The sixty-fifth TV show: #100 Green Acres
Yeah, this was a pretty quick watch. Green Acres doesn't sound like it's a very inspiring show: a succesful lawyer moves from New York to a farming village to become a farmer himself and drags his socialite wife along, even though it's not her scene and she's not happy there. They have to adjust to live on the farm - one that clearly needs a lot of work.
It's incredibly silly, though, with a bunch of great sight gags and excellent execution of some of the standard gags. The characters themselves are interesting - sketched with more depth than you'd expect. Soon, however, the show starts to show its true face. The show adds a lot of meta elements - at one point, for example, the characters comment directly on the credits that show up on screen, while another shows a subtitled conversation between a pig and a horse. The subtitles continue into the next scene, until one of the characters calls it out so they stop.
It's a delight to watch the show, excellently executed (including by the editors) but also feeling ahead of its time. It's a show we want to continue watching, because it's just that good.