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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the pilot, Andy and Barney are cousins. This is never mentioned again after the first two episodes. Also, for most of the first season, Griffith played Andy more as a country bumpkin than the straight man role he played in the rest of the series.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the pilot, Andy and Barney are cousins. This is never mentioned again after the first two episodes. Also, for most of the first season, Griffith played Andy more as a country bumpkin than the straight man role he played in the rest of the series.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[TheAnnouncer The Andy Griffith Show]]! [[CaptainObvious Starring]]... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Andy Griffith]]... with [[RonHoward Ronny Howard]]. [[AndStarring Also starring]] Don Knotts"]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[TheAnnouncer The Andy Griffith Show]]! [[CaptainObvious Starring]]... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Andy Griffith]]... with [[RonHoward [[Creator/RonHoward Ronny Howard]]. [[AndStarring Also starring]] Don Knotts"]]
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Supporting actors included Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife; [[strike: Ron]] Ronny Howard (pre-''HappyDays'') as Andy's son, Opie; Frances Bavier as Andy's Aunt Bee Taylor, and George Lindsey and Jim Nabors as the Pyle cousins, Goober and Gomer Pyle.
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Supporting actors included Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife; [[strike: Ron]] Ronny Howard (pre-''HappyDays'') (pre-''Series/HappyDays'') as Andy's son, Opie; Frances Bavier as Andy's Aunt Bee Taylor, and George Lindsey and Jim Nabors as the Pyle cousins, Goober and Gomer Pyle.
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* AfterShow: ''Mayberry RFD''.
* TheAllAmericanBoy: Opie and his pals. Andy is arguably a grown-up example as well.
* TheAllAmericanBoy: Opie and his pals. Andy is arguably a grown-up example as well.
* AfterShow: ''Mayberry RFD''.
* TheAllAmericanBoy: Opie and his pals. Andy is arguably a grown-up example as well.
* TheAllAmericanBoy: Opie and his pals. Andy is arguably a grown-up example as well.
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* TheDanza: Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor and Elinor Donahue as Ellie Walker
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Andy_Griffith_Show_guest_stars Lot of guest stars]], including:
** Lee Van Cleef, in a ''very'' small role as--surprise--a bad guy in the carnival episode.
** A then-unknown JackNicholson in some brief scenes in one of the later episodes.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Ben Weaver, the department store owner, was played by three different actors over the course of the show.
** Four different actors played Wally, the owner of the filling station.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Ben Weaver, TheOperatorsMustBeCrazy: The town is so small that the phones are manual service, and the operator Sarah, knows everyone and everything, even when the department store owner, was played by three different actors over the course of the show.
** Four different actors played Wally, the owner of the filling station.is having a sale, for which she's happy to let you know.
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* TheOperatorsMustBeCrazy: The town is so small that the phones are manual service, and the operator Sarah, knows everyone and everything, even when the department store is having a sale, for which she's happy to let you know.
* WriteWhatYouKnow / NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Mayberry is based very heavily on Griffith's home town of Mt. Airy, NC.
** Not only were [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed No Communities Harmed]], but Mt. Airy is ''quite'' [[SweetHomeAlabama proud of being the basis for Mayberry]].
* WriteWhatYouKnow / NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Mayberry is based very heavily on Griffith's home town of Mt. Airy, NC.
** Not only were [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed No Communities Harmed]], but Mt. Airy is ''quite'' [[SweetHomeAlabama proud of being the basis for Mayberry]].
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* SwissCheeseSecurity: The bank vault has a standard, wooden door in the back that was installed after the combination was lost.
** Also, Asa the bank guard is older than dirt, usually asleep, and carries a gun that falls apart if you look at it wrong.
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*** He also keeps various guns in his house (in addition to sherrif, he is also a hunter and local skeet shooting champion) and a rack of guns in the courthouse. Generally, though, any time he gets a gun for defense, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness you know he's seriously worried]].
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* LoopholeAbuse: Barney was in danger of being deemed physically unfit for duty for being underweight (an extended case of the hiccups had ruined an attempt to pack on a couple extra pounds). The new regulation said he had to meet the weight requirement wearing uniform, shoes, and ID tag and chain. It didn't say he couldn't hang the ID tag on a three foot long piece of towing chain.
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* PleaseWakeUp: Opie goes through this in one episode when he shoots his slingshot at a bird. When he realizes he killed it, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he starts crying and begs for it to get up and fly away.]]
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** In one episode, he actually starts following Aunt Bea into the other room, yelling reasons why she shouldn't be suspicious.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Whenever Barney tries to deceive someone, he usually ends up saying something along the lines of "So there's absolutely no reason to be suspicious!"
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This idyllic SitCom, which ran on {{CBS}} from 1960 to 1968, starred Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor. It remains ''enormously'' popular in reruns. At any hour of any day, some television station in the US is playing the show (If you live in North Carolina, you cannot go a week without finding it in your local TV listings... which is not a bad thing).
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This idyllic SitCom, which ran on {{CBS}} Creator/{{CBS}} from 1960 to 1968, starred Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor. It remains ''enormously'' popular in reruns. At any hour of any day, some television station in the US is playing the show (If you live in North Carolina, you cannot go a week without finding it in your local TV listings... which is not a bad thing).
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The series also focuses on the widowed Andy's relationship with his young son Opie, with Andy trying to strike a balance between being a fun [[TheConfidant confidant]] and instilling a strong sense of right and wrong. Andy dated a few women over the course of the series, but Opie's mother figure was Aunt Bea, who lived in the Taylor home and took care of the housework. Andy was also alternately amused and exasperated by the eccentricities of the townfolk, like gossipy barber Floyd, highly repressed bureaucrat Howard Sprague, and totally moronic hayseed Gomer Pyle, who was spun off and replaced with his even more idiotic cousin Goober.
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The series also focuses on the widowed Andy's relationship with his young son Opie, with Andy trying to strike a balance between being a fun [[TheConfidant confidant]] and instilling a strong sense of right and wrong. Andy dated a few women over the course of the series, but Opie's mother figure was Aunt Bea, who lived in the Taylor home and took care of the housework. Andy was also alternately amused and exasperated by the eccentricities of the townfolk, like gossipy barber Floyd, highly repressed bureaucrat Howard Sprague, and totally moronic hayseed Gomer Pyle, who was spun off and replaced with his even more idiotic cousin Goober.
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* BrideAndSwitch: Earnest T. Bass tried to steal a bride away from her wedding but it turned out to be Barney under the veil.
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* DinnerOrderFlub: While in Mount Pilot, Andy & Barney go to a fancy French restaurant. Andy isn't too proud to say he can't read the menu and just orders a steak. Barney points to menu items and gets stuff he never thought of as food.
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* DinnerOrderFlub: While in Mount Pilot, Andy & Barney go to a fancy French restaurant. Andy isn't too proud to say he can't read the menu and just orders a steak. Barney points to menu items and gets stuff he never thought of as food.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Andy's girlfriend (and Opie's teacher) Helen Crump.
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* NitroExpress: Played with in an episode where two yokels who accidentally pick up a container of nitroglycerin (somehow mistaking it for fertilizer) manhandle it for the entire episode. It is only when it is dropped down a well that it finally explodes.
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* NitroExpress: Played with in an episode where two yokels who accidentally pick up a container of nitroglycerin (somehow mistaking it for fertilizer) manhandle it for the entire episode. It is only when it is dropped down a well that it finally explodes.
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The series also focuses on the widowed Andy's relationship with his young son Opie, with Andy trying to strike a balance between being a fun [[TheConfidant confidant]] and instilling a strong sense of right and wrong. Andy dated a few women over the course of the series, but Opie's mother figure was Aunt Bee, who lived in the Taylor home and took care of the housework. Andy was also alternately amused and exasperated by the eccentricities of the townfolk, like gossipy barber Floyd, highly repressed bureaucrat Howard Sprague, and totally moronic hayseed Gomer Pyle, who was spun off and replaced with his even more idiotic cousin Goober.
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The series also focuses on the widowed Andy's relationship with his young son Opie, with Andy trying to strike a balance between being a fun [[TheConfidant confidant]] and instilling a strong sense of right and wrong. Andy dated a few women over the course of the series, but Opie's mother figure was Aunt Bee, Bea, who lived in the Taylor home and took care of the housework. Andy was also alternately amused and exasperated by the eccentricities of the townfolk, like gossipy barber Floyd, highly repressed bureaucrat Howard Sprague, and totally moronic hayseed Gomer Pyle, who was spun off and replaced with his even more idiotic cousin Goober.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Andy_Griffith_Show_guest_stars Lot of guest stars]], though this troper remembers Lee Van Cleef in a ''very'' small role as--surprise--a bad guy in the carnival episode.
** A then-unknown JackNicholson is also in some brief scenes in one of the later episodes.
** A then-unknown JackNicholson is also in some brief scenes in one of the later episodes.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Andy_Griffith_Show_guest_stars Lot of guest stars]], though this troper remembers including:
** Lee VanCleef Cleef, in a ''very'' small role as--surprise--a bad guy in the carnival episode.
** A then-unknown JackNicholsonis also in some brief scenes in one of the later episodes.
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** A then-unknown JackNicholson
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* CardbaordPrison: The key is right next to the cell so the town drunk can let himself in and out of the cell. They do move the key when actual criminals are in the cell. Doesn't mean they can't get out just as easily.
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* CardbaordPrison: CardboardPrison: The key is right next to the cell so the town drunk can let himself in and out of the cell. They do move the key when actual criminals are in the cell. Doesn't mean they can't get out just as easily.
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** Not only were [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed No Communities Harmed]], but Mt. Airy is ''quite'' [[SweetHomeAlabama proud of being the basis for Mayberry]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Ernest T. Bass.
**In "Ernest T. Bass Joins the Army," when Ernest T. is rejected by the Army (because they met him), he commits extensive vandalism around Mayberry, then escapes from jail twice to break more windows. His punishment: [[spoiler: When Andy finds out that the reason he wanted to join the army was so he could wear a uniform to attract women, he gives him Barney's uniform and sends him on his way]].
**In "Ernest T. Bass Joins the Army," when Ernest T. is rejected by the Army (because they met him), he commits extensive vandalism around Mayberry, then escapes from jail twice to break more windows. His punishment: [[spoiler: When Andy finds out that the reason he wanted to join the army was so he could wear a uniform to attract women, he gives him Barney's uniform and sends him on his way]].
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: There is a very good reason Barney is only allowed to have one bullet.
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* MenCantKeepHouse: Played with; Andy and Opie are at first able to clean up the house really well while Aunt Bee is gone, but then they fear she will feel they won't need them. They decide they have to mess the house up all over again.
* MilesGloriosus: Barney often boasts about how he'd easily handle some troublemaker -- until the actual trouble starts.
* MilesGloriosus: Barney often boasts about how he'd easily handle some troublemaker -- until the actual trouble starts.
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* MenCantKeepHouse: Played with; Andy and Opie are at first able to clean up the house really well while Aunt Bee is gone, but then they fear she will feel they won't don't need them.her. They decide they have to mess the house up all over again.
* MilesGloriosus: Barney often boasts about how he'd easily handle some troublemaker -- until the actual troublestarts.starts and then Andy has to bail him out.
* MilesGloriosus: Barney often boasts about how he'd easily handle some troublemaker -- until the actual trouble
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*** He had to learn to trust Opie over that [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Mr. McBeevee]] business, too.
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** To be fair a lot of the sheriffing matters that had to be handled seemed to come to Andy to handle in the office. Bickering neighbors, fighting spouses, etc.
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** It actually goes further than that as Otis has been shown to have his own key should he ever need it.
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* TooDumbToLive: Pretty much everyone on the show outside the Taylors.
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This idyllic SitCom, which ran on {{CBS}} from 1960 to 1968, starred Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor. It remains ''enormously'' popular in reruns. At any hour of any day, some television station in the US is playing the show (If you live in North Carolina, you cannot go a week without finding it in your local TV listings... which is not a bad thing).
Andy is TheSheriff of a small, friendly town called Mayberry, in North Carolina. Despite his authoritarian role, Andy is an easy-going, good-humored guy. He can be tough when the situation demands it, but he prefers to play loose with the rules, and adapt punishments according to the nature of the crime and the individual. His deputy and [[strike:cousin]] friend Barney Fife prefers the opposite approach, but since he is clumsy and totally lacking in gravitas, no one takes him seriously. Most of the humor from the early years of the show comes from Barney's attempts to bring law and order to an already lawful and orderly town, and Andy's subsequent ribbing of Barney when his plans go wrong. Very frequently, Andy will resort to a counter-scheme to protect Barney's fragile ego and what's left of his reputation as a lawman.
The series also focuses on the widowed Andy's relationship with his young son Opie, with Andy trying to strike a balance between being a fun [[TheConfidant confidant]] and instilling a strong sense of right and wrong. Andy dated a few women over the course of the series, but Opie's mother figure was Aunt Bee, who lived in the Taylor home and took care of the housework. Andy was also alternately amused and exasperated by the eccentricities of the townfolk, like gossipy barber Floyd, highly repressed bureaucrat Howard Sprague, and totally moronic hayseed Gomer Pyle, who was spun off and replaced with his even more idiotic cousin Goober.
Supporting actors included Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife; [[strike: Ron]] Ronny Howard (pre-''HappyDays'') as Andy's son, Opie; Frances Bavier as Andy's Aunt Bee Taylor, and George Lindsey and Jim Nabors as the Pyle cousins, Goober and Gomer Pyle.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: As Warren, Jack Burns would occasionally use his stand up trademark of making a statement to another character then saying "huh?" "huh?" "huh?" until then when the other character shouts an agreement with him to get him to shut up.
* AfterShow: ''Mayberry RFD''.
* TheAllAmericanBoy: Opie and his pals. Andy is arguably a grown-up example as well.
* AnAesop: Several of the episodes have these.
** Semi-[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] from time to time. Often, Andy would attempt to teach Opie a lesson (don't be selfish) which Opie seems to misunderstand (buying a gift for a girl, instead). Turns out Opie already understands (the gift is a winter coat that the girl's family couldn't afford), and the lesson learned is that Andy should trust Opie.
* AlcoholHic: Otis
* TheBarber: Floyd
* BowtiesAreCool: Barney and Howard both liked to rock the bowtie look.
* BratsWithSlingshots
* BrideAndSwitch: Earnest T. Bass tried to steal a bride away from her wedding but it turned out to be Barney under the veil.
* BrotherChuck: Ellie Walker, Warren Ferguson
* TheCastShowoff: Andy's singing was showcased in several episodes, as was Jim Nabors'.
* CatchPhrase: "Nip it in the bud!"
** Gomer's "Well, golllll-lee!" and "Shazam!"
** Briscoe Darling's "More power to ya'."
** "[[WeWillMeetAgain You ain't seen the last of Ernest T. Bass!]]"
* ChainLetter: Barney gets one in "The Lucky Letter".
* ChristmasEpisode
* CluelessDeputy: Barney, who, while carrying a gun, is forbidden by Andy to keep it loaded, and futhermore is only allowed to carry one bullet.
** To elaborate: The reason Barney had to keep his bullet in his pocket was because he was unable to holster a loaded gun without it going off.
** After Barney's departure, the character of Warren Ferguson briefly filled this role before [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome quietly disappearing]].
** Then there are the episodes where Andy or Barney are forced to temporarily deputize even more clueless characters such as Gomer, Goober, Otis, etc.
* TheCrimeJob: "The Bank Job".
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%%* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: See {{Heartwarming.LiveActionTV}}
* TheDanza: Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor and Elinor Donahue as Ellie Walker
* DinnerOrderFlub: While in Mount Pilot, Andy & Barney go to a fancy French restaurant. Andy isn't too proud to say he can't read the menu and just orders a steak. Barney points to menu items and gets stuff he never thought of as food.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the pilot, Andy and Barney are cousins. This is never mentioned again after the first two episodes. Also, for most of the first season, Griffith played Andy more as a country bumpkin than the straight man role he played in the rest of the series.
* EccentricTownsfolk
* TheEponymousShow
* EverytownAmerica
* ExtremeOmniGoat
* ForgottenThemeTuneLyrics
* GrumpyOldMan: Ben Weaver is a combination of this and TheScrooge.
* HalfHourComedy
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Goober, initially; Sarah, Juanita
* HeroesWantRedheads: Andy's girlfriend (and Opie's teacher) Helen Crump.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Andy_Griffith_Show_guest_stars Lot of guest stars]], though this troper remembers Lee Van Cleef in a ''very'' small role as--surprise--a bad guy in the carnival episode.
** A then-unknown JackNicholson is also in some brief scenes in one of the later episodes.
* HiddenBadass: Andy isn't exactly an action hero, but he's not to be messed with lightly.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite, to some extent: home-cooked meals, harmless town drunk Otis being allowed to come and go as he pleases by means of a key deliberately left in reach of his cell, etc.
* MilesGloriosus: Barney often boasts about how he'd easily handle some troublemaker -- until the actual trouble starts.
* MissingMom: Andy is a widower.
* MommasBoy: Howard Sprague
* NitroExpress: Played with in an episode where two yokels who accidentally pick up a container of nitroglycerin (somehow mistaking it for fertilizer) manhandle it for the entire episode. It is only when it is dropped down a well that it finally explodes.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: "Mr. [=McBeevee=]"
* OnlySaneMan: Andy
* TheOtherDarrin: Ben Weaver, the department store owner, was played by three different actors over the course of the show.
** Four different actors played Wally, the owner of the filling station.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: By the later seasons, Andy seemed to have very little to do in the way of actual sheriffing. To the point where he didn't even need another deputy after Warren's departure.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "Gomer Pyle, USMC", which had the character join the Marines and led to the spinoff show of the same title.
* PutOnABus: Barney goes off to join the Raleigh police force at the end of season 5.
** However, he continued to return for annual [[TheBusCameBack guest appearances]] over the rest of the series.
* RealitySubtext: Griffith is a native Tarheel. Mayberry is a pastiche of Mt. Airy, where he grew up.
** And being on the show so endeared the state to Frances Bavier that she moved there (specifically to Siler City) later in life.
** Howard [=McNear=] (Floyd TheBarber) had a severe stroke during the run, and upon returning could not walk or stand on his own. He thereafter was always shown sitting or leaning against an object, and would "walk" across the room off camera. When worsening health required him to leave permanently, Floyd retired and the barbershop became Emmett's Fix-It Shop.
* RecurringCharacter: Several, including crotchety storekeeper Ben Weaver, musical hillbilly family the Darlings, hotheaded mountain man Ernest T. Bass, itinerant Englishman Malcolm Merriweather, and Mt. Pilot "fun girls" Skippy and Daphne.
* ReunionShow: The TV movie ''Return to Mayberry'' (1986)
* SmokingIsCool: Andy lit up several times during the black-and-white era, one prominent example being in the episode "Mr. [=McBeevee=]" (after a scene where Andy confronts Opie about whether [=McBeevee=] exists); in that same episode, [=McBeevee=] (a telephone lineman, played by Karl Swenson, a heavy smoker throughout his life) also smokes.
** Most of the smoking was reserved for various bit and bad-guy characters. Deputy Barney Fife was a non-smoker, although Don Knotts was a real-life smoker.
* SpinOff: This series was a spinoff of ''The Danny Thomas Show'', one episode of which actually was a sort of PoorlyDisguisedPilot for this series; and it spawned two spinoffs of its own: ''Gomer Pyle USMC'' and ''Mayberry RFD'' (although the latter can arguably be seen as more a ReTool of the original).
** There was also a 1971 series called ''The New Andy Griffith Show'' which was a sort of very obvious SpiritualSuccessor, featuring Griffith in a similar role. Bizarrely, the later show's pilot episode had three old ''TAGS'' characters - Barney Fife, Goober Pyle, and Emmett Clark - traveling from Mayberry to the new show's setting of Greenwood, NC to congratulate friend "Andy Sawyer" on his new job as mayor. It's pretty surprising none of them noticed how similar their friend Andy Sawyer was to their hometown sheriff pal Andy Taylor!
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Goober, Warren
* SyndicationTitle: ''Andy of Mayberry''
* TechnicalPacifist: Andy [[DoesntLikeGuns hates carrying guns]], and much prefers to outwit criminals than rough them up or threaten them.
** On at least one occasion, he borrows Barney's gun (and bullet) when he decides that he actually needs one.
* TooDumbToLive: Pretty much everyone on the show outside the Taylors.
* WriteWhatYouKnow / NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Mayberry is based very heavily on Griffith's home town of Mt. Airy, NC.
* YouLookFamiliar: Several, but the award goes to Allan Melvin appearing as 8 different characters, many of them central to the episode they appeared in.
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Andy is TheSheriff of a small, friendly town called Mayberry, in North Carolina. Despite his authoritarian role, Andy is an easy-going, good-humored guy. He can be tough when the situation demands it, but he prefers to play loose with the rules, and adapt punishments according to the nature of the crime and the individual. His deputy and [[strike:cousin]] friend Barney Fife prefers the opposite approach, but since he is clumsy and totally lacking in gravitas, no one takes him seriously. Most of the humor from the early years of the show comes from Barney's attempts to bring law and order to an already lawful and orderly town, and Andy's subsequent ribbing of Barney when his plans go wrong. Very frequently, Andy will resort to a counter-scheme to protect Barney's fragile ego and what's left of his reputation as a lawman.
The series also focuses on the widowed Andy's relationship with his young son Opie, with Andy trying to strike a balance between being a fun [[TheConfidant confidant]] and instilling a strong sense of right and wrong. Andy dated a few women over the course of the series, but Opie's mother figure was Aunt Bee, who lived in the Taylor home and took care of the housework. Andy was also alternately amused and exasperated by the eccentricities of the townfolk, like gossipy barber Floyd, highly repressed bureaucrat Howard Sprague, and totally moronic hayseed Gomer Pyle, who was spun off and replaced with his even more idiotic cousin Goober.
Supporting actors included Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife; [[strike: Ron]] Ronny Howard (pre-''HappyDays'') as Andy's son, Opie; Frances Bavier as Andy's Aunt Bee Taylor, and George Lindsey and Jim Nabors as the Pyle cousins, Goober and Gomer Pyle.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: As Warren, Jack Burns would occasionally use his stand up trademark of making a statement to another character then saying "huh?" "huh?" "huh?" until then when the other character shouts an agreement with him to get him to shut up.
* AfterShow: ''Mayberry RFD''.
* TheAllAmericanBoy: Opie and his pals. Andy is arguably a grown-up example as well.
* AnAesop: Several of the episodes have these.
** Semi-[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] from time to time. Often, Andy would attempt to teach Opie a lesson (don't be selfish) which Opie seems to misunderstand (buying a gift for a girl, instead). Turns out Opie already understands (the gift is a winter coat that the girl's family couldn't afford), and the lesson learned is that Andy should trust Opie.
* AlcoholHic: Otis
* TheBarber: Floyd
* BowtiesAreCool: Barney and Howard both liked to rock the bowtie look.
* BratsWithSlingshots
* BrideAndSwitch: Earnest T. Bass tried to steal a bride away from her wedding but it turned out to be Barney under the veil.
* BrotherChuck: Ellie Walker, Warren Ferguson
* TheCastShowoff: Andy's singing was showcased in several episodes, as was Jim Nabors'.
* CatchPhrase: "Nip it in the bud!"
** Gomer's "Well, golllll-lee!" and "Shazam!"
** Briscoe Darling's "More power to ya'."
** "[[WeWillMeetAgain You ain't seen the last of Ernest T. Bass!]]"
* ChainLetter: Barney gets one in "The Lucky Letter".
* ChristmasEpisode
* CluelessDeputy: Barney, who, while carrying a gun, is forbidden by Andy to keep it loaded, and futhermore is only allowed to carry one bullet.
** To elaborate: The reason Barney had to keep his bullet in his pocket was because he was unable to holster a loaded gun without it going off.
** After Barney's departure, the character of Warren Ferguson briefly filled this role before [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome quietly disappearing]].
** Then there are the episodes where Andy or Barney are forced to temporarily deputize even more clueless characters such as Gomer, Goober, Otis, etc.
* TheCrimeJob: "The Bank Job".
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* TheDanza: Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor and Elinor Donahue as Ellie Walker
* DinnerOrderFlub: While in Mount Pilot, Andy & Barney go to a fancy French restaurant. Andy isn't too proud to say he can't read the menu and just orders a steak. Barney points to menu items and gets stuff he never thought of as food.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the pilot, Andy and Barney are cousins. This is never mentioned again after the first two episodes. Also, for most of the first season, Griffith played Andy more as a country bumpkin than the straight man role he played in the rest of the series.
* EccentricTownsfolk
* TheEponymousShow
* EverytownAmerica
* ExtremeOmniGoat
* ForgottenThemeTuneLyrics
* GrumpyOldMan: Ben Weaver is a combination of this and TheScrooge.
* HalfHourComedy
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Goober, initially; Sarah, Juanita
* HeroesWantRedheads: Andy's girlfriend (and Opie's teacher) Helen Crump.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Andy_Griffith_Show_guest_stars Lot of guest stars]], though this troper remembers Lee Van Cleef in a ''very'' small role as--surprise--a bad guy in the carnival episode.
** A then-unknown JackNicholson is also in some brief scenes in one of the later episodes.
* HiddenBadass: Andy isn't exactly an action hero, but he's not to be messed with lightly.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite, to some extent: home-cooked meals, harmless town drunk Otis being allowed to come and go as he pleases by means of a key deliberately left in reach of his cell, etc.
* MilesGloriosus: Barney often boasts about how he'd easily handle some troublemaker -- until the actual trouble starts.
* MissingMom: Andy is a widower.
* MommasBoy: Howard Sprague
* NitroExpress: Played with in an episode where two yokels who accidentally pick up a container of nitroglycerin (somehow mistaking it for fertilizer) manhandle it for the entire episode. It is only when it is dropped down a well that it finally explodes.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: "Mr. [=McBeevee=]"
* OnlySaneMan: Andy
* TheOtherDarrin: Ben Weaver, the department store owner, was played by three different actors over the course of the show.
** Four different actors played Wally, the owner of the filling station.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: By the later seasons, Andy seemed to have very little to do in the way of actual sheriffing. To the point where he didn't even need another deputy after Warren's departure.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "Gomer Pyle, USMC", which had the character join the Marines and led to the spinoff show of the same title.
* PutOnABus: Barney goes off to join the Raleigh police force at the end of season 5.
** However, he continued to return for annual [[TheBusCameBack guest appearances]] over the rest of the series.
* RealitySubtext: Griffith is a native Tarheel. Mayberry is a pastiche of Mt. Airy, where he grew up.
** And being on the show so endeared the state to Frances Bavier that she moved there (specifically to Siler City) later in life.
** Howard [=McNear=] (Floyd TheBarber) had a severe stroke during the run, and upon returning could not walk or stand on his own. He thereafter was always shown sitting or leaning against an object, and would "walk" across the room off camera. When worsening health required him to leave permanently, Floyd retired and the barbershop became Emmett's Fix-It Shop.
* RecurringCharacter: Several, including crotchety storekeeper Ben Weaver, musical hillbilly family the Darlings, hotheaded mountain man Ernest T. Bass, itinerant Englishman Malcolm Merriweather, and Mt. Pilot "fun girls" Skippy and Daphne.
* ReunionShow: The TV movie ''Return to Mayberry'' (1986)
* SmokingIsCool: Andy lit up several times during the black-and-white era, one prominent example being in the episode "Mr. [=McBeevee=]" (after a scene where Andy confronts Opie about whether [=McBeevee=] exists); in that same episode, [=McBeevee=] (a telephone lineman, played by Karl Swenson, a heavy smoker throughout his life) also smokes.
** Most of the smoking was reserved for various bit and bad-guy characters. Deputy Barney Fife was a non-smoker, although Don Knotts was a real-life smoker.
* SpinOff: This series was a spinoff of ''The Danny Thomas Show'', one episode of which actually was a sort of PoorlyDisguisedPilot for this series; and it spawned two spinoffs of its own: ''Gomer Pyle USMC'' and ''Mayberry RFD'' (although the latter can arguably be seen as more a ReTool of the original).
** There was also a 1971 series called ''The New Andy Griffith Show'' which was a sort of very obvious SpiritualSuccessor, featuring Griffith in a similar role. Bizarrely, the later show's pilot episode had three old ''TAGS'' characters - Barney Fife, Goober Pyle, and Emmett Clark - traveling from Mayberry to the new show's setting of Greenwood, NC to congratulate friend "Andy Sawyer" on his new job as mayor. It's pretty surprising none of them noticed how similar their friend Andy Sawyer was to their hometown sheriff pal Andy Taylor!
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Goober, Warren
* SyndicationTitle: ''Andy of Mayberry''
* TechnicalPacifist: Andy [[DoesntLikeGuns hates carrying guns]], and much prefers to outwit criminals than rough them up or threaten them.
** On at least one occasion, he borrows Barney's gun (and bullet) when he decides that he actually needs one.
* TooDumbToLive: Pretty much everyone on the show outside the Taylors.
* WriteWhatYouKnow / NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Mayberry is based very heavily on Griffith's home town of Mt. Airy, NC.
* YouLookFamiliar: Several, but the award goes to Allan Melvin appearing as 8 different characters, many of them central to the episode they appeared in.
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