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monamie -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/19/2007 9:52:00 PM)

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But then what? The other two that I would love to have are not on DVD yet. WKRP in Cincinnati and Newhart.


We may have been separated at birth. I want both of those when they come out.


Hey, bro!!!![:D][:D]

The little girl that Opie was saving $$ to buy the coat for was Charlotte. It doesn't show her or tell her last name.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 12:21:43 AM)

17. Alcohol and Old Lace

Barney and Andy are trying to crack down on moonshining in Mayberry, which is now in a dry county, unlike in Christmas Story.

They are aided in their efforts by the Morrison sisters, Jennifer and Clarabelle, two old maid sisters who have an uncanny ability to sniff out stills. Jennifer loves the smell of witch hazel, and it's all Clarabelle can do to keep her out of the barber shop. ("..if only you weren't so boy crazy").

The sister's tips lead Andy and Barney to two stills, which Barney gets to destroy ("I took a big ax, and POW,POW,POW"). Unbeknownst to our boys, the Morrison sisters are simply getting rid of their competition, as they have a (beautiful) still in their greenhouse.

The sisters, you understand, don't sell moonshine for drinking purposes, they sell elixir for sipping on special occasions - like Christmas, New Years, National Potato week and Mohammed's birthday.

Jennifer: "Who would have thought there were so many Moslems in Mayberry."
Clarabelle: "I thought Hank Smith was a Lutheran. If it wasn't for their holidays you'd never know."

The scheme unravels when Opie (who was given permission by the sisters to take some flowers) sneaks into the greenhouse for "special" flowers, puts them into a "vase" (quart Mason" jar) and takes them to the courthouse. He then proceeds to tell Andy about the "flower making machine" that the Morrison sisters have.

Otis has come in and locked himself up (and for the only time I remember, paid a fine). He refuses to tell where the source of his moonshine is: "We town drunks have a code we live by." The gamut of emotions that run across Otis' face as Andy and Barney figure out the Morrison sisters' scheme is priceless.

Andy lets the ladies off with a lecture and Barney gets to POW,POW,POW.

It's interesting that the penalty for moonshining in Mayberry seems to be 48 hours in jail, not much of a deterrent.

The sisters switch their business to making preserves and bring Andy and Barney each a jar. The episode ends with us seeing Barney tipsy on preserves (the first of several times we see him drunk on one strange substance or another) and Andy remarking the rehabilitation of the sisters was not complete.

A really good episode that was loosely based on Alcohol and Old Lace.



.Pammy -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 7:18:44 AM)

Excuse me, did anyone notice that I said that I have WKRP Season 1? Amazon.com has it.



amyk -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 7:43:40 AM)

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A really good episode that was loosely based on Alcohol and Old Lace.


I think you meant that was loosely based on Arsenic and Old Lace, the Cary Grant movie. (but I see that the title of the AG episode is Alcohol and Old Lace - cute!)



monamie -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 8:31:28 AM)

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ORIGINAL: PamelaSue

Excuse me, did anyone notice that I said that I have WKRP Season 1? Amazon.com has it.


Yes!! And I'm sure glad you mentioned it. We spent a while yesterday tracking down the cheapest place to pick it up. Barnes & Noble seems to run about $6 cheaper than anywhere else. I think I'm going to order it today.



.Pammy -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 9:20:53 AM)

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ORIGINAL: monamie

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ORIGINAL: PamelaSue

Excuse me, did anyone notice that I said that I have WKRP Season 1? Amazon.com has it.


Yes!! And I'm sure glad you mentioned it. We spent a while yesterday tracking down the cheapest place to pick it up. Barnes & Noble seems to run about $6 cheaper than anywhere else. I think I'm going to order it today.

Great! Do B&N DVD prices generally run better than Amazon? That sounds like a pretty good deal. The thing I like about ordering online is the convenience though. I really hate shopping. Oops, there I go off-topic again.



monamie -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 10:30:39 AM)

Pamela, I order online from BN all the time. If you order $25 or more you get free shipping. Since the WKRP set is only $24, I'll order one of the books I have been wanting to order anyway. Or maybe begin to order some things I have planned to purchase as Christmas gifts.

So to put this back on topic, you can also buy the seasons of The Andy Griffith Show through BN. (How's that?)[:D]



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 3:32:57 PM)

18. Andy the Marriage Counselor

Fred and Jenny Boone are a constantly fighting couple who disturb the peace (and their neighbors) on a regular basis.

After one too many calls out to their house, Andy decides to turn marriage counselor. He threatens the Boones with jail unless they practice being nice to each other on a regular basis. They come to the courthouse every morning and learn to be nice to each other - "Mornin' Dear", "Mornin' Honey". It actually begins to work.

Andy is so enamored of his brilliance that he works the same magic on Opie and his friend, Billy. He gives the boys a nickle every time they play nice together.

The plan soon backfires as the Boones are nice to each other, but hateful and mean to everyone else in town. About the time Andy realizes this, Opie decides that he would rather play "fun" than get a nickle for playing nice.

Under the guise of a celebration, Andy eggs the Boones into fighting again, and everyone is happy. (and Fred goes on to become the original Maytag repairman)

The interesting moral is that some people show their love for one another by bickering and fighting.

Three laugh out loud moments:

Barney demands that Jenny "put that cup down, right now", whereupon she smashes it down on his foot.

Andy filling in the insults when he is cajoling the Boones into fighting again - "nagging fish wife", "black hearted buzzard", etc.

Best of all, the first time we see Barney practicing the martial arts. As always happens, it is very successful when he practices judo in slow motion on Andy, but Andy invariably gets the advantage in real time speed.

Barney (wrapped up in Andy's arm with the "knife" at his throat) "Let me go, let me go".

Andy: "What's that?"

Barney: "Let me go, you did something wrong".



tafkam -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 4:25:55 PM)

I'm going to have to cave in and just buy the DVDs of this classic show. I can't stand to watch it on TV anymore.

Why? Because every time the reruns cycle around again, I notice that there is a little more cut out here and there. And I've seen 'em all enough times to recognize when something is missing. All this in order to accomodate a few more commercials. Some scenes are butchered so badly that they no longer make sense!

So I'll buy the DVDs and enjoy THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW in all it's uncut glory.....



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 4:41:45 PM)

In the first season, which I am watching now, each episode lasts almost 25 minutes.

The pattern of the show is a that short scene (about two minutes) starts the show. This scene may or may not have any relation to the main plot. For example, the scene with Barney's judo training had nothing to do with the main plot.

There are then two scenes of ten minutes or so each that make up the body of the episode. Then a one or two minute final scene which, again, may or may not relate to the main plot.

In reruns, they invariably cut out either the first or last scene, and edit out parts of the main plot in order to get in their 7-8 minutes of commercials.

Tafkam: You won't be sorry if you buy them. You see the full show and the picture quality is tremendous. I'm so spoiled it's hard to watch on regular TV.



MattPaasch -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 5:20:53 PM)

I love this thread!



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 11:08:08 PM)

Jump right in Matt.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/20/2007 11:23:17 PM)

19. Mayberry On Record

A man comes to Mayberry looking for folk music talent to make a record. The locals do such a good job that he has high hopes of making $25,000.00 on the project.

The barbershop gang want to get in on the deal (since they will not be getting royalties as the performers will) and convince the producer (Mr. Maxwell) to allow them to invest in the record.

Andy believes that Mr. Maxwell is a con man and the townsfolk have been swindled. When Maxwell leaves suddenly, Andy's fears seem justified.

Just as everybody is thoroughly worked up, Maxwell arrives with a large check and a contract with a national record company.

Not a very funny episode, in my opinion.

The best part was the opening scene where Barney, upset with the way deductions have whittled down his paycheck, announces that he wants to invest in something that will make him more money.

Andy sells Barney a "rare" buffalo head nickle with the buffalo facing the wrong direction. Of course, when Barney stands on the same side of the desk as Andy, he sees that it is just an ordinary nickle.

We do see in the scene where they are planning a roadblock to catch Maxwell that our boys have the magnetic map board that they thought was so slick in episode 2 - The Manhunt.



monamie -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/21/2007 9:16:23 AM)

Kerr, is that the episode (Mayberry on Record) that Andy's band plays for the man? I think it is, though I haven't seen it in a while. Roland White is the mandolin picker in that group. When my son went to Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend last fall, Roland White was one of his instructors.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/21/2007 10:19:52 PM)

That is Roland White. He was later in a band called the Kentucky Colonels.



monamie -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/22/2007 1:49:59 PM)

Thought so. My son got a Kentucky Colonels CD and it has some really good stuff on it.



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/22/2007 3:04:51 PM)

20. Andy Saves Barney's Morale

Andy leaves for 8 hours to testify in a case out of town and reluctantly leaves Barney in charge.

Things are quiet when Andy returns, because Barney has locked up most of the town (including Aunt Bee and Mayor Pike) on various charges ranging from vagrancy (the Mayor) to inciting to riot (Aunt Bee).

Andy dismisses all of the charges, and Barney accepts this until the entire town begins to make jokes about him continuously. Even the loving attentions of Hilda May don't cheer up Barney - she actually makes it worse by laughing at him after she musses up his hair.

Barney lets himself go in appearance and eventually resigns, again (one cap, one ticket book, one revolver, one bullet...)

Andy uses reverse psychology by telling the townspeople that he has to fire Barney because he has become a laughingstock. Everyone then returns to jail, turns themselves in, and tells Andy how much he should appreciate Barney.

Funny moment: Barney thinks he has Otis dead to rights on a public drunkness charge.

Andy: "He looks sober to me."

Barney: "I asked him to walk a chalk line I drew, and you know what he said, 'what chalk line'."

Andy: "Is that true Otis?"

Otis: "Sure, I didn't have my specs, and I can't see anything without my glasses."

Andy: "Well, were you drunk when Barney arrested you?"

Otis: 'I can't tell, I didn't have my glasses".



GrammyK -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/22/2007 7:53:42 PM)

This thread is great!! I loved/love the Andy Griffith shows. I think it's neat that Otis, the loveable town drunk, became John Avery Whitaker.



Hischild1994 -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/24/2007 9:55:58 PM)

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I think it's neat that Otis, the loveable town drunk, became John Avery Whitaker.


Who is John Avery Whitaker?



amyk -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/25/2007 1:51:52 PM)

John Avery Whitaker is a character in Adventures in Odyssey, a radio program made by Focus on the Family in the U.S.



monamie -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/25/2007 4:15:41 PM)

Most actors that portray a drunk character act like someone trying to act drunk. Not many of them can pull it off. Hal Smith (Otis) was great at it. Foster Brooks is probably the master at making it look genuine.



Hischild1994 -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/25/2007 6:06:08 PM)

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John Avery Whitaker is a character in Adventures in Odyssey, a radio program made by Focus on the Family in the U.S.


Thanks!



Kerrlaw -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/25/2007 6:22:10 PM)

21. Andy and the Gentleman Crook

The state police ask Andy to put up "Gentleman" Dan Caldwell in the Mayberry jail for a couple of days. Barney is thrilled to have the famous con man in the jail and goes out of his way to make hsi "house away from the big house" as comfortable as possible.

Dan (who wears both a belt and suspenders) charms Aunt Bee with his compliments, and Opie and Barney with his exciting stories about jail breaks and crimes. All true stories "On my word as a gentleman."

Opie: "Tell us another one Uncle Dan."

Barney: "Yeah, Uncle Dan."

At the beginning of the episode, Barney accidentally fires his gun again and Andy forbids him to have bullets, but relents because Barney is so down, although ordering him to keep his bullet in his pocket.

It doesn't take long for Dan to trick Barney out of his gun, and he holds Barney, Aunt Bee, and Opie hostage. Andy, who has seen through the con man the entire time, is not worried because he knows the gun is empty. When Andy announces this, Dan fires at the ceiling with the resulting click, click, click, click, click confirming the fact.

When Dan is safely locked away, Andy fires the gun again, with the resulting "bang" so unnerving he and Barney that they lapse into serious overacting.

A very good episode, made better by the superb job by the actor playing Gentleman Dan.

Funny moment: Andy throws out Otis early after stealing his blanket to put in Dan's cell.

Otis: "I'm glad you're here deputy, I want to report a robbery."

Otis, for the first time, threatens to take his business elsewhere.



LissaJo -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/28/2007 9:51:32 AM)

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ORIGINAL: GrammyK

This thread is great!! I loved/love the Andy Griffith shows. I think it's neat that Otis, the loveable town drunk, became John Avery Whitaker.


I didn't know that!! I never associated the voices....
Anyway, I seem to remember an interview or article or something that said that while "Otis" portrayed the town drunk very well, he never was a drinker in real life...



BassSingerSwain -> RE: Mayberry After Midnight (8/28/2007 5:50:46 PM)

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ORIGINAL: LissaJo

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ORIGINAL: GrammyK

This thread is great!! I loved/love the Andy Griffith shows. I think it's neat that Otis, the loveable town drunk, became John Avery Whitaker.


I didn't know that!! I never associated the voices....
Anyway, I seem to remember an interview or article or something that said that while "Otis" portrayed the town drunk very well, he never was a drinker in real life...


That's true. In fact, he was a great Christian man!

And regarding the post that said some actors are great at playing drunks, Dennis Hopper is another one. In Hoosiers, when the town drunk stumbles onto the court, Hopper asked someone to tell him when it was two minutes before his cue. He spun around in circles for two minutes before his cue to give the appearance that he was drunk.



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