Eva Gabor..genius

I caught up on the shows I watch on Hulu last night and then I saw that they have a bunch of Green Acres. I remember when I was a kid, I loved that show. So I watched some old episodes. The pure slapstick still holds up, though now I find Oliver against the world a little frustrating. The "Hootersville" town folk remind me too much of my relatives. But, what I didn't remember is that the show must have been one of the first to break the fourth wall, with Lisa speaking Hungarian and then looking down and correcting the subtitles. She also finds the opening credits a different way in each episode, like the producers names on her chicken's eggs. They did a lot of creative things I didn't remember because I was too young to know it was ground breaking then. But, the most interesting thing I noticed was that in the beginning Lisa Douglas was not an air head. She was a city girl, but, fairly normal and intelligent. Later she developed that blank stare and hilarious screwing of the English language. Taking everything literally and being completely goof ball-ish, Eva Gabor was hilarious. I wonder who dumbed down Lisa? Was it Gabor herself as the show progressed? Cooking "hots cakes" in her gorgeous vintage (now) designer gowns, the woman still cracks me up.