Bodine

Brian D. McCary bdm at colossus.Storz.Com
Mon Mar 11 11:51:16 CST 1996


> Jean notes:
> "Umm, wasn't the Jethro on "The Beverly Hillbillies" actually called Jethro
> Bodine, not Jethro Clampett?  He was a cousin or something?  Or am I having
> another one of my little spells?
>  
> Curiouser and curiouser"

I think it was "Bodean", from which the band The Bodeans took their name.
(I'm hardly an expert on TV trivia.)  This would, however, make
a referance to Jethro Bodine potentially cross cultural, in a pop sort of
way....

Brian McCary



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