History YMMV / TheAndyGriffithShow

* EarWorm: You know the one.
** Also "Dooley" played by The Dillards, who played the Darling family on the show.

** Color episode "The Return of Barney Fife" includes [[spoiler: Barney's utter heartbreak when he finds that Thelma Lou has married another man since he moved to Raleigh. Seeing Barney, plucky Barney, [[DrowningMySorrows being utterly devasted by this revelation]] is equally as heartbreaking for the audience.]]

** One episode involved Opie being bullied. When Andy found out about this, he refused to contact the bullies' parents or school about it because he wanted Opie to learn to stand up for himself, later telling Opie a story about how he was bullied as a child and how when he stood up for himself the bully ended up backing down. The episode ends with Opie apparently beating the bully up. While back then this may have been seen as a valid way to deal with a bully, these days as many experts and bully-victims can attest, this usually ''never'' works; if anything, it'll end up making the bullying situation ''even worse'' since bullies frequently go after people they ''know'' aren't strong enough to stand up/beat them in a fight, and attempting to stand up to them usually results in the bully forcefully showing them ''why'' they shouldn't. If the episode was made today, contacting the school/parents would usually be the first thing the parents of the bully victim would do.

** In "A Wife for Andy," Barney immediately disregards Helen Crump as a potential LoveInterest for Andy purely on the grounds that she can't cook very well and that she wants to keep her job after getting married. Lampshaded by Andy himself as the episode quickly moves Barney into JerkAss territory when he tries to sabotage their burgeoning relationship... [[StayInTheKitchen simply on the grounds that she refuses to fulfill the role of a traditional housewife like a good little girl]].

** One episode has Andy giving a young boy a gun to hold. While there was no bullets in the chamber and Andy does stress the importance of gun safety, a scene like that would never be shown on modern TV.

** One episode involved Opie being bullied. When Andy found out about this, he refused to contact the bullies parents or school about it because he wanted Opie to learn to stand up for himself, later telling Opie a story about how he was bullied as a child and how when he stood up for himself the bully ended up backing down. The episode ends with Opie apparently beating the bully up. While back then this may have been seen as a valid way to deal with a bully, these days as many experts and bully-victims can attest, this usually ''never'' works; if anything, it'll end up making the bullying situation ''even worse'' since bullies frequently go after people they ''know'' aren't strong enough to stand up/beat them in a fight, and attempting to stand up to them usually results in the bully forcefully showing them ''why'' they shouldn't. If the episode was made today, contacting the school/parents would usually be the first thing the parents of the bully victim would do.

** One episode has Andy giving a young boy a gun to hold. While there was no bullets in the chamber and Andy does stress the importance of gun safety, a scene like that would never be shown on modern tv.

* ReplacementScrappy: Warren Ferguson. The guy didn't have an ounce of what made Barney so funny. The fact that he tried to fill Barney's role, but ultimately failed, is what made his character particularly unfunny.

** Much earlier, a pre-''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' Barbara Eden arrives in Mayberry as the town's pretty new manicurist in "The Manicurist".

** Howard Morris directed eight episodes. Morris is best known for being in ''front'' of the camera on the show as Ernest T. Bass, and would go on to greater fame for voicing Gopher in ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Hamburglar and Mayor McCheese for UsefulNotes/McDonalds, Carl Sweetchuck and The Professor in ''WesternAnimation/PoliceAcademyTheAnimatedSeries'', and Wade Duck in ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''.

** Much earlier, a pre-[[Series/IDreamOfJeannie Jeannie]] Barbara Eden arrives in Mayberry as the town's pretty new manicurist in "The Manicurist".

** Howard Morris directed eight episodes. Morris is best known for being in ''front'' of the camera on the show as Ernest T. Bass, and would go on to greater fame as the voice of Gopher in ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' and Wade Duck on ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''.

** A then-unknown Creator/JackNicholson in some brief scenes in the episode "Opie Finds a Baby".

** Creator/LeeVanCleef, in a ''very'' small role as--surprise--a bad guy in the carnival episode.
** A then-unknown Creator/JackNicholson in some brief scenes in one of the later episodes.
** Pre-''Series/{{MASH}}'' Jamie Farr and William Christopher had made memorable guest appearances; Farr as part of a band of gypsies, and Christopher as Mayberry's new town doctor, Doc Peterson.
** Much earlier, a pre-[[Series/IDreamOfJeannie Jeannie]] Barbara Eden arrives in Mayberry as the town's pretty new manicurist.

** In the episode "Man In a Hurry", the titular character happened to be named [[TheThickOfIt Malcolm Tucker.]]

* TearJerker: Opie's horror when he realizes that he accidentally killed a bird with his new slingshot in "Opie The Birdman".

** The episode "Alcohol and Old Lace" involves two sisters selling moonshine and justifying their crime because "we're not like those other moonshiners, they sell liquor for drinking purposes; our elixir is for special occasions." Naturally, the town's drinkers are making up excuses to take a nip. One particular scene involves a man pretending to be a Muslim celebrating Mohammed's birthday. It's not a super big deal, but the lightness of it is just a little strange [[TheWarOnTerror given current events]].

* ValuesDissonance: In "A Wife for Andy," Barney immediately disregards Helen Crump as a potential LoveInterest for Andy purely on the grounds that she can't cook very well and that she wants to keep her job after getting married. Lampshaded by Andy himself as the episode quickly moves Barney into JerkAss territory when he tries to sabotage their burgeoning relationship... [[StayInTheKitchen simply on the grounds that she refuses to fulfill the role of a traditional housewife like a good little girl]].
* ValuesResonance: A clip of Andy erasing a recording Opie made of a conversation of a suspect and his lawyer made in secret while defending the right to privacy and attorney-client privilege has been making the rounds on Website/YouTube ever since the revelations of the NSA's spying program.

* ValuesDissonance: In "A Wife for Andy," Barney immediately disregards Helen Crump as a potential LoveInterest for Andy purely on the grounds that she can't cook very well and that she wants to keep her job after getting married. Lampshaded by Andy himself as the episode quickly moves Barney into JerkAss territory when he tries to sabotage their burgeoning relationship... [[StayInTheKitchen simply on the grounds that she refuses to fulfill the role of a traditional housewife like a good little girl]], and comes across as a rather dickish OutOfCharacterMoment for the flawed but overall likable Barney.