The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series)

The Clampetts Strike Oil (1962)

Bea Benaderet: Cousin Pearl Bodine

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

  Cousin Pearl Bodine : Jed, how can ya even ask? Look around you. Ya eight miles from your nearest neighbor. You're overrun with skunks, possums, coyotes, bobcats... You use kerosene lamps for light. You cook on a wood stove, summer and winter. You're drinkin' homemade moonshine, 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.

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

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

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

  Granny : Mill'yen dollars.

• Cousin Pearl Bodine : Jethro, I told you to get rid of them worn-out brakes.

  Jethro : I did, Ma. That's how come we ain't got none.