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Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/7/2007 11:07:52 PM)

5. Irresistable Andy

Andy is really out of character in this one. He shows a great deal of vanity and a little too much "hickness". Thankfully, this did not last.

It reminded me how bad the southern accents of the characters were at times. Even Barney and Aunt Bee didn't quite have them down this early in the series. In later years, I marveled at Johnny Paul's brooklyn sounding accent.

The saving grace was Opie's innocently recounting the "female is a desperate hunter" conversation between Aunt Bee and Andy - and the resulting toxic soda that Ellie mixes up for Andy.

You're So Vain kept running through my head.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 7:57:19 AM)

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ORIGINAL: morningmike

That Christian love shown to Floyd is, I think, one of the reasons that the show remains so popular. It strikes a chord that is deep within all of us, and is one reason we all continue to watch the same episodes over and over, and never tire of them. TV stations that show Andy consistently get high ratings for that half hour.

On another note...there were several famous people who had roles on the show...Jack Nicholson comes to mind, as does Barbara Eden.

Mike


Jack Nicholson was on twice.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 8:08:16 AM)

6. Runaway Kid

Andy gets into a mess (which is a theme repeated several times) when he tells Opie one thing, but seems to do another. Some boys and Opie push Andy's car in front of a fire hydrant, and Barney gives him a ticket.

BTW: This is the only time that I remember Barney having a car until he purchases the "hot" car from sweet Mrs. Lesh (who is running a stolen car chop shop).

Andy tells Opie that he should not tell on his friends if he promised not to, then has a moral dilemma when Opie has has promised not to tell on a new friend who has run away from home.

Actually, the moral is a little fuzzy here. It seems to be: The right thing to do is not tell on your friends if they commit a crime, but it's OK to break a confidence (or law) if it is for someone's good.

The funniest segment is when Andy makes Barney the Justice of the Peace to hear Andy's defense of the parking ticket, then Barney dismisses the ticket that he just wrote. Both actors are at the top of their game here.



Hischild1994 -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 8:18:13 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Kerrlaw1

BTW: This is the only time that I remember Barney having a car until he purchases the "hot" car from sweet Mrs. Lesh (who is running a stolen car chop shop).


Wasn't Mrs. Lesh played by Ellen Corby (or Colby- something like that), who played Grandma Walton?

I don't remember The Runaway Kid.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 8:57:06 AM)

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Wasn't Mrs. Lesh played by Ellen Corby (or Colby- something like that), who played Grandma Walton?


You're right. She was a very busy actress and had a long life. I like her as "Ma" Lesh.



morningmike -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 9:34:33 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Kerrlaw1

quote:

ORIGINAL: morningmike

That Christian love shown to Floyd is, I think, one of the reasons that the show remains so popular. It strikes a chord that is deep within all of us, and is one reason we all continue to watch the same episodes over and over, and never tire of them. TV stations that show Andy consistently get high ratings for that half hour.

On another note...there were several famous people who had roles on the show...Jack Nicholson comes to mind, as does Barbara Eden.

Mike


Jack Nicholson was on twice.


Okay, you got me...I remember the one where he was accused of stealing, but I can't seem to place the other one.

Mike



MattPaasch -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 10:48:57 AM)

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ORIGINAL: morningmike

And of course, there's the marvelous musical group The Dillards, who portrayed the Darlings. I understand that some of them still perform at some reunion type events.


The Dillards are from here in the Ozarks, and I hear of them from time to time.

I read that early on in their career they had to do a live album due to accusations of speeding up the music by other record companies. They were told that no one could pick that fast!

Our local libraries has several of their albums on cd. What a joy to listen to!



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 11:19:09 AM)

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Okay, you got me...I remember the one where he was accused of stealing, but I can't seem to place the other one.


Right Mike, that was when Aunt Bee was on jury duty. Two of the all-time best lines (I'm paraphrasing from memory).

Andy to Goober: "Want a cup of coffee?"
Goober: "Who's buying."
Andy: "I am."
Goober (to waitress): I'll have a banana split

and later,

Andy and Goober are snoozing and Opie runs into the coffee shop -

Opie (yelling: "Pa, pa, they say it's a hung jury and that it's Aunt Bee's fault!"
Andy: "Let's go."
Goober: "Oh no, Andy. They're gonna hang that boy."


The other Jack Nicholson appearance was when a woman left a baby on the courthouse steps and Opie and Johnny Paul tried to hide it and care for it. Jack played the baby's father, who got a stern lecture from Andy before getting the baby back. (This was before DHS got involved in everything).



crankius -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 11:43:46 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Kerrlaw1

5. Irresistable Andy

Andy is really out of character in this one. He shows a great deal of vanity and a little too much "hickness". Thankfully, this did not last.


I remember this one. I had the impression in the early episodes they were still deciding who should be the straight man and who should be the goofy one. Clearly the characters work better when Barney is goofy and Andy plays the straight man.


This morning I saw a re-run of when the goat eats all the dynamite and they put the goat in a cell because they are all afraid the goat is going to blow up, and Otis shows up drunk and kicks the goat out (after trying very hard to sleep on the mattress on the wall). Hal Smith (Otis) was the best drunk ever.



morningmike -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 12:16:49 PM)

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The other Jack Nicholson appearance was when a woman left a baby on the courthouse steps and Opie and Johnny Paul tried to hide it and care for it. Jack played the baby's father, who got a stern lecture from Andy before getting the baby back. (This was before DHS got involved in everything).


Now I remember that one! I haven't seen that episode in a long time.

I recently read an interview with Jack Nicholson, and he was asked if he remembered doing the show. He said yes, and remembered that he was treated very well by Andy and everyone connected with the show.

Mike



Hischild1994 -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 6:13:35 PM)

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ORIGINAL: crankius
This morning I saw a re-run of when the goat eats all the dynamite and they put the goat in a cell because they are all afraid the goat is going to blow up, and Otis shows up drunk and kicks the goat out (after trying very hard to sleep on the mattress on the wall). Hal Smith (Otis) was the best drunk ever.


I think The Loaded Goat is my least favorite episode.

Also, after Don Knotts left the show, I didn't watch as much.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/8/2007 11:28:13 PM)

7. Andy the Matchmaker

In this episode Andy settles more into the character that really makes the show successful. The real heart of the series is that others have problems that Andy solves without making the people feel bad.

This is the first time (of many) that Barney turns in his resignation - "one hat, one tie, one ticket book......one whistle, I replaced the pea, but I won't charge you for it."

Andy moves Barney's budding romance with Miss Rosemary along by first staging a fake robbery (of Ellie's drug store) to build Barney's confidence, then by declaring for Miss Rosemary when Barney is holding back.

Funniest moment is the reason barney is resigning. Some has blamed Opie for a poem written on the bank wall (paraphrasing from memory):

There once was a deputy named Fife,
Who carrried a gun and a knife,
The gun, it was dusty,
The knife it was rusty,
Because he never caught a crook in his life.

Andy realizes that Opie couldn't have done it because he "ain't learned how to write yet."



Hischild1994 -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/9/2007 12:17:55 AM)

I always thought that poem was cute.



Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/9/2007 12:35:29 AM)

I have watched Andy Griffith through the years, from his years being sheriff in Mayberry through when he got his law degree, moved to Georgia, and was a practicing attorney. I hadn't thought about it earlier, in his sheriff years, but when he was Matlock, he look so strikingly like my first husband's father that it was freaky. They are about the same age, too. One day, I grabbed my father-in-law's photo as a young man and compared it to young Andy, and honestly, if they didn't look like perfect twins! Both strikingly handsome blue-eyed, dark-haired young men, they both are just as strikingly handsome as older snowy-haired men.

I lost my first husband when he was 29-1/2, exactly, so I didn't get to see him grow old. I grabbed his photo, and sure enough, he was a brown-haired perfect image of his father and Andy. Wow! It was neat to look at Andy and realize that this was what he would have looked like, had he lived to my age -- with those fabulous sapphire eyes, what a knock-out!

Now, my father-in-law is in his 90s and still so very handsome it amazes me.

So it's kind of fun for me. I should tell the children, really. It could be fun for them as well.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/9/2007 7:14:58 AM)

Great story. You should tell the children.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/9/2007 9:01:20 AM)

8. Opie's Charity

Probably my very favorite episode, even though Barney is not it.

There are two plots going - both good ones. The first is that Annabelle Silby, a woman with way too much pride, has told everyone that her husband Tom was ran over by a taxicab in Charlottesville, She has a funeral and buries an empty casket. Tom, who was bad to drink, turns up in Andy's office. Newly sober (since he no longer has to put up with Annabelle's nagging) Tom is missing her. Andy works it out to get them back together.

The second plot is that Andy is embarassed because Opie only gave 3 cents to help the underprivileged children, while saving two dollars to buy his girlfriend a present. Andy is really upset by this. Aunt Bee points out that Andy is being like Annabelle - too much false pride. Andy decides to overlook Opie's small contribution - and then discovers that Opie is saving to buy the little girl a new winter coat becaue the children have made fun of her ragged one and her mother doesn't have money for a new one.

Andy says, when Opie asks what is for supper: "You and Aunt Bee are having fried chicken, and I'll be having crow."

Good morals abound: Don't let false pride blind you. Always find out the facts before passing judgment. Ask your kids questions and listen to them - "You never told me that Opie.", "You never asked me." Bury your mistakes and go forward.

The imagery of the Silbys visiting the grave where the "old" Tom Silby is buried is compelling.

Funniest moment (among several) is the dialogue between Andy and Opie about the poor children who live in the county (paraphrasing from memory):

Andy: "Why, there are one and a half underprivileged boys per square mile in the county."

Opie: "I've never seen that."

Andy: "Never seen what?"

Opie: "Half a boy."

Andy: " It's not really half a boy, it's a ratio."

Opie: "Horatio who."

Andy: "Not Horatio, a ratio. It's mathematics, arithmetic. Just forget about that part."

Opie: "It's hard to forget about something like that."

Andy: "Well, try."

Opie: "Poor Horatio."

Andy: "I think we're drifting here."



tafkam -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/9/2007 9:09:49 AM)

How about

Andy - "Well, Tom! Tom Silby! Why I ain't seen you around these parts since (it suddenly dawns on him)....your funeral!"



Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/9/2007 10:33:58 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Kerrlaw1
Great story. You should tell the children.

I did. Last night. I had to. [;)]



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/9/2007 10:59:57 PM)

9. A Feud Is A Feud

A mountain version of Romeo and Juliet, Andy is forced at gunpoint to halt the marriage ceremony that he is presiding over for two young people whose families have been feuding for four generations.

Andy discovers that there has been nary a drop of blood shed in the entire time, and bluffs the two patriarchs of the Wakefield and Carter clans into exhibiting cowardice, which makes the youngsters standing up to their parents seem very heroic in comparison.

The scene where Andy organizes the duel is great. Andy reveals that he was in France during the war (presumably WW II, though he seems a little young for that).

Funniest moment is when Andy tells Opie the story of Romeo and Juliet in the homespun style that made Andy famous as a comedian before the show.

Sadly, Barney is not in this episode.



Hischild1994 -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/9/2007 11:45:49 PM)

I never noticed that Barney wasn't in that episode.

I always liked that one because my mom is a Hatfield from the Hatfield and McCoy feud.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/10/2007 11:32:47 AM)

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Glad that you survived.



cajunhillbilly -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/10/2007 12:24:44 PM)

I am from West Virginia and a fued there is a sacred duty, by golly.



Ps103 -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/10/2007 12:26:25 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Kerrlaw1

9. A Feud Is A Feud

A mountain version of Romeo and Juliet, Andy is forced at gunpoint to halt the marriage ceremony that he is presiding over for two young people whose families have been feuding for four generations.

Andy discovers that there has been nary a drop of blood shed in the entire time, and bluffs the two patriarchs of the Wakefield and Carter clans into exhibiting cowardice, which makes the youngsters standing up to their parents seem very heroic in comparison.

The scene where Andy organizes the duel is great. Andy reveals that he was in France during the war (presumably WW II, though he seems a little young for that).

Funniest moment is when Andy tells Opie the story of Romeo and Juliet in the homespun style that made Andy famous as a comedian before the show.

Sadly, Barney is not in this episode.


Did you ever see the movie "No Time for Sergeants?" (Don Knotts was in that, too.)



cajunhillbilly -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/10/2007 12:27:47 PM)

Wasn't there also a tv series based on that movie in the 60s?



cajunhillbilly -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/10/2007 12:31:56 PM)

http://www.tv.com/no-time-for-sergeants/show/12081/summary.html?q=&tag=search_results;title;1



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