Beverly Hillbillies - Cast Ad #03 - Winston Cigarettes

[globehunter2]

Watch your life go up in smoke! just light up a Winston and DIE.

[GuyJon57]

"Winston taste good like those little cancer growths should!

[trwent]

How convenient was it that that pipe had a little hole in it just exactly the right size to fit a cigarette !!

[willdav713]

@ksb100pr Time for LESS GOVERMENT. Toss Waxman, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, and the rest of jerks out. VOTE FOR REAL CHANGE RON PAUL 2012!!!!

[willdav713]

Only Jethro and Ellie Mae are still alive. Miss Hathway (Nancy Kulp) later on became a US Representive in Pennsylvania, and starred in Sanford and Son (the white cops mother renting at the Sanford Arms) She lived to be 69 which is around the normal mortality rate at the time for females despite smoking. Women do have lower mortality rates then Men. Drysdale died at 75. Irene Ryan (Granny Moses) died at 70. Jed died at 90 he outlived both my grandparents one who never smoked and one who did.

[trwent]

@willdav713 Nancy Kulp was NEVER elected to Congress. She RAN for Congress as a Democrat in 1984 but was beaten rather soundly, thanks in no small part to a petty, mean campaign ad against her by Buddy Epsen. As a result, she refused to speak to Epsen for many years. If I were her, I would have NEVER spoken to him again. Epsen had no particular ties to her opponent and no particular interest in that race, but chose to allow himself to be a mean shill for the Republican party.

[trwent]

Enough of the smoking. Now lets have some possum jowls and goat tripe !!!

[wordsmith52]

@trwent Don't forget the pickled crow gizzards - lovely with grass..!

[ahj71]

This is awesome! My daddy smoked Winston's :)

[wordsmith52]

..woops - I meant Miss Hathaway not Miss Drisedale!

[tempo529]

WOW

[Jake888]

granny clampett is straight kkk

[srvaughn]

ha ha ha ha ha ha like a "kic kic" cigarette should ha ha ha ha

[katrus]

A helpful hint to many of the commenters here: If you type sentences and CAPITALIZE certain WORDS to add EMPHASIS, you really just come across looking more like a CRAZY PERSON that SCREAMS a LOT. Just a helpful hint.

[wordsmith52]

@katrus Hey boy r u tryin to molest my god given right to use caps lock - just like them there no smokin do gooders...

[Sheri451]

I bet that's what killed Irene Ryan. Just like Bea Benederet from Petticoat Junction.I read on a PJ website that Bea was a FIVE PACK A DAY SMOKER.

[wordsmith52]

@Sheri451 That's mighty possible but Buddy Ebsen lived til over 90 - or maybe he was only pretending to smoke.

[Sheri451]

@wordsmith52 He could have been pretending. After all, he used to dance and sing in movies in the 1930s.

[wordsmith52]

@Sheri451 Yep indeed. Its funny but smoking didn't seem to suit old Jed. Even if Miss Drisedale  was only acting and not taking the smoke down into her lungs - just swilling it around her mouth and throat wouldn't have done her much good - someone said she died before her time of something related to cancer of the larynx - maybe that's why. Smokers or not theys all left us something worth having.

[Sheri451]

@wordsmith52 That's right.

[willdav713]

@wordsmith52 She died at 81. She outlived my maternal grandma and grandpa. My maternal Grandpa smoked and snuffed and he lived to 86. I always thought because he liked sweet10 sodium sacchrine that caused his bladder cancer. Guess what? His lungs and heart were healthy.

[wordsmith52]

@willdav713 Much obliged. I mixed up Miss Hathway with Miss Drisedale. There aint no guarantees in this life thats for sure - except dudes tryin to make a livin out of "giving advice" and stickin snouts into other folks business and all - at our expense often as not.

[willdav713]

@Sheri451 5 packs a day is overdoing it. If I were to eat chicken smoothered with lard every meal for 6 years, I would probally have a heart attack, and not get out of the house for work. Irene could have died sooner if she didn't smoke. Truth is most seniors retire and are inactive. Irene worked her whole lifetime.

[Sheri451]

@willdav713 I read the article about Bea Benederit being a five pack a day smoker from a Petticoat junction website. I don't know if it's true or not, One even said the man that played Steve Elliot was dead, Mike Minor(Fedderson) but it was Mike's brother Gregg Fedderson that's no longer with us, Maybe the person that talked about Bea got it from Wikipedia. That's just a bunch of people that just say things about people, that might just be fiction. How could someone smoke

[Sheri451]

@Sheri451 100 cigarettes a day? That would be virtuously impossible, Bea would had to have smoked non stop all day, plus get up every hour to smoke some more.

[fromthesidelines]

R.J. Reynolds [Winston] co-sponsored the series during its first five seasons (1962-'67)- and that included an "integrated" cast commercial plugging the brand at the end of the episode. After the 1966-'67 season, the tobacco industry, including Reynolds, voluntarily discontinued sponsorship of sitcoms that had more kids watching than their parents...

[bluepastry]

this is obamas mom

[CamaroAmx]

@ksb100pr the goverment's job is not to be your babysitter. yes they will stop certain things in order to keep its taxpayers alive (unless they can make more money otherwise). It's up to the individual to decide on most things. Everyone basicaly knows what will and won't kill you. you have a 1 in 8 chance of getting in a car accident everyday, but you still drive. most injuries happen in the home, you still live there. life is about risks. take a chance. No one gets out of life alive any way.

[ecfritsch]

@ MrSteve..yeah but she stopped-they were hard to keep lit!!



[mrstevehartman]

Heard that Granny liked to smoke crawdads !

[ReDact45]

I had no idea that they made these commercials.

[oldannyboy37]

@ReDact45 You should see the ones with the Flintstones.

[MsThebeMoon]

Keep the corn cob granny ... got something you might like even better. :-)

[estesoyojajaja]

AHH, the good old days, when there was not International Amnesty, when you could execute anyone no matter which way, when they could sell cigarettes and no one was gonna say a damn thing and when, well...you coud find any nuclear stuff in make-ups.

[jaddison1112]

@estesoyojajaja ... I hope you were being sarcastic ..... what horrible things to say.

[johnh23]

Cig ads were on TV for a long time. You could smoke anywhere and it was glamourous. The public is far more protected and educated now.

[ultimatebloonz2]

@johnh23 more like the public is far more misinformed, i looked it up and the average smoker (pack a day) only loses about seven years of their life. Something's going to kill me, might as well be something i enjoy doing.

[johnh23]

@ultimatebloonz2 Well Granny is still alive so it never got to her. 

[DeanLeonard1]

@johnh23 Irene Ryan died in 1973, aged 70.

[johnh23]

@ultimatebloonz2  Ya, Granny is still alive

[deepwoodskentuckian]

@johnh23 nope the orignal actress who played granny died in 1973 from a brain tumor

[CamaroAmx]

@ultimatebloonz2 i agree. my great grandfather smoked from the age of 14 till he did at 89. nice long life to me. he did die of cancer, but it was determined that it was the asbestos that killed him (mesothelioma,sp), not the tobacco. no one live forever, so might as well enjoy the time you got. i could never started and died in a car accident at 16. no one nows when their gonna die and how. enjoy life.

[ncmountaingal1960]

@CamaroAmx My neighbor smoked 2 packs a day, was very overweight, ate bacon and eggs every morning and everything fried in Crisco and lived to be 93-never sick a day in her life, never in the hospital and had her wits about her until she died in her sleep! She must of had good genes although her parents died in their 70's (but they were born in the late 19th Century when the life expectancy was about 48 so they were old by those standards). I agree with you enjoy life everyday!

[littlebit19801]

@ncmountaingal1960 Smoking is bad obviously but I don't think it's as bad as they say. I too have known people who smoke a lot and live LONG lives, then you hear of HEALTHY people dropping dead at 30.

I think most people hate on smoking nowdays because it's looked at as politically incorrect more than anything.

[trwent]

@littlebit19801 That sort of argument is purely anecdotal, NOT based on ANY kind of statistical evidence. There are always going to be "outliers" (i.e. what statisticians call individuals on the fringes of the data) but their existence does NOT in any way disprove what the overwhelming body of statistical evidence indicates: That smoking is, generally speaking, VERY deleterious to one's health and quality of life, and usually significantly shortens one's lifespan.

[willdav713]

@trwent Another reason NOT to trust statistics. Notice the word MIGHT is often used. Just breathing could kill you.

[willdav713]

@trwent That is why I DON'T trust statistics. They often used the word MIGHT cause not will or will not. Just Breathing can kill you.

[willdav713]

@johnh23 No we are becoming a Nanny State Socialistic Communistic New World Order Soceity. Hippies became Yuppies. There are Yuppie, Huppies, and Buppies. All of the Government's Sheeple. Socialized Medicine (ObamaCare), Drug Company Profits (Big Pharma), and Political Correctness (Throwing the Constitution down the Constitution at the Pentagon) The end times are coming nearer all the non conformists will be in Prison and will fast and die while the polictians will be left behind.

[johnh23]

@willdav713 Agreed, Im a Jonesman too

[shanegalang2]

Wish they would have fired up a blunt of KB!!!

[tomrdee]

They don't look like smokers.

[catholicpriest1]

Heavy smoking probably killed Irene Ryan in her early 70s.

[SingingDinosaurs]

This video is hilarious with the 1911 filter.

[BullToTheShit]

Winston has an odd taste. Or at least they did back when I smoked...some 34 years ago.

[gccn]

Granny's adorable! Don't talk shit about Granny!

[OzarkdArc]

@gccn

lol

true

[Cleggy]

This was back when we weren't all "Ooooh! Smokers are jokers!'. Don't get me wrong, they not exactly what we should be doing but then neither are half the other things we do today. Just saying..

[gccn]

@Cleggy Who still says that, other than Rod and Todd Flanders?

[Cleggy]

@gccn lol. Seriously, if commercials like that ran today, those switchboards would be exploding. A while ago, they showed a bit of the Infamous Flintstone Winston Cigarette commercail and it was had this woman talk about how it could influence people to smoke. Been There, Done That. Trust me, ma'm. It's not going to work. And don't get me started on those ads they're going to start putting on the boxes sometime this or next year...

[dpman72]

Granny grew the good stuff back in the hills.

[jed2j]

screw winston, smoke marlboro red

[tucsonia]

She stands the cigarette up in the pipe, that's funny!

[RobertJ1966]

no wonder my two older sisters were born with a low I Q.

[jameszerukjr]

Hey, Jed, put some crack in her pipe and get her to freak on your ass!

[elc1960]

Shogun it Granny! Bet she liked to hit the bong too! Weeeeelllll doggies! Now let's all go out to watch Ellie May skinny dipping in the Cee-ment pond!

[firecad2006]

smoke that shit granny

[tymthon]

That old woman is so STUPID!!! 0:18 - 1:01

[darrylhaynes]

remember....the beer hamms......

[dannyd1572]

This is just very wrong..lmao wrong in an eerie sort of way. I know Irene Ryan died of Cancer but just like Buddy, I don't think they were smokers. All the ciggy commercials on here show them along with Drysdale exhaling. The only ones inhaling are Cousing Pearl (died of Cancer) and Mrs. Hathaway (also died of Cancer).

[zer0dahero]

wow, what a unique piece of tv history. thanx.

[Sheri451]

No wonder Irene Ryan died when she was in her 60s she killed herself smokin' Winstons.

[TheAspenTom]

She died of a brain tumor when she was 70. But I'm sure the Winstons didn't help her (or anyone else) any. My mom died in her 60s and smoking was a huge factor. Glad the days of ads like this are gone.

[toriElena]

@TheAspenTom

Get real dude, the ads we (and our kids) are exposed to today are much worse than yesterdays cigarette commercial. They range from simple annoyance to disgust and vulgarity. Now we see ads about leaky diapers, incontinence, bowel movements, erectile dysfunction, drugs for mental disorders, vaginal dryness, female 'enhancement' products, greedy lawyers, tampons, teen pregnancy, yeast infections, 30 minute infomercials and oh hey!... does your pad have wings?

[CamaroAmx]

@toriElena years ago its was smoke and live a good life, watch TV, and have fun and take a few risks. now its don't smoke, drink our beer and whiskey, and take our meds with side affects worse then the disease, don't do anything remotely bad for u (not counting alcohol), live so long that you shit in your pants and forget everything so you can give more to the insurance companies to keep you alive and party like crazy (don't worry you can just charge it on your credit cards).

[toriElena]

@CamaroAmx ......you sure got that right.....sometimes i think you can live too long....do i really wanna miss those 'golden years' where i am shitting myself and asking people "what was my name again?"

[willdav713]

@toriElena Yeah I don't want to end up like my non smoking paternal grandfather who drank every meal with dementia and alztheimers. I would rather die from smoking or have a heart attack then be put in a nursing home. I heard smoking reduces the risk of Alztheimers, but the liberal media would dare say anything on that.

[monsterboy31]

I love how they say, "Smoking"

[frankd1965]

General MacArthur smoked a corn cob pipe and Frosty The Snowman had one as a prop

[novasco55]

Tax the shit out of tobacco Liquor & beer =free medical care

[galileocan]

Today Granny would be taking Lipitor and Jed would be pushing Viagra. Ellie Mae would be on Lunesta and Jethro would be advertising Celebrex. In the 1960s, tobacco companies owned America...now...drug companes own America.

[novasco55]

A truer word has never been spoken!

[toriElena]

@galileocan

true, dat. Dont forget the insurance companies and the oil companies here in america, and how much control they have over our daily lives.

[handinside]

@toriElena And how about all those damned car and cell phone commercials?

[tnourie]

@galileocan You got that right!!

[NeanderthalStudios]

@galileocan So damn true...

[Nascarking24]

@galileocan I don't know where we as society wen't wrong. I just don't get how we wen't from Winston to Viagra.

[OlegKostoglatov]

@galileocan The most disgusting part is that most of those drugs can kill you faster then smoking the Winstons.

[christopherleon84]

@galileocan I never thought of it that way but you're absolutely right.

[amabilis77]

lol im painting irene ryan in water color :D

[BeagleLives]

This commercial is classic!!! Thanks so much for it!

[unclefestus]

Wow.... if that does'nt get you to smoke, nothing will. I'm gonna buy me a pack today.

[uncletomthall]

Well, if Granny and Uncle Jed say it's good to smoke, then it has to be true, by golly!

[frankd1965]

@uncletomthall Is granny trying to be General Douglas MacArthur? He smoked a corn cob pipe.

[83backbreaker]

@frankd1965 it was a predecessor to the meth pipe that all hill billies worship today.go granny!

[OzarkdArc]

@83backbreaker

that's seriously uncalled for

& basically rude

[dhowell888]

@83backbreaker ur an ignorant piece of shit...

[emmtampa]

these are the best smokin you ever had....next to a Chesterfeild

[rugged66]

look today how they do ads on food today....... people are so overweight.

[slightlymentholated]

I can smoke whatever I want, and there is nothing you can do about it! BWA HA HA!!!

You anti-smoking fascist.

[rugged66]

its a part of the past. Its neat to see stuff like that.

[spectrum10]

the Hillbillies did these smoking spots because Winston was the sponsor of the show, not because they approved of smoking

[sxycapricorn26]

Irene Ryan was a chain smoker!!! I would hardly say they were anti-smokin'.....and takin' a little nip sometimes!!!

[blackwingangel04]

So, because someone smokes, you hate them?

Boy, you must not have many friends.

I'm one of very few people that I know who isn't a habitual smoker. And even I'll puff a Black and Mild (cigarillo) every once in a while.

I'm not telling you to go and have a smoke, but don't be such a fucking fascist about it, either.

[emmtampa]

This is fucking great! Great thunder, Jed...that is good smokin!!!

[monsterboy31]

No wonder the show was canceled. THE ACTORS WERE CRACKHEADS!!!!!

[lockring2]

Yep,been smokin them thru the hole in my throat for the last 15yrs. Ya cant beetem!!!

[TheFecalAvenger]

I understand that after the cameras stopped rolling, they tried smoking them out of their rectums.

[inkey2]

to TheFecalAvenger: re: your comment. LOL,LOL,LOL....and more lol

[inkey2]

to any smoker that sees this commercial it's pretty obvious neither one of them really smokes. They don't even inhale. Thats kind of rare for that era...just about everybody smoked, even dogs and cats.

[BassRox459]

yea in that era they thought smoking was good for you

[misharyutubbee]

I think Buddy Ebsen was a smoker; don't know about Irene Ryan (Granny). Yep, back in the 60s everybody smoked--at least anybody who wanted to be taken seriously and wanted to fit in. When you got to a certain age, you just smoked. You smoked in the grocery store, in the barber/beauty shop, in a car full of babies (none of which were strapped down), at the dinner table, wherever you felt the urge. Try being one of the kids in a '64 Ford Fairlane with 3 adults smoking simultaneously--murder!

[inkey2]

to misharyutubbe: come to think of it....I think they both lived a pretty long time, especially Ebsen. That might indicate they really were not smokers. Usually when you saw cigarette commercials the actors inhaled so deep it went down to their toes. These two look like they never lit up in their lives....or possibly Ebsen was a cigar or pipe smoker. They usually do not inhale

[misharyutubbee]

Well, he smoked non-filter cigs in Breakfast at Tiffanies (spelling?) and in the Hillbillies he did smoke a pipe on occasions. That's not exactly proof positive, but it looks like he probably was a smoker.

[tomcat28563]

actually I have read that Irene Ryan (Granny) was a a chainsmoker and loved her alcoho(not the rubbing type)-lol. Max Baer (Jethro) said in an old interview that he enjoyed going to Grannys dressing room and sharing a drink or two with her. I remember he commented that she was a heck of lady and he missed her terribly.

[slightlymentholated]

I've heard many fond recollections by many associates of Irene Ryan. She was a truly talented (and apparently very endearing)lady!

[shiroisan87]

lol classic. i buy a box a smokes and it lasts me like 2 months, but winston is my preferred brand.