User Reviews

Not one of Green Acres' best episodes, but at least it's not another flashback to "the good ol days". Those can be rather tedious.

Not much in the ways of surrealism here either. There are some funny moments though. Such as the Home Economic teacher's reactions to Lisa telling her fellow female classmates that there are other ways of making a man happy other than doing so via his stomach. Principal Russell's consistent disgust with Oliver at each conference regarding Lisa's behavior is also a highlite. The quick cut to the window of the chemistry lab blowing out is a humorous surprise.

There are a couple moments that don't jive with the more usual Green Acres means of story telling and character considerations. Oliver telling Lisa that he's ashamed of her is much too harsh. Then there's a very unnecessary and humorless joke concerning a somewhat "plump" female classmate of Lisa's retrieving her humungous papersack lunch bag from the back seat of the Douglas's Lincoln Continental.

Then there's a very odd moment which could be considered a "reverse goof". In the concluding moments of the episode when Oliver informs Lisa that she's been expelled from High School, Lisa speaks the word "hotcakes" and says it correctly. Elsewise, Lisa always mispronounces the word with an extra "s" as in "hotscakes". Surprising that this wasn't noticed by the show's Producers and overdubbed.

Now then... Let's get back to square eggs, expensive jewelry as prizes in cereal boxes and a pig who loves watching cowboy movies on TV. Oh, and yes - all the other show regulars too!

This rare episode includes none of the regulars from the series other than Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert. Dennis Pepper, Barbara Pepper's (Mrs. Ziffel) son makes an appearance, but you won't see Eb, Arnold,Mr. Drucker, Mr. Kimball, Mr. Haney, Mr & Mrs Ziffel or even Arnold in this one.

Oliver gets the idea that the way to getting Lisa to be a better housewife is to send her to school. He hopes that by enrolling her in Hooterville High she can learn to cook and learn all she needs to know about being a farmer's wife. Of course, that's not how things turn out and Lisa almost ends up destroying the school.

A mildly funny episode.

Not for lack of regulars like what the ridiculous other poster said.. The totally unappealing Ralph Monroe is thankfully absent entirely from this. But why the ep flops so miserably is for what the messed up writers did. Oliver makes a total, utter dummy of himself when he decides that Lisa had a right to dispute the educated high school teacher's account of Hungary just because she is from Hungary herself. This is utter nonsense. Lisa (though comely) is a complete scatter brain with delusions of her own upbringing including that her dad was actually king of Hungary. Even if Lisa had not been been as loony as she indeed is others not from your nation can know your native country 100's of times of better than you do. For many, many reasons! This ep is better forgotten and totally skipped! No ep mutilates Oliver's character this bad again till the last season. (See my reviews!)