> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:53:17 -0500 > From: "SHARON SMITH" > To: "wbmutbb" > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Has anyone ever heard why the relationship with Barney and Thelma Lou was > handled the way it was - that Barney left town and Thelma Lou behind after > they > had been so in love. Always seems to me that even Barney wouldn't be that > full > of himself. I cannot watch the episode when Thelma Lou shows up with her > husband at the reunion. It is just so sad that those 2 characters were split > up > and didn't get together until the "Return to Mayberry" movie. I've always > wondered why.
Sharon, You know it's kinda funny you should mention that about Barney and Thelma Lou's relationship because I had something frighteningly similar happen to a young lady and me over thirty years ago. We had, for some long ago forgotten reason, drifted apart and went our separate ways after we'd been similarly in love as Barney and Thelma Lou had been. Later, there was the painful class reunion of old, familiar songs and forgotten glances. Now we've found each other again and drifted back together. We haven't re-enacted the end of "Return to Mayberry" yet, but we're talking about it.... Although I understand how you would find the class reunion episode sad, I watch it with the rather wry grin of familiarity. "The tears on my pillow bespeak the pain that is in my heart" Paul Just down the street from the Y in Raleigh _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
