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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIs it too late to clone Buddy Ebsen?
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Is it too late to clone Buddy Ebsen? (Original Post)
Kaleva
May 2014
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hunter
(38,328 posts)1. How about an Android Ebsen?
If we don't have the original we can reconstruct one from the records.
We can spin a new Buddy Ebsen right round.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)2. Don't do that. Ebsen was a right wing asshole
Not a "nice Hollywood republican", but an Orange County Crazy far right extremist.
Sad, but true.
Kaleva
(36,351 posts)3. Cloning Buddy is central to my idea of restarting the Beverly Hillbillies.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. You'll need to clone Irene Ryan, too
She used to come into a store where I worked decades ago, just a year or two before she died.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)5. irrelevant factoid: he was from my town, Orlando nt
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)6. He was a real life asshole who campaigned against Nancy Kulp (Miss Jane) when she ran for congress
in Pennsylvania in 1984. He hurt her deeply and I've never cared for him since.
kairos12
(12,873 posts)7. He already had to come back from that Tin Man makeup
that almost killed him on the set of Wizard of Oz. He was replaced.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)8. Only if he isn't allergic to the paint this time.
Don't think we want to clone Shirley Temple.