Editing Hee Haw (section)

== Synopsis ==
''Hee Haw'' is set in Kornfield Kounty, a rural farming community in an unspecified state in the [[Southern United States]]. The show's sketches mostly center around visits to local businesses in the county and the offbeat characters who live and work there.

=== Recurring sketches and segments ===
Some of the most popular sketches and segments on ''Hee Haw'' included:
* "'''PFFT! You Was Gone!'''" – A comedic duet featured on the premiere episode. In the first few seasons, the song was performed by Archie Campbell, with Gordie Tapp joining on the chorus. In later seasons, a guest star would join Campbell on the chorus, and the guest star's name would often be mentioned somewhere in the song's verse prior to the chorus. On episodes that featured more than one guest star, the sketch was repeated so that all the guest stars had an opportunity to participate. Rarely, a surprise guest star would appear who was not otherwise featured in the episode. The guest star often stood with his back to the camera while holding a pitchfork, while Campbell sang the verse while holding a scythe. At the end of the verse, Campbell would nudge the guest star with his elbow and the guest star would spin around to the camera to join on the chorus:

{{poemquote|
Where, oh where, are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over and thought I'd found true love,
You met another and PFFT! You was gone!}}

:The "PFFT" would be done as "[[blowing a raspberry]]"; the one who got spat upon during the "PFFT" changed for each show. Following Campbell's death, whole groups and even women would be part of the chorus, with George Lindsay often singing the verse. Occasionally, [[Roni Stoneman]] (in her role of Ida Lee Nagger) would sometimes sing the verse. The song was written by [[Lee Roberts (songwriter)|Lee Roberts]] and recorded in 1952 by country singer Bob Newman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/master/1525274-Bob-Newman-PHFFT-You-Were-Gone-Doodle-Bug| title=Discogs entry for "PHFFT! You Were Gone"| website=[[Discogs]]| date=1952}}</ref>

* '''KORN News''' – [[Don Harron]] as KORN radio announcer Charlie Farquharson would spoof the delivery of local news. In later seasons, KORN became KORV. Harron had been performing the character since 1952 on Canadian television, and continued playing Farquharson in many other media venues before, during, and after ''Hee Haw''.
* '''The Moonshiners''' – Two of the male cast members, playing lethargic hillbillies, lazily told a joke while dozing on the floor near a bunch of [[moonshine]] jugs and Beauregard the Wonder Dog, with three or four of the ''Hee Haw'' Honeys reclining in the background.
* '''Pickin' and Grinnin''' – Musical interludes with Owens (on guitar) and Clark (on banjo) and the entire cast (Owens: {{qi|Well, I'm a-pickin'!}}; Clark: {{qi|And IIIII'm a-grinnin'!}}), with the duo (and sometimes a major guest star—such as [[Johnny Cash]]—sitting between Owens and Clark) "dueling" by playing guitar and banjo the instrumental to "[[Cripple Creek (folk song)|Cripple Creek]]", telling jokes and reciting one-liners. The sketch always ended with Clark's banjo solo, each time ending a different comical way. For the first two the sketch featured only Clark and Owens, and in later seasons the entire cast participated. When the entire cast began participating, the sketch was introduced by the show's emcee Cathy Baker. This sketch at first would always open the second half of the show before alternating with the "Hee Haw Honky Tonk" sketch in the later seasons.
* '''Samples Used Car Sales''' – Junior Samples, as a used car salesman, would try to palm off a major "clunker".
* '''"Gloom, Despair, and Agony On Me"''' – Another popular sketch, it was usually performed by four male cast members (originally—and usually—Roy Clark; Gordie Tapp; Grandpa Jones and Archie Campbell) sitting around in hillbilly garb surrounded by [[moonshine]] jugs and looking overtly miserable. The song began with the chorus, which all of them sang with each one alternating (in [[lip-synch]]) a mournful howl after each of the first three lines. The chorus went:

{{poemquote|
Gloom, despair, and agony on me-e!
Deep dark depression, excessive misery-y!
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all!
Gloom, despair, and agony on me-e-e!}}

:The quartet began by singing the chorus together, followed by each quartet member reciting some humorous reason for his misery in spoken form, then (in the first several seasons) the quartet reprised the chorus and end with all four sobbing in typical overstated manner.

* '''The Gossip Girls''' – This sketch is the female counterpart to "Gloom, Despair...", which featured four female cast members surrounding a washtub and clothes wringer singing the chorus:

{{poemquote|
Now, we're not ones to go 'round spreadin' rumors,
Why, really we're just not the gossipy kind,
No, you'll never hear one of us repeating gossip,
So you'd better be sure and listen close the first time!}}

:Two of the four girls then sang the verse. Misty Rowe, a long-time member of the "Gossip Girls", enhanced the comedy of the sketch by singing her part of the verse out of tune (as a young child would do). In later years, male cast members, in [[Drag queen|drag]], sometimes replaced the girls in the sketch, in retaliation for the girls singing "Gloom, Despair..." Sometimes, in later seasons, the four female cast members sang the song on the cornfield set, with a male guest star standing in the center, between the four girls.

* '''"Hee Haw Salutes ..."''' – Two or three times in each episode, ''Hee Haw'' saluted a selected town (or a guest star's hometown) and announce its population, which was sometimes altered for levity, at which point the entire cast would then "pop up" in the cornfield set, shouting "SAA-LUTE!!" Initially ending with laughter, this was changed by the mid-1970s to applause as a nod toward legitimately saluting small-town America. Also in the early 1980s, John Henry Faulk saluted a figure in American history, which received the same appropriate nodding applause. In the later seasons, the cast said "Salute" on the Pickin' and Grinnin' set.