When I was in fifth grade our school took a poll among all the classes to choose the most popular show on television.
The Andy Griffith Show was the hands down winner, and I think the student council drafted a letter and sent it out to Hollywood thanking the producers for making such a wonderful show.
Of course this was before Barney left for Raleigh and a job with the FBI and Gomer joined the marines, married Rock Hudson, and made us lose the war in Vietnam.
This was before Floyd had a stroke, and before Aunt Bee married that old guy and moved away, and before Emmett got his fix-it shop, and before Howard Sprague caught the world's biggest catfish, and before they started filming the show in color, and before Jack Nicholson was arrested for being different, and before anyone noticed that there weren't any black people in Mayberry, and probably none in Mt. Pilot either, and before Opie joined a rock and roll band, grew a wispy little mustache, and started neglecting his schoolwork thus proving that Barney was right all along about bud nipping, and did you ever notice what a self righteous piece of crap Andy really was???
I want to change my vote to Leave it to Beaver.
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You know, I honestly read somewhere that Aunt Bee was a real bitch and so is Andy.
Figures.
oh my faveorite character was Ernest T Bass that crazy dude that lived in the woods....OH...and remember that weird family, the Dumplings or something, where all the guys never said anything but they played banjos or something and they had that sister that was blonde and Ernest kept wanting her to marry him and Uncle Jesse was their dad........they could have been sued for copying my family like that.
The woman who played Aunt Bee hated Andy Griffith because he wasn't a real trained professional actor, she ended up dying all alone in a house full of cats.
They were the Darlings, and the guys who never said anything were actually a country/folk group called the Dillards, which happens to be my father's first name, who were, and probably still are a very influential alt. country group. You should check them out.
holy crap Bozzi that cool info....they were kinda good...i'ma see if i can find some of their stuff, thanks!
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