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wbmutbb-digest Wednesday, May 24 2000 Volume 02 : Number 156
Topics in this issue:
Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #154
Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #155
Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #155
African Americans In Mayberry
Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #155
Pickups and Splashes from Floor and Pool
The Case of the Missing Chickens
Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #155
the "meeeeeeee" commercial during tags
clothes on tags that WE wore...
HipHop
References to TV Land
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 17:09:52 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #154
In a message dated 5/23/2000 11:41:21 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< During the run of TAGS, how many different names were given for
"likker". >>
My favorite is Ol' Red Eye. Sometimes hard cider will give the same buzz
but don't go removing no corks now - ya hear.
Linda - the teetotaling Goober
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 20:09:17 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #155
In a message dated 5/23/00 5:24:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Laura Lee here. The epilogue to yesterday's show (Miss Ellie and the new
doctor) made me wonder again: why, oh why, couldn't Andy have married that
pretty thing? >>
In Richard Kelly's book "The Andy Griffith Show" they explain why Andy and
Barney never married. One reason was Andy was a big Wally Cox fan and when
Wally got married in his show the whole show changed. You didn't feel sorry
for him anymore because he had a partner, someone to lean on. (There's more
reason's but you can find it in the book).
Quote "The real "Marriage" of course, on the Griffith show was between Andy
and Barney, who in many respects were the original odd couple".
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:10:35 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #155
In a message dated 5/23/00 6:27:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I noticed in the episode "Jailbreak", when Andy went into the dry cleaning
store, the clerk greeted him while smoking. Not to infringe on the rights
of
smokers, but I think, personally, I would go to another cleaner! But it is
interesting how times have changed.
>>
the times they are a changing!!!!!!!!! for the 60s smoking on the telly was
not an usual
sight at all.and they also werent aware of the hazards of smoking like they
are today. andy, himself, was a regular smoker on the show........bRAnDOn
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:28:40 -0400
From: Randy Everette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: African Americans In Mayberry
There is one more episode with an African American and in this episode
he plays a prominent part. In one of the color episodes a character
named Flip Conroy who is a pro football player comes to town (I think he
was suppossed to be from Mayberry and "made good") and gives Opie and
the gang some football lessons.
Randy Everette
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:57:46 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #155
In a message dated 05/23/2000 5:24:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< << When Andy and Aunt Bee are getting the bed ready, they make it up in
a way I've never seen before. They put the pillows more to the center and
then flip them over. Is this an "Andy way" to do this, or do other people
make beds like this too? I've never seen it before. Just curious.
>>
I think this was a case of the director never having made a bed - that was
a
first for me too >> >>
I work as a CNA in a nursing home and one tech I worked with did the same
thing when she put the pillows on the bed, I find myself doing the same thing
when I make a bed that has a bedspread. It's funny when she told me how to
do it I
I thought maybe it was something I missed learning how to do when growing up.
Barbara Hartman
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 07:52:20 -0400
From: "GRITTON, JOE A. (AIT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pickups and Splashes from Floor and Pool
>Untrained Voice had a wonderful idea. How about it, one of you guys with a
TAGS website? Could we get a picture of Johnny and Joe? I just recently
learned who Johnny Coons was; I would have loved to been able to visit a
website in order to figure it out.<
Well, I just had to pop in a few words when dear Crystal said I had a good
idea.
I think the last time someone told me I had a good idea was when I said
maybe I
should go for a walk by myself. (I thank better that way. Buckets just
give
me closetfobia, I like walks, but I hate buckets).
Anyway, that sly Miss Poovey who I subtly hinted to, already does have a pic
of
Mr. Joe Hamilton. (There's been a hit and run) In one of her pictures of
Gomer,
there is a side profile of Joe, white hat and all. A close-up wouldn't
hurt, but
it does clarify who he is (if a body would identify him by name ...now that
would
just be extra good). She also has another favorite extra ..the sly Mr.
Scwump,
in a great shot on the bench with Andy and Barn. Now if we could just get
Johnny's
mug up somewhere....
This has been noted before when this question came up, but TAGS did feature
an African
America actor is a key role in a color episode. Skip Conroy, the football
coach who could
play piano. So they started to move in the right direction in the later
years. They touched
on other minorities...the Indian vote, the karate instructor, the
Englishter, but were
really lacking diversity in that era.
Remember, quoting the whole Digest is litterin'' and the fine is still $4,
just like with Fred Plummer.
Crystal, that part about me havin' a good idea. I cut that out and sent it
to my mother.
do you think that was a good idea, or should I just put it on the bulletin
board?
The Untrained Voice
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 08:14:44 -0400
From: "Dan Goodwin/Jobscope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Case of the Missing Chickens
I've noticed this one for a long time. You know when Barney goes up to
Flint's to talk to him about Frankie having some makeup and Flint is
standing there with the pitchfork? Barney approaches through a flock of
chickens and they continue to mill around behind him while he talks to
Flint but when Barney turns around to walk back to the car, the chickens
which were there a split second before have magically disappeared!
I always wondered how they did that, but you never have a moulage when you
need one.
dan
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 05:42:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: bill shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #155
- --
> << I have a TAGS-related question. When you are
> thirsty, do you have a
> "pop"
> or
> do you have a "soda"? >>
> If I'm not mistaken, I remember Andy talking to
> Opie and he called it a
> "sodie pop". I know some "old timers" in Maine that
> still call it "seltzer"!
> How 'bout that!
> >>
>
> I can expand that debate even further, around here
> everyone calls any kind
> of soda or pop, Coke, Like i'm gonna get some Coke,
> even if alll they ever
> drink is Dr. pepper. Don't know why but all my life
> we've called all pop
> Coke's...now thats down right backwoods. Of course
> they do call this neck of
> the woods "little Kentucky". Just past the Robert E.
> Lee, natural bridge.
>
> "Well you know Mayberry, they pull in the sidewalks
> at 9 0'clock."
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Someone asked how many names were used on TAGS for
liquor and it got me to wonderin' how many names were
used for pop( or where I come from "Coke"). All I can
remember is nectarine crush and huckleberry smash from
the episode "Lawman Barney" where the two farmers are
vendin' on the side of the road. I do remember Wally
telling Floyd about a new flavor called high octane
ethyl but I think he was just joking. Can anyone
think of any others.
Buzz Fluehart
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 08:35:43 CST
From: "The Hendersons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: the "meeeeeeee" commercial during tags
That meeeeeeeeeee commercial is obnoxious! I will actually hit the "Alternate
Channel Button" just to get away from that thing! (Those people in the
commercial
could just as easily say "You, YOu, YOU...and not appear to be so selfish...but
then, that would not attract as many "people" in that targeted group.)
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 08:52:13 CST
From: "The Hendersons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: clothes on tags that WE wore...
Yes, to reply to an older tags newsletter: I get a hoot out of watching the
clothes
on TAGS. I grew up NEVER wearing white shoes after labor day, and heaven help
us if we wore black shoes after Easter! I saw a dress like I used to have the
other night this week: Thelma Lou had it on: one of those (non-stretchy,
non-forgiving-material)
shirtwaists with big RUFFLES DOWN THE FRONT , FROM COLLAR TO WAIST!!!!!
Soooooooooo
uncomfortable. I guess (do not remember for sure) we walked around holding in
our stomachs a lot. haha. The thing about Aunt Bee wearing gloves: why, that
had a number of reasons why it was done. Like in the old south, Ladies wore
gloves and big brimmed hats. Why, you ask? so to keep your skin from burning
and getting those AGE spots that are directly related to sun and age. We know
that now, and proper sun screen helps. Kids today DON'T understand that there
were certain "rules" of fashion that every body kept. Remember when you really
could Not go anywhere the evening you did your hair? We never had blow dryers
back then. After we washed our hair, it took hours to dry, cause we had the
hair all coated in dippity -do and wraped around those awful rollers while STILL
SOPPIN' WET!!!! It took alllllllllllllll night for the hair to dry, and forget
about sleeping soundly!!! My roots were screaming out in pain and I was too
tired and numb from the pain of sleeping on rollers to hear them!!!haha.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:40:44 -0500
From: "Daniel Burkeen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HipHop
It wasn't my intent to blame TVLand for the placement of the ad. I just
thought it was somewhat comical. But not as comical as the notion that
research might show that, out of all of the programming on television,
including the cheapest spots, the best way to sell Hip-Hop/Rap music is to
target the Andy Griffith/Leave it to Beaver crowd. Maybe its those Eddie
Haskell groupies they're after.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:16:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Janet Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: References to TV Land
A few digests ago, someone responded to an earlier question (I think it was
about why no African Americans were cast in TAGS) by saying that the
question had been addressed and explained on TV Land's special about TAGS.
But the person didn't go on to give the answer, apparently assuming that
everyone receiving the digest also watches TV Land. Please, folks, don't
make that assumption! We choose not to have cable TV at our house. I watch
TAGS on video. So please don't keep me in the dark by assuming I've seen
something on TV Land. Thank you for taking this into consideration!
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