and Miss Gabor is definitely easy on the eyes!

[@NondescriptMammal]

Miss? She was on her fourth husband by the time this show was made

[@loge10]

It's so funny because great writing is delivered by great actors. Boy, what I'd give for that today.

[@jacksagrafsky4936]

So true. Can't find shows like Green Acres on TV no matter how hard you try.

[@jamesm.3967]

Give King of the Hill. Cartoon network a look-see. I know it's animated but the spirit is similar.

[@kendallrivers1119]

@@jamesm.3967 to be fair King of The Hill is somewhat classic now since its been off for over a decade. It's one of the very best shows ever too along with Green Acres, Andy Griffith etc.

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

@@jamesm.3967 I can't watch cartoons.

[@BrianBattles]

Just buy the DVD

[@jazzmanchgo]

Oliver obviously passed through some kind of warp into a bizzaro dimension when he moved to the farm. Surrealism before its time.

[@kendallrivers1119]

And never bettered.

[@jonnaking3054]

But when they travel to places like NY or Washington, things and people there are just as strange

[@potsdam28]

This is where the Beverly Hillbillies come from so no surprise

[@triumphmanful]

Lisa (Eva Gabor ) was peachy ! Loved ow she always cooked in a negligee !

[@scottjohnson5401]

Eva Gabor is fabulous...

[@natalie6292]

I love her she my favorite on here it make this show

[@furfamilysue]

She plays her role like no one ever could. I love all the characters. Without any of them it would not be the same.

[@kdwaynec]

One of my all-time favorites!! Easy on the eyes! I loved watching her on Match Game, she really was funny!!

[@65wiseman]

She was just as important to this show as "Granny" was to the Beverly Hillbillies.

[@mas5867]

​ @65wiseman what an odd comparison. Eva would be so offended.

[@larrymbs]

"A round egg in a square shell?" Classic!!!

[@mirandawyatt77]

"Somebody's toast is burning! 5!"

[@daybreakdawnagfilms2237]

Miranda Wyatt Do you know what episode this is from?

[@mirandawyatt77]

@@daybreakdawnagfilms2237 Season 2 episode 12 "A Square Is Not Round." One of my favorites!

[@daybreakdawnagfilms2237]

@@mirandawyatt77 Ah thank you! Going to go watch it now, have a blessed day! :) ~Daybreak

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

@@daybreakdawnagfilms2237 I saw it the other day on FeTV

[@65wiseman]

Miss Gabor was a delightful comedienne. Sort of a Hungarian Gracie Allen -

[@mas5867]

She is in my top 5 women ever. What a beauty that loved be feminine. Alberts had to be made of steel to work around her and not go crazy. RIP Eva.

[@jazzmanchgo]

Very good analogy! You can't "play dumb" that hilariously without being pretty damn smart and gifted!

[@williamreed5470]

For some reason a square egg is par for the course in Hooterville.😂😂😂 One of the funniest shows ever.

[@michellepost1016]

The toaster was funny.The only times Haney comes there is if he thinks something is happening to get him money, or he wants to sell something.

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

and everything was a gen-you-wine

[@SaxonC]

I love this show since I was a kid! Always funny!

[@petermaxwell2965]

Just look for the chicken making the most noise. Lol

[@nccruising6851]

Saw her in person in LA at a mall back in the 70's. She was in the cosmetic department part of some ad event. She left in a rolls. I was about 13 at the time.

[@GenoCuddy]

Did you get to talk to her?

[@nccruising6851]

@@GenoCuddy no there were several people there watching her. At the time I don't really know if I would have known what to ask!

[@johnlothrop6680]

Lisa in an episode said cosmetic as cosmetetacle and cosmelogical.

[@patbulfin5459]

I got to meet her when she was in You can't take it with you back in 83. I remember telling her I saw her on dance fever. She said "That was fun. " I told her that she should have danced. She said that they didn't ask her to.

[@mas5867]

What a beauty that was happy to be feminine woman.

[@amandadecaire8759]

I always thought Eva Gabor had the most beautiful voice. I could listen to her talk all day. ❤️

[@ukmedicfrcs]

I love Haneys rope/seatbelt lol

[@ukmedicfrcs]

@Ronove lmao true

[@rotunda57]

This was 1966. I think that's the year the government made the automakers put belts in all new cars.

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

@@rotunda57 yeah, but the truck was a 1925 Ford. I think cars that didn't have them were grandfathered in

[@rotunda57]

Pert sure it's a 1925 Dodge Bros truck. There're just spoofing the government requirement for seat belts on new trucks. There was no retrofit order on old ones.

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

You are right. forums.aaca.org/topic/90379-did-mr-haney-drive-a-dodge-brothers/

[@drc3po]

Paul Henning didn't simply create a reverse Beverly Hillbillies, instead he brilliantly realized Green Acres as theater of the absurd. I find it fascinating that Lisa Douglas is the one character who is equally at home in both ecosystems--sophisticared NY and insane Hooterville. From an evolutionary standpoint this makes her the "fittest" (means "most adaptable") member of her species.

[@potsdam28]

Jay Somers was responsible for much of it

[@dewfall56]

Such a surreal show.

[@VoteTrumpagain]

She's hysterical. I didn't know you could plant an egg😂😂😂😂😂

[@deesplaylists6941]

I remember this episode the most. Cracked me up as a kid lol. Square eggs.

[@sphinxrising1129]

Now they have a device where anyone can make square eggs, lol

[@cherylcampbell9369]

Yes. And her pancake cutout being used for a head gasket.

[@urmanthenascarfan5847]

@@cherylcampbell9369 I remember that one!

[@biomusicology1441]

Such a novel idea 😂 it alone is the joke

[@Steelersguy84]

I see what you did there cracked you up huh!? You must be a very punny dad.

[@Dewdaahman]

I grew up in the mountains, oh where the snakes have legs, the hoot owl speaks English and the roosters lay square eggs..

[@chuc5o]

Lisa was the Star of this show! So charming and so funny!

[@roachtoasties]

I wish Ralph's sold square eggs. They would be easy to stack in the refrigerator. Those egg shaped eggs just roll off the shelf and make a mess.

[@richardschroth4298]

Those eggs aren't square. They're cubed.

[@kdwaynec]

I guess eggs aren't really oval shaped or round they're ovoid but that isn't funny. If I called somebody an egghead or a blockhead, now THAT would be hilarious!

[@potsdam28]

Squares make cubes

[@oveidasinclair982]

MR. Haney, the minute he opens his mouth I start laughing

[@dannyrichardson8019]

RIP Eb.

[@oveidasinclair982]

This is sad, the entire cast are all gone now

[@mas5867]

​ @oveidasinclair982 No they aren't. Somewhere Lisa lives on. I can't wait to meet her.

[@jacksagrafsky4936]

Olivers world has turned upside down since moving to Hooterville, and New York, well its what its been for a long time.

[@binaway]

Dr Douglas wanted to just fit in and never could. Mrs Douglas fitted in perfectly despite being totally alien to everything in Hootesville. .

[@jazzmanchgo]

That was the ingenious thing about her character -- at first she was the one who hated, more than anything else, the very idea of moving to the country -- and then she ended up not just loving it but actually helping Oliver adjust to it, and encouraging him to stay when he couldn't handle it anymore.

[@willdrucker4291]

Haney:….”any square egg layin’chicken is worthless…annnddd…I’LL GIVE YOU TWENTY DOLLARS FOR HER”…😂😂😂😂😂

[@nazmoking3171]

Loved the con man Haney - he was the greatest!

[@lindycorgey2743]

He was a decorated Marine in WW2. So was the Actor who played Mr Kimball.

[@ericdunn7352]

I would have punched Haney's face in if he tried to con me.

[@jazzmanchgo]

@@ericdunn7352 He would have insisted on selling you the boxing gloves first, and of course they'd be the wrong size but that was okay because they were special "Authentic Chinee Oh-Ree-Ental Marital Arts Fisticuff Fitters" with "Magic Zen" powers guaranteed to knock out any opponent just by pointing them at him -- except himself, of course, because he had taken the "Anty-Dote" which he just happens to have a couple of bottles left, and they're right here on the truck, so if you'll just fork over five more measly dollars . . .

[@bluestarlighting29]

Looking for square chickens lay eggs? One funny film show.

[@marilynh5487]

I ❤️ love this show. I grew up on this.

[@scottjackson163]

The sane man in an insane world comic premise never fails on Green Acres.

[@arissimion67]

Fun show to watch. Respect to all cast and crew. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@k9under]

Mr. haney seat belts priceless.

[@robertreynolds1606]

Anybody who lived on a farm had a Mr. Haney, the guy who was going to help you out, for a price of course.

[@chestermarcol3831]

Back in the day, we used to watch this show, tripping on acid; and then it all made perfect sense. LOL

[@65wiseman]

Timothy Leary probably had a field day with this show.

[@kurtsnyder4752]

In Hootersville practically anything could happen and even the impractically stuff too.

[@tommyd.743]

Written by and for stoners.

[@josetross]

Green acres some of the episodes were like sci fi love this show

[@cindyrogers5802]

Fabulous comedy.♡♡♡♡.

[@SuperSneakySniper]

3:21 I KNOW ive heard that voice before... *Googles cast of Disney's Animated Robin Hood* A-Ha!!! The Sheriff!!

[@tilesetter1953]

🤣Writers were taking LSD on a regular basis.

[@pattihaley7443]

green acres makes me laugh lollove it

[@dashriprock9014]

I once had a hen that laid square eggs and talked. What did she say? "Ouch!"

[@stevenmarler5154]

The thing I like about Green Acres is the surrealism.

[@charlesmactaggart1676]

Those square eggs must come from a Minecraft chicken

[@matthewrussell3376]

The chickens laying square eggs must be valuable otherwise this crooked guy wouldnt be asking for it and offering money.

[@jameswaugaman8052]

The show was genius! Surreal comedy!

[@michellepost1016]

I had wished they would have solved the square eggs mystery on the ep.I figured it was one of Haney's weird con games, or Eb goofing off.A square egg would sure hurt!! That toaster was funny.

[@potsdam28]

They did

[@TheBennie102103]

I didn't know you could plant eggs . .

[@lauraheidorn4767]

I want more good shows like back then. Give me less of this reality tv BS. Jersey shore, 16 and pregnant and Kardashian’s lol yuck 🤢 🤮

[@BrianBattles]

Trust me, there was plenty of garbage on TV back then, too.

[@kendallrivers1119]

@@BrianBattles much more garbage now trust me. There was bad ones then but many more gems that are still beloved and popular 50 years later. Why do you think channels like METV, Tv Land, Decades etc. are killing so much these days?

[@BrianBattles]

@@kendallrivers1119 Because it's way cheaper to rerun '60s shows than to produce new shows. They rerun a lot of garbage as well as good shows.

[@oveidasinclair982]

@@BrianBattles 16 pregnant Kardashians knocked up by /Vigroids, how could TV be just as bad back then?

[@kdwaynec]

Back then we only had 3 channels and I was my parents 'remote control'!

[@jamesholt6032]

U knoe henrietta was in pain when she layed that

[@michellepost5232]

Only in Hooterville would a chicken lay a square egg! This is hilarious. I don't think the mystery was ever solved.

[@kirkengstrom917]

It was a dream.

[@tedblgtn9430]

Eb explained that the square egg actually came from a square chicken... Mystery solved... :-)

[@jazzmanchgo]

"A pink possum in a dry-goods store"??

[@eviljoker303]

Lisa was such an airhead I loved her

[@davidscott3820]

Find a chicken with hemerroids and there youll find the chicken that laid the square eggs!🐣

[@kiwitrainguy]

The Ooo-Ahh bird got its name because it lays square eggs.

[@marynovak5800]

This is the funniest episode

[@jamesm.3967]

Pink Possum in a dry goods store! 😆

[@brandonallen3808]

When Eva Gabor speaks I hear Bianca from The Rescuers and with Pat Buttram I hear the Sherrif of Nottingham from Robin Hood.

[@99PowerNation99]

Mr Haney sounds like “Spoons” from Rango the movie

[@georgehabib1266]

Hanney's seat belt us a rope! 😂

[@justina9137]

Just noticed Haneys rope lap belt on the truck

[@birdy1numnum]

*Psychedelic show. Pure insanity. I LOVE IT!*

[@Eastern67]

Who else is watching this in 2024 ؟ 😎😎

[@user-br9ov7qf1u]

love eva gabor's voice

[@mas5867]

She was pure class or at least that is what I am sticking too. RIP Eva.

[@user-br9ov7qf1u]

@@mas5867 glad to hear it

[@josemanueldamasio89]

The chicken voted for Nixon, what did you expect?... They lay square eggs 🤔

[@stevebishop9468]

I love surreal humor!

[@phaedrabacker2004]

I love a man in a vest.

[@cinerama62]

Twilight Zone meets Hee Haw.

[@cosechartusbendiciones239]

She make me laugh for been sooo clueless 🤣 😂

[@bambam3254]

Green acres

[@Bluebird590]

Green acres, Gomer pile , Mash. Gilligan's Island Hogan's heroes to reminisced

[@ennislawrence9583]

THE GREAT AMERICAN COOK OFF! LISA DOUGLAS v ELLIE MAY CLAMPETT!

[@jaengen]

They would both lose.

[@scottyjoe22]

Eb was the only sane person on the show.

[@footslave4asian]

"Why would he play a practitioner's joke?"

[@michellepost5232]

The mystery of the square eggs was never solved, if I remember right. It'd be nice to have square eggs, as they wouldn't roll about, but it'd sure hurt the hen as the eggs came out! LOL.

[@kirkengstrom917]

It was a dream. Oliver wakes up at the end and tells Lisa about it, then goes back to bed to see how it will turn out.

[@tomcarpenter700]

Lisa Meant for Square egg

[@rcnelson]

It'd be easy to find the hen that lays square eggs. It's the one that can't sit down.

[@mrmjb1960]

The most unusual things happen on Douglas' House!

[@buttercuputonium1158]

Rip Mrs Bianca

[@bobberger918]

My neighbor had a Fordson tractor same as his nothing flew off 😒

[@edstransitscott9186]

Great

[@missbackwoods]

My connection for some reason wont let me past 0:16

[@Marco1575]

Gábor Éva 🇭🇺😍

[@phishfearme2]

cubic eggs

[@jsl151850b]

Easy. Just find the chicken making the most noise.

[@timothymensik4494]

Thoes eggs must hurt the chicken

[@otiscampbell2194]

Down home comedy.luv county agent hank kimball.well not luv,like alot,well not really finds interesting.keep posting ones with sam drucker.

[@carloscarpinteyro332]

I personally met Mr. Kimball (Alvy Moore) in 1994, he passed away in 1997. I personally told him that he played my favorite character on the show! He was a very fine gentleman!

[@shawnlord5383]

What season is this? This is a funny episode

[@KIMMYSSONG]

LOVE Kimmyssong

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

A chicken can't lay square eggs or they would end up with bad Hemorrhoids.

[@kendallrivers1119]

Enjoying watching this show on METV. There's a rip off show they got on ABC now but it's nowhere near this show's league.

[@kendallrivers1119]

@@DittonWilson hey idiot why are you here? You really must have zero taste or intelligence if you don't get the comic gold of this series and the quality of its cast. Go watch The Masked Singer or something.

[@brandue4523]

Perkys Turkey hahaha

[@harlleygurrola8394]

¿How do you get an inferior chicken?

[@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635]

That is not an egg

[@pattygonzales9605]

full episodes my butt