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Raymond Bailey and Nancy Kulp in The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)

Phil Silvers: Shifty Shafer aka Honest John

The Clampetts in New York

The Beverly Hillbillies

Phil Silvers credited as playing...

Shifty Shafer aka Honest John

Quotes4

  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: I have long been closely associated with the New York police force. They always love to see me come to town.
  • Jed Clampett: Is that a fact?
  • Jethro Bodine: They is friends of yours, huh?
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: Chums, pals. In fact, when we enter the terminal, you may notice several of them converge upon me and begin to ask questions.
  • Daisy Moses: What kind of questions?
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: Oh, questions concerning unsolved crimes.
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: Come on over. Granny is cookin' up some groundhog stew and gopher gravy.
  • Jed Clampett: That sounds atrocious.
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: Oh it is. You'll love it!
  • Jed Clampett: Elly, I wish you'd wear a dress. How do you expect to get a fella when you look like one yourself?
  • Elly May Clampett: Ah gee whiz, Pa.
  • Jed Clampett: Maybe she'll listen to you. Tell her she looks like a feller.
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: Mr. Clampett, I have bent the truth in my day, but that would be ridiculous.
  • Jed Clampett: [Honest John agrees to sell Central Park to Jed for $5000 and Jed pulls a wad of cash out of his pocket] Well doggies, there's some bigguns in there. One, two, three, four, five and I still got me some walkin'-around money.
  • Shifty Shafer aka Honest John: Well, whaddaya say we get up and walk around?

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