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Buddy Ebsen, Max Baer Jr., Donna Douglas, and Irene Ryan in The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)

Phil Silvers: Shifty Shafer aka Honest John

Honesty Is the Best Policy

The Beverly Hillbillies

Phil Silvers credited as playing...

Shifty Shafer aka Honest John

Quotes4

  • Flo Shafer: [Flo is revived with a little tonic from Granny's jug] Holy cow!
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: Very religious woman, my mother. You see, in Spain, the cow is sacred. The bulls, they don't treat so well.
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: I'm really not hungry.
  • Daisy Moses: You will be when you know what I got. I got groundhog meatballs, beaver tails fried in possum fat, and a roast breast of buzzard.
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: I give you my word. I couldn't eat a bite.
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: You haven't changed since the day I married you. You're still the same girl. Deceitful, crooked, sensational pickpocket, fabulous shoplifter, you drive a great getaway car. What more could a man ask for in a wife?
  • Flo Shafer: Shifty, I don't even speak the language. What if they say something to me in Spanish?
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: Are you kidding? They can barely speak English.

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