Mr. Haney

Mr. Haney (given name apparently either Eustace or Charleton) was a local salesman and con man in the rural Hooterville community who was a supporting character on the 1960s CBS television series Green Acres.

Haney, portrayed by veteran character actor and longtime Western film sidekick Pat Buttram with the odd, yodeling voice, was the person who had sold his family's ancient, dilapidated farm to newcomers Oliver and Lisa Douglas when they first left New York City for rural Hooterville and their new life as farmers. Although Haney had severely cheated the Douglases by charging them several times what the farm was actually worth (which was in reality almost nothing), he often came back with his peddlar's truck stocked with more worthless items, which he almost invariably succeeded in unloading on Oliver at inflated prices despite his past shady dealings with them, usually taking a piece of junk and calling it by some outlandish name, suggesting that it has some use that it clearly does not and that it's in some way valuable.

And if you don't want that, he has this item, and that, and another.

In one episode, Haney's "Grabwell" washer, basically a barrel with an outboard motor in it, wrecks the Ziffel's house. Oliver Wendell Douglas successfully sues Haney. But Haney, of course, profits because the sale he holds to raise money to pay the settlement brings him in more than if he had peddled the stuff in his normal fashion. Further, Oliver's wife buys some of it.