The Andy Griffith Show

[Steamboat1874 4038]

Damn...did not realize Andy and Barney were Nazis too. Courthouse with Nazi flag.

[DougO 5240]

Cousin Virgil episode is on TV Land now. One of my favorites. Really hits close to home.

[Steamboat1874 4038]

4 minutes ago, DougO said:

Cousin Virgil episode is on TV Land now. One of my favorites. Really hits close to home.

Ha......I always think of him as CW Moss.

[Vic Mackey 46976]

Was Barney's side piece Juanita? He is dating Thelma Lou at this point but towards the end of season 1, Juanita is introduced with Barney making a few phone calls to her. This episode, Barney starts to sing to her and Andy behind him joins him and makes him upset haha.

I still think it's weird Thelma Lou was never introduced in this show. She just shows up on the couch with Barney and they are now dating. No background on her or what she does.

[Steamboat1874 4038]

You also never get to see Sarah, the phone operator.

[lemonandaturd 4285]

Goober says "Hey".  Goober do your take off on Cary Grant.  Judy, Judy,  Judy.  

[Sbbruin 21785]

55 minutes ago, DougO said:

Cousin Virgil episode is on TV Land now. One of my favorites. Really hits close to home.

Rance Howard is also the bus driver in that episode.

[Underdog 28485]

2 other episodes i like are when Andy’s relative comes to visit and talks big game but when given the opportunity to help catch some dangerous criminals, he hightails it out of Mayberry with his family.  

Otis’ relative that Otis tries to impress by being a Deputy but the relative ends up being the town drunk back home like Otis.  

[RPM 26267]

The one where Floyd has a lady pen pal and talks a big game, then she comes to visit. The banker is out of town so they borrow his house, Andy pretends to be Floyd's son then Opie shows up and Floyd says that's his other son. Opie is like wtf?

[DougO 5240]

2 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Ha......I always think of him as CW Moss.

The leader of the Onlies, after Miri got too old.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

2 minutes ago, DougO said:

The leader of the Onlies, after Miri got too old.

I think that's a different CW Moss.  They sure do look alike though.  Miri ?  Kim Darbey

Edited February 16, 2019 by Onboard 2.0

[DougO 5240]

6 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I think that's a different CW Moss.  They sure do look alike though.  Miri ?  Kim Darbey

Same dude. Michael J. Pollard.

 

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_J._Pollard

[DougO 5240]

Weird, though, he was 27 when he was in Trek. He's almost as old as Captain Kirk. Though he was allegedly hundreds of years old in the episode.

Edited February 16, 2019 by DougO

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

3 minutes ago, DougO said:

Same dude. Michael J. Pollard.

 

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_J._Pollard

yeah just being facetious.  

[DougO 5240]

And little Leon, Clint Howard, was Balok in another Star Trek episode.

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

The Howards were b list, Hollywood regulars.  the list of things they've been in as father and both sons is pretty long, like a 6 degrees of Kevon bacon thing.  what about mom ?

[RPM 26267]

The Howards were part of the Desilu troupe.

[Steamboat1874 4038]

Captain Kirk banging Joan Collins and getting his haircut by Floyd in Mayberry.

[DougO 5240]

Fake worlds colliding!

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

40 minutes ago, DougO said:

Fake worlds colliding!

I'm sorry, what "fake" world are you referring to ?

[pops 6976]

Might have been checkpoint chickie, but I always remember seeing the (an?) episode where Barney is using a stopwatch to determine the speed of vehicles and writing tickets.  Confused my young brain. Was not confused by the greatness of knots, however. 

[Vic Mackey 46976]

I read that the actor who plays Ernest T Bass was very well educated and intelligent. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

1 minute ago, Vic Mackey said:

I read that the actor who plays Ernest T Bass was very well educated and intelligent. 

I wouldn't doubt that for a second. There are a few episodes where he plays the random voice on a radio broadcast.

[Sbbruin 21785]

17 hours ago, DougO said:

Fake worlds colliding!

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Just now, Sbbruin said:

 

[Vic Mackey 46976]

2 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I wouldn't doubt that for a second. There are a few episodes where he plays the random voice on a radio broadcast.

In fact, they said most of the actors who played on here were educated. I want to look up some of their other roles. I'd like to see how Otis Campbell is in other movies. You can tell he articulates himself very well. When he received that award for being the descendant of some Civil War hero, he talked very proper and cleaned up well. I'd like to see Goober and Ernest T in other roles as well. See how wide range their acting abilities are. I don't know of these actors outside of this show seeing how they were well before my time.

[DougO 5240]

16 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

I read that the actor who plays Ernest T Bass was very well educated and intelligent. 

He was a mainstay character player and voice actor on TV in the 50s and 60s, and often played brainy types, and just about everything else.

Edited February 19, 2019 by DougO

[RPM 26267]

1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

I'd like to see how Otis Campbell is in other movies. You can tell he articulates himself very well.

I remember seeing him in random roles in old TV westerns. It looks like the majority of his work was as a cartoon voice actor.

Spoiler

He was Goliath in Davey & Goliath

 

[Underdog 28485]

Oh, Davey.  

 

 No shit?  Didn’t know that. 

[Sbbruin 21785]

Watching “Hot Rod Otis.”  What a great episode.

[Steamboat1874 4038]

Otis in real life did not even drink.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

2 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Otis in real life did not even drink.

Andy made up for him...

[Vic Mackey 46976]

On 2/20/2019 at 7:38 AM, Steamboat1874 said:

Otis in real life did not even drink.

Interesting. Did not know this.

[Gil Bang 25903]

I thought Earnest T was actually a writer on the show.

 

Edit: wiki says I’m full of shit

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Today was national Still Busting Day............ POW POW POW....

 

Can't wait for Sir Walter Raleigh Landing Day next month.

[Steamboat1874 4038]

A few behind the scenes images.

Note Sheldon Leonard on the right.

 

 

[Sbbruin 21785]

10 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

A few behind the scenes images.

 

Note Sheldon Leonard on the right.

 

 

 

 

"Hey Barn, why don't you hit it from behind while she blows me, then we'll switch it up."  "Good call, Ange."

[MrPhlegm 3413]

"Hey Barn, why don't you hit it from behind while she blows me, then we'll switch it up."  "Good call, Ange."

[DougO 5240]

11 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

I thought Earnest T was actually a writer on the show.

 

Edit: wiki says I’m full of shit

According to IMDB, he did direct 8 episodes, including the classic Barney's Physical.

 

The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series) (8 episodes)

- Otis Sues the County (1964)

- Three Wishes for Opie (1964)

- Andy and Helen Have Their Day (1964)

- The Darling Baby (1964)

- Barney's Bloodhound (1964)

- Aunt Bee's Romance (1964)

- The Family Visit (1964)

- Barney's Physical (1964)

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[DoobieWah 1422]

Remember when Opie got in trouble for the poem about Barney?

There once was a deputy named Barney Fife,

He carried a gun and he carried a knife,

The gun's all dusty and the knife's all rusty

Cause he never caught a crook in his life.

[Underdog 28485]

9 hours ago, MrPhlegm said:

You just know that Nelson and Healy tagged team that wench, throw in her sister and Mrs. Bellows and it was a party. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

3 words, The Esquire Club....

[Sbbruin 21785]

19 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

3 words, The Esquire Club....

THE Esquire Club?!

Watched that one last night.  Barney is just so uncomfortably over the top it’s awesome.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

41 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

THE Esquire Club?!

Watched that one last night.  Barney is just so uncomfortably over the top it’s awesome.

It was on this morning as I was leaving for work.  Mmmmmm Baked Alaska, that new dessert since Alaska was made a state.

[Sbbruin 21785]

2 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

It was on this morning as I was leaving for work.  Mmmmmm Baked Alaska, that new dessert since Alaska was made a state.

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

9 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

 

That is both painful and hilarious to watch all at the same time.  Poor Barney.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21784]

Too lazy to look but what was the show AG had where he was like some scraps/salvage business owner?

I seem to remember a made for TV movie from when I was a kid where he played a salvage dealer who built a homemade rocket and went to the moon to salvage all the stuff NASA left there. I don’t remember anything else about it except that the rocket used a console shifter from a mustang as a throttle control.

 

I just looked it up. It was a short lived series called Salvage 1 that aired for one year when I was at UT. I must be remembering the pilot.

 

[Steamboat1874 4038]

I remember Don Knotts came to Austin for the premier of his movie The Reluctant Astronaut at the old Capital Plaza Cinema and I went with my younger brother.

The actual premier was held in Houston a day or so before he made the appearance here.

It would have been in 1967.

Edited March 1, 2019 by Steamboat1874

[Native Horn 3495]

On 2/28/2019 at 11:18 AM, Onboard 2.0 said:

That is both painful and hilarious to watch all at the same time.  Poor Barney.

Nailed it.  Came in to say this.  Almost cringeworthy.

[Vic Mackey 46976]

Getting towards the end of Season 4, I have seen this actor named Allan Melvin at least 6 times playing 6 different characters. Latest one was the escaped prisoner while Andy is on vacation. I think he played the butcher in a future episode who wants to fight Barney after getting a citation.