After snow delays opening night, “Shucked” finally struts it stuff in Hartford.

Well slap my knee, if “Shucked” wasn’t as sweet as butter and sugar corn after a February barrage of blizzard warnings, snow cancellations, and a State of the Union as dark as a solar eclipse. Really! I relished all of the silly aphorisms woven into the cloth of this down home country “farm to fable” tale in which true love prevails and even the bad guy gets better.

And speaking of guys, gotta say the farmhands of fictitious Cobb County really stepped up (upon barrels even) the song and dance of this rather simplistic musical. The story line of a young woman’s journey to save the county’s diseased corn was revealed by two likeable, but hokey, narrators, and a series of hoe-downish numbers and dialog - in which the audience finds itself playing the monkey-in-the middle, trying to catch one tossed pun after the other: bathroom puns, bedroom puns, grandma puns, even a dentist pun about which they are forewarned to brace themselves.

And while female lead Maizie (Danielle Wades) is just too purty and sweet not to love, and her friend Lulu (Miki Abraham )wins the audience over by her sassiness, it’s Maizie’s beau - predictably named none other than Beau (Nick Bailey) who injects the most depth into this two dimensional love story with his moving lament about having lost his fiancé to the city-slicker podiatrist from Tampa, but not his self-esteem.

Something can be said for Gordy (Quinn VanAntwerp), the city-slicker “corn” doc, as well. There was a hint of the classic “Music Man” Professor Harold Hill’s con-artistry in his scheme to steal Cobb County’s most valuable commodity ( not corn, not Maizie, but shiny rock) out from under the naive eyes of its townsfolk. Stronger writing could have made Cobb County another River City.

I could say there was an all’s well that ends well satisfaction to attending “Shucked”, especially since the entertaining entourage barely made it to Hartford, being forced to cancel its opening night due to Blizzard Calvin. But that would suggest something Shakespearean - which “Shucked” definitely does not aspire to be. Looney Tooney might be more fitting, as the production offered the audience more of a barrel of hearty laughs with a “ That’s All Folks” feel for the resolution of Cobb County’s corny crises.

Shucked” runs through March 1 at The Bushnell, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford. Remaining performances are Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1 and 6:30 p.m. $45.50-$174. bushnell.org.