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Jed throws a wingding for them, and the duo play music for the Clampetts.Flatt and Scruggs, with their wives in tow, come to visit their old sweetheart
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00:00Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed.
00:02A poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed.
00:05And then one day he was shooting at some food
00:08and up through the ground come a bubbling crude.
00:11Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea.
00:16Well, the first thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire.
00:19The kinfolk said, Jed, move away from there.
00:22Said, California is the place you ought to be.
00:24So they loaded up the truck and removed the Beverly Hills, that is.
00:29Swimming pools, movie stars.
00:32The Beverly Hillbilly.
00:59The Beverly Hills.
01:11Yeah.
01:15Yeah.
01:16Put the gun.
01:26Yeah.
01:26Uh, Ma.
01:37Granny, did Jethro come through here?
01:50Granny, did Jed and Jethro come through?
01:57Granny, what in love world? Have you been at your room at his, Nancy?
02:02That's what I was here, Jethro got to going so fast he run clean into the cement park.
02:07Something wrong with Granny?
02:09Well, I hate to tell you this, Jed, but she's stiff as a boy.
02:13At this time in the morning?
02:15Well, I never knowed Granny to take more than a thimble full enough.
02:21My doggy, she is stiff, ain't she?
02:24Granny, what a shame to you.
02:29Pa, this here's the letter Jethro dropped when he fell in the cement pond.
02:33He says he'll be right in.
02:35Oh, no, he won't.
02:37Jethro, you stay out in the sun until you're dry.
02:43What's wrong with Granny?
02:44No, no, no.
02:46Go outside and chase Jethro until he gets dry.
02:48My kitchen, can I wrassle him?
02:50No, Ellie, just run him.
02:53What happened?
02:54What hit me?
02:56Going liquor, I reckon.
02:57Whoever throwed it at me left it in the jug.
03:00Granny, can you walk?
03:01Of course I can walk.
03:04Well then, let's walk over to the table here and sit down while Pearl reads us his letter.
03:10Quit pulling the table away from me.
03:14Granny, you and Mrs. Drysdale been hitting the juice a little?
03:18Of course not.
03:20I never take more than a thimble full and you know it.
03:23Granny, Jed, I can't read all the writing because the ink is run.
03:28But this letter's from Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and they's a flying out here.
03:33We're talking.
03:35You hear that, Granny?
03:36Old Lester and Earl's coming out here to see us.
03:38You mean they're coming to see Pearl?
03:40Them two always was crazy in love with her.
03:43Oh, Granny, that was a long time ago before they moved to Nashville and become famous.
03:47A man never forgets his first love, Pearl.
03:50And you was the first love of both Flatt and Scruggs.
03:53Oh, stop it.
03:55I was just a girl and they was just boys.
03:59Big boys to grant you.
04:01I never seen two big boys crazier in love with one little woman.
04:05They was all scrapping over you.
04:07Or singing to you.
04:08Sometimes they do both.
04:10Sing a chorus and then scrap a chorus.
04:13You had their heart melting like hog grease on a hot griddle.
04:18Now, now stop it.
04:20You got me a-bushin'.
04:21I-I don't want to hear no more about it.
04:24All right, Pearl.
04:27Remember the way they used to serenade me?
04:29Yeah, Lester with his guitar and Earl with his banjo.
04:33Both of them singing love songs till their throats was raw.
04:36Pearl, how come you never said yes to one of them fine boys?
04:39I just couldn't decide betwixt them.
04:42They both asked me to elope, but I couldn't decide whether to fly with Flatt or skip with Scruggs.
04:50You better decide now.
04:52I'll bet that's why they're flying out here to get your answer.
04:55After all these years?
04:56Oh, Granny, don't be ridiculous.
04:58Man never forgets his first love, Pearl.
05:13Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, don't give your love to Earl.
05:17I've got a horse and mule forty acres near her school.
05:22And we'll be happy as two bulls.
05:26Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, come be my lovin' girl.
05:30Don't you marry Lester Flett.
05:32He slicks his hair with possum pet.
05:34Change her name to Mrs. Earl Scruggs.
05:38Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, you'll get no love from Earl.
05:43This year a man is such a salp.
05:45He won't hold you on his lap and let you out an old five-string banjo.
05:51Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, he's nutty as a squirrel.
05:55If you'll be Mrs. Scruggs, we will live on kisses and hugs.
05:59Happy as two...
06:00Pearl, Pearl.
06:01I think we better stop this song, cause you only comes a while.
06:04Yeah, they're jealous of Pearl as it is.
06:07Well, they got a reason to be, cause I ain't never seen a girl as pretty as Pearl.
06:11We haven't settled for second best.
06:14Why'd you stop singing, Earl?
06:17Yes, what was that song you boys were doing just now?
06:20Just an old tune we used to sing.
06:21Before we met you.
06:23Oh, you're going to use it in your Los Angeles engagement?
06:25Oh no, I don't think we're better.
06:27Uh, say, Earl, it sure will be nice to see old Jed Clampett again, won't it?
06:31It sure will, Lester.
06:39You know who they can't wait to see again, don't you?
06:42Of course.
06:43The fabulous Pearl.
06:45We've finally got a look at this raving beauty.
06:48You're dying to meet her, aren't you?
06:56Can you make out any more of the lady Pearl?
06:58There's another word coming through.
07:02E-N-G-A-G.
07:07Engagement.
07:09Granny was right.
07:10He's coming for your answer.
07:12You gotta get engaged to one of them.
07:14Oh, I don't believe it.
07:15After all these years.
07:17Pearl, you want to take my advice?
07:19You marry that little Earl Scruggs.
07:21Don't you do it, Pearl.
07:22Take Lester flat.
07:23I ain't figuring on marrying nobody.
07:26Now let's not have no more of this kind of talk.
07:29Well, Ma, I'm blended, but I'm dry.
07:33I'm Jethro Scruggs.
07:35What?
07:35What?
07:36I'm Bodine.
07:37Oh.
07:38Go change your clothes.
07:42Quick as you can, come on in the house and give Granny a hand.
07:45She's cooking for the big wingding tonight.
07:47We's having a wingding?
07:48We sure are.
07:50Earl Scruggs and Lester flat's coming to town.
07:53I hear to them.
07:54They make records and everything.
07:55Them two learned how to sing and play serenading your Aunt Pearl.
07:58Really?
07:59Well, tell me about it, Pa.
08:01Well, uh, Aunt Pearl was just about your age then.
08:05And she favored you a lot, too.
08:08Real pretty.
08:09Had corn silky hair just like yours.
08:12And a beautiful figure.
08:14Well, sir, she pertin' her drove Lester and Earl out of their banjo-pickin' mines.
08:19So many of them boys, they finally left the hills and moved to Nashville.
08:23Well, how come Aunt Pearl didn't marry up with one of them?
08:26Couldn't make up her mind, I reckon, but she's gonna have to tonight.
08:29Them boys are comin' out here insistin' on an engagement.
08:32That's how come we was havin' a wingding, huh?
08:34Yeah.
08:35Back home, we'd have had a barn dance.
08:37Trouble is, these Beverly Hills places ain't got no barns.
08:42Well, couldn't we borrow somebody's barn, Pa?
08:45Well, scarce as they are, and us being strangers would be too much to ask.
08:49We'll make do, though.
08:51I sent Jethro out with the truck to find some hay and some corn shucks and one thing or another
08:55and put him in the drawing room.
08:56Reckin' he can make it look like a barn?
08:58I told him to do the best he could.
09:01Uncle Jet told me to fix the drawing room up like a barn.
09:03I'll see how you like it.
09:07You ain't seen nothin' yet, Ma. Come on in.
09:13I'm surprised you didn't bring in a mule.
09:18Did that rascal get out again?
09:21Jethro, you're making me old before my time.
09:24How could you bring this livestock into a mansion like this?
09:28It wasn't easy, Ma, but I figured it out.
09:30So he sucks the truck up to the front of the mansion and-
09:33You get this livestock out of here and you be quick about it.
09:36But why?
09:37Because I say why.
09:39Now get it out, take it back where you got it, and I mean right now.
09:43Well, I'll do my best, Ma, but first I gotta round up that mule and some other pigs.
09:50I should've married Lester Earl. Maybe this wouldn't have happened to me.
10:01This is the special operator. The number you have dialed does not exist.
10:05You sound like the same lady I was talkin' to before.
10:08Yes, I'm afraid I am.
10:10Well, then you put me through to the same butcher shop I was talkin' to before.
10:13I told that fella to send me a side of pork and some pig feet for tonight's wind dig.
10:18And it better get here, too, before I-
10:23That's mine, honey, it's here. And I gotta say for him, it's fresh.
10:31There you are, you little rascal. You're goin' home.
10:33Where you goin' home?
10:35I told me to take him back where he come from.
10:38You li-
10:43Now, Jeff, don't you go away. I want you to see the rest of my dresses.
10:46Ah, Pearl, I ain't no judge of women's clothes.
10:49I need a man's opinion.
10:52Listen, Jeff.
10:54Mrs. Lester Flatt.
10:57Mrs. Earl Scruggs.
10:59Pearl Flatt. Pearl Scruggs.
11:03They all sound good, don't they?
11:12Wait for us, driver.
11:14Louise, I think we're making a mistake.
11:17Lester and Earl will be furious when they find out about this.
11:20Let them be furious.
11:21I want to get a look at Pearl before that party tonight.
11:24I want to know how I'm going to stack up.
11:27But we've just spent three hours at the beauty parlor.
11:30You look gorgeous.
11:31So do you.
11:32But maybe Pearl looks super gorgeous.
11:35Louise, be sensible.
11:37Our husbands knew this woman years and years ago.
11:40Do you realize how old she must be by now?
11:43I hear they start very young back in those hills.
11:46Now, we've come this far, and I'm not leaving until I've seen Pearl.
11:50But this is going to be very embarrassing.
11:52She's going to think we're a couple of snoopy worried wives.
11:55Aren't we?
11:56Yes, but look, Gladys, if it'll make you feel any better, we won't tell her who we are.
12:01We'll say we're a couple of those house-to-house cosmetic saleswomen.
12:05But she'll find out who we are at the party.
12:07They will all have a good laugh over it.
12:09Now, come on.
12:24Oh, hi there, ladies.
12:25Come in, come in.
12:28What can I do for you?
12:29We're selling cosmetics.
12:31You're selling what?
12:33Cosmetics.
12:34You know, beauty cream, face powder, perfume.
12:36Oh, thank you, ladies, but I never use it.
12:39We sell it to the lady of the house.
12:41And we understand a lady named Pearl lives here?
12:44Yeah, yeah, she sure does.
12:47Jack?
12:47Yeah?
12:49I need your help out in the...
12:51Oh, I didn't know you had company.
12:54Are you Pearl?
12:55Please be Pearl.
12:59Well, I ain't.
13:00Who are you?
13:02These ladies sells beauty cream, Granny.
13:04Oh, you can see I don't need none.
13:08Oh, Jed, I need you.
13:09Well, Pearl will be down directly.
13:11She comes down them stairs every five minutes wearing a different beautiful gown.
13:15She's trying to pick one for the wing-ding tonight.
13:17Take yourself to home.
13:32Howdy.
13:33Do y'all think this dress is fancy enough for a wing-ding?
13:39Well, back to the beauty shop.
13:57Pearl!
13:58Pearl!
14:00Didn't Lester and Earl get here yet?
14:02No, they didn't, and it's coming up for seven.
14:03Well, they better get here quick before Jethro has all the vittles yet.
14:11Lester and Earl, Charlie's wonderful.
14:15Brother, didn't come yet, Pearl.
14:17Well, why'd you call my granny?
14:18For you to stop that overgrown youngin' of yearn from eatin' us out of a wing-ding.
14:24He's done goin' through my crawdad dip and my pawpaw spray.
14:28And right now, he's in there tossin' down them pickled pig's feet like there was popcorn.
14:34Jethro, you come on out here.
14:35Now, you better stop him before he gets into the ham hocks and the turnip greens.
14:39Too late.
14:41Them ham hocks sure was good.
14:43Was.
14:44Jethro, did you eat all them ham hocks alone?
14:48No, ma'am.
14:49Done like you always told me.
14:50I ate the greens, too.
14:54Hey, everybody.
14:55I taught Skippy and the honey a little trick to do at the wing-ding.
14:59Anyway, what happened to that pretty dress you was wearin'?
15:02Oh, Pa, I can't squat angst in that thing.
15:05And it ain't good for workin' with my critters, neither.
15:08Lester and Earl don't get here soon.
15:10Our wing-ding is gonna fall apart.
15:15I tell you, Earl, I just don't understand it.
15:18Her wives spent all afternoon in the beauty shop and then went back again tonight.
15:22That's what we get from our city women.
15:25Yeah, I reckon we just have to leave the party tonight at 9 o'clock and go pick them up.
15:29I reckon so.
15:30Hey, I've got an idea.
15:33Let's surprise old Jed with that song we wrote about.
15:36Your own.
15:37Come on, Skippy.
15:39Come on.
15:40Jump.
15:40Come on.
15:41Jump.
15:42That's the way.
15:43That's the boy.
15:44Come on.
15:47Come on.
15:48Come on.
15:50Jump, Albert.
15:51Jump.
15:52Good doggy.
15:52Come on.
15:54That's the doggy.
15:55Yeah.
15:59It's them.
16:00They's here.
16:01That's Lester and Earl, all right.
16:03Not yet, Jed.
16:04Let me get upstairs first.
16:06Well, what for, Pearl?
16:07So I can make an entrance.
16:14I've been listening to my story about a man named Jed.
16:18Poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed.
16:22And one day he was shooting at some food.
16:26Up through the ground come a bubbling crew.
16:29All that is Texas tea.
16:33Well, Lester, what's up, Earl?
16:35Come in, come in.
16:36You know, Granny and Jethro and my daughter, Ellie Mae?
16:39Howdy.
16:39Howdy.
16:40Howdy.
16:40Howdy.
16:41Howdy.
16:41Howdy.
16:41Where'd that song come from y'all were singing out there?
16:43Oh, we wrote it, Jed.
16:44We heard about your good luck clean down in Nashville.
16:47Well, doggies, where's Pearl?
16:51Upstairs, waiting.
16:52Come on down, Pearl.
16:53Come on down here.
16:55Come on down here, sir.
16:56Come on, we're waiting for you.
17:03Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, come let us see our girl.
17:07Are you still her valentine?
17:09Do you still look so divine?
17:11Come and let us see her, darling Pearl.
17:15Mr. Flat.
17:16Hi, Pearl.
17:17Oh, good to see you both.
17:20It's so good to see you, Pearl.
17:21Listen, everybody, I hope you'll excuse us for coming with our wives.
17:25You're excused?
17:27We have a good reason.
17:29Of course you do.
17:30And we understand, Earl.
17:31Let's all relax now and have some good old stomping music
17:35and some of Granny's vittles and get acquainted all over again.
17:38And we're not Jared.
17:38Hear.
17:41Hear.
17:43Hear!
17:45Hear!
17:46Hear!
17:48Hear!
17:49Hear you hear?
17:51Hear!
17:52That's your first one man!
17:57Hear!
17:59Oh, thank you, sir.
18:00Come on, let's go it back.
18:03Who's right, there?
18:15That's it, everybody's invited into the drawing room for Riddles.
18:20Well, come on, let's go in there and get something.
18:21I remember how you boys like a nice, rough road.
18:25And will you see the beauty I've bumped up for you?
18:28Perl, just a minute now, I want to talk to you.
18:30Jed, I just can't decide, I like them both.
18:33Well, you better get to liking one better than the other one.
18:36There's just too many purty women out here in Beverly Hills.
18:40Now, you take them two come to the door this afternoon selling beauty cream?
18:43If Earl and Lester ever gets a look at them, you ain't going to keep them on the string for
18:47long.
18:54Now, anytime you want to know, before I'm going down the road.
18:58Get my girl on the line, you'll find me there most anytime.
19:04That old man's flat, he owned a farm, from the hog lot to the barn.
19:09From the barn to the rail, he made his living by carrying a man.
19:16Gee, I just made my decision.
19:19Which one, Perl?
19:20Can't marry neither one of them.
19:21Why not?
19:22Because I'll be busting up one of the most wonderful musical teams in this whole country.
19:27How come you to say that?
19:29Because the one that don't get me, you'll be eat up with jealousy and they'll get to fighting like they
19:33used to.
19:34Well, Perl, I believe you're right.
19:36Just let me get up the nerve to tell them, because she's going to hurt.
19:47Perl, I've got a good idea for a Los Angeles engagement.
19:50What's that?
19:51Let's ask Perl and all the rest of them to square dance on the stage.
19:54That's a great idea.
20:01Perl, we've got something to ask you.
20:04You know we come all the way out here for an engagement.
20:07Lester, before you go any further, the answer is no.
20:11What?
20:12No to both of you.
20:13But Perl.
20:14Now, don't beg her, boys.
20:15This hurts Perl more than it does you.
20:17Perl, time heals all wounds.
20:20Speaking of time, Earl, we're late.
20:22Come on.
20:22We'll be back just as soon as we can make it.
20:30Perl, they couldn't take it.
20:32They run off just like they done 18 years ago.
20:36He left her guitar and her banjo.
20:39Don't you think we ought to wait up for him to come back first?
20:42It might take another 18 years.
20:44Let's get to Bill.
20:45Thank you for coming back, Brian.
20:46If you could have seen him run out of here when I said no.
21:00Folks, we'd like you to meet our wives.
21:02Mrs. Flatt, Mrs. Scrooge, Gladys, and Louise.
21:06Howdy.
21:08You see, Perl, I told you if they ever met them two women,
21:12you wouldn't keep them on the string.
21:13They married them on the rebound.
21:16Lester and Earl, I had to settle for second best.
21:45Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin.
21:49And they would like to thank you folks for kindly dropping in.
21:53We're all invited back next week to this locality
21:56to have a heaping helping of their hospitality.
22:00Hillbilly, that is.
22:02Set a spell.
22:03Take your shoes off.
22:05Y'all come back now, dear.
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22:20We'll be back.
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