{"id":11945,"date":"2010-03-10T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=11945"},"modified":"2010-03-10T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:16:19","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-green-acres-magic-stay-on-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-green-acres-magic-stay-on-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – “Green Acres” Magic Stay-On Dolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\"green-acres-dolls_6140\"\n

I was already onto more sophisticated teenage fare like Hullabaloo and Shindig by the time Green Acres, a hokey journey into the countryside by two rich city slickers, came on the air in 1968.  But the hokier still theme song always stuck in my head so I was well aware of it. And there evidently was more to that theme song then there was magic glue or whatever it took for these “stay-on” clothes to stick to Eva Gabor\/Lisa Douglas and Eddie Albert Jr.\/ Oliver Wendell Douglas (no garments for Arnold the pig) cuz they sho ain’t stickin anymore. Despite the directions, no amount of rubbing will get any of the 36 costumes that drop like dead flies as soon as you remove your hand to “stay-on”.<\/p>\n\"green-acres-dolls_6145\"\n

Everything in these Not So Magic Stay-On Dolls remains intact other than the plastic scissors and stand included in the original kit.  Apparently those worked better than the clothes or they’d still be in the box today as only two costumes were cut out before the original owner apparently lost interest.<\/p>\n\"green-acres-dolls_6146\"\n

Green Acres spun out of the success of country bumpkin shows like The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction and ran on CBS from 1965 to 1971. Eva Gabor ran a lot longer with kitschifyingly wonderful products like this:<\/p>\n\"eva-gabor-chin-strap_0559\"\n

More “Stay-Ons”:<\/p>\n

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