Additional
Gary Leach
bangfish at cableone.net
Fri Nov 15 19:32:31 CET 2002
My reference to "Granny Clampett" in my previous posting begs a
question: as the character referred to the family patriarch, Jed
Clampett, as her son-in-law, what was her actual last name? If memory
serves, she was referred to more than once during the course of the
series as "Granny Clampett", which was either a error on the part of
the characters who called her this (though they were never corrected as
far as I can remember), or that was her last name as much as it was
Jed's. In the "hillbilly" milieu from which these characters emerged it
would not have been remarkable for close cousins to marry (the strict
legality of it is quite beside the point), so common last names would
not be too uncommon. But was this actually the case? On a network TV
show of the 1960s?
The precise family relationships of the Duck family aren't the only
ones that can get muddled, boy.
Gary
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