Is it too late to clone Buddy Ebsen?

[Kaleva]

I know that some of the smartest people on DU hang out here in the Lounge so I figured this would be the place to get an answer.

[hunter]

1. How about an Android Ebsen?

If we don't have the original we can reconstruct one from the records.

We can spin a new Buddy Ebsen right round.

[Tom Ripley]

2. Don't do that. Ebsen was a right wing asshole

Not a "nice Hollywood republican", but an Orange County Crazy far right extremist.
Sad, but true.

[Kaleva]

3. Cloning Buddy is central to my idea of restarting the Beverly Hillbillies.

[pinboy3niner]

4. You'll need to clone Irene Ryan, too

She used to come into a store where I worked decades ago, just a year or two before she died.

[steve2470]

5. irrelevant factoid: he was from my town, Orlando nt

[Rowdyboy]

6. He was a real life asshole who campaigned against Nancy Kulp (Miss Jane) when she ran for congress

in Pennsylvania in 1984. He hurt her deeply and I've never cared for him since.

[kairos12]

7. He already had to come back from that Tin Man makeup

that almost killed him on the set of Wizard of Oz. He was replaced.

[whistler162]

8. Only if he isn't allergic to the paint this time.

Don't think we want to clone Shirley Temple.