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[[WMG: Opie is a [[TheTwilightZone time traveller.]] ]]
And like his alternate universe counterpart in TheTwilightZone episode "Walking Distance", he came back as an adult to visit Mayberry again. After having a piece of Aunt Bee's pie, and a down-home chat from Andy, he decided to move on get life and went back to the future. (No, not [[BackToTheFuture that future.]])
And like his alternate universe counterpart in TheTwilightZone episode "Walking Distance", he came back as an adult to visit Mayberry again. After having a piece of Aunt Bee's pie, and a down-home chat from Andy, he decided to move on get life and went back to the future. (No, not [[BackToTheFuture that future.]])
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[[WMG: Ernest T. Bass's middle name is [[StarTrek Tiberius]].]]
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[[WMG: Andy keeps Barney around to make himself look good.]]
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[[WMG: Barney had a nervous breakdown sometime after leaving the army.]]
As noted, Andy goes out of his way to keep Barney happy and somewhat deluded about his life. Perhaps Barney had some sort of mental collapse after the War (granted, he didn't see any combat but there could have been another cause), and then had a difficult time transitioning back into normal life and finding steady work. So Andy took pity on him and made him deputy, and because Andy had earned so much goodwill in Mayberry no one in town complained...until Mayor Stoner came along and was appalled to discover that Andy made a former mental patient his deputy and subsequently tried to force the Sheriff out. This eventually lead to Barney's leaving Mayberry, since Stoner planned to go the State board and lodge a formal complaint as well as going to the press. In retaliation, Andy decides to get involved in town politics more directly and attempts to oust Stoner, eventually leading to him convincing Sam Jones to run for the town council in the final season (as the first step to eventually becoming Mayor).
As noted, Andy goes out of his way to keep Barney happy and somewhat deluded about his life. Perhaps Barney had some sort of mental collapse after the War (granted, he didn't see any combat but there could have been another cause), and then had a difficult time transitioning back into normal life and finding steady work. So Andy took pity on him and made him deputy, and because Andy had earned so much goodwill in Mayberry no one in town complained...until Mayor Stoner came along and was appalled to discover that Andy made a former mental patient his deputy and subsequently tried to force the Sheriff out. This eventually lead to Barney's leaving Mayberry, since Stoner planned to go the State board and lodge a formal complaint as well as going to the press. In retaliation, Andy decides to get involved in town politics more directly and attempts to oust Stoner, eventually leading to him convincing Sam Jones to run for the town council in the final season (as the first step to eventually becoming Mayor).
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[[WMG: Barney had a nervous breakdown sometime after leaving the army.Army.]]
As noted, Andy goes out of his way to keep Barney happy and somewhat deluded about his life. Perhaps Barney had some sort of mental collapse after the War (granted, he didn't see any combat but there could have been another cause), and then had a difficult time transitioning back into normal life and finding steady work. So Andy took pity on him and made him deputy, and because Andy had earned so much goodwill in Mayberry no one in town complained...until Mayor Stoner came along and was appalled to discover that Andy made a former mental patient his deputy and subsequently tried to force the Sheriff out. This eventually lead to Barney's leaving Mayberry, since Stoner (after all his other attempts failed) planned to go the Stateboard Board and lodge a formal complaint as (as well as going to the press.press) in order to discredit Andy and ruin Barney's career in the process. In retaliation, Andy decides to get involved in town politics more directly and attempts to oust Stoner, eventually leading to him convincing Sam Jones to run for the town council in the final season (as the first step to eventually becoming Mayor).
As noted, Andy goes out of his way to keep Barney happy and somewhat deluded about his life. Perhaps Barney had some sort of mental collapse after the War (granted, he didn't see any combat but there could have been another cause), and then had a difficult time transitioning back into normal life and finding steady work. So Andy took pity on him and made him deputy, and because Andy had earned so much goodwill in Mayberry no one in town complained...until Mayor Stoner came along and was appalled to discover that Andy made a former mental patient his deputy and subsequently tried to force the Sheriff out. This eventually lead to Barney's leaving Mayberry, since Stoner (after all his other attempts failed) planned to go the State
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[[WMG: Barney had a nervous breakdown sometime after leaving the army.]]
As noted, Andy goes out of his way to keep Barney happy and somewhat deluded about his life. Perhaps Barney had some sort of mental collapse after the War (granted, he didn't see any combat but there could have been another cause), and then had a difficult time transitioning back into normal life and finding steady work. So Andy took pity on him and made him deputy, and because Andy had earned so much goodwill in Mayberry no one in town complained...until Mayor Stoner came along and was appalled to discover that Andy made a former mental patient his deputy and subsequently tried to force the Sheriff out. This eventually lead to Barney's leaving Mayberry, since Stoner planned to go the State board and lodge a formal complaint as well as going to the press. In retaliation, Andy decides to get involved in town politics more directly and attempts to oust Stoner, eventually leading to him convincing Sam Jones to run for the town council in the final season (as the first step to eventually becoming Mayor).
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* Harlan Ellison once called Don Knotts "the ultimate morphodite (bi-gendered) nebbish".
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* Harlan Ellison once called Don Knotts "the ultimate morphodite (bi-gendered) nebbish".
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** He may have done this remembering that Marsha was practically engaged to Sheriff Bess.
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** He may have done this remembering that Marsha was practically engaged to Sheriff Bess.
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** Or maybe, like many small country towns, black people just never lived there in the first place. My hometown of 600 people and most of the surrounding area have almost no black people, without some sinister racist intent.
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** I was talking about Andy.
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* It is a crazy idea. Barney didn't have a dead wife. Andy is the one who had the dead wife.
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* Or he could be, just, you know, missing his dead wife? I know, crazy idea...
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Clearly, Andy Taylor eventually got tired of being sheriff and wanted to move on to bigger and better things. So he moved to the big city (Atlanta), changed his name to Glen Matlock, went to law school, and eventually passed the bar in Georgia.
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Clearly, Andy Taylor eventually got tired of being sheriff and wanted to move on to bigger and better things. So he moved to the big city (Atlanta), changed his name to Glen Ben Matlock, went to law school, and eventually passed the bar in Georgia.
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** There was at least one. In ''Opie's Piano Lesson'', Opie is the quarterback of the football team. A black man named Flip Conroy is in Mayberry. Apperantly, he's a big college football star. Not only is he accepted in Mayberry, but he is also revered.
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** There was at least one. In ''Opie's Piano Lesson'', Opie is the quarterback of the football team. A black man named Flip Conroy is in Mayberry. Apperantly, he's a big college an ex-NFL star and the new football star.coach. Not only is he accepted in Mayberry, but he is also revered.
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** There was at least one. In ''Opie's Piano Lesson'', Opie is the quarterback of the football team. A black man named Flip Conroy is in Mayberry. Apperantly, he's a big college football star. Not only is he accepted in Mayberry, but he is also revered.
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** There have been a small handful of black people in crowd scenes, but I don't know that any of them had any speaking parts.
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** There have been a small handful of black people in crowd scenes, but I don't know that any of them think the show had any black people with speaking parts.
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** There have been a small handful of black people as background characters in crowd scenes, but I don't know that any of them had any speaking parts.
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** There have been a small handful of black people as background characters in crowd scenes, but I don't know that any of them had any speaking parts.
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** There have been a small handful of black people as background characters in crowd scenes, but I don't know that any of them had any speaking parts.
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* Andy goes to great lengths to make Barney happy.
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[[WMG: Barney is the real mastermind of the town.]]
He's just {{obfuscating stupidity}}.
He's just {{obfuscating stupidity}}.
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** Mayberry is in North Carolina, isn't it?
*** Mayberry is an idealized version of Mount Airy, NC. Andy Griffith's home town. Because it's idealized, there is no rascial strife. However, North Carolina did see a lot less of the violence seen in the rest of the south (Mostly just sit ins and peaceful protests).
*** Mayberry is an idealized version of Mount Airy, NC. Andy Griffith's home town. Because it's idealized, there is no rascial strife. However, North Carolina did see a lot less of the violence seen in the rest of the south (Mostly just sit ins and peaceful protests).
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** Mayberry is in North Carolina, isn't it?
***Mayberry is an idealized version of Mount Airy, NC. Andy Griffith's home town. Because it's idealized, there is no rascial racial strife. However, North Carolina in RealLife did see a lot less of the violence seen in the rest of the south (Mostly just sit ins and peaceful protests).
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* Was there ever even one black person on the show?
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* Let see the evidence: The most eligible bachelor in a small Southern and yet he only dates two women and then only in the most chaste manner possible. He makes no effort to remarry to provide a "mother" for his son and moves his spinster aunt in w/ them to give him a "beard."
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* Let see the evidence: The most eligible bachelor in a small Southern town and yet he only dates two women and then only in the most chaste manner possible. He makes no effort to remarry to provide a "mother" for his son and moves his spinster aunt in w/ them to give him a "beard."
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[[WMG:Andy is either a closeted gay, bi or perhaps, asexual.]]
*Let see the evidence: The most eligible bachelor in a small Southern and yet he only dates two women and then only in the most chaste manner possible. He makes no effort to remarry to provide a "mother" for his son and moves his spinster aunt in w/ them to give him a "beard."
He spends an inordinate amount of time in the company of men and seems to be visibly uncomfortable around women that express affection of any kind towards him.
Given that the show is set in a time where only children were rare and given that Andy didn't quickly remarry after his wife's demise one can reasonable assume that women hold only minimal or no interest at all for Sheriff Taylor,making him asexual,bisexual or even gay.
Let's not even bring up Barney Fife....
*Let see the evidence: The most eligible bachelor in a small Southern and yet he only dates two women and then only in the most chaste manner possible. He makes no effort to remarry to provide a "mother" for his son and moves his spinster aunt in w/ them to give him a "beard."
He spends an inordinate amount of time in the company of men and seems to be visibly uncomfortable around women that express affection of any kind towards him.
Given that the show is set in a time where only children were rare and given that Andy didn't quickly remarry after his wife's demise one can reasonable assume that women hold only minimal or no interest at all for Sheriff Taylor,making him asexual,bisexual or even gay.
Let's not even bring up Barney Fife....
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At the end of ''A Face in the Crowd'', "Lonesome" Rhodes suffers a breakdown as his fame collapses and he swears to win the public's love again. Unsure of where to begin, then, perhaps he decides to start from scratch in another Southern small-town jail - but tis time, on the other side of the bars. He changes his name to Andy Taylor, adopts the same down-home good-natured facade that made him popular in the first place, and tries to jump straight into politics by running for sheriff. Because this takes so long to accomplish he finds himself settling down in the town for good. Eventually he [[BecomingTheMask pretends to be a decent person for so long that he actually becomes one]], and he blissfully forgets that he ever was the fallen megastar Lonesome Rhodes.
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At the end of ''A Face in the Crowd'', "Lonesome" Rhodes suffers a breakdown as his fame collapses and he swears to win the public's love again. Unsure of where to begin, then, perhaps he decides to start from scratch in another Southern small-town jail - but tis this time, on the other side of the bars. He changes his name to Andy Taylor, adopts the same down-home good-natured facade that made him popular in the first place, and tries to jump straight into politics by running for sheriff. Because this takes so long to accomplish he finds himself settling down in the town for good. Eventually he [[BecomingTheMask pretends to be a decent person for so long that he actually becomes one]], and he blissfully forgets that he ever was the fallen megastar Lonesome Rhodes.
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At the end of ''A Face in the Crowd'', "Lonesome" Rhodes suffers a breakdown as his fame collapses and he swears to win the public's love again. Unsure of where to begin, then, perhaps he decides to start from scratch in another Southern small-town jail - but tis time, on the other side of the bars. He changes his name to Andy Taylor, adopts the same down-home good-natured facade that made him popular in the first place, and tries to jump straight into politics by running for sheriff. Because this takes so long to accomplish he finds himself settling down in the town for good. Eventually he [[BecomingTheMask pretends to be a decent person for so long that he actually becomes one]], and he blissfully forgets that he ever was the forgotten fallen megastar Lonesome Rhodes.
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[[WMG: Andy Taylor is a post-breakdown Lonesome Rhodes]]
At the end of ''A Face in the Crowd'', "Lonesome" Rhodes suffers a breakdown as his fame collapses and he swears to win the public's love again. Unsure of where to begin, then, perhaps he decides to start from scratch in another Southern small-town jail - but tis time, on the other side of the bars. He changes his name to Andy Taylor, adopts the same down-home good-natured facade that made him popular in the first place, and tries to jump straight into politics by running for sheriff. Because this takes so long to accomplish he finds himself settling down in the town for good. Eventually he [[BecomingTheMask pretends to be a decent person for so long that he actually becomes one]], and he blissfully forgets that he ever was the forgotten megastar Lonesome Rhodes.
At the end of ''A Face in the Crowd'', "Lonesome" Rhodes suffers a breakdown as his fame collapses and he swears to win the public's love again. Unsure of where to begin, then, perhaps he decides to start from scratch in another Southern small-town jail - but tis time, on the other side of the bars. He changes his name to Andy Taylor, adopts the same down-home good-natured facade that made him popular in the first place, and tries to jump straight into politics by running for sheriff. Because this takes so long to accomplish he finds himself settling down in the town for good. Eventually he [[BecomingTheMask pretends to be a decent person for so long that he actually becomes one]], and he blissfully forgets that he ever was the forgotten megastar Lonesome Rhodes.
