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Arnold Ziffel is a pig featured in ''Green Acres'', an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from 1965 to 1971 and was produced by Filmways, Inc.. The show is premised on rural American humor and features Oliver Douglas and his wife Lisa as city-dwellers who move to the unfamiliar environment of Hooterville, a fictional farming community. Arnold is a pig of the Chester White breed, but he is treated as the "son" of Fred and Doris Ziffel, who don't have any human children. Everyone in Hooterville (besides Oliver Douglas) accepts this without question. Arnold was usually played by a female pig, even though he is a male character. 〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14282158〕 ==Situations== The humor that surrounds the character of Arnold comes from his human-like abilities and lifestyle, and from the way the people of Hooterville insist on thinking of him as a fellow human. They invite him to town meetings, they play checkers with him (and lose), and they speak english to him and can understand him when he speaks with pig squeals and grunts. New resident Oliver Douglas is the lone hold out. He tries to explain to people that Arnold is just a pig, but no one will listen to him. 〔St. John Allen "RIP Frank Cady, aka Green Acres' Fred Drucker: In Praise of Hooterville, Hotcakes, and Arnold the Pig" June 14, 2012 ''Forbes'' retrieved October 22, 2015〕 On the contrary, they are suspicious of Oliver, because of his inability to communicate with Arnold. 〔Bauman, John; Biles, Roger; Szylvian Kristin M. (2011) ''The Ever-Changing American City: 1945-Present'' Rowman & Littlefield Publishers p. 8 〕 This dynamic is part of a larger theme of ''Green Acres'', that Oliver's sense of logic is meaningless in the Hooterville universe. 〔 Greene, Doyle "Politics and the American Television Comedy: A Critical Survey from I Love Lucy Through South Park" McFarland (2007) pp. 108-9 〕 Arnold can do pretty much anything a human can. He can write his name and change channels on the television. He watches the CBS News with Walter Cronkite to keep up with the issues. 〔Greene, Doyle ''Politics and the American Television Comedy: A Critical Survey from I Love Lucy Through South Park'' p. 108 (2007) McFarland 〕 He signs checks and can adjust the TV antenna, and he is the smartest student at the local grade school. 〔St. John Allen "RIP Frank Cady, aka Green Acres' Fred Drucker: In Praise of Hooterville, Hotcakes, and Arnold the Pig" June 14, 2012 ''Forbes'' retrieved October 22, 2015〕 He carries his lunchbox in his mouth, and often plays practical jokes on the other students. 〔Johnson, Billy "Hooterville, Nev.: It’s time" June 12, 2012 ''Las Vegas Sun'' retrieved November 6, 2015〕 Arnold is also artistically talented: he is working on a novel, he plays the piano, and he is an accomplished abstract painter, dubbed "Porky Picasso", whose piece titled "Nude at a Filling Station" wins first prize out of two thousand entries in a student art contest. 〔Johnson, Billy "Hooterville, Nev.: It’s time" June 12, 2012 ''Las Vegas Sun'' retrieved October 22, 2015〕 〔Greene, Doyle ''Politics and the American Television Comedy: A Critical Survey from I Love Lucy Through South Park'' p.108 (2007) McFarland 〕 He even works as a "paper pig" delivering newspapers, although he has a bad habit of throwing copies so hard and so badly aimed that he sometimes breaks windows. Arnold is very lucky. He wins a trip to Hawaii in one episode, and a trip to Hollywood in another. After a Hollywood screen test, he is cast in a role originally intended for a horse, but after the horse explains to Arnold that he needs to job to send his son to Stanford, Arnold's deliberate bad behavior leads to him being fired and the horse getting his job back. He also wins a prize at the Pixley Bijou movie theater for having the most original costume... the theater manager says that Arnold has the best looking pig costume he has ever seen. 〔 Bloom, Ken; Vlastnick, Frank (2007) Sitcoms: The 101 Greatest TV Comedies of All Time p. 145 Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 〕 At one point, Arnold falls in love with Mr. Haney's prized Basset Hound "Cynthia", but in a scene full of pig grunts and dog barks, subtitles explain that they realize their love can never be. Mr. Haney threatens to sue Arnold's "father" Fred Ziffel, claiming that Arnold has ruined Cynthia for dog shows since she has begun to grunt like a pig, too. One storyline has Arnold inheriting millions of dollars as the sole descendant of the favorite pig of a pork-packing magnate, distinguished by his ability to predict the weather with his tail. Some doubt exists as to the Arnold's weather prediction skills when, during the claims process for the money, his tail predicts snow in the middle of warm weather. This prediction is disbelieved and Oliver finds himself in a difficult situation checking out of an expensive hotel, because he has to deal with Arnold's expensive bill. However, during this difficulty, Arnold's seemingly impossible prediction proves accurate when a freak snowstorm burys the city. So the hotel welcomes Arnold back with open arms. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arnold Ziffel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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