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Confession time.
My wife and children are rapped up in this multiple nights a week. At times, they even get me caught up in it.


Its the Andy Griffith show. It's their favorite show and they watch it all the time, for atleast a year now. Netflix . Isn't that crazy.

I figure we're the only ones still watching the legendary Barney Fife on a regular occasion.....
Maybe not....


Anybody ever battle something like this, even in 2011?

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I battled with MONK for a year or two - till we saw them all.

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The Andy Griffith show is one of my favorites. I thought I had seen every episode of all nine seasons several times each but about a year ago I actually saw one I don't think I had seen before.

I am slowly but surely collecting each season on DVD. Sams Club has had seasons for as low as around $12 each and other places $15. I have seasons 1-4 so far.

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Actually, you have seen that one. Twice. Before the memory loss.:heeheehee

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Can't recall ever watching even one episode of Andy. However, I'm stuck on watching In The Heat Of The Night...15-20 years after its finale. I got introduced to it long about the year it ended while visiting relatives, ironically, in Mississippi.

Guess I'll need to sit down and actually watch an Andy episode. It seems like something I'd enjoy for someone my age...

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Frasier is one of my current favorites. Never watched it when it was showing new episodes but love it now.

And yes, the Andy Griffith show (the first five B&W seasons) are timeless classics, along with the Dick Van Dyke show.

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I don't watch sitcoms much, but when I do, I watch Andy Griffith.....

Maybe I shouldn't have used that line. :D

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Man, why didn't they stop making episodes when Don Knots left????

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I agree! Ol' Barn made that show in my opinion. :thumbsup

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As far as I am concerned, there is only one TV show on TV. That is the Andy Griffith Show. If they ever stopped showing Andy, I will burn my TV and join the Worldwide Pentecostal Fellowship.

I do not watch Mayberry RFD. (Sin)

The "Andy Griffith Show" movies like "Return to Mayberry" are an abomination.

*When Goober was 1st introduced on the show...his name was Goober Beasley (not Pyle)

*Andy and Aunt Bea (Andy G and Frances Xavier) did not get along. She was a well known movie star before joining the cast and always resented Andy because she was never given "star status".

* Andy G had an explosive temper. There are two episodes where his hand in bandaged up. On the show he explained that he had been in a "tussle" with some prisoners.
Actually, he got so angry, some say at "Aunt Bea", that he punched a wall and injured his hand.

* The man who played Ernest T. Bass, appeared on the show as 3 different characters. (And directed several episodes.). He played Ernest T, George the TV repairman, and an unseen radio announcer. Surprizingly, Ernest T. was featured on just 3 episodes.

* Andy did not like Barneys replacement (Warren Ferguson). He wanted Goober to become the deputy, but the producers rejected him because he was "too dumb". They brought in Warren, and Andy's displeasure in the choice can be clearly seen in Andy's lackluster performance on the remainder of the show.

* Leon, the jelly sandwich eating "cowboy" was Opie's (Ronny Howards) real life brother, Clint, who later starred in Gentle Ben". "Opies" dad, Lance Howard, appeared on at least two episodes, one as a bus driver.

*The "Mayberry" set was used in one episode of Star Trek when Captin Kirk and crew went back in time to earth. The famous Mayberry court house can be seen clearly.

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Ya, Barney's replacement was a total disaster. Not because he was irritating in any way but the character just didn't work. Andy G played the part of the straight man to the room full of idiots around him -specifically to Barney and Gomer, so having two adults with virtually no comic value in the same room was just.... unfunny.

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See if you can find the mistake ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXlqd...eature=related

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The calendar was 15, then 16

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There is no pocket on Barneys shirt until he sits down at the table to eat. At 47 seconds the pocket appears.

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DDid you ever get any of Monk's afflictions??:laffatu

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I was thinking of Gomer just yesterday...and how much I became just like him in hearing reproof from the Lord and how it was a pleasure to my soul to actually hear him and receive instruction...without him I would be like a leaf in the wind..

Gomer was that way with Sgt. Carter. no matter how much he shouted at Gomer; Gomer smiled and nodded his head in agreement....

I not saying God, ever shouted at me, but that's just the way they communicated on TV show... {The Spoken Word= (quickened)} is a much greater light than that which is written..

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Seriously! I have a few of them - according to my wife.

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By the way her last name is Bavier not Xavier. Isn't Xavier on X Men? LOL

Years ago I was shocked to read that the actress playing Aunt Bea was very diffiult to work with and definitely nothing like the warm loving character she played. She was from New York and not a Southerner at all.

As you said she resented Andy Griffith greatly and was extremely difficult to work with. Everybody had to be very careful how they spoke to her. One directer asked her to do something a certain way in a scene and she stormed off the set because she was offended. In all of the interviews I have seen or read with Ron Howard about being a child actor on Andy Griffith he talks about what a good experience it was and praises Andy Griffith and the producers but I have never heard him comment about working with Frances Bavier.

Interestingly enough even though she was not from North Carolina as mentioned she did retire there. She was extremely private and did not have any kind of public life.

I saw an interview with Andy Griffith years back not long after she died and he said that she either called him on the phone or asked him to visit (I forget which) and she apologized for her behavior. She told him that it had been his show and she had no right to have been resentful,etc. You could tell it meant a lot to him that she said that before she died.

On a side note, after she died they auctioned off her belongings and one of the things was a mid 60's Ford Falcon with almost no miles on it in her garage. I would have loved to have had that!

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yeah....I feel like washing my hands every time I shake someone's hand too...:laffatu