I enjoyed this show when it had first come on TV and I happen to see it on YouTube so enjoyed it again.
Here is my question: I wonder if the people who lived in Tenn. were offended by the way they showed them as hillbillies. (not everyone but still Tenn. is a very rural - still today) beautiful state.
Either now or when the show first aired.
I wear my net \O^O/ to make sure I am seeing what others see.
The Clampetts weren’t from Tennessee, it was Granny who was from Tennnessee. She came to live with the Clampetts after Jed’s wife (who was her daughter) died. It’s mentioned in the pilot episode that the Clampetts came from the Ozark Mountain region (either Missouri or Arkansas). The Clampetts also referenced prominent towns in the Ozarks of both states throughout the series, including Eureka Springs, Oxford (where the Clampetts were from in the 1993 movie), Springfield, Silver Dollar City (Branson), and Joplin. Bugtussle was a fictional Ozarks town created for the series, but it was never mentioned which state it was in.