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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/8/2007 6:23:28 PM
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47. Bailey's Bad Boy
A spoiled rich kid speeds recklessly through Mayberry and sideswipes the farm truck of Fletch Dilbeck, sending vegetables everywhere.
The teenager is played by Bill Bixby (who was 28 at the time). Bixby went on to fame in My Favorite Martian. The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and The Incredible Hulk.
Ronald Bailey makes it plain that his rich and influential father, John Judson Bailey, will take care of this in short order. Unimpressed, Andy holds Ronald in jail until the Circuit Judge will arrive for a trial (the concept of pre-trial release or bail remains a foreign concept in Mayberry).
Andy drags Bailey along on a fishing trip, which the teenager seems to enjoy until he decides that Andy is trying to be nice to him so that his father "will go easy on him."
On Sunday morning, Andy closes the jail and takes Bailey home to dinner, leaving Otis in charge at the jail to "wash out a few things and write some letters".
The young man listens to a touching exchange where Opie relates how he has broken a window and Andy tells him that he is not mad but will hold back Opie's allowance until the window is paid for. When Bailey questions why Andy doesn't "bail the kid out", Andy takes the opportunity to teach a lesson about responsibility.
Monday, the Dad's lawyer shows up and brings Fletch in to nod when asked "weren't you the one who was on the wrong side of the road" and similar questions. Fletch is clearly ashamed to be lying and Andy says: "I hope Fletch enjoys his new truck. I expect he will be driving one."
Ronald Bailey, remembering Andy's interchange with Opie, decides to stand on his own two feet and take responsibility.
Not a funny episode, but one with a good moral.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/8/2007 7:13:15 PM
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47. Bailey's Bad Boy
The teenager is played by Bill Bixby (who was 28 at the time). Bixby went on to fame in My Favorite Martian. The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and The Incredible Hulk.
I wouldn't have guessed Bixby as being 28 in that episode. I thought he was much younger.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/8/2007 11:04:02 PM
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48. The Manicurist
A sexy young lady gets off the Nashville bus, much to the delight of the boys in the barber shop. Mayor Pike asks Barney if he could "handle a woman like that". Barney says he would "treat her kinda rough, let her know who's boss". He and the other guys then shyly turn their faces to the wall when she comes in the barber shop.
Turns out that her name is Ellen. and she is looking for a place to ply her chosen trade of manicurist. She has left the large barber shop in Nashville to mull over the insistent marrriage proposals of a barber named Pierre, and decided to stop at the first friendly looking town she came across. Since Mayberry had a sign saying "The Friendly Town", she chose to stay.
Ellen is played by Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeannie). Interestingly, Barbara is 28 when this episode is filmed, the same age as Bill Bixby was in the last episode (both born in 1934).
She charms Floyd into letting her set up and work on commission, but the men are too shy to patronize her (why she didn't set up in the women's beauty shop is a mystery).
She overhears Andy remark that he knew she wouldn't last 24 hours and, after lecturing Andy on how Mayberry had a lot of nerve calling itself a friendly town, prepares to leave.
Andy saves the day by getting a manicure and convincing all the men that having your hand held by a pretty girl for half an hour isn't so bad.
Andy didn't reckon on the wives of said men not liking the idea so much, and business drops to nothing. When Andy tries to explain the situation ("nature has been real good to you, and I mean real, real good. I don't know when I've seen nature spend so much time on one person."), Ellen thinks that he is proposing. She let's him off the hook, as she is on her way to meet Pierre at the bus station.
The final scene show that Floyd has hired a new manicurist - Emma Watson.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/9/2007 5:59:00 PM
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Barbara Eden is still a very pretty woman.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/9/2007 10:53:05 PM
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49. The Jinx
Barney blames losing a checker game on Henry Bennett, who was looking over his shoulder when he made a bad move. This caused the boys in the barber shop to remember other bad events that happened when Henry was present (they conveniently forget that Barney was also present on those occasions).
The guys engage in some rather cruel teasing of Henry, who storms out after calling Barney a sap.
To make Henry feel better, Andy invites him to go with Barney and him in their boat for the annual fishing contest. Barney (after rubbing Opie's red head for luck) comes armed with a rabbit's foot and a good luck incantation:
"Fly away buzzard, Fly away crow
Way down south where the wind don't blow
Rub your nose and give two winks
Protect us all from the awful jinx."
The boat sinks, and everyone really believes that Henry is a jinx, so he announces that he is leaving Mayberry. After Andy makes everyone feel sufficiently guilty, they decide to rig the church social drawing so that Henry will win the drawing for the portable TV.
Poor Henry, instead of having the winning number, has drawn 6 and 7/8 (the hat size). Even he is beginning to think he is unlucky, but Aunt Bee and Andy convince him that a man with that many friends is very lucky.
A good moral and a surprisingly funny episode.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/9/2007 10:54:16 PM
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Barbara Eden is still a very pretty woman.
Love that *blink*.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/10/2007 10:36:29 AM
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50. Jailbreak
This episode has many of the familar (or soon to be familiar) themes.
The state police are on the trail of a payroll robber, who they believe is in Mayberry to meet up with his partner. The crook, Doc Molloy, is played by Allen Melvin and is his first of several appearances by the "tough guy" character actor, who later portrayed Sargeant Hacker on Gomer Pyle, USMC and Barney Hefner on All In The Family.
Barney decides to go "undercover" and pretend to be a hood in stir to see if Molloy will blab. Barney indeed wears "plain clothes", and not the "salt and pepper" that we associate with him. Molloy recognizes Barney from his framed newspaper clipping picture and plays along long enough to get away after locking Barney in the cell.
Earlier, Barney has put Floyd's dog in the cell, and the Airedale has shed everywhere, so Barney takes the suit to the cleaners, where we encounter Mr. Goss, one of the more repulsive characters on the show. He is a gossipy dry cleaner who is constantly smoking and wears dirty and stained clothes. His motto is "always pays to look your best". He gossips about another suit that he cleaned that day that was covered with dog hair.
Andy deduces that Molloy's partner is a woman and they are down at the trailer camp. He and Barney peek around (Barney spies on some newlyweds involved in a passsionate kiss) and find that the state police lieutenant (who has told our boys to stay out of the way and catch chicken thieves) has been captured by Molloy.
Andy goes for backup, and the crooks start to move out. Thinking quickly, Barney jumps in the car and pulls the careening trailer all the way to the courthouse, wher Molloy and partner are arrested.
In the final scene, Opie is playing with the disguise kit that the Lieutenant has given him, when the Newlyweds come in to complain about a "peeping Tom" at the trailer park. Barney puts the disguise kit to good use.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/10/2007 6:09:06 PM
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I've never gotten to see The Jinx before. Thanks for sharing all these episodes with us!
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/11/2007 5:51:22 AM
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49. The Jinx
Barney blames losing a checker game on Henry Bennett, who was looking over his shoulder when he made a bad move. This caused the boys in the barber shop to remember other bad events that happened when Henry was present (they conveniently forget that Barney was also present on those occasions).
The guys engage in some rather cruel teasing of Henry, who storms out after calling Barney a sap.
To make Henry feel better, Andy invites him to go with Barney and him in their boat for the annual fishing contest. Barney (after rubbing Opie's red head for luck) comes armed with a rabbit's foot and a good luck incantation:
"Fly away buzzard, Fly away crow
Way down south where the wind don't blow
Rub your nose and give two winks
Protect us all from the awful jinx."
The boat sinks, and everyone really believes that Henry is a jinx, so he announces that he is leaving Mayberry. After Andy makes everyone feel sufficiently guilty, they decide to rig the church social drawing so that Henry will win the drawing for the portable TV.
Poor Henry, instead of having the winning number, has drawn 6 and 7/8 (the hat size). Even he is beginning to think he is unlucky, but Aunt Bee and Andy convince him that a man with that many friends is very lucky.
A good moral and a surprisingly funny episode.
This would rank in my top five favorite episodes.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/11/2007 9:08:47 AM
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51. A Medal For Opie
Opie is very excited about the upcoming Sheriff sponsored competition for boys ( a sort of field day track meet for boys). He dreams of winning the 50 yard dash and gettting a medal.
Barney offers to train Opie (including pacing him on a bicycle, which wears Barney out). Barney explains how he trained himself until he was one big muscle from head to toe, leading to this exchange:
Opie: "You mean you're gonna make me one big muscle too?"
Barney: "Sure"
Andy: "But in your case, we'll try to stop at the neck."
Opie loses badly and is sulky and resentful about it. Andy tries to teach him about sportsmanship, but to no avail. Barney decides to fake pitching a fit about a raise the county didn't give him (he doesn't have enough money at the end of the week to take Juanita for Chinese, and Juanita doesn't like to sit home on Saturday night).
Opie, after thinking it over, decides that he doesn't want Andy to be disappointed in him, and comes around. Barney then comes in and throws his fit, scaring Opie. Andy then tells Barney that the County didn't give the raise, and Barney has a tantrum for real.
The closing scene shows Barney with designs on Opie's piggy bank, so he can take out Juanita, but Opie thinks Barney has invited him out for Chinese. Andy picks up on it and invites Aunt Bee and others: "Barney has asked us all out for Chinese...bring them too.", as Barney gets more flustered.
Another story with a good moral that again emphasizes how good a child actor Ron Howard was.
Aside: I noticed that, even though it was summer and the boys ran track in shorts, Andy's desk calendar was turned all the way to December.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/11/2007 9:34:51 PM
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52. Barney and the Choir
After Andy tries to stop Barney's off key renditions of "Juanita", John Masters comes in the courthouse in great distress because the first tenor has quit the choir a few days before a big contest.
Barney suckers John into offering him the position by mentioning his voice training. At practice it becomes painfully obvious during good old 14-A that Barney, as Thelma Lou says, "can't sing a lick".
John is ready to bounce Barney from the choir, but Andy wants to save Barney's feelings. He first convinces Barney that he is sick and contagious, but Barney goes to the doctor and happily bursts back in the house and announces that the "swelling" in his throat is the uvula.
Barney: "I've got a uvula, you've got a uvula, all God's children got a uvula".
Andy: "Hallelujah."
Andy then convinces Barney to do recitations, but he just can't contain himself from singing and now is really wound up because he is doing solos. "A bird's gotta sing. You can't just tell a bird to go chirp, chirp, chirp."
Finally, Andy convinces Barney that the "hot" professional microphone that Barney will be using is super sensitive. Ultimately, Barney is barely whispering. At the contest, the bass singer slips out to sing into a live microphone, while Barney lip synchs into a dead one. All is well.
In the final scene, Andy has to break it to Barney that the $10.00 merchandise certificate that he won for best performer makes him ineligible for the choir as he is now a professional.
One of my personal favorite episodes.
 Welcome sweet springtime,
We greet thee in sooooong.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/12/2007 2:45:14 PM
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Oh that is a really good one! My second favorite (Opie's Charity is my favorite). I bought a really old song book once because it had "Juanita" in it. I tried playing it once (on piano) but in my head it always sounds like Barney Fife.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/13/2007 8:47:16 AM
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Aside: I noticed that, even though it was summer and the boys ran track in shorts, Andy's desk calendar was turned all the way to December.
I have never noticed that before.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/15/2007 5:38:07 PM
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Why thank you, kind sir. (though I just watched the episode and I'm not sure just how lavish of a compliment that is......)
Funny, we were watching some of the first season last night and Barney sang and he's pretty good. I think I have heard him sing "normally" in a two or three episodes (one is where he and Andy are singing their alma mater song).
But when he sings bad, he sings bad real good.  (And I especially like it when he sings accapella.)
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/15/2007 10:55:08 PM
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53. Guest of Honor
The Founder's Day committee decides to honor the first "non-local" person to drive through Mayberry with the key to the city and other goodies.
Unfortunately, the first person through is a notorious pickpocket and sneak thief who has been released from jail in the next county and escorted to the county line.
Just shaking hands with the committee lands the thief a big haul. Andy figures it out quickly and tells Barney to watch the guy closely while the other "deputies" (One Two and Three) watch the town.
Outside the crook's hotel room, Barney offers a theory about "Kleptimineracs" and how they can't help stealing. Luckily, the prison system teaches them basket weaving, and they get on the straight and narrow.
Barney leaves his watch with the "solid gold band" on the table as a test and lectures the guest on how some Mamas are not proud of their sons "because they're rotten".
Barney is very pleased with himself for reforming the crook until Andy points out that the key chain Barney is jauntily twirling is empty.
They finally catch the guest as he leaves the jewelry store, loaded down with watches and other goodies. In the final scene, the prisoner picks Barney's badge.
IMO, a well below average episode. Not very funny and not a good moral either.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/17/2007 4:27:46 PM
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54. The Merchant of Mayberry
A sweet and gentle traveling door-to-door salesman, Bert Miller, comes back through Mayberry. His feet hurt, the bursitus is in his shoulder, and the ringing of doorbells is driving him crazy. He is so averse to being "pushy" that customers have to practically beg him to sell them something.
Ben Weaver, owner of the only department store in town, is upset by Bert peddling on the street. Mainly to annoy Ben, Andy sets Bert up with a bench in the empty lot by Crowley's market. When Ben complains that a store must have a roof, Andy provides an umbrella for Bert. When Ben complains that a store must be a proper structure, Andy gets a proper structure and Bert fills it up with items on consignment, making Ben madder and madder.
An example of Bert's lack of "pushiness" is when a lady tries to buy a scarf:
Lady: "I'll take it."
Bert: "Are you sure you really want it?"
Lady: "Yes Bert, I want it."
Bert: "Well, are you really sure you like it? I don't want to be pushy."
Lady: "I like it Bert, I like it. I love it."
Bert: "Well, all right. If you get it home and decide that you don't like it, you can bring it back. I never really cared for it myself."
Bert's "store" is thriving until Weaver starts having big sales and giveaways, and Bert's business drops to nothing. Andy borrows a truck from a friend who runs a department store in Mt. Pilot and starts loading up Bert's merchandise to return to the consignor.
Weaver sees the truck and thinks that hte Mt. Pilot merchant is opening a store. He asks Andy to keep him out of Mayberry (how Andy could accomplish this is best left to the imagination). However, Andy negotiates on behalf of Bert and not only gets Bert a job working a Weavers, but gets Ben to buy out Bert, lock, stock and barrel. No more sore feet, aching shoulder, and ringing doorbells.
The final scene shows Andy leading Ben Weaver to a new business on the same spot. Ben gets more and more agitated, until he sees that it is Opie with a lemonade stand (it was a little disturbing to see Opie stick his arm, up to the elbow, in the jar of lemonade).
Aside 1: The fine character actor who played Bert Miller, Sterling Holloway, was the voice of Winnie the Pooh.
Aside 2: The fine character actor who played Ben Weaver, Will Wright, was making his last appearance on the show, and died soon after.
A fun episode, as all the ones with the Ben Weaver character seem to be.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/17/2007 6:01:47 PM
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55. Aunt Bee the Warden
Andy gets into a scuffle bringing in the four moonshining Gordon brothers, and is wearing a cast on his arm (from a real life injury). He fills up the jail with the boys, then Otis comes in for his weekly visit.
The Gordon boys wrongly think that Otis has ratted them out, and try to harm him, Andy decides that the best place for Otis is in Andy's house.
Otis gets on Aunt Bee's bad side quickly by staggering into the kitchen singing Dipsy Doodle, right in the middle of her cake baking party with the women of the church.
Next morning, when Aunt Bee brings him breakfast, Otis decides that he nedds a little more shuteye and tells Aunt Bee to keep the food warm and the coffee simmering.
Aunt Bee decides that if Otis is a prisoner that he should be treated like one, and she nearly works him to death. She also foils several clever escape attempts, including a classic laundry truck escape, where she beats him with a broom. (most of the acting is in pantomime, a device occasionally used in the series). Finally, Otis gets cleaned up and swears off drinking.
He calls the Taylor home "the Rock" and Aunt Bee "Bloody Mary".
Meanwhile, Barney is trying his penal reform theories on the Gordons. He brings them a leathercraft set, a metal working set, a woodworking set, and a Mr. Potatohead set (which proves popular). Unfortunately, they use the metal craft set to make a passkey, and all escape.
Andy captures them again, but takes them to Aunt Bee's, who they recognize as Bloody Mary and try to get back in the squad car.
Most people really like this episode, but it is not one of my favorites. I love Otis and his interactions with Barney, but a little of Otis goes a long way.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/22/2007 5:45:27 PM
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56. The County Nurse
A new County Nurse, Mary Simpson, has promised her superviser that she would get everyone in Mayberry to take a tetanus shot, but Rafe Hollister and his neighbors refuse.
Andy, smitten with the lovely Mary, offers to drive her up to Hollister's farm and help. Andy is quick to put the move on Mary is the squad car (under a pretense of getting an explanation of the effects of tetanus), but Rafe comes out of the barn and interrupts.
The exchanges between Andy and Rafe regarding health care are classic:
Rafe: "I had my Mama when I was born and I'll have the undertaker when I die. No use muddying things up in between."
Regarding a thermometer: "Got one of them on the hen house, bigger though."
Regarding the stethoscope (after listening to his and Andy's heart: "Now we know we're both alive."
Rafe refuses and the couple goes back to town, where Barney explains to Mary that Rafe is like a child who needs to be told what to do. This results in Barney taking Mary back to Rafe's place, getting shot at, and Andy having to arrest Rafe.
While sharing a good cup of coffee, Andy uses reverse psychology, telling Rafe how big a hero he will be for not taking a tetanus shot, because after his death his friends will know how important that shot is. By the end of Andy's mournful funeral song, Rafe is ready for the needle.
Andy: "But you'll be a dead hero."
Rafe: "I'd rather be a live me. My daddy lived to be a hundred, and I don't aim to break the tradition."
The final scene is very funny. Barney is making fun of Rafe for being so scared of a shot, when Mary notes that Barney hasn't had his shot. He struggles and resists but Andy makes him take it. He thinks the alcohol prep is the shot: "That wasn't so bad". Then  when Mary sticks him.
Very funny episode, with a good lesson in why we all need a tetanus shot.
Note: The actress who played Mary, Julie Adams, only made one appearance on Andy. She is forever known for starring in The Creature From The Black Lagoon. Still acting at age 81, she will be in an episode of CSI on October 31, 2007.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/24/2007 1:14:32 PM
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57. Andy and Barney In the Big City
Our boys head for Raleigh, on the bus, to visit state police headquarters and to plead their case to the police commission for more equipment.
As they leave the house Andy's luggage "clinks".
Barney: "What's that."
Andy: "A bottle."
Barney (grinning): "You think of everything, don't you."
Of course, it's only a couple of bottles of Aunt Bee's piccalilli relish, which she insists that Andy take, along with a brown paper sack full of sandwiches.
As they check into their hotel, Barney notices a woman signing some expensive looking jewelry out of the safe, and being noticed by a shady looking character.
The desk clerk (played by Arte Johnson of Laugh-In fame, "Verrrry Interesting"), calls Barney Dr. Fife. When Andy inquires, it turns out that he always signs in as Barney Fife, M.D. (Mayberry Deputy).
A police official think it will be hard to get more equipment since the Mayberry Sheriff's Department has not made any headline grabbing arrests.
Barney decides to catch a jewel thief at the hotel. He botches it by taking a real jewel thief into his confidence and spying on the aforementioned shady character, who turns out to be the hotel detective.
Before long, Barney has helped the thief steal the jewels and locked the detective in the closet. Andy figures it all out and makes Barney, yet again, look good. The headlines help the force get the new equipment.
The hotel detective is played by Allan Melvin, who appears several times, usually as a "tough guy".
One of the funnier episodes.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/24/2007 1:33:23 PM
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58. Wedding Bells For Aunt Bee
Aunt Bee's friend Clara convinces her that Andy is not going to the church social, and in fact is still single, because he doesn't want to leave Aunt Bee alone. After a series of misunderstandings and bad communication, Aunt Bee feigns an interest in Fred Goss, one of the only repulsive characters ever on the show.
Mr. Goss is a gossip, has a bad personality, and always has a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. Despite being a dry cleaner: "always pays to look your best", Mr. Goss is sloppy and covered with ashes.
However, Aunt Bee pretends to like Mr. Goss seems to be marching toward ill-fitting matrimony, all for Andy's sake. By the way, Andy is not his usual "quick on the uptake" self in this one.
Andy explains to Opie about that "deep, forever" kind of love that people who want to get married have. On the porch that night Opie notices, that while Andy and Aunt Bee are talking about the advantages of her marrying Mr. Goss, love is never mentioned. In looking at Aunt Bee's face (the woman was really a good actress), Andy realizes that she doesn't love Mrs. Goss, and makes a touching speech that let's her know that it's not right for him and Opie if it's not right for her too.
Andy breaks up the romance by describing to Mr. Goss Aunt Bee's new dress: yards and yards of paper taffeta, the upper part all flocking, a double row of plastic buttons, and 36 rhinestone buttons in the back. Truly a cleaner's nightmare.
Andy then foists Mr. Goss off on Clara and he, Aunt Bee, and Opie drive off to Mt. Pilot for Chinese.
This is one of Mrs. Kerrlaw's favorite episodes.
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