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Many popular rural-oriented television shows, including Lassie, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Hee Haw, were all canceled in 1971 in what is known as the "Rural Purge"
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The first 55 of 274 total episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies is in the public domain because the rights holders neglected to renew their copyright
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Weird Al's most consistently approached musician was Prince; he asked for permission several times, and was always turned down. Some parody ideas he had were "Let's Go Crazy" being about the Beverly Hillbillies, and "1999" being a song about infomercials with the lyric "1-800-something, $19.99"
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The Beverly Hillbillies theme song once had extra verses to promote cereal and cigarettes
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The Hooterville Trilogy where The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres are all connected.
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In 2003 CBS Television produced a reality show called "The Real Beverly Hillbillies," based the network's old sit-com. The concept was take a poor family from somewhere in rural America and set them up in Beverly Hills with all the trappings of affluence.
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The Jethro from The Beverly Hillbillies was played by the son of heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer
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The Beverly Hillbillies theme song inspired Bela Flek to pick up the Banjo
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Nancy Kulp (Miss Hathaway on *The Beverly Hillbillies*) ran for Congress in 1984. Her former co-star Buddy Ebsen called up her opponent volunteering to make a radio ad calling her "too liberal". She got only 33.6% of the vote.
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Weird Al" Yankovic's Beverly Hillbillies-themed parody of "Money For Nothing" is correctly titled "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*" with the slash and asterisk, because of legal complications
