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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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