wbmutbb-digest Tuesday, January 25 2000 Volume 02 : Number 026
Topics in this issue: Andy Griffith at the Grand Ole Opry Johnny Coons Just a couple of notes. What Andy might say F. Bavier commercials Dream sequences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:12:21 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Andy Griffith at the Grand Ole Opry Hey Folks, I've done something new on the website. It's a "Real Slide Show" presentation and I'd like to have y'all test it out and tell me how/if it works okay for y'all before I go "live" on the web with it. I've made two different ones. The first is of the "Barber Joke" that Andy told before he sang and the second is Andy singing "Flop-eared Mule" on the Opry. Please check out these URL's and let me know what you think. http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/mfigure/andyatopry/barberstory.htm http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/mfigure/andyatopry/flopearedmule.htm I think y'all will like these!! I've noticed that for slower connections...playing one time through and then clicking the "play" arrow on RealPlayer seems to make the second time through play smoother. Allan Newsome ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:09:08 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (crystal) Subject: Johnny Coons Hello Everyone! Another member and I were talking and we both wondered who Johnny Coons is. We were both a little embarrassed to ask, since everyone else seems to know. But I finally decided to be brave and ask, "WHO IS JOHNNY COONS?" :o) My family and I don't have cable, so we have been unable to see the TVLand show that includes the epilogs. I have been soooo jealous, as I have read about how much all of you are enjoying watching them. My parents, however, do have cable. Momma always records the shows. I haven't been able to get one of her tapes though, because the 1st tape wasn't full yet. Well, she FINALLY finished the 1st tape and sent it to us to watch!!! We got it right at time to cook dinner. I instructed my family NOT to watch it without me. They didn't listen; they just couldn't contain themselves. I told them I would not cook dinner, if they were going to watch TAGS without me. :o) They didn't turn it off...and I didn't cook dinner!!! I ran down the street about 1 1/2 miles to KFC!! My family never even noticed that I was missing :o( I guess they thought that I was cooking. When I walked in the door with the box of chicken in my hand, my husband laughed and laughed! He said, "Now that's wanting to watch Andy bad!" It has taken me several days to respond to a posting that Deborah Dubose put in the Digest. She said that she watches TAGS on one of the local stations from Mize, MS. Deborah, it isn't Hattiesburg, so it must be Jackson--WLBT channel 3. I had NO idea that it came on WLBT, because we never watch it. We watch the Hattiesburg station, since we are closer (Collins). Could you let me know what day and time that it comes on? You can e-mail me privately, if you wish, but there are lots of members from Mississippi and they would probably be interested, as well. Sorry this is so long. Bundle up and stay warm! Rejoice, Crystal Neal ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 04:38:55 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Just a couple of notes. Our Monday edition of the Dallas Morning news had a wonderful article about Andy and Don in the Today section. They both recently got together for TV Land to talk about the show. Also, I was flipping channels today and saw Bernard Fox aka Malcolm, on a soap called Passions. It is a very strange soap. It comes on at 2:00 pm Dallas time. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:00:37 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What Andy might say (A crowd of townsfolk stand around Andy's desk shouting at him and each other. Barney tries futily to control the crowd) ANDY: Just a minute, Just a minute, JUST A MINUTE NOW, ONE AT A TIME. (the crowd quiets to a murmur) BARNEY: What the Sheriff is trying to say is this is an unlawful assembly without a permit. You may not come in here and raise a Freakus like a bunch of rabblerousers... AUNT BEE (interrupting from the crowd) Who you calling a Rabblerouser! (the crowd begins shouting again, this time at Barney as he backs himself literally into the corner with the crowd in pursuit. He instinctively grabs for his gun to show his authority, but accidently fires it into the floor. The crowd backs away and immediately hushes in fear.) ANDY: Barrrrney! Somebody coulda got hurt (Barney hands his gun relunctantly to Andy) BARNEY: Well, let that be a lesson to ya. IF you get out of control.. ANDY: (Interupting) Will ya let me handle this! (Barney drops his head wags it back and forth, and backs down, as he mumbles) BARNEY: Ok then, do it your way, Yer the Sheriff, I was was just... ANDY: Now its good to see everyone here to day. You all have a right to say what you think. (the crowd cheers) Now line up here one at a time to speak your peace and I'll hear all of you. (A single line forms at Andy's desk, others stand aside to listen) MAYOR PIKE: Andy, we've got to get out the vote! Our fair city is not in first place in some of those internet polls. It's a matter of civic pride, of citizen duty! GOOBER: Enough's enough Andy. I been on that thang five er ten times a day, and I come back after a flat tire and we're even further behind than when I started. It's a fix Andy and I'm tired of votin' AUNT BEE: The Will of the People! If people want to vote for our town they shall vote early, and they shall vote often! OPIE: Can have have ten cents Paw? (andy reaches in his pocket) FLOYD: It's a mess Andy. I've got that Internet terminal in there in the barber shop...people been comin in a steady stream ta vote, some of them 5 or 10 times a day. They say our town is losing to some Giants and a Genie (laughing) can you imagine that Andy..Giants and a Genie!...uh by the way have you seen than manicurist lately, Miss Brown, I got a hangnail...anyway the shop is too busy with voters, and, well...(dejectedly) I Don't have the magazines to swing it. ELLIE: Andy, people around hear have alot of pride in our town. If they want to campaign for votes, they oughta have a way to to campaign. JUD: But they're just too wound up about it Andy. Sometimes a fella just wants to come into town, get a bottle of pop and a newspaper and sit on a bench and read it. They make you feel guilty ifin you don't go vote in that crazy thing. ANDY: OK, Andybody else got anything to say? BARNEY: I'm votin' for Andy! ( small cheer from parts of the crowd) ANDY: Alright now. You boys go get that internet voting thing over at Floyd's and bring it in here and set it up. Barney, block the door open there to cell number two. We'll put the voting booth in there and everyone can use it. It's your civic right, and we 'preciate it, we really do. (a cheer goes up) But, ya gotta stop houndin people and makin' them feel guilty if they don't want to vote. It's just for fun, and win or lose we all know where the best doggone town in America is, right? (YEAH!) We know who has the best show, the best people, and the best fans (YEAH! the crowd cheers) So you voters, vote to yer heart's content. You can remind folks where to find the booth every now and then, but don't hound 'em about it every day, and respect their right to just sit and read, OK? (YEAH!) BARNEY An-Dy An-Dy An-Dy (the crowd joins the chant) An-Dy An-Dy The whistling Fishin' Hole theme begins, and another episode ends with everything OK in Mayberry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 06:56:58 -0600 From: "Paul Mulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: F. Bavier >From: poochina <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do any of y'all know if Frances Bavier (Aunt Bee) was ever married. Did she have any kids. > She was married once in real life, very briefly when she was still a young woman. I don't think she ever had any children. On the show, it was never mentioned whether or not Aunt Bee had been married, but I think we were supposed to assume that she never was (at least that's what I always assumed). - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:08:56 -0600 From: "Paul Mulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: commercials >Was it my imagination, or didn't Andy have a tag line he used to say after every commercial...after he would urge everyone to try whatever product it was (Post Cereals, Sanka Coffee, etc.), didn't he always say "I'd appreciate it, and goodnight"? Or am I remembering someone else? It's been almost 35 years since I've heard it. Bobby "the Beast" Hay >> You're exactly right, during the original run of The Show, each episode included a cast commercial. I'm too young to remember watching them, but a few have survived in the form of video tape. There's a tape available which includes 4 or 5 of them. It's called "Greatest TV Commercials of the 1960s" or something like that. Check the video stores in your area. When The Show was new, after Opie threw his second rock during the opening credits, the camera went to a close up of the rock splashing into the water, then the announcer would say "brought to you by...." and there would be a short commercial. One went something like this: Andy (singing): You know a cereal will please you most, when it comes to you in a package from Post, 'cause all Post cereals happen to be a little bit better... Opie (singing): A little bit better... Andy (singing): A little bit better, than any other cereal happens to be. At the end of the show, there would be a 30-second commercial. My understanding is that they would use the same one for maybe 3 or 4 episodes, then they'd make a new one. Each commercial was for a GF product, such as Jell-O, Sanka, or Post cereal. Many of them continued the storyline of that evening's episode. For example, the one that ran with "Mr. McBeeVee" showed everyone sitting at the table. Opie asks for some Jell-O pudding to take out to his horse, and Barney starts to get mad again, thinking that he is being teased. At this point, a REAL horse sticks his head in through the kitchen window! There really WAS a Blackie after all, but only in the commercial. In the one for the very first episode, Andy tells Opie that Dickie the bird had flown back home because he wanted a cup of Sanka coffee. When Opie points out that parakeets don't drink coffee, Andy says, "Shhh, the sponsor don't know that!" Once The Show entered syndication, these commercials disappeared, since by that point GF was no longer the sole sponsor. - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:40:38 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dream sequences Regarding dream sequences: How about Opie dreaming he'd won the track event and lots of medals? (Black and white episode.) Or Howard, dreaming of becoming a major bum on the island and being rescued by Andy and Aunt Bee? Those are the first two that come to mind. MrsLesch ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V2 #26 **************************** ************************************************** ~ Visit our sponsor ~ Weaver's Department Store ~ http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/weavers/ ************************************************** To remove yourself from the WBMUTBB Digest mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe wbmutbb-digest
