 When the stunt was revealed, few of the dozens who had fought to buy the pills came up to get their money back.In the television sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies", Jethro Bodine claimed to have devised a water to gasoline pill that ran the Clampetts' old truck on water.In an episode of the 1960s American sitcom "The Munsters", The Sleeping Cutie, Grandpa invents a gasoline pill.