“It's kind of a cross between 'American Idol' and 'The Beverly Hillbillies' where you go from nowhere, here's somebody making their debut on a national stage.”
Joe Mattioli
“You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.”
Hank Williams
“Today is a big day in TV history. On this day forty-one years ago, the Beverly Hillbillies aired for the first time right here on CBS. They took a little break, then in 1992, they moved into the White House for eight years.”
David Letterman
“The Beverly Hillbillies: Volume One”
Buddy Ebsen
“It's not quite like Donald Trump and the Beverly Hillbillies, but the differences in these two banks are striking.”
Thomas Ken
“We did it in the most hillbilly way we could think of, and there we were,”
John Doe
“dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying bona fide hillbilly.”
Bill Jenkins
