I'm going to group three subjects into this one e-mail because I've been noticing that my e-mails are taking longer & longer to reach the Digest.
1) I happened to catch a rerun of "The Bookie Barber" episode this weekend and noted in the opening scene, after Opie has tried to explain that he hates getting his hair cut because the hairs drop down his neck & itch him, Andy tells him that he'll be able to fix that by taking a bath when he gets home. Opie is horrified that, now, he has to get a dreaded hair cut and take a dreaded bath! Cute scene, well played. 2) My personal opinion about the darker Andy who emerged in the color episodes is that he was tiring of playing the character and started letting his ennui show. Griffith wasn't diagnosed with the Guillain-Barre syndrome until the early '80s, so it's probably doubtful that he was experiencing any of its symptoms during the run of TAGS. 3) My Mayberry Moment - Saturday morning, I had returned from grocery shopping and was unloading my car in my building’s garage. An older woman (about my age, probably!) came walking in and got into a large, late-model sedan parked several spaces away from my car. I wasn’t paying much attention until I heard an odd sort of "chucka" sound come from her direction. I looked over in time to see her car more or less jump backwards out of its space; then it jumped forward at an angle; jumped backward again; and finally jumped toward the exit. Shades of Aunt Bee learning to drive! (Although I doubt this lady had the excuse of a manual transmission and having to learn how to work a clutch!) _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
