This looks like thread drift, but it's not. I did a search on Eddie Albert and his drinking bird. In my search I found this forum/community weblog in which he is discussed...

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/42356


He was quite a dedicated environmentalist. I love this bit from the thread in the above link...


"Green Acres was genius. I think Briank is exactly right: it was surreal, and perfectly so. Oliver Wendell Douglas kept trying to pin down reality, but everyone around him kept reinventing it faster than he could deal with it. I used to think it was comedy, but as a liberal in today's U.S., I see now it was a tragedy."

;-)