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Petticoat Junction
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Petticoat Junction is the intermediate entry in Paul Henning's trio of rural-themed '60s sitcoms, which also included The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres. The show was produced by Filmways and originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1970.The series centered around Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet), a widowed mother of three teenaged daughters and the owner of a quaint hotel called the Shady Rest near the small whistle-stop town of Hooterville. In this she was allegedly assisted by her bachelor uncle Joe P. Carson (Edgar Buchanan), who tried to avoid getting involved in anything resembling work. Most episodes revolved around Kate trying to micro-manage her girls' love lives or deter Joe's various money-making schemes. From time to time the railroad company, represented by the mean-spirited Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane), would threaten to shut down the isolated spur line serving Hooterville and its antiquated "Cannonball" train, but Kate would always straighten them out, because she needed the train — operated by engineer Charley Pratt (Smiley Burnette) and fireman/conductor Floyd Smoot (Rufe Davis) — to bring the Shady Rest its guests.Petticoat is known for its numerous cast changes; to start, there were the three daughters, Billie Jo, Betty Jo and Bobbie Jo (just don't ask which one's which). Only one of them was played by the same actress through the entire series, and another daughter was recast twice. Then, Bea Benaderet fell ill and died early in the sixth season, so June Lockhart was cast to replace Kate as a new maternal figure, town doctor Janet Craig. Lockhart played her character straighter than comical Benederet, and the remaining episodes shifted more to Betty Jo's married life. There was also some turnover in the supporting cast along the way.Kate was related to The Beverly Hillbillies via Cousin Pearl (also played by Bea Benaderet), who in turn was the cousin of a man named Jed. Eventually, Oliver and Lisa Douglas settled in Hooterville, resulting in the birth of Green Acres. Characters from each of these shows appeared on the others at one point or another, with Hooterville storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) the most frequent link. | |
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Brotherhood of Funny Hats | |
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Brotherhood of Funny Hats: Uncle Joe, Sam Drucker and several other men are members of the Royal Order of Camels. | |
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Character Overlap: Mr. Drucker was a regular character on both this show and Green Acres, mostly owing to the fact that he owns the Only Shop in Town. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Bedloe's boss, the sixtyish Norman Curtis, quickly turns into this, being fascinated by Hooterville and its people, enjoying his visits out there and putting his foot down whenever he catches Bedloe trying to shut down the Cannonball again. | |
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The Place | |
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The Place: The show is named after the area where it takes place. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Kate is a widow raising her daughters on her own. | |
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The Scrooge | |
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The Scrooge: Homer Bedloe, the sour-tempered C & FW Railroad executive who's forever trying to get the Hooterville Cannonball shut down. Literally, in the first season Christmas Episode "Cannonball Christmas"; he's determined to close the Cannonball on Christmas Eve even though his own boss wants him to leave the Hootervillians alone. | |
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Stealing from the Hotel | |
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Stealing from the Hotel: And it's Serious Business. "The Curse of Chester W. Farnsworth" sees the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth haunt the Shady Rest. Many years before, Chester Farnsworth was a dashing young salesman, and a daring towel thief. Having stolen the towel in his room, Farnsworth left on a dark and stormy night never to be seen alive again. But his spirit has been forced to return the purloined towels before he'll be admitted into heaven. The Shady Rest Hotel is Farnsworth's last stop... | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: The little family visit the national's capital. In front of the Lincoln Memorial Uncle Joe recites the entire Gettysburg Address from memory and with great sincerity and beautiful oral skills. He humbly tells the gathered crowd that he learned it in school. | |
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Zany Scheme: One of the few things (besides eating) that Uncle Joe puts much effort into. | |
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Required Spinoff Crossover | |
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Required Spinoff Crossover: Oliver and Lisa Douglas appear several times throughout Season 3, and once in Season 6 when Betty Jo's and Steve's daughter is born. Eb and Mr. Haney also show up in a few episodes. | |
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Story Arc | |
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Story Arc: An ongoing one has Homer Bedloe, from the C & FW railroad, trying to justify shutting down the spur line linking Hooterville with Pixley, which would effectively kill off the town and the Shady Rest Hotel. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: In conjunction with The Other Darrin. The girls' personalities shifted a lot as their actresses were recast, apparently to whatever best suited the talents and qualities of the new actress. Billie Jo started out the series as a flirty bombshell with diva-ish tendencies. But after the very wholesome Meredith Macrae took over the role, she became a career-minded Only Sane Man. Similarly, when Lori Saunders took over the role of Bobbie Jo, the character went from bookish and shy to flighty and scatter-brained. Even Betty Jo, who was played by Linda Henning for the entire run, dropped her tomboy qualities after she got married, but this seems to have been intentional Character Development. | |
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Multi-Part Episode | |
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Multi-Part Episode: "My Daughter the Doctor" and "Hooterville Vs. Hollywood" from the first season, which are about Billie Jo getting an insurance endowment to become a doctor, while Kate tries to prevent her from using the money to go to Hollywood. "Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme" and "Bedloe Gets His Comeuppance" from season two, about Homer Bedloe forclosing on Kate's mortgage, forcing the residents of the Shady Rest to get the money to pay it off. | |
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Visual Innuendo | |
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Visual Innuendo: One line in the theme song goes "Lots of curves, you bet..." just as the clip of the girls' petticoats are seen on the exterior of the water tank. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: Uncle Joe. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: In his final appearance, Homer Bedloe appears to give up his series-long war on the Cannonball and become friends with the gang at the Shady Rest, simply on the grounds that they had shown him kindness on his birthday. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: Happens at least Once an Episode, usually to try and thwart Homer Bedloe's attempts to scrap the Cannonball. | |
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Dinosaur Doggie Bone | |
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Dinosaur Doggie Bone: In the second-season episode, "The Brontosaurus Caper", Betty Jo's dog goes through an open window into the closed-for-repairs Pixley Museum. Stealing the bones one by one, he slowly brings the skeleton of a baby Brontosaurus back to the hotel. | |
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Paranormal Episode | |
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Paranormal Episode: A couple over the series: "The Curse of Chester W. Farnsworth": The Shady Rest is haunted by the titular ghost. "That Was The Night That Was": A space alien rents a room at the hotel. | |
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Supreme Chef | |
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Supreme Chef: Kate's cooking and kindness through cooking might well be legendary in the area. She seems to pay everyone from the train to workers with food. In fact it's through food she saves the Shady Rest more than once. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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The Season 6 finale "Tune In Next Year" was supposed to end the series. It revolved around Dr. Craig accepting a job offer in Chicago before Steve and Betty Jo announce they're having another baby. The show ended up getting a seventh season anyway, with Steve and Betty Jo moving back into the Shady Rest, and their second child was never mentioned again. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Literally, in the first season Christmas Episode "Cannonball Christmas"; he's determined to close the Cannonball on Christmas Eve even though his own boss wants him to leave the Hootervillians alone. | |
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Perfumigation | |
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Perfumigation: Uncle Joe attempts to make money by selling "Lord Violet" and "Lady Violet" perfume, which everyone but him hates because it smells terrible. Even the pigs hate it. He doesn't seem to notice. It turns out to be an excellent mosquito spray. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Kate was written out in Season 6 with the explanation that she had left town to tend to her sick aunt. In reality, actress Bea Benaderet had died. | |
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Wacky Marriage Proposal | |
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Wacky Marriage Proposal: When Steve Elliott intends to propose to Betty Jo, Sam Drucker catches wind of it and prints it on the front page of the Hooterville World Guardian. To avoid being scooped, Steve proposes to Betty Jo while she's upside-down working on his plane. | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The exact location of Hooterville is never mentioned, but there are a few hints that would place it in the Missouri Ozarks. | |
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Skinny Dipping | |
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Skinny Dipping: The opening shows the Bradley girls skinny-dipping in the railroad water tank. In fact, that's how that particular location gets its (unofficial) name, from the girls' petticoats draped over the side of the tank. In the first episode, Kate chastises the girls for swimming in the tank, saying that if the train came early to take on water it'd leave them "high, dry and bare". Later they find bathing suits at the general store, but Kate says it's almost the end of summer. At least one later episode showed the girls actually swimming in the tank, in swimsuits. | |
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Mean Boss | |
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Mean Boss: Mr. Carson could often be as mean as Bedloe, though it's usually to help out Kate and Co. | |
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Cool Train | |
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Cool Train: The ancient, steam-driven Hooterville Cannonball, which functions as not only the main rail service from Hooterville to Pixley, but also as a taxi service for Kate, amongst other odd and funny operations. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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"Last Train to Pixley" may also be an example. The episode is about Floyd retiring from running the Cannonball and Uncle Joe taking over. Unfortunately, Uncle Joe does a bad job at it and gets the Cannonball shut down. This results in the rest of the main cast riding the Cannonball one last time, complete with flashbacks to previous episodes. Although they do get the Cannonball to reopen and Floyd does come out of retirement, the episode still very much feels like it was meant to be the series finale, but it was actually the fourth-to-last episode to air. | |
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Hide Your Pregnancy | |
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Hide Your Pregnancy: Done In-universe when the girls land a high-profile singing gig just before Betty Jo is about to have her baby. They try to keep her midsection hidden with creative choreography and props, but it doesn´t work for long. | |
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Hereditary Wedding Dress | |
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Hereditary Wedding Dress: A main plot point in Betty Jo and Steve's wedding episode, "With This Gown I Thee Wed." Kate has secretly saved her own wedding dress and hopes Betty Jo will wear it, but her hope is seemingly dashed when Betty Jo buys a more modern, stylish wedding dress for herself. But then a dilemma rises when both Uncle Jo and Cousin Mae buy wedding dresses for Betty Jo too – Joe's is dowdy, with Giant Poofy Sleeves and a big sunflower on it, while Mae's is a too-modern mini dress with matching white go-go boots – and she doesn't want to disappoint either of them. The problem is ultimately solved when she learns about Kate's wedding dress, which is what she wears in the end with Joe and Mae's blessing. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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For the Evulz: From his first appearance, railroad executive Homer Bedloe gets along poorly with the main cast and wants to shut down the train they get their livelihood from. However, in his first three episodes, he's only acting under orders, acts nasty toward the main characters because they antagonize him first, and seems placated once they explain how operating the train isn't costing his company any money. Later in the series, he becomes a Card-Carrying Villain who delights in trying to shut down the Hooterville Cannonball for the fun of it, even when his bosses oppose the idea. | |
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Expository Theme Tune | |
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Expository Theme Tune: Composed and performed by Curt Massey, with lyrics by Paul Henning. "Come ride the little train that is rollin' down the tracks to the junction..." | |
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Fish out of Water | |
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Fish out of Water: Steve was an Air Force pilot who simply landed in a rural town and decided to stay. | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Each of the Bradley girls—Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo. | |
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Indian Burial Ground | |
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Indian Burial Ground: In "Hooterville Valley Project", Uncle Joe briefly tricks a state official into believing that the Shady Rest Hotel is the site of an Indian Burial Ground. Not to scare him off, but to set up a archeological dig that would derail Mr. Bedloe's plans to flood the area with a dam. | |
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Long Bus Trip | |
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Long Bus Trip: Kate herself. Immediately following her disappearance (and Bea Benaderet’s death), it is explained Kate has gone out of town to care for a sick aunt. She is barely mentioned again, regardless of how strange it is for Kate to never stop back home and see her newborn granddaughter. She is briefly mentioned in the final season, and although the cast shows some wistfulness in the moment, Kate’s status is left very ambiguous. | |
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Only Shop in Town | |
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Only Shop in Town: Drucker's General Store is this to Hooterville. | |
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Awful Wedded Life | |
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Awful Wedded Life: Homer Bedloe's wife never appears, but their marriage isn't a happy one. In one episode, Bedloe rants to his son about how much he hates the main characters. When an astonished Homer Jr. asks if he hates them "more than Mother," Bedloe has to think long and hard before replying. | |
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Plot Allergy | |
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Plot Allergy: In the episode "I'm Allergic to Daddy," Steve and Betty Jo's baby daughter Kathy Jo develops a rash whenever her father comes home, forcing him to stay in a hotel. But eventually they realize she's allergic to the insecticide on his clothes. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Joe. Besides his knack for running his mouth, the odd Zany Scheme and cleaning out the dining room table, there's nothing up there worth a hoot. Floyd. One must wonder how he's a train conductor in the first place. | |
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Shoulders-Up Nudity | |
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Shoulders-Up Nudity: The "bathing beauty" scene in the opening credits is the Trope Codifier. One might think that the producers did not "know their own strength" regarding titillation for a 1960s show. However, that may have been subverted by an episode that showed the girls actually swimming in the tank; here, they wore swimsuits, albeit with straps. | |
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Steam Never Dies | |
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Steam Never Dies: In spite of Mr. Bedloe's many schemes to shut her down, the Hooterville Cannonball keeps on chugging along. | |
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A Dog Named "Dog" | |
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A Dog Named "Dog": The stray that follows Betty Jo home and she ends up adopting is simply named "Dog". | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Kate using the girls to lure male guests to the hotel is just this short of Unfortunate Implications. It's all part of network head James Aubrey's "broads, bosoms, and fun" formula. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Dr. Craig took over Kate's role as the daughters' motherly figure (despite the fact that they were already well into adulthood by then) and the most sensible person on the show after Bea Benaderet's death. Also during the sixth season, Floyd the train conductor was replaced by Wendell Gibbs, the engineer, although Floyd returned for a couple of guest appearances in the seventh season. | |
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Series Fauxnale | |
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Series Fauxnale: The Season 6 finale "Tune In Next Year" was supposed to end the series. It revolved around Dr. Craig accepting a job offer in Chicago before Steve and Betty Jo announce they're having another baby. The show ended up getting a seventh season anyway, with Steve and Betty Jo moving back into the Shady Rest, and their second child was never mentioned again. "Last Train to Pixley" may also be an example. The episode is about Floyd retiring from running the Cannonball and Uncle Joe taking over. Unfortunately, Uncle Joe does a bad job at it and gets the Cannonball shut down. This results in the rest of the main cast riding the Cannonball one last time, complete with flashbacks to previous episodes. Although they do get the Cannonball to reopen and Floyd does come out of retirement, the episode still very much feels like it was meant to be the series finale, but it was actually the fourth-to-last episode to air. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: Just try to say "Hooterville" without smirking. Go ahead, try. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo; The latter somewhat continues the theme by naming her daughter Kathy Jo. This has become something of a Memetic Mutation; on other shows, when two people have similar names, expect a jab at Petticoat Junction to be made. | |
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