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jallanite · 11-21-2012, 08:01 PM

There was a television show these many years ago called Green Acres. One of the characters(?) in the show was a young pig named Arnold. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ziffel .

Since pigs grow quickly there must have been at least a different pig every year to play Arnold and, as the article I have cited says, mostly Arnold was really female. So what happened after each Arnold got too old?

A common story was that the cast had a yearly pig roast and ate Arnold. Since the roast was held after the season’s filming, it could still be claimed that no animal was harmed during the filming. The article cited claims this story was not true, but has the superscript warning “[citation needed]”.

Supposedly the pigs were returned to live out natural lives on farms. True or false?

11-21-2012, 08:01 PM	#15
jallanite Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Toronto Posts: 479	There was a television show these many years ago called Green Acres. One of the characters(?) in the show was a young pig named Arnold. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ziffel . Since pigs grow quickly there must have been at least a different pig every year to play Arnold and, as the article I have cited says, mostly Arnold was really female. So what happened after each Arnold got too old? A common story was that the cast had a yearly pig roast and ate Arnold. Since the roast was held after the season’s filming, it could still be claimed that no animal was harmed during the filming. The article cited claims this story was not true, but has the superscript warning “[citation needed]”. Supposedly the pigs were returned to live out natural lives on farms. True or false? Last edited by jallanite; 11-25-2012 at 02:34 PM.