Hee-Haw

This was a stupidass show for the rural Deplorables belt.

Country music radio listeners watched TV too.

Future trump voters!

My rural relatives.

It seemed pretty stupid, even back then. But Laugh-In did too, for that matter. They were two opposing peas in a pod.

This and the Lawrence Welk Show, oh how I hated them!

Loved Grandpa Jones, Minnie Pearl, Buck Owens, Roy Clark, & the rest. It was gentle fun.

I watched it when I was like 5 years old when my parents went out. I can't imagine adults being into it. Which Jewish big wig NYC agent came up with it? I read his autobiography, but I forgot.

The music was excellent. Real country and bluegrass, not pop-country dreck.

It was Bernie Brillstein

All of my extended family and friends of the family while I was growing up. 🙄 Some but not all also listened to country music, and some but not all were rural. It had a wide appeal that I can't really fathom now.

Look. I was in the Midwest. We had three stations. We did what we had to do. No, I'm not proud of it, but I made my choices.

It was Wide World of Sports, PBS, or Hee Haw.

How dare you judge me.

Old people who didn't live in the sticks watched it. They liked the predictability of the gags. Kindof like eldergays who are devoted to I Love Lucy.

It reminded my dad of the old local radio shows of his youth in the 1940s and the early 1950s corny TV shows, so he liked it.

It was also on back when there were only three networks, and syndicated shows aired at a weird time when network programming ended but before local news began. None of these syndicated shows were very good, I recall. One was Lawrence Welk, I think. So for a lot of people, I think Hee-Haw was the best of a bad lot.

The first episode.

Not that different from the last episode 25 years later.

My dad who grew up in Brooklyn loved this show, which I never understood. I did like the Hagar twins, though.

My dad who grew up in Brooklyn loved this show, which I never understood. I did like the Hagar twins, though.

Loved LuLu!

Hee-Haw: The Broadway Musical that never was.

R18, I checked in Lulu at a hotel I was working at about 15 years ago. It wasn't long after she'd lost a lot of weight, and she was using a scooter to get around. I was very low-key during the check-in (as she acted like she didn't want to be noticed by fans...this was in Nashville, TN), but I told her I'd been a huge fan growing up (not a lie), and that if she needed anything during her stay to call me at the front desk. Later in the shift, she called and asked for me...she'd misplaced her cell phone in a meeting room (we had dozens of meeting rooms), and asked me if I'd mind tracking it down for her. She said--in her classic Lulu way--"You can't miss it, honey, because the home screen is my face from the 'Hee-Haw' days!" I tracked down what meeting room she'd been in, and thankfully found it and delivered it to her room. She didn't have any cash for a tip, but asked if she could give me a hug. Of course I accepted...she was a sweetheart and as down-to-earth as I thought she'd be.

I'm sure they were all paid next to nothing for "Hee Haw."

That show really colored my view growing up of what the South was like--that and reruns of "The Andy Griffith Show." Neither show had black people on them.

I loved Heehaw and still watched reruns on RFD a few years back.

I thought it was mildly funny but I was 10 years old.

Oh god - will I have to watch this now?

you’re welcome!

It’s classic for the musical acts