Yokel is one of several derogatory terms referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people. Jethro Larkin (George Hart), Stereotypical yokel. Capp derived the family name "Yokum" as a combination of "yokel" and "hokum". He chastised the "degraded nonsense which country preachers are ramming and hammering into yokel skulls". But I was gripped as John started talking to me, this dumb yokel, about wine. The yokel may be checked, abashed, and undone. It is based on the 1939 play "Yokel Boy" by Lew Brown. "Yokel Chords" is the fourteenth episode of the eighteenth season of "The Simpsons". His play, "Yokel Boy", was filmed in 1942 and became his first film writing credit. January's Broadway credits include "High Kickers" (1941) and "Yokel Boy" (1939). Yokel find someone to doctor the script and direct the Broadway production.