The Andy Griffith Show

[Big Bull]

I just the love the Andy Griffith Show! It was a simpiler time them!
Don Knotts as Barney Fife made the show!

[chinolofus]

only episodes i like are with ernest t bass.

[shaggie]

Some of those are unforgettable.

Citizen's arrest! Citizen's arrest! :)

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[Big Bull]

Its sad to report the death of Don Knotts, on 2-25-2006!
He will be greatly missed, he was Barney Fife for all of us, because we all have a little bit of Barney in all of us!

[BoozeJockey]

hmm, he was on Three's Company too, Don Knotts that is.

[hippiejessica]

I love the Andy Griffith show, too. I was so sad when Don Knotts died.
I love the episode when they make Barney do the solo in the choir but have a man with a bass voice behind the curtain singing for him. So hilarious!

[B0ngHitz420]

This show is hilarious high!

[shaggie]

I love the Andy Griffith show, too. I was so sad when Don Knotts died.
I love the episode when they make Barney do the solo in the choir but have a man with a bass voice behind the curtain singing for him. So hilarious! That was a good one. :) The lyrics were something like 'balmy and dry'.

There was another episode where someone in Mayberry let his house run down and the people were going to run him out of the town. Andy eventually talked them into helping the guy out and everyone contributed to fixing up his house for him. Don't see too many themes like that in today's TV shows.

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[Charise]

Andy Griffith was one of the best shows that was ever on TV. It was really funny, clean, and taught people real good lessons about morals and how to treat each other. I don't think it would be possible to make a show like that today. People would think it's 'corny'. Well, I sure didn't think so. Barney Fife is dead! Long live Barney Fife!

[Big Bull]

My favorite episode, or one of my top ten, was when he bought the motorcycle and sidecar, and when he bought the car off the future Grandma Walton!

[Justwow]

LOVE this show! (Just the one's with Don Knotts, of course)


My favorite is the one where Andy and Barney have to escort a truck carrying gold to Fort Knox through the county, but word leaks out!

[Charise]

On one episode, Andy said to Gomer, "Now Gomer, you've got to make sure that you don't say anything about this to anybody" Gomer said to Andy "Not even you?".

One time Barney had deputized Gomer to help him guard the jail so that some crooks didn't come and break their friends out who were in the jail. When the crooks drove up at the jail to break their friends out, Gomer said to Barney, "Shazaam, we better call the police" Barney: "Gomer, we ARE the police".

[Love Fest1969]

I watch re-runs with my mom.

[Big Bull]

There is a lot to be said for Otis Campbell! He was great!

[fuzz_acid_flowers]

i used to watch it as a kid.i think it was because i really liked the opening song:p

[Big Bull]

The song is called (The Fishing Hole)!

There are even words to it!

[aphrodite_pretty]

Citizen's arrest! Citizen's arrest! :)
:D :D :D

[Wasteland]

I've never been that big of a fan (my Dad is though. He's been watching it since it's original run).

My favorite episode in the one where Opie joins that club, and gets blamed for burning down a farmer's barn. At the end, it turns out the farmer burnt down his own barn with the still he was running inside of it. The scene where barney gets accidentally drunk is the funniest.

[Big Bull]

I saw one today where Otis the drunk, was riding a cow, and thought it was a horse!

SO GREAT!

[The_Walrus]

It's a hilarious show.
Don Knotts just cracks me up.
Little Ron Howard was so cute.

[Strange Days]

I love this show. I was so heartbroken when Don Knotts died...I don't think I've ever been so upset to hear a celebrity had died. My aunt called to tell me and I remember I cried that night. Gomer Pyle is my favorite character, besides Barney. I'm a huge Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. fan, too.

[psychedelicgirl]

me too, man!!

i love it. i want to live in mayberry.
andy's gotten me through some tough times, lol.
and barney fife is my heroooo... ;)

[maryjanegirl_2005]

I loved Andy Griffith!! Gr8 Show..

[psychedelicgirl]

did anyone see one of the later ones (i don't remember if it was in color or not) where opie was a teenager and this little neighbor boy idolized him, but op started hanging out with a girl he liked, and ditched the little boy?

op and the girl (awkwardly) danced to records at the record shop, and said 'groovy' a lot.
it literally made me cringe, but it was ssooo hysterical.

[KatieMarrie]

I own seasons 1-4. They make me smile.

[waukegan]

there were so many great characters,of course andy,opie,aunt bea,floyd the barber and the mayor.when i saw the story in today's paper about the president telling mayors to not be wasteful about spending the economic stimulus money i started thinking how the mayor and mayberry would react to this.remember the episode where a hollywood producer wants to make a movie in mayberry?the citizens of the town go a little overboard trying to impress the film makers.edit barney was my favorite character.

[SunLion]

...op and the girl (awkwardly) danced to records at the record shop, and said 'groovy' a lot. it literally made me cringe, but it was ssooo hysterical.

Too bad they didn't do a "Merry Pranksters pass through Mayberry" episode. Imagine Barney Fife (sp?) on acid. No, better yet, Aunt Bea- she'd go around hugging everyone. I think Andy would get kind of reclusive and paranoid. The town drunk guy would go clean from alcohol and start wearing multitudes of bizarre hats. Op' would decide not to drop any, but instead focus on smoking as much weed as possible while getting lessons in life from Cassidy. Oh, and Jerry and the boys jammin' on the porch, doin' a killer Cumberland Blues.

[HawaiianEye]

A great,great show!-One of the best tv shows ever made.However only the black and white episodes that of course feature Don Knotts.The color episodes while pleasant are very ordinary. Also notice that the black and white shows were actually filmed like a good movie is filmed.How come they don't even come close to making great television like this anymore?

[waukegan]

i wonder sometimes if it is a collective writers block.sarcasm here:what with the writer's strike being over we should be getting better shows.(laugh track)much of today's so called comedies seem to be filled with crude humor and put downs.i think the people that put together the griffith show were better trained and had life experiences unlike the today's.(the great depression,the world wars,vaudeville,regionalism.).....the set designers created a fictional town off the main road that was a very nice place to visit every week...i agree the shows were very nicely filmed and seemed to have resisted the urge to film before a studio audience.it seems to me black and white film works better for many t.v shows and movies....i also liked mayberry rfd but like has been said it wasn't quite up to the standard of the original shows.but i think some of the newcomers to the town made good additions to television comedy...........edit: barney locks himself in the jail cell....again...........the cast and crew of the older television shows also often had worked on radio programs.

[Mike21484]

It's kind of hard to explain really!...I mean it's kinda like growing up in the 60s,especially if you grew up in a 'happenin' place....you can't go back home again!...it was a once in time/space experience...we can come close,but never really duplicate it again....you can't even explain it successfully to people who weren't there and went through it--they can KINDA get it,but only mentally..they can't get that 'feeling' that goes with it, and that's the important part. That simple innocent country living is very limited in this day and age. I mean, our local Opie can still walk to school here in the country,but problem is..instead of the local kid bully waiting to take his milk money,like in the episode ...he's been replaced by the drug dealer from Detroit who last week killed three high school kids for being in the wrong place at the wrong time drug deal goin' down(true local story by the way!)....would that we could be Mayberry again!

[zillagod]

I loved and still love the Andy Griffith Show. Dont like the ones in color, only the ones in B/W. I think the best episodes, and I am surprised no one here mentioned it, was the ones with the Dillards who played the Darlin boys, and Denver Pyle as Briscoe Darlin, and the cute Maggie Peterson as Charlene Darlin, later Charlene Wash.