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wbmutbb-digest Sunday, May 28 2000 Volume 02 : Number 160 Topics in this issue: Johnny Coons Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #159 Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #159 " Its A Small TV World " Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #156 Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #156 Realism ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:51:42 CDT From: "DEBORAH DUBOSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Johnny Coons OK, Bob, you asked what episode did Johnny Coons say very clearly, "Good luck, Barney." Now, I'll be the first to admit I'm a Johnny Coons admirer, but no expert, but I'll venture a guess: it was the shoe salesman episode, and Johnny said it to Barney right before Barney went into the room to play for the salesman/tv producer. If I'm right, boy do I feel good! If I'm wrong, shore ain't the first time. Andy to Thelma Lou: "Love don't hold no stop watch." Laura Lee Hobbs, gold truck watcher, dime store clerker, gettin' to be love expert (send your questions directly to me for confidential advice, no charge, after all you can't clerk at a dime store for 17 years and not learn something about LOVE), and startin' to be fairly good at trivia--if I got this right, that is. And if I didn't, please disregard. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 14:17:34 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #159 In a message dated 5/27/00 10:19:52 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << ed in other countries. Now - here we are - losing these freedoms daily. For those of us who have been around a LONG time (like me) - it's even scarier when you have more past to look back upon, to think of how the government has taken control of ALL aspects of our lives. >> Well Said, If only more Americans would wake up and realize this. Its scary to think how much we have lost that we fought so valiantly to save. At least there's Mayberry. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 18:25:31 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #159 In a message dated 5/27/00 11:20:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << In what episode did Johnny Coons very clearly say "Good Luck Barney"? >> Just a guess here.....is it when Barney was first taking his army surplus motorcycle up on the highway to set up "Checkpoint Chickie"???.......brANdOn ps-If im right what did i win? :) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:08:19 -0500 From: David Millard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: " Its A Small TV World " Proof positive thats its a small TV World. Tonight on " Gomer Pyle USMC " Gomer & Sgt. Carter were in a War Surplus Store hunting for a live mortar shell that Gomer lost, and low and behold who passed by them in the store but our own " Mr. Schwump " from TAGS. You had to look fast, but it was him, he had no lines, but then Mr. Schwump never did.......it was cool! Maybe he was on "vacation "..........Lotsa Luck To You & Yours.........Dave. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 23:37:46 CDT From: "***Stephanie Lynch***" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #156 Hiddy all! I just couldn't not respond to this in case some of you aren't aware of what the commercial running on TV Land and other channels refered to as "Me, Me, Me." They say "me, me, me" instead of "you, you, you" because they are advertising an Internet radio station where you can make your own radio station's that play only the formats you want. Just like country? That's what you can set it up for. I've set mine up but haven't used it yet. I also haven't had TV Land but am moving to Memphis and will have it in the next few weeks! YEA!!!! Anyway, I only see that commercial on Nick right now, but it's just like any other Internet commercial. They play it a lot because of the star's and their ability to bring in the teens that love them. It's better than some! Now, back to Andy! I've been blessed with about four "new" Andy's in the past few weeks! The station I've watched Andy on six nights a week for four years is airing some old, first or second season episode's that I have either never seen or I've only seen them once and don't know them by heart. One was where Opie is compeeting in the "Boy's Day" run and Barney train's him. In it, Barney tell's Opie he'll train him so well he'll run like "greased lightening"! That night, Opie has a dream. I don't remember ever seeing a dream sequence on Andy. This was a treat! The other was the one someone else already mentioned about the dry cleaner. I've enjoyed these "new" Andy's and CAN'T wait 'til I have TV Land! Then, I'll be watching the show's yall are watching, plus my usual Andy at 10:00 pm every M-Friday on UPN 30 in Memphis! Stephanie 'It's me! It's me! It's Ernest T!' ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 00:00:56 CDT From: "***Stephanie Lynch***" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #156 Hiddy all! I just couldn't not respond to this in case some of you aren't aware of what the commercial running on TV Land and other channels refered to as "Me, Me, Me." They say "me, me, me" instead of "you, you, you" because they are advertising an Internet radio station where you can make your own radio station's that play only the formats you want. Just like country? That's what you can set it up for. I've set mine up but haven't used it yet. I also haven't had TV Land but am moving to Memphis and will have it in the next few weeks! YEA!!!! Anyway, I only see that commercial on Nick right now, but it's just like any other Internet commercial. They play it a lot because of the star's and their ability to bring in the teens that love them. It's better than some! Now, back to Andy! I've been blessed with about four "new" Andy's in the past few weeks! The station I've watched Andy on six nights a week for four years is airing some old, first or second season episode's that I have either never seen or I've only seen them once and don't know them by heart. One was where Opie is compeeting in the "Boy's Day" run and Barney train's him. In it, Barney tell's Opie he'll train him so well he'll run like "greased lightening"! That night, Opie has a dream. I don't remember ever seeing a dream sequence on Andy. This was a treat! The other was the one someone else already mentioned about the dry cleaner. I've enjoyed these "new" Andy's and CAN'T wait 'til I have TV Land! Then, I'll be watching the show's yall are watching, plus my usual Andy at 10:00 pm every M-Friday on UPN 30 in Memphis! Stephanie 'It's me! It's me! It's Ernest T!' ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 22:41:56 CDT From: "DEBORAH DUBOSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Realism I watched a British film recently (and for the life of me I can't think of its title), but it was an excellent piece and it was about a woman who won the lottery (and in England it's not large) and took her friend, who was dying of cancer, on a trip to Las Vegas. These were both lower class working women, and true to most British movies, all the actors in it looked exactly the way one would expect lower class working stiffs and their families and homes to look and live--quite a contrast to what we usually see with American films where everyone in movies or even on TV is usually a beautiful person wearing expensive clothes and living in a house that looks as if someone from New York has decorated it, no matter what kind of job the person has (even if he/she is young and assumedly has had to start at the "bottom"). But my point is that one reason why Mayberry was different even from the sitcoms of its day, let's face it, is it didn't exactly overflow with the beautiful people. And that set it apart because it showed realism, something you rarely saw then, and never see now. Now, now, now. I know it had its pretty girls. Miss Ellie, Charlene (and Gary, I've been thinking about Andy marrying that girl. You brought up some interesting points!), Nurse Peggy, Thelma Lou, and Helen. And of course, we had the girl guest appearances like Barbara Eden and Susan Oliver, and they were down right gorgeous! But you know what I mean. Peggy was unusually pretty and that Charlene has aged better than any woman I ever saw, but for the most part, the women were "normally" pretty. They looked like regular pretty women and that added to its realism. And the show was filled with shall kindly say average women. Now, for us women--well, we had a rather low patch indeed! Andy is handsome, and my babe Briscoe just needed a little cleaning up and I'll take him anywhere! But basically, we have to love the men for other reasons! OK, Bill Bixby, and Jim Best were good looking, and Miss Poovey I'll include Gomer 'cause he's so beautiful on the inside it comes through to the outside, but after that I kinda draw a blank. Any suggestions? My main point is that the people looked and lived like we do. People. And their houses looked like our houses. Except for the fact that there were no family pictures hanging around anywhere in Andy's house, his house looked pretty much like most houses in the South. The Beaver's house was definitely upper class, and no mother went around like June or really Aunt Bee--that's the biggest difference. Again I wondered where all the family pictures were; we and everyone else I knew had them out on walls and on tables and on TVs, etc., but I reasoned that was the difference between Yankees and Southerners. But Andy was a Southerner, and I really couldn't understand his lack of family photos, especially his late wife, little Opie's mother. I figured it was a comedy and they didn't want us getting sad. But heck we already knew she was dead; how could her picture make us sadder? People back in the 60's had strange reasoning. And I never remember my mother wearing gloves to anything but weddings and funerals (and I'm Opie's age). So she differed from Aunt Bee that way, too. But she did wear dresses for everything except for the garden and at home cleaning (no pearls for her), but she would not have been caught dead leaving the house for any reason without full make-up and her hair done. (Which does reflect the styles of June Cleaver.) No woman or teen age girl would have. Now kids get such a distorted view of what real people look and live like. They think you come out of school and manage to have an apartment about as good as your parents have when you left home. And everyone is thin and that's considered beautiful (no matter how God created you to be), and it's such a shame and such a lie. OK, this may have little to do with TAGS, so Allen you don't have to run it. It was just praying on my mind. And I wish they'd write shows and cast them as honestly as Andy and his people did. One person who will never be confused with the beautiful people--at least not on the outside--but hopefully on the inside I will be, Laura Lee Hobbs Barney to Andy: "You know, Andy, our only crime is that we're attractive to women." That's the thing about men. Somehow they all think they're good looking. ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V2 #160 ***************************** ************************************************** ~ Visit our sponsor ~ Weaver's Department Store ~ http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/weavers/ ************************************************** You must send your comments to the Digest from the address you used to join WBMUTBB or your message will not be posted. Only members may post to this mailing list. 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