Dining Room Pool Table


Anyone have a snapshot of the Clampetts eating at their dining room table? I could swear it was a pool table.

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How about a picture? ANYONE? please?

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I found something really creepy about the pool table used in the show............It doesnt have pockets on it. So it would be impossible for them to even play pool on it.
The table used for the 90s remake had pockets that they use for trash cans.

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I found something really creepy about the pool table used in the show............It doesnt have pockets on it. So it would be impossible for them to even play pool on it.

The Clampetts had a standard Billiard table, not a Pocket Billiard aka; (Pool) table. Those don't have pockets.


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Well doggey! How ever would those hillbilly chaps go about playing a bloody game of pool on a table of such description?

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Depends which episode you see. http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/vv306/grounduppepper/beverlyhillbil liess3extrasdvdrip-1.jpg is the billy ard table.

Then http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/vv306/grounduppepper/beverlyhillbil lies309dvdripxvid-osi.jpg is the pocket pool table.

Either they had 2 fancy eatin tables or continuity issues.

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I think in one episode, Jed talks about how he "fixed" the holes. If my memory is correct, then there isn't necessarily a continuity issue (unless the table with holes is shown after the one without).

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Indeed...

See http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Carom_table_small.j pg

and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Billard_p1150796.jp g

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The scenes when the ate at the "Fancy Eatin' Table" were funny. I liked when they used the pool cues as "pot passers"

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Yeah, and Jed mentioned that he had to carve notches in the ends of the "pot passers" to keep pots from slipping off. :)

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The Clampetts had a standard Billiard table in the earlier seasons because they thought the Rhino head on the wall was a Billiard, however in later seasons it was replaced with a pool table.Remember the episode where Mrs Drydale's father went over to the clampetts to win some money playing cards and when he lost to granny he tried to beat Jed on the pool table. Mr drydale found out and went charging over to stop him and as he was entering the fancy eating room and was about to say something Jed stopped him and said he was about to shoot,there was six balls on the table and jed took his shot and each ball went into a different pocket.

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But there was an episode where Granny's boyfriend (Mr. Farquhar) tells Jed that a game called Pool can be played on the Billiard table. And they do play Pool on it, so I assume the table top can be flipped over or converted somehow for the pockets.

I don't know how Farquhar knew this, except the storyline was that he was a notorious gambler and so likely had seen this type of table before.

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That's right it was a billyard table and it was in the billyard room. Logically it was built so heavily because the rhino head on the wall was what they figured a billyard was and it was really big. Two types of cues were used for dinner; The pot passers which had notches cut into the to hold the pail like handle on the pots. The meat stabbers which had had their ends sharpened to spear meat.

I thought that it was very clever in the movie how they used to bridge to pass pots rather than the notched cues.

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That see-ment pond of theirs too - I could SWEAR it was a swimming pool.







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The fancy eatin room wasn`t really the DINING room-it was the billiard room.


This being true (I guess), wouldn`t a house (mansion) that came fully furnished have a dining room with a dining table and chairs in it?











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here you go. fancy eatin' table.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdZDmfcSY6Q

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The 'fancy eatin' tabile' was indeed a pool table and they used cues to pass the food. There was a stuffed Rhino head on the wall and Jed's reasoning was that "If this is a billy-yard room and this is a billy-yard table, that critter on the wall must be a billy-yard."

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Absolutely correct! And the fact that the Billy-yard was such a big critter is why that fancy eatin' table was built so solid!

I don't see why city folks have such trouble understanding all this!

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It is a pool table. In the first season, Elly May is asked to set the table because company is coming, and she asked, "Ain't granny figgerd out how to get this green table cloth off yet?" and after Jed answers her saying she hasn't, he comments, "At least nothing will slide off this table."

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Malleymac, I offer a little help to you.

Several people here are differentiating between a "pool table" and a "billiard table."

In the early seasons, the family had a billiard table--no pockets. I believe that was generally considered more high class than a "pool table."

Later on, it became a pool table, at least for the episode with Mrs. Drysdale's father. The most likely reason is that they wanted to have the trick shot with several balls going into pockets on one shot. In billiards, no such shot is possible and a fancy shot in that game, with no balls falling in pockets would not be impressive to the viewers in general, the vast majority of whom never played real billiards.

I don't know if they used the table with pockets in any other episodes.

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In the beginning, season 1 episode 2 (I'm pretty sure it was ep. 2), it was a standard billiard table with no pockets.
In season 3 episode 9, when the widow Poke comes to visit and they all sit down to eat at the fancy eatin' table, Granny points out the pockets but has no idea what they are for.

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It was a billiard table.

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I believe it's a billiards table. As few times as I've seen it, I've never seen pockets on it, but it has a felt "table cloth" and is definitely shaped as such. Also there are billiards/pool sticks on the wall in the room.

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There were pockets because, Jed made the comment that the pockets was for putting their beverage cups.

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