The Walnuts

If you are old enough, you may remember The Carol Burnet Show which ran on CBS from September 1967 through March 1978. Maybe you youngsters have seen Carol and her co-stars in syndication. This popular show won 25 Emmy Awards during that very successful run. The show as a mixture of sketches, songs, comedy and featured a large number of famous performers over those years. 

One memorable sketch for Union Suit Fans was "The Walnuts," a parody of a very popular show at the time, The Waltons. If you're not familiar with the poignant storyline of John Boy and his devoted family, you can find information that show on the internet.

In "The Walnuts," Carol played the part of John Boy Walton with a slight name change to "John Girl."

Harvey Korman played Grandpa and Vicki Lawerence was Grandma:

The men folk in this sketch, as in the original The Waltons, wore union suits under their overalls and flannel shirts as viewed with their sleeves rolled up and top shirt buttons undone, as the entire family sat around the dinner table. 

Dinners over and time for bed!

 

At the very end of all The Waltons episodes, a view of their farm house was shown from outside in the dark. The family inside, wishing each other "Goodnight" as the lights flickered out. Here's "The Walnuts" take, a very humorous ending telling each other goodnight as the camera panned from one family member to the next:  

With grandpa in his underwear finally being pushed out of bed onto the floor:

The night time attire of all the Walnuts, men and women, boys and girls, a rural family, was long red union suits underwear. 

Thanks to The Carol Burnet Show and CBS. Catch this episode and many others on CBS Paramount+ and other streaming services such as Pluto, DailyMotion, Tubi.