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Hillbilly is a term for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in the Appalachian region and Ozarks. As people migrated out of the region during the Great Depression, the term spread northward and westward with them. The usage of the term hillbilly as a descriptor receives mixed perceptions, often in part ...
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm. Ma and Pa Kettle are comic film characters of the successful film series of the same name, produced by Universal Studios, in the late 1940s and 1950s. “The hillbilly duo have their hands full with a ramshackle farm and a brood of rambunctious children. When the future comes a-callin' in the form of modern ...
Hatfield–McCoy feud. The Hatfield–McCoy Feud involved two American families of the West Virginia – Kentucky area along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River from 1863 to 1891. The Hatfields of West Virginia were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, while the McCoys of Kentucky were under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy.
Rural purge. The " rural purge " of American television networks (in particular CBS) was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows with demographically skewed audiences, the majority of which occurred at the end of the 1970–71 television season. In addition to rural-themed shows such as Mayberry R.F.D.,
September 7, 1967. ( 1967-09-07) Related. The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show. The Hillbilly Bears is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, created by William Hanna [ 1] and Joseph Barbera. The series aired as a segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show from October 2, 1965 to September 7, 1967. [ 2]
Dirty Dawg (voiced by Jeff Bergman) - A vagrant Labrador Retriever who is a caricature artist and an old friend of Lippy and Hardy. Originally from The Kwicky Koala Show segment with the same name. Tubb (voiced by Dana Snyder) - A scuba diver. Originally from the "Moby Dick" segment of Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor.
Fictional characters that are hillbillies, a term for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in southern Appalachia and the Ozarks. The term was later used to refer to people from other rural and mountainous areas west of the Mississippi River too, particularly those of the Rocky Mountains and near the Rio ...
Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of fiction, country music, film, theatre, and television that are heavily influenced by Gothic elements and the American South. Common themes of Southern Gothic include storytelling of deeply flawed, disturbing, or eccentric characters who may be involved in hoodoo, [ 1] decayed or derelict settings, [ 2 ...