Your Wonkette editors were just jabbering in our secret sex-chat room and the popular 1970s redneck program Hee-Haw was mentioned and a YouTube search ensued, for “Hee Haw skits,” and this, we promise, was the first thing to come up. Jesus. [YouTube]
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I’ll pass on watching this. We just endured 8 years of President Hee-Haw.
I think “AMERICAN KKKULTURE” is about right. I mean, these rednecks used to be Democrats themselves just before the 1970s, when they “got their eyes opened” by the Civil Rights Act.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitter.
Hey, at least puppies have an excuse for being born-again racist teabaggers.
That fat man’s name is Junior Samples. Junior Samples!!!!
Funny hillbillies!
Sorry, I could use subtitles for the punchline: “That was 3 weeks ago. They got drnnnnn u t nnna.” But the yiff pile afterglow transcends the need for language.
Hee Haw was actually pretty funny. Things have gone full retard since then.
At least it’s not *just* U.S. conservatives – behold, the U.K. Scooter Libby: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090706/tc_nm/us_britain_mi6
Gloom, despair, and agony on me…
(Don’t ask why I know that)
I’m-a bloggin’!
Aaaaand I’m-a Twittin’!
What Junior means by “they’re Republicans” is, they’re old enough for buttseks, now.
Lets have more “mental disability breaks,” they’re educational and more fun than psychotic breaks, which is another symptom of “American KKKulture.” Scratch that last part, I meant “American Culture,” generally.
Is this the ad where they, lying their fucking asses off, say AIG got stimulus money? (I cannot bring myself to watch the whole thing)
I really want that dog to stick its face in one of their crotches and do a quicky castration, while one of them shrieks “TARP! I meant TARP money! Under the Bush Administration! Yes, that is what I meant, now please, please not my balls!”
The Zombie Party presents: Grandpa Jones/Buck Owens ’12! Bonus Simpsons Hee Haw Joke…
Yokel 1: I found my wife cheatin’ on me with another man
Yokel 2: Bitter?
Yokel 1: Yup. Bit him, too.
I love C-SPAN.
Oh, Horse Apples!
[re=355898]dementor[/re]:
I’ve tried several times but my Northeast ears literally cannot understand the punchline.
Must be another language; maybe that “SPEAK MERIKAN” I’ve heard people yelling about.
Real World, Wasilla?
I love how they have the laugh track cracked up to remind you that you’re watching something funny.
[re=355886]lizard scum[/re]: Exactly. From Wikipedia:
Although the phrase “Southern strategy” is often attributed to Richard Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[1] but merely popularized it.[2] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don’t need any more than that… but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That’s where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.
Blame all of this on the goddamned Canadians. Of the show’s three creators, two were from Toronto and the other, Bernie Brillstein, was from New York.
This is not my America.
Huh. Who knew the Huckabees had a teevee show.
Mental disability breaks are more fun than Andrew Sullivan’s painfully earnest breaks from freaking out about gay torture/Iranian marriage/and twitterberries. Now, I’ll never have to go to The Dish again!
Naw, Monsieur Grumpe, That was not a laugh track. Hee Haw was filmed before a live studio audience…in Sarah Palin’s living room.
Hee Haw was a weird combination of buxom wholesome girls, stupid moron jokes, and music.
Great music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Oo7359yjo&feature=related
I had no idea Sarah Palin was actually a natural blonde.
I loved Hee Haw as a child. Then again, I grew up in the western part of the old Confederacy — also known as Texas. I didn’t realize at the time that my parents were trying to show me who lived on the other side of the tracks.
[re=355904]RoscoePColtraine[/re]:
where oh where are you tonight
why did you leave me here all alone
i searched the world over and thought i found true love
you met another and pfft you was gone
powerful lyrics
Now I wish I had chosen BR-549 as my user name for my beloved Wonkette.
Regrets are always so regrettably sad.
See? This is the problem. With the demise of Hee Haw, all those slack-jawed yokels had no choice but to become involved in politics, because they were showing it on television.
Somebody really must put something like Hee Haw back on the TEEVEE MACHINE for them, right around the next elections, and send them all a plastic blinking child’s toy with buttons to push. The big dumb toothless fatty in overalls can tell them to press some of the buttons to vote with invisible vote-rays, for the republicans, and they’ll angrily push, push, push the blinking buttons, thinking that they are politically involved. But, really, all that is inside the toy is 2 ‘AA’ batteries. Everybody wins.
i don’t repeat gossip so you better listen close the first time. I still get laughs with that one!
I believe among native folk it’s “Demo-Rat.”
Can someone transcribe the punchline? I’d imagine this is the funniest joke ever so really feel like I’m missing out due to my inability to understand whatever language the round looking fellow speaks.
I have the entire Time-Life “Hee-Haw” collection.
Hee Haw ceased to be funny in redstate America, where life ended up imitating art.
My guitar teacher used to work on Hee Haw. He told me that the whole season was shot in just a few days – set up the cornfield/fence/whatever, hand the actors the props and then shoot 21 variations on the “hey grandpa what’s fer supper” bit. Imagine Junior Samples standing in that one spot all day long, doing one BR549 gag after another, break for lunch, five more hours of the same, etc. He also said that Junior Samples grew mind blowing super potent weed.
Hee-Haw must be a recruiting tool for the GOP.
[re=355904]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: “I’ve searched the world over, and thought I found true love. You met another and (raspberries) you was gone.”
It’s my parents fault………
*sigh* This was my grandparent’s favorite show. Of course my grandma also thought that Jose Feliciano wore dark glasses because he was on the marijuana, like all the rest of them messicans.
and after their eyes opened, we started pointing out all the black people who we were working on our dirt farm while we sat here on our fat asses. we taught them not to like them those people. so they eventually became republicans out of principle as well.
[re=355988]Crosseyed and Painless[/re]: Punchline: “That ‘uz three weeks ago…they got their eyes open now…”
Round-looking fellow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Samples
You Yankees…
I used to go to a seedy, seedy bar in the back of a liquer store. There I met one of the harmonica players from Hee-Haw. He was… exactly as you would expect. That was a low point in my life.
I think that hot chick on the porch later falsely accused Deputy Sam Wood of knocking her up. See the clip at 3:00.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-tQOxuhf0&feature=PlayList&p=D25DB8A83C4748B6&index=33
Virgil Tibbs wasn’t fooled. Not one bit.
Gordie Tapp was Canadian?!
My whole life has been a lie….
Ladies and gentlemen, mister Conway Twitty.
“I’m a-pickin’…”
“And I’m a-grinnin’.”
And I make no apologies for growing up in East Tennessee.
My dad watched this every single Saturday night and was from Paris, Texas. And was a lifelong Democrat. He believed in a few things: the Bible, his family, his union, and the Democratic party (yes, even long after the 1960s).
He was probably a bit offended by that skit, but laughed anyway.
I loved how he always referred to Reagan as “that sumbitch.” Great man, my dad.
“jabbering” = “yiffing”
I’ve been trying to purge “Hee-Haw” from the memories of my childhood, but it’s like trying to get every piece of straw out of my overalls, without anything under the overalls. My point is: fuck you, dad.
[re=356027]jetjaguar[/re]: I’m guessing he didn’t get many whore diamonds?
That is some labored post-coital dialogue.
Youtubo delenda est!
[re=356050]badmuthagoose[/re]: Sounds like you grew up amongst Yaller Dawg Democrats, too. The only time I ever heard my grandad cuss was when he said “goddamrepublicans,” which, for him, was one word…
Sarah Palin is resigning because she’s hosting the new version of “Hee Haw” on Fox. The show, to be co-hosted by Roy Clark and Michelle Malkin, debuts in September, 2009.
[re=356036]Min[/re]: When people talk about pickin’ and grinnin’, are they referring to banjos or teeth? I’m from the rust belt. We only had accordians.
[re=356050]badmuthagoose[/re]: I loved the movie Paris, Texas. What did your Dad think?
[re=356098]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Pickin’ = banjo, grinnin’ = teeth. Where I’m from, the closest thing we had to an accordion was a hammered dulcimer.
Bernie Brillstein (the child of Catskill vaudeville performers, if I remember correctly) also produced Saturday Night for NBC and the Muppet Show for syndication, so you can’t really blame him for exploiting every possible U.S. subculture in the 1970s.
(All of those subcultures, including the Hee Haw crowd, shared a deep love of being stoned all the time, as you people already mentioned.)
There’s some good hee haw tales in Nick Tosches’ “Country: the Biggest Music in America.”
And the late great Buck Owens and still-kicking Roy Clark could never be replaced by the likes of Malkin and Palin.
[re=356106]Min[/re]: In Hamtramck, we had hammered Polaks.
[re=356077]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]:
My grandfather used to watch it on Sundays, then Lawerence Welk would come on, and we would watch that. I was under ten, and this abuse will haunt me until the end of my days.
I mean, for the love of God, that show featured Minnie Pearl!
So, why did they cut the clip right before the punch line: “A quarter of them have quit, a quarter of them are molesting little boy puppies, and half of them are having sex with some bitch other than their wives.”
It’s funny that Brillstein was associated with both “Hee Haw” and the Muppets since they were on back to back on Sunday nights when I was a kid growing up in Maine (a little bit of the South up North). Watching the “Haw” may not have been the coolest thing ever, but it certainly helped to get the references in Jenny Lewis videos (and watching Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton helps with the Lily Allen ones).
[re=356035]bago[/re]: Conway Twitty got more pussy than Elvis. This is a scientifically proven fact.
A bloodhound would never be a Republican. I know my dogs.
[re=356080]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: HA. I type HA because he kinda did! Maybe 1/12 of a whore diamond… by our standards. One of his stories was how he made out with that one busty broad, whats-her-name. Drunk old bastard he was. He clapped through my karaoke sessions though, so he was OK in my book.
[re=356215]finallyhappy[/re]: NEVER in hell, bud…
From the Just Sayin’ Dept: I dated one of the Hee Haw Honeys (Diana Goodman, a former Miss Georgia [1976]) for about a year back around 1981.
She was addicted to Ms PacMan/Woman and chess, and was unbeatable at both.
“I’m a pickin’”
“And I’m-a grinnin’”
As a child my family forced me to watch Hee Haw to equal out my watching Wolfman Jack’s Midnight Special. The two opposing elements created a maelstrom and turned me and my sister gay. True story.
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