The Andy Griffith Show

[Sbbruin 21899]

Watching the one with the gold truck.  Rance  Howard, little Opie Cunningham’s real life dad, plays one of the Treasury men.

[Gil Bang 26050]

Jesus, as great as the originals were, the later ones were equally horrible.

Fucking Aunt Bee is taking flying lessons?   Just horrible. 

[RPM 26360]

Goober goes to the Auto Show is another.

[Gil Bang 26050]

4 hours ago, RPM said:

Goober goes to the Auto Show is another.

Fortunately, I haven't see that one. 

Meanwhile, fuck Emmitt right in the toaster-repairing ass. 

[DougO 5256]

8 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Jesus, as great as the originals were, the later ones were equally horrible.

Fucking Aunt Bee is taking flying lessons?   Just horrible. 

I think that one is widely considered the worst episode of all time...or at least in the bottom 5.

[Steamboat1874 4086]

On 3/26/2018 at 11:52 PM, Sbbruin said:

Watching the one with the gold truck.  Rance  Howard, little Opie Cunningham’s real life dad, plays one of the Treasury men.

Great episode.

[Sbbruin 21899]

19 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Jesus, as great as the originals were, the later ones were equally horrible.

Fucking Aunt Bee is taking flying lessons?   Just horrible. 

I won’t watch any episodes in color.  Mayberry is to be watched in black and white,

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

26 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

I won’t watch any episodes in color.  Mayberry is to be watched in black and white,

A man has got to have his standards....

[NWBuck 8588]

3 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

I won’t watch any episodes in color.  Mayberry is to be watched in black and white,

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Able, Baker, and Charlie are stealin' cows again... Break out the plaster of Paris....  some calls it a melange'... I calls it plaster of Paris.

Edited September 9, 2020 by Onboard 2.0

[Brothahorn 10087]

They did more 'courtin' in that car than 'sheriffin'. 

[Dewey 3296]

When they give Otis a sobriety test with the jump rope 

"Slow it down and let me in or I'll go out and get some gin"

When Opie and Thelma Lou are hanging out and Barney calls 

"Hi pussy cat"

(Opie) "oh, hey Barn..."

[Sbbruin 21899]

15 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Able, Baker, and Charlie are stealin' cows again... Break out the plaster of Paris....  some calls it a melange'... I calls it plaster of Paris.

No point in makin’ a big melange about it.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

They said hark a whole lot back then.....

 

[Richard Kimball 1499]

On 9/4/2020 at 8:10 AM, Sbbruin said:

I won’t watch any episodes in color.  Mayberry is to be watched in black and white,

Two shows that never worked in color were Andy Griffith and The Munsters. 

On Andy Griffith, when they went color, they never thought about a color palette. The khaki uniforms, the drab green walls, everything in the outside scenes was a drab brown. 

Course the fact that Barney left and they tried the stupid fukkin Warren as a deputy didn't help. Huh? yeah. Huh? yeah. 

I'd forgotten about the toaster fixing bastard. 

Never seen a show replace so many stellar cast members with so many duds. In the early shows, even the bit characters were great. Parley Bear as the mayor, the Darlings, Will Wright as the cranky old Ben Weaver, just about all of them were perfect for their parts. 

 

[DougO 5256]

I'm watching Nevada Smith for the first time in ages. Never realized before there's Peggy as a saloon whore trying to bag Steve McQueen.

He chose poorly.

[DougO 5256]

There are a couple of decent color episodes. The one about when Howard caught Old Sam and it pissed everbody off was more like real Mayberry stuff. Howard cracked me up at times. When he was the one fish out of water he could be funny. Most of them did really suck, though. Andy changed into a grumpy old man that was just annoyed all the time, too much cranky Aunt Bee, too many newcomers that didn't seem to fit, but mostly just some really really bad stories and lame attempts to react to modern culture.

Edited August 8, 2021 by DougO

[lemonandaturd 4285]

Goober saved a few of the color episodes. Season 8, Episode 22, Goober Goes to an Auto Show was very good.  

[Gil Bang 26050]

On 8/8/2021 at 4:00 PM, DougO said:

There are a couple of decent color episodes. The one about when Howard caught Old Sam and it pissed everbody off was more like real Mayberry stuff. Howard cracked me up at times. When he was the one fish out of water he could be funny. Most of them did really suck, though. Andy changed into a grumpy old man that was just annoyed all the time, too much cranky Aunt Bee, too many newcomers that didn't seem to fit, but mostly just some really really bad stories and lame attempts to react to modern culture.

I think it's been mentioned upstream, but the actor playing Howard appeared in an early episode as Andy's insurance man. It's the one when Aunt Bee lost her broach or something. 

[Santo89 18]

On 8/8/2021 at 5:53 PM, DougO said:

I'm watching Nevada Smith for the first time in ages. Never realized before there's Peggy as a saloon whore trying to bag Steve McQueen.

He chose poorly.

Never pieced that together. Good catch

[Gil Bang 26050]

Oh fuck.  I'm sitting through a few of the later ones.  

Fucking USSR/USA summit in Andy's kitchen over pickles

Aunt Bee taking flying lessons

Helen has a criminal record

Goober lies about owning a chain of gas stations

Howard Sprage anything.  

As great as the early shows were the later ones were total dogshit.  "Jumped the Shark" or whatever.  Just a terrible show

[Gil Bang 26050]

Emmitt, who repairs broken toasters and waffle irons for a living, buys the wife a mink coat.

[Gil Bang 26050]

2 fucking threads

[Sbbruin 21899]

Watching the one where Sam the Butcher (from Brady Bunch but has at least 6-7 roles in the AGS), where Sam is a road side venture.  They get uppity, and Barney tries to one up them.  Greatness.

[Sbbruin 21899]

On 9/13/2022 at 7:38 PM, Gil Bang said:

2 fucking threads

I am the aficionado of AGS.  This this the official thread.

and now watching one of my favorites! “Man a Hurry”. So great

Edited August 31, 2023 by Sbbruin

[Steamboat1874 4086]

Greatest television show of all time.

[PRONG HORN 3161]

 

The other day I saw the one where Andy is smoking a cigarette.  

 

 

[Steamboat1874 4086]

This needs a bump.....

TV Land shows TAGS every afternoon from 3 to 6.

I started watching all of those early series episodes again and they are so fucking good.

Brilliant writing. All of the guest stars are great and of course all of the regulars are as well.

I have a lot more respect for Frances Baviar (Aunt Bee). She is absolutley brilliant in this series.

She also plays a good drunk. There are a couple of episodes where she accidently gets drunk and she is brilliant.

Barney also plays a good drunk in a couple of episodes as well.

This is the greatest 30 minute television show in history in my opinion.

[DougO 5256]

10 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

 

I have a lot more respect for Frances Baviar (Aunt Bee). She is absolutley brilliant in this series.

She also plays a good drunk. There are a couple of episodes where she accidently gets drunk and she is brilliant.

 

 

That's because when she is playing just regularass sober Aunt Bee she already seems borderline drunk.

[Texzilla58 4744]

Emmitt, who repairs broken toasters and waffle irons for a living, buys the wife a mink coat.

America was a better place when a man could make a living repairing radios, toasters, and lamps. And buy the wife a mink.

[mininghorn88 2298]

22 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

This needs a bump.....

TV Land shows TAGS every afternoon from 3 to 6.

I started watching all of those early series episodes again and they are so fucking good.

Brilliant writing. All of the guest stars are great and of course all of the regulars are as well.

I have a lot more respect for Frances Baviar (Aunt Bee). She is absolutley brilliant in this series.

She also plays a good drunk. There are a couple of episodes where she accidently gets drunk and she is brilliant.

Barney also plays a good drunk in a couple of episodes as well.

This is the greatest 30 minute television show in history in my opinion.

TAGS is a great show with many of the episodes having some sort of ending message.  Barney is a great character.  I also have kudos for the Beverly Hillbillies.  The writing is fantastic on how they subtly say things a bit edgy or racy without overtly saying it.  Some of the episodes could not be made today.

[RPM 26360]

3 minutes ago, mininghorn88 said:

I also have kudos for the Beverly Hillbillies.  The writing is fantastic on how they subtly say things a bit edgy or racy without overtly saying it. 

Green Acres says hold my Ziffel.