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wbmutbb-digest Friday, June 2 2000 Volume 02 : Number 167 Topics in this issue: Barney Johnny in Color Unseen characters Re: Aunt Bee's Online Cookbook Opie's Maw The Darling Boys SPEAK! Make Room For Daddy Happy (Polly) Holliday!! Re: Happy Birthday Re: Mrs. Andy Re: Mayberry's continuity Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #166 Andy's Wife gypsy girl vs Irish gal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 09:06:25 PDT From: "Vicky Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Barney YOU ARE A UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION TO THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU. I watched TAGS last night when I got home from work. I thought Barney was so funny when he was beign sheriff for the day. Especially when the two farmers came in arguing and Barney was trying to break it up. That is so hilarious. Then the end was so good,'cause Barney really had Andy good when he locked himself in. Barney was going to enjoy his moment, but, he ended up locking himself in jail too. That is so much like life sometimes. Vicky ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:03:50 -0400 From: "Dan Goodwin/Jobscope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Johnny in Color Boy, this is exciting! Charlie the albatross dragger spotted Johnny Coons in a color episode. As for as us experienced Johnny watchers know, this is the first sighting of a color Johnny. You know what that means, don't you. If there was one, there might be more. Come on, all you Johnny Watchers, over to the color episodes and keep a sharp lookout. dan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:00:13 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unseen characters TAGS fans, While Juanita and Sarah are the two most famous unseen characters, they were by no means the only ones in Mayberry. They were always mentioning characters that were never shown, which just made the town seem that more real. I have a very specific picture in my mind of what both women looked like and I'm glad they weren't shown. Another show that did the same thing (then blew it) was Happy Days. Remember, for the first few years Joanie's friend Jenny Picalo was unseen and the descriptions given of her by Joanie and Richie were hilarious. Then they made the mistake of showing her and there was virtually no way anyone was going to live up to the pic we had in our minds. The same would have been true if we had ever seen Juanita or Sarah. On the other hand, we can congratulate TAGS for actually bucking this trend and showing us Goober who--at least in my opinion--lived up to and exceeded what I could have imagined of him. Just another instance of the TAGS people having a great sense of what to do and when. Sam ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:26:23 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Aunt Bee's Online Cookbook In a message dated 6/2/00 11:35:58 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << http://www.tagsrwc.com/interactive/cookbook >> Hey To All, Land sakes Allen! You should have said something sooner, I didn't know nary a thing about this site in the year I have been apart of this piece of Mayberry! I LOVE Aunt Bee's cookbooks! I own all three of 'em!!!! Thanks for considering those of us who weren't in the know! I'll have to take me some time to peruse those recipes and see if I can offer my fellow Mayberry friends a new recipe or two! Thanks Allen, this is almost as exciting as counting the Pickle Stash! Sandi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:35:32 -0500 From: "Hull, Darrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Opie's Maw Say what you will, but I think Andy really found Opie under a cabbage leaf. (Judging by his hair color, it would have to be red cabbage, of course.) By the way, in the Black and White episodes, when was the first mention of the color of Opie's hair? If I'm not wrong, it was during the jinx episode. Barney tries several good-luck charms, including rubbing the head of a red-haired boy. Do you think people were surprised to find out his hair was red? Or was there a TV Guide cover photo of TAGS that would have revealed that first? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:21:34 -0400 From: Michael Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The Darling Boys SPEAK! I may be telling you all what you already know, but I have just experienced a TAGS revelation!! I was watching the episode this AM which introduces the Darlings (seen it a thousand times) and when Aunt Bee was gathering the plates from the family (Andy was letting them stay in the cell), she asked if the boys had enough, and glory be, I actually heard and saw one of 'em say that he was "plumb full", well, "I nearly died" ..... (oh that's another episode) ... and THEN when she's leaving the cell and they're gettin' ready to play, Briscoe tells the boys to say thanks to Aunt Bee and they do!!!!! WHERE HAVE I BEEN?? Like I said, I've seen this and every other episode a million times, and this was the first time I noticed it! Now I know that was part of a trivia thing I saw somewhere (maybe the Bullet), but it just pickled me tink to see it!!! And one other trivia question I saw or read was which episode has "2" people with beards appearing in the same episode, and last night I saw the color episode about the statue of Seth Taylor, and I was wonderin' if it's the "statue" and Brian the chisler (no pun intended) ... anybody know 'bout that? Ah well, I love the little teasures and gems that I continue to notice on this wonderful show we all share ... keeps me from being grumpy and moody, and "one thing about Gypsies, they're moody", peace to all - Michael 'the gypsy' Burch ...."obliged for not giving me an arrest" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:20:57 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Make Room For Daddy << After an appearance on the sitcom, "Make Room for Daddy," CBS decided to give Griffith his own show, aptly titled, "The Andy Griffith Show.">> I've always found it interesting that when Andy emerges from his sheriff's car in order to write Danny Thomas a ticket, the audience applauds. That makes you think he was quite a celebrity already. But was he that well known? Greg Johnson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:04:23 CDT From: "Kathy Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Happy (Polly) Holliday!! Our old friend Flo would be GREAT as Juanita! It would have to be somebody who's the exact opposite of Thelma Lou - and I can't imagine Thelma Lou ever telling anyone to "Kiss Her Grits!" Great idea! ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:12:25 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Happy Birthday << Andy Griffith (1926): Actor who originally wanted to be an opera singer. Upon graduating college, Griffith went on the road with his wife, performing musical numbers and comedic monologues. His most famous monologue was called, "What It Was Was Football." >> A book by a friend of mine, Tim Hollis, called "Dixie Before Disney", mentions a yearly historical pageant performed in North Carolina. According to Hollis, a *very* young Andy Griffith appeared there several times as Sir Walter Raleigh. Anyone else ever hear this? Hey to you and yours, Dixon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:15:11 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mrs. Andy In a message dated 6/2/00 12:47:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Miss Poovey asked some good questions about Andy's first wife, little Opie's mother, like how do you suppose he met her, what about HER family, etc. Well, of course, I can't be 100% sure, but I got out my bucket, and here comes my idea. I think that just maybe she was a gypsy. >> LOL! Good one Laura Lee! Seriously, the only reference I remember to Mrs. Taylor came in the Danny Thomas pilot, when she was mentioned as having died (Opie: "Who stepped on Ma?") Anyone else remember anything like this? Hey to you and yours, Dixon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:20:36 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mayberry's continuity In a message dated 6/2/00 12:47:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Please keep in mind that TAGS was escapist entertainment, and i dont think they were too worried about historical accuracy sometimes.TAGS is the kinda show that is best, i feel, to jus sit back and enjoy the escape. dont get too hung up on the small stuff............BRanDon :) >> Yes, Mayberry does have a few errors like this...like, Barney's time of service with the sheriff's department changes several times, Goober's last name changes from Beasley to Pyle (and suddenly he's Gomer's cousin), Andy had several girlfiriends who grew up across the street from the church, a goat probably wouldn't really eat that much dynamite and wouldn't explode if it did (maybe in a different way...we won't go into that). But that is okay, it doesn't make Mayberry any less nicer of a place for me personally. After all, all of the great TV and movie works have some type of problem in them. Heck, the entire plot of "Citizen Kane" is based on a word the title character whispered on his death bed...with no one else in the room! Hey to you and youyrs, Dixon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:49:37 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #166 I think Fran Dresher would make a good Juanita. Or Laura Dern. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 19:01:44 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Andy's Wife >Miss Poovey asked some good questions about Andy's first wife, I've always pictured Andy's wife looking like 'cousin' Gloria - BTW - does anyone else think Gloria looks like Jennifer Aniston? - -Charlie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:32:19 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: gypsy girl vs Irish gal I really liked Laura Lee Hobbs' bucket-thinking about Opie's ma but we don't agree on everything. I maintain that she was an orphaned Irish gal who was on a holiday, getting to know these United States. I can just picture this pretty little Irish gal with porcelain skin, rosy cheeks, cherry lips, and flowing red hair. Can you imagine the vision of loveliness she portrayed as she stepped off the bus? Andy was probably a-coming out of the diner and stopped dead in his tracks when he spied her! Like the way LLH thinks that Opie's ma was a gypsy and Andy still had a soft spot in his heart for vagabond folks; I feel that his pretty Irish wife is the reason that Andy was so kind to Malcohm Merriweather, another foreigner on holiday in Mayberry. It also explains Opie's red hair and freckles! Okay, let me get back to my voice exercises, I've got a singing engagement down at the Congo Club tonight. E-may, E-may, E-may!!! ~misspoovey, stirring the pot~ ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V2 #167 ***************************** ************************************************** ~ 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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