Actually the show was from the 60s. But your points are well taken. I grew up with the show and I own several seasons on dvd.
RIP Andy and thanks for all the laughs and the good memories.
RIP Andy Griffith
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Actually the show was from the 60s. But your points are well taken. I grew up with the show and I own several seasons on dvd.
RIP Andy and thanks for all the laughs and the good memories.
Rest in peace Mr. Griffith. Thanks for all the entertainment.
If you haven't seen Waitress, his performance in that was really good.
If you haven't seen Waitress, his performance in that was really good.
I'm not sure what the cut-off age is but I'm sure everyone of a certain age, probably mid-30's or so and up, knows The Andy Griffith Show (and probably 100% of those can still whistle the song).
Took me a sec to figure out why they were "convicts".
Took me a sec to figure out why they were "convicts".
I can't believe I forgot to mention another favorite Griffith role: the secretly gay, power-mad cattle baron Col. Ticonderoga in 1985's Rustler's Rhapsody. "Maybe not a range war exactly, but certainly a lot of killing. You have my word on that, a lot of it!"
[yt]www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEiwqEMhS9E[/yt]
[yt]www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEiwqEMhS9E[/yt]
That is easily one of my favorite Any Griffith roles.
Yeah, that's why the show endures. The characters felt "real."
Griffith based the show in part on his own hometown from what I understand. Having grown up in a small town in the 60s, Mayberry was a fairly realistic place and the characters not that different than some real people I knew.
And the "realism" didn't just extend to the comedy bits either. Since he was usually laid back, people tend to forget that, when Opie did something bad as a kid (killing the songbird being the classic example), Andy acted like a real parent. He got frustrated and pissed off the way a real parent would, even if in the end he loved his son. Griffith carried those moments as well as he carried the humorous bits.
A true TV legend.
Thanks for all the heart warming laughs.
gnight paw, R.I.P. sir.
Thanks for all the heart warming laughs.
gnight paw, R.I.P. sir.
RIP, Sheriff Andy. 
Mayberry is more than just the setting for a TV show-- it's true American folklore.
Mayberry is more than just the setting for a TV show-- it's true American folklore.
A true TV legend.
Thanks for all the heart warming laughs.
gnight paw, R.I.P. sir.
I appreciate the sentiment, but considering Ron Howard is very much alive I think the cartoonist missed the mark with that one.
I felt someone ought to mention his one-and-only science fiction series!
(I remember enjoying the original pilot, but losing interest in the subsequent series.)
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Very true
Wow, I forgot about Salvage One. I remember feeling rather blase about it at the time, but I'd kind of like to see it again. All I remember is them visiting the Apollo 11 landing site in the pilot and then something about Big Foot in one of the subsequent episodes.
I haven't seen it since it first aired, ages ago. I remember thinking that it was a cute idea for a one-shot TV-movie (junkman builds homemade rocket to the moon), but there wasn't really enough there to sustain a series . . . ..
I'm not sure what the cut-off age is but I'm sure everyone of a certain age, probably mid-30's or so and up, knows The Andy Griffith Show (and probably 100% of those can still whistle the song).
Took me a sec to figure out why they were "convicts".
I'd put it at 20-25 years old. I often would come across The Andy Griffith Show reruns in the past 15 years while surfing the channels...
I'm not sure what the cut-off age is but I'm sure everyone of a certain age, probably mid-30's or so and up, knows The Andy Griffith Show (and probably 100% of those can still whistle the song).
Took me a sec to figure out why they were "convicts".
I'd put it at 20-25 years old. I often would come across The Andy Griffith Show reruns in the past 15 years while surfing the channels...
But did those kids watch it then? That's what I wasn't so sure about.
