He was asked to become part of the 1969 cast of Hee Haw, and created a bumbling personality, often slurring his way through delivery, messing up jokes and forgetting lines. One of his most famous blunders was from "The Cornfield" sketch...
- Junior: "What did the judge lock up old Stan Hawkins fer?"
- Roy Clark: "Bigotry. He had three wives!"
- Junior: "That's not bigotry, that's trig...trem...tri..." The word he continually slipped on was "trigonometry".
In this way, Samples did much to contribute to the post-Laugh In surrealist comedy of the show, with its strange combination of absurdist kitsch and down-home non sequiturs. He was known for being one of the foursome (the others were Gordie Tapp; Grandpa Jones and Lulu Roman) that made up the eponymous family of the skit called "The Culhanes of Cornfield County".
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