People who loved 'Hee Haw'

[bandit957]

Anyone else remember 'Hee Haw'?

My grandfather loved this show. Every time we went over to my grandparents' house, he was always watching 'Hee Haw'. He absolutely loved it. My grandmother got mad because she wanted to watch something else instead.

Someone once told me they had an older relative who was OBSESSED with 'Hee Haw'. They would always watch an episode of 'Hee Haw', and then they'd pull out the antenna and try to tune in another episode on a distant station.

My brother once told me that Saturday night in our household used to be 'Hee Haw' night, but I guess I was too young to remember. He said the whole family would gather around the TV set and watch 'Hee Haw'.

[freebrickproductions]

Never heard of it.

[cjk374]

Never heard of it.

Most of you youngens won't remember the Saturday night at 6 p.m. fixture known as Hee Haw. It was a country music variety show. Some of the skits were funny...most of the women were easy on the eyes...and lasted 30 years.

A show like that today wouldn't last 2 episodes.

[renegade]

"Gloom, despair and agony on me,
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery.
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all,
Gloom, despair and agony on me."

"Oh, we're not ones to go 'round spreading rumors.
No, really, we're just not the gossipy kind.
Oh. you'll never hear one of us repeating gossip,
So you'd better be sure and listen close the first time."

[Scott5114]

There was a Hee Haw slot machine in the casino I was a slot attendant at. It was 1) annoying to walk past due to its tendency to loudly play the "HEE-HAW" sound effect when it was in attract mode and 2) annoying to work on because it was a Bally, who only lose out on the "most obfuscated cabinet design" award because IGT is still in business.

They finally took them out and put in a bank of Ainsworths, and it was a good thing, which is kind of a feat to pull off.

[GaryV]

"I searched the world over and I thought I'd found true love.
She met another and psbbth she was gone."

[cjk374]

HEY GRANDPA! WHAT'S FOR SUPPER???

[coatimundi]

Hee Haw was syndicated, so it was only on in certain regions; mostly the South. I saw it in Tennessee but it wasn't on in Houston.
I always thought the show was stupid, but they had some great musical performances, a lot of which are still out there on YouTube.

[US71]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hee_Haw

I liked in small doses.

[hbelkins]

Call BR-549. No collect calls.

[amroad17]

How about "Pickin' and Grinnin'" and the Empty Arms Hotel! 

[nexus73]

I loved the sexy girls!

Rick

[jwolfer]

Hee Haw was syndicated, so it was only on in certain regions; mostly the South. I saw it in Tennessee but it wasn't on in Houston.
I always thought the show was stupid, but they had some great musical performances, a lot of which are still out there on YouTube.

When i was kid it was syndicated  in New York City...

LGMS428

[Captain Jack]

In the 70's, our Evansville neighborhood was defined by if your family had Hee Haw or Lawrence Welk on Saturdays at 6PM. With my parents being from Kentucky, of course Hee Haw was the beginning of a great Saturday night of TV. A flip at 7PM to the local CBS affiliate for what was probably the greatest lineup in TV history..All in the Family, MASH, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart Show and Carol Burnett. A lot of people stayed home on Saturdays and watched TV back then.

I always wondered if the show was aired live in Nashville. When we would visit my Grandparents in Southern KY, they would get it from Nashville also at the same time, but it was always a week ahead of what aired in Evansville.

[Rothman]

My grandfather liked Hee Haw.  Only saw it when I was down at my grandparents' house in Kentucky.  Even as a kid, thought that it was really stupid and corny.

That said, I've come to respect Roy Clark's musicianship.

[roadman]

My grandfather liked Hee Haw.  Only saw it when I was down at my grandparents' house in Kentucky.  Even as a kid, thought that it was really stupid and corny.

That said, I've come to respect Roy Clark's musicianship.

I didn't watch it, but I remember that Hee Haw was syndicated for a short time in the Boston area.  As for Roy Clark, he also did a few guest appearances on The Beverly Hillbillies - the storyline was that he was a distant cousin of the Clampetts.  Never liked "Cousin Roy's" music as much as I did that of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, who had several guest appearances on The Beverly Hillbillies - the storyline was that they were longtime friends of the Clampetts.

[thenetwork]

I loved the sexy girls!

Rick

Don't forget that Hee Haw had a spin off called the Hee Haw Honeys.  It had most of the female Hee Haw Regulars, and a new Honey by the name of Kathie Lee Johnson, who later became Kathie Lee Gifford.

[BamaZeus]

15 years ago, a simple football game forever changed two Tennessee fans.  LSU was destroying Tennessee in the SEC Championship game when suddenly the camera panned to the crowd and found these 2 UT fans who bore a striking resemblance to Junior Samples and Lulu Roman.  I remember being at a bar with some friends and everyone laughing hysterically at these poor people.  Within 24 hours or so, a screenshot of them was all over the internet and immediately they became a meme.

The sister website chronicling their world travels is gone, but the original site still exists.
http://www.luluandjunior.com/

[cjk374]

I just remembered this the other day...

"Gloom, despair and agony on me, WHOA
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. WHOA
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all, WHOA
Gloom, despair and agony on me."

FTFY
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Remember the skits that involved a sweaty husband & ugly ass wife who ironed clothes? They would usuall hurl insults at each other. She had a scratchy gruff voice and those things in her hair.

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My grandfather liked Hee Haw.  Only saw it when I was down at my grandparents' house in Kentucky.  Even as a kid, thought that it was really stupid and corny.

Was this an intentional pun? If so, it was awesome. The old guy who did the news headlines for KORN radio was funny.

[GCrites]

Hee Haw survived the "Rural Purge", so there's that.

[SP Cook]

I always wondered if the show was aired live in Nashville. When we would visit my Grandparents in Southern KY, they would get it from Nashville also at the same time, but it was always a week ahead of what aired in Evansville.

More than likely, your local station just got behind because its network had a sports event or something and just stayed that way.  No reason to waste an episode, and with no time sensative references, what is the difference. 

The show was not done live anywhere.   What they did was film a whole season of each skit all at once and then cut and paste them together to make each episode. 

The show was distributed by what was called "barter".  This was before infomercials were legal.  Stations had lots of time to fill and shows like this were given, national commercials included, to the local stations, with a few blank spots for local ads.  Several other country music shows, Soul Train, and, I think, Welk were the same deal.  Stations loved it, because they got an hour of popular porgramming and a couple minutes of ads to sell in them. 

The regionalized wrestling shows worked the same, and were purposely out-of-sync.  A plot line leading to a big match would be shown in a sequence of markets, with the "big match" pointed to being repeated in each town's arena, over several months.  The advent of sat TV killed that.

[bandit957]

The show was distributed by what was called "barter".  This was before infomercials were legal.  Stations had lots of time to fill and shows like this were given, national commercials included, to the local stations, with a few blank spots for local ads.  Several other country music shows, Soul Train, and, I think, Welk were the same deal.  Stations loved it, because they got an hour of popular porgramming and a couple minutes of ads to sell in them.

The radio show 'American Top 40' was like this for a while.

[GCrites]

The regionalized wrestling shows worked the same, and were purposely out-of-sync.  A plot line leading to a big match would be shown in a sequence of markets, with the "big match" pointed to being repeated in each town's arena, over several months.  The advent of sat TV killed that.

I look at the '80s/early '90s weekly wrestling TV shows like WWF Superstars and All-Star Wrestling as descendants of that. They were the ones where all the matches except maybe the last one were big-name wrestlers beating up on "jobbers", "prelim bums" or "fish". There would be news about what happened at the last Closed-Circuit TV, PPV or Saturday Night's Main Event or match announcements for the next one. They'd also talk about what cities they were visiting next. Then blue-screen promos from the wrestlers. Lots of Sean Mooney, Mean Gene and Schiavone. Matches between big-name wrestlers were reserved for CCTV, PPV and Saturday Night on NBC. Of course, these shows were the same in all markets weekly though.