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It's Eb's birthday and there's nothing he wants more than a radio. So he leaves a lot of hints for Mr. Douglas and wakes up Sam Drucker early in the morning to point out hat radio he wants Sam to steer Douglas to. Oliver wakes up and thinks its Lisa's birthday instead.

Eb finally does get his radio and gets involved in a quiz contest on a local radio station. All he has to do is identify all 12 songs (they are all the same tune!) and he can win a week in Las Vegas...Illinois. Eb's task is made more complicated by the fact Eleanor the cow swallows his radio at one point, but Eb soldiers on, identifying the music cues as songs like:

"You are My Pizza, Mama" "Horsefly Blues" "You Must Be a Girl Because Your Hair is Shorter Than Mine" "3 Foot 2, eyes of Purple, Has anyone seen my Martian Gurple?" "I Get Nobs on my Knees by Riding a Surfboard with You" "Don't Lose Your Cool When You Drop Out of School" "I Hope to Give You a Shot in the Head for Living in This Dump".

This episode begins with Eb waking up Sam Drucker at 4:30 in the morning, to look over birthday presents for himself, selecting the most expensive transistor radio Sam sells, then telling Sam when Mr. Douglas comes in to push this present for him to buy.

We switch to Oliver in bed, being awakened by a balloon tied to his hand, with a message saying "Today's the Day." Then a sign on a mousetrap tells him "Drucker's Opens at 6 a.m." Another sign reminds him of a birthday. Of course, Oliver figures it's Lisa's birthday. He dashes to Sam's, wakes him up, and for the second time Sam knocks over a display of canned goods as he sleepily puts his robe on.

Sam talks Oliver into the radio, not knowing he's shopping for Lisa. The confusion is cleared up quickly once Oliver returns home. Now we learn that WPIXL in Pixley is beginning a 12-song contest for listeners who recognize their contest songs to call in to have a chance at an unidentified (at this point) grand prize.

The running gag is that each of the 8 times we hear the contest song, it is the identical music. Oliver seems to be the only one who realizes this. Eb keeps naming different titles and apparently he and one other person were the only ones to name the first 11 songs correctly. They had, of course, goofy titles, even for 1960s Rock-n-Roll, such as "Three-Foot-Two, Eyes of Purple, Has Anyone Seen My Martian Gurple?" and "I Ought to Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump."

Halfway through, when ordered to work, Eb puts his radio on a railing near Eleanor and the cow (off camera) eats the radio. It is in the cow's 2nd stomach and still playing, even after they take Eleanor to the Vet.

We do learn later that the grand prize is a one-week trip to exciting Las Vegas, Illinois!

This one was full of laughs, including the fact that it was always that same song, and the goofy song titles. If not for the fact that we didn't get any Haney time, I'd say it was the quintessential Green Acres. It's still a 10 in my book.