Famous Feuds - Margaret Drysdale vs Granny Clampett

I just love the juxtaposition of high society vs hillbilly trash. Hilarity ensues. 😝

I love the juxtaposition of high society vs hillbilly trash!

Then you don’t understand the show at all.

I loved the inevitable lesson that just because one has money they can still get trash while the poors know the true meaning of happiness.

Harriet MacGibbon the actress who played Margaret Drysdale, was said to be the most popular on the show with the entire cast and crew.

Apparently she was a delightful person and they all loved her. I doubt her role was originally slated to appear very often, but she ended up appearing in fifty-five episodes.

The Mrs. Drysdale episodes were always so fun. Especially when she was feuding with the Clampetts.

Margaret Drysdale acted so uppity. A lot of DLers act the same way

R3 is a moron

Mrs. Drysdale was correct in her behavior. The Clampetts were trash and needed to be dealt with as such.

It was hilarious to see Margaret Drysdale accuse granny of stealing a piece of redwood lumber for her new dahlia garden.beds. It was Elly Mae’s chimp (in a dress) who stole it.

It is ridiculously funny to watch Mrs Drysdale over-react and try ti shame the Clampetts for being hillbillies when they were too ignorant to even care.

The comments in this thread explain a lot about the current political climate and the distance between coastal elites (or pretenders to elitism) and rural residents, who are acutely aware that they’re considered ignorant trash by said elites.

When I watched The Beverly Hillbillies as a child, I instantly empathized with the Clampetts, not the Drysdales, whose pomposity and preoccupation with status and appearances were something to be skewered, not admired or identified with.

The Clampetts, the protagonists derided as trash on this thread, to me embodied wisdom (Jed), wiliness (Granny), exuberance & enthusiasm (Jethro), and kindness (Ellie May). Their landing in Beverly Hills made for cutting commentary on the shallow silliness of the 1% and their disconnection from practicality and common sense, rather than for hillbilly self-ridicule, at least in my eyes, as a child whose grandparents rose at 4:00 am to work on the farm, and as an adult, who remembers both the Clampetts and my grandparents fondly.

I sided with Miss Jane Hathaway. As a child I saw her as the voice of reason and a human bridge between the Beverly Hills set and the Clampetts.