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13 Reasons Why ‘Green Acres’ Was the Place to Be

4. So Many Pigs And No Bacon

During the show’s six-year run, at least one piglet per year was trained by Frank Inn for the role of Arnold. Arnold was the son the Ziffels, played by Hank Patterson and Barbara Pepper, never had. Multiple pigs were used because piglets grow up so quickly, it was necessary to be prepared to switch them out when that happened. Mainly female piglets were used despite Arnold being a boy, and these “working women” had a union contract to be paid $250 per day. Yup, those pigs were raking it in. Inn was the go-to guy for most animal training in rural television comedies of that time, so the pigs were in great hands and it showed onscreen.

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