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[Omaha Steve]

21. I wonder if it includes "The Ballad of Molly Turgis"?

When I saw the title I immediately thought of this.




http://greenacresepisodereviews.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

Snip: "Oh, shed a tear for Gertrude!
At the bottom of the sea!
Oh, shed a tear for Gertrude!
And shed a tear for me."

This is the first of the completely loopy episodes. That's possibly why they postponed it a bit.

Molly Turgiss is a local legend in Hooterville. The locals call her "You Know Who". If you say her name, something will fall off the wall, shatter or...something will fly across the room and hit you in the behind. Mr. Douglas nails it: "Poltergeist". Molly was an ugly girl who grew up to be an ugly woman. Apparently, the townsfolk taunted her out of town. Now, her spirit punishes the people of Hooterville through random annoyances. I love how she keeps driving people's cars away and parking them illegally in different towns. Such a very simple but oh-boy-funny! idea.

I started watching this show back in 1985 in the middle of the sixth season. When the show looped back to the start, I still loved it to pieces but...this was the first episode I watched where I thought "Oh, here's that show I started watching." And, after watching the world of GA go up around the Douglases, I was as with it and as invested as they were. So, when they mention a "legend" and a possible ghost...I was anxious to see what happens.

FULL story at link.