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re: I want to live in Mayberry
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:19 am to Perfect Circle
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:19 am to Perfect Circle
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Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:20 am to Zach
Don't forget Juanita the jezebel.
And there's no way a girl as mousey cute as Thelma Lou would stay unattached for so long waiting for someone like Barney.
Also, a constant trope of the show is to mock the small town life it portrays.
And there's no way a girl as mousey cute as Thelma Lou would stay unattached for so long waiting for someone like Barney.
Also, a constant trope of the show is to mock the small town life it portrays.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:20 am to deeprig9
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Wrong. He was a town hero who made it to the NFL then came back to visit his home town, and while there, volunteered to coach the kids after school for a week or so. He wasn't an employee of the school system
Thanks. Damn democrats wouldn’t even pay the man.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:26 am to Zach
Andy was married but she died when Opie was a baby. Floyd was married at one point but they basically just stopped addressing that along the way and treated him as single for comedic opportunities.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:26 am to LSUTIGER in TEXAS
quote:No doubt. Everyone in Mayberry voted Dem back then.
sounds like something a 1960s Democrat would say
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:29 am to cajunangelle
Howard had an overbearing mother who kept him from having a dating life. When she left he started romantic endeavors for comedic effect
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:33 am to BornCritic
You find that subversive?
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:37 am to Perfect Circle
quote:
I want to live in Mayberry
Nah, Barney’s too tyrannical
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:46 am to Gravitiger
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I want to live in a town with no minorities in the early 1960s South."
Sounds good to me and any problem you have with it is irrelevant to me
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:53 am to BornCritic
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Also, a constant trope of the show is to mock the small town life it portrays.
Yeah, but the home life depiction was accurate. I grew up in that 50s period and people did sit out on their porches and talked to next door neighbors who were on their porches or working in their front yard.
The neighbors indoors could hear us because everyone kept their windows open in summer without A.C.
And people did not lock their doors at night. In fact, the family car (no family I knew had 2 cars) had the keys in the ignition 24/7. You never had to look for your keys. They were in the ignition. I never heard of a car getting stolen.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 10:57 am to Perfect Circle
Not diverse enough
All whites
No minorities
No gays
No trannys
All whites
No minorities
No gays
No trannys
This post was edited on 1/22/21 at 10:58 am
Posted on 1/22/21 at 11:00 am to Perfect Circle
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Anyone else feel this way?
So much to be learned from a 30 minute sitcom about what made this country great.
*The right path is usually the most difficult to follow; stick to it regardless.
*Stand up for yourself, and your principles.
*Confront evil when we can.
*There is absolute truth and morality.
*Forgiveness when we are wrong.
*Deeply ingrained sense of right and wrong.
*Respect for other's opinions.
60 years ago, this was the norm. TV's "rural purge" of the early 70's helped start this country down the road to where we find ourselves.
You can keep urban your values, I'm going to Mayberry.
That generation was tempered by war so they appreciated the good things they had.
This generation needs a boot up the arse so they stop their incessant sniveling.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 11:01 am to Perfect Circle
Andy was a shill for obamacare.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 11:25 am to Gravitiger
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You find that subversive?
I don't "find it" subversive. It is subversive by definition.
That episode wasn't a reflection of what was going on in society at the time. It was a vision of the kind of things the writers wanted to happen to fathers who were, in the writer's opinion, overbearing.
Same thing with many of the female characters on the show. There was a lot of "girl power".
You don't have to think it was "bad" in order to admit that it was subversive.
On the other hand I do think the fact that so many male characters were bumbling idiots was subversive in a way that most people should consider bad.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 11:28 am to TriadTigers
You really should. It's just off Hwy52. They are semi private and I think the rates are around $42 or $45.
Greens are HELLAFAST. Fun to play.
Greens are HELLAFAST. Fun to play.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 11:43 am to BornCritic
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Season 1, episode 27
"Ellie saves a female"
Ellie decides to give a shy farm girl a makeover, despite the protests of the girl's controlling father.
Ellie ran for town council and won, as well.
To quote Andy... "there's enough women in this town to vote for her that she'll win. Men vote for men and women vote for women."... or something to that effect.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 11:45 am to Perfect Circle
CSB: my uncle was Andy’s best friend during their UNC days in the late 1940s. They had a nightclub act where Andy would sing and tell stories while my uncle played piano. They spent a couple of summers performing The Lost Colony. Here’s a pic of part of the cast in ‘47 or ‘48 - Andy is obviously the guy in the armor on the left, my uncle is on the right with his arm around an apparently startled woman in Native American garb 
They parted ways when my uncle decided to try his hand performing on Broadway and Andy recorded “What It Was, Was Football”, which became a huge novelty hit and sent him on his path to stardom.
They remained friends until my uncle’s death in 1991. Andy invited him to make guest appearances on TAGS and later Matlock but my uncle never took him up on it, preferring the stage to TV or film.
They parted ways when my uncle decided to try his hand performing on Broadway and Andy recorded “What It Was, Was Football”, which became a huge novelty hit and sent him on his path to stardom.
They remained friends until my uncle’s death in 1991. Andy invited him to make guest appearances on TAGS and later Matlock but my uncle never took him up on it, preferring the stage to TV or film.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 11:48 am to FearlessFreep
Mt Airy is a neat town. I love the vibe at the Snappy. And pretty cool that a place still exists where you can get a burger for $2.50.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 12:09 pm to Zach
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Back in the day everyone was married. That's why kids were raised better.
The focus of the family, the part that had to be working right before anything else could work, was the father/mother relationship. If the parents were committed to each other, working together towards a common goal, disciplining their children in a fair evenhanded manner and faithful to their God, everything else fell into place.
The father/mother dynamic was the main focus of the family.
Over the years, the focus of the family shifted to the children and making sure junior was happy. With the father/mother no longer given priority, the family unit began to break down.
Posted on 1/22/21 at 12:12 pm to AmazingSpiderDog
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Couldn't find anything but from my recollection it was 100% Caucasian.
Isn't this what black leaders are telling us now? They don't want to live in Mayberry; they want their own schools and communities.
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