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wbmutbb-digest Monday, July 31 2000 Volume 02 : Number 261 Topics in this issue: Confliction in years? car ad Carps & Pikes Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] & TV Land schedules Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #260 About Andys girl Everett Greenbaum Mayberry Tour update Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #260 Re: Correction in years? Re: Sharon DeSpain - kin to Thelma Lou "The Bank Job" Knotts Attends High School Reunion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:55:46 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Confliction in years? In a message dated 7/30/00 4:29:17 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << he would have only been 16 in the "Mayberry goes Bankrupt" episode >> Uh, that means he graduated high school in 1945, not that he was born in 1945. So, in "Mayberry Goes Bankrupt" he would have been out of school 16 years and would be about 34 years old. There is a conflict between the class reunion episodes, but this ain't it. Johnny Mayberry Giants: "Hit One for the Ol' Goober" chapter <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/tv/hoftog";>http://www.angelfire.com/tv/hoft og</A> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:15:29 -0500 From: "Paul Mulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: car ad >>>Subject: Everett Greenbaum Hey Paul, didn't we see Everett Greenbaum in some car commercial awhile back? I'm a little fuzzy on this. Aunt Bee of Orlando >>> I don't remember seeing such a commercial myself, but it's certainly possible that Everett Greenbaum did a car commercial. I do remember seeing a recent one for the Dodge / Plymouth Neon with Rance Howard. He was standing in a cornfield, and when the car zoomed by, the corn started popping. - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:47:08 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Carps & Pikes I've never seen this mentioned in the digest before and just thought I'd ask...Is 'Crime Free Mayberry' the first episode that Mayor Pike appeared in? The reason I ask is I wondered if he ended up with his name mainly to fulfill the punchline for "You wouldn't kill a carp where you come from?".... - -Charlie (disliker of pushy fish) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:51:51 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] & TV Land schedules Hi gang, Here is the Nick at Nite Block Party Summer schedule for Monday night: :00PM Andy Griffith Show 085 - Class Reunion Andy and Barney look forward to seeing their high school sweethearts when the Mayberry Class of '45 holds a reunion. 8:30PM Andy Griffith Show 088 - The Darlings are Coming The sheriff has his hands full as a clan of mountain musicians descend on Mayberry to meet a bus. 9:00PM Andy Griffith Show 092 - A Wife for Andy Barney decides that it's time to push Andy into matrimony, but Barney's marriage bureau collapses at a frantic dinner party. 9:30PM Andy Griffith Show 093 - Dogs-Dogs-Dogs A pack of hunting dogs overruns the Mayberry Courthouse just as Andy is trying to impress a visiting state official. 10:00PM Andy Griffith Show 094 - Mountain Wedding Howard Morris guest stars as Ernest T. Bass as the Darling clan returns to Maybery with its own kind of mountain trouble. 10:30PM Andy Griffith Show 099 - The Sermon for Today A visiting preacher urges the residents of Mayberry to relax and enjoy the simple pleasures of life -- leading to more work for all. Here is the TV Land schedule for Mayberry RFD... 9:00AM Mayberry R.F.D. 013 - Sam Gets the Ticket Sam's principles are tested when he fights a traffic ticket for an illegal left hand turn, alleging that he was right and that the ticket was unjustly given. 9:30AM Mayberry R.F.D. 014 - Sam and the Teenager Sam finds himself the center of a high school girl's adoration and must find a way of gently letting her down. 6:00PM Mayberry R.F.D. 015 - Driver Education Goober is hired as the high school Driver Education instructor, but is faced with the problem of teaching safe driving habits and "don't do as I do, do as I say." All times are central... Dixon =========== Remember THE Hollywood Squares...the original and the best http://www.geocities.com/screenjockey/classicsquares.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:17:43 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #260 In a message dated 7/30/00 5:57:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, owner- Wendy writes: << I thought Sheldon Leonard was one of the businessmen in the Miracle Salve episode, the one who was in the back room. But I could be wrong. >> No, that's not Sheldon Leonard. He was on The Dick van Dyke Show several times, if you ever watch it. He was big Max Calvada on there. Terri ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:42:34 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: About Andys girl Wasn't that Mary the county nurse that played on the Dick Van Dyke show when Rob was on jury duty I think that was her getting on the witness stand.Other Barney names to would include "Puddin-Tame","Little buddy",Sadder but wiser Barney Fife",Barney Sucker"Baron Von Ricktoven"and the last one would be"Catterwallin' Tenor".Bye for now goodluck to you and yours David<danielsdandav46>Daniels ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:08:01 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Everett Greenbaum >Outside of Matlock, I've only seen him in two shows:> Was he in more than one episode of Matlock? It seems like he was... - -Charlie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:41:34 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mayberry Tour update Just wanted to drop a note to let everyone know that the "Mayberry Tour" that takes place in April 2000 is filling up fast. If you are interested in going, you may want to check out the site below. <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/in/MayberryTimes/mayberrytrip.html";>http://w ww.angelfire.com/in/MayberryTimes/mayberrytrip.html</A> Mike Creech ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:12:47 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casa Blanca) Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #260 What happened to #259? I never received it. Thought you should know. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:29:27 -0400 From: Jeff Krentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Correction in years? >they are in 1961 discussing how Frank >Meyers had a bond that was 100 years old, and then watching the episode 82 >"Class Reunion", they were the class of 1945? Now how could this be? Andy >had been sheriff for a while, and by this he would have only been 16 in the >"Mayberry goes Bankrupt" episode. Newland, I think your cider might have gone hard on ya there, or your bucket's slipped off. I can't follow your math, and I'm almost as good at numbers as Andy is at potting petunias. Are you confusing birth year with graduation class year? Class of 1945 puts Ange at about thirty four years old in 1961, the way I cipher it. There are well known inconsistencies with the graduation years, but I don't think this is one of them. Jeff Krentz BigHead in Dee-Troit (O'Malley says Hey!) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:38:39 -0400 From: Jeff Krentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Sharon DeSpain - kin to Thelma Lou >I may have this wrong, so if I do exuse my confusion at times. I was >wondering if Andy's girlfriend in "Class Reunion", Sharon DeSpain, is played >by Thelma Lou. This may sound crazy to some Nope, she's not played by Thelma Lou, but I every time I see that episode I think to myself how much that the actress that plays Sharon resembles Betty Lynn. I can't recall the actresses name and my books are at the office, but that's what we keep Paul around for, he'll tell ya! Jeff Krentz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:08:53 -0700 From: "Janet K. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: "The Bank Job" I'm just now getting around to sharing a favorite "triplet" of mine from an episode that also showcases some of Barney's best facial expressions. I haven't heard a lot of talk about this particular episode since I've been in WBMUTBB?, but one of my all-time favorites is "The Bank Job" (#78/76). The triplet I'm referring to is the Glenn Ford gag. It goes something like this: 1. Barney reads to Andy a newspaper article about a regular crime wave happening in a nearby town, then declares that Mayberry is sure to be next and lists several examples of lax security. Andy looks at Barney quizzically and says, "You sure are policed this morning! What did you and Thelma Lou do last night?" After asking if they went to the movies and Barney dismisses his question, claiming not to remember, Andy finally recalls what has been showing at the theater: "Glenn Ford in 'G-Men'!" 2. Next, Barney goes to the bank for a security check and asks the guard, Asa, "What are your official countermeasures in the event of a ten-twelve?" Asa says that he's heard somebody else say that recently, and Barney excitedly urges him to remember. Maybe someone was casing the bank for a robbery! As Asa slowly searches his memory, throwing out tidbits like, "Nice lookin' fellow...'bout thirty-five...," Barney grows increasingly agitated and alarmed. Finally, Asa remembers: "Glenn Ford!" Barney rolls his eyes in disgust! 3. Finally, reaching his emotional peak, Barney lays the situation out before the bank president, Mr. Meldrim, declaring that he has thoroughly checked the bank's security and has not found a single countermeasure in the event of a ten-twelve. Mr. Meldrim looks impressed. "I think you've got something there, Barney." He asks Barney to repeat what he said to the teller, Harriet. At last! Someone is taking his warning seriously! After Barney finishes his recitation, Mr. Meldrim looks at Harriet expectantly and says, "Well?" She gives him a blank look. After a slight pause, he prods her, "Glenn Ford!!" Barney looks like a volcano about to erupt! His teethed clenched and his eyes bugged out in rage, he fumes out the door. I love this gag -- the way it builds, the timing, the expressions. It's great comedy!!! Some of my other favorite moments from this episode are: 1. Andy suggesting Barney take the afternoon off and have lunch at the drug store ("The businessman's special is a hollered out tomato stuffed with avocado and raisins."), to which Barney angrily replies, "You must take me for the biggest IDIOT on the American scene!" Then follows him urging Andy to come right out and call him a jerk (J-E-R-K, jerk!!). 2. Barney taking down Mrs. Kelsey's laundry with Leon watching, eating his customary peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. 3. Barney pretending to be a scrub woman at the bank, and his open-mouthed expression as he inadvertently pulls the vault door shut on himself. 4. Barney, still clad in Mrs. Kelsey's dress and hat, busting through the wall into the beauty shop beside a lady sitting under a hairdryer who nonchalantly asks, "On a case?" 5. Harriet's off-camera piercing shriek and Gomer (who had just been using an acetylene torch on the vault door) casually looking back and saying, "Oh, I forgot to tell you -- that door's still hot." 6. Barney shedding the dress on the sidewalk, only to look up and find Johnny Coons watching him. "What's the matter -- haven't you ever seen a man take off a dress before?" 7. Harriet, who thinks the bank robber is only Barney pulling another trick, looking out the window and emitting that comical shriek as she sees the real Barney across the street. Oh, I'd better stop. I'm sorry to be so long-winded, but I really love this episode! And besides, to whom else but my WBMUTBB? friends could I rhapsodize about "The Bank Job"? Does it hold a special place in anyone else's heart? Janet ("Uhh...fungus of the knee.") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 06:48:49 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Knotts Attends High School Reunion Knotts Attends High School Reunion .c The Associated Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Even if Morgantown High School's class of 1942 wasn't dwindling in size, actor Don Knotts would probably still stand out. Knotts, best known as Barney Fife, the bumbling deputy to Sheriff Andy Taylor in ``The Andy Griffith Show,'' joined 80 former classmates at a reunion Saturday. Knotts, 76, smiled and laughed with ex-classmates as they reminisced about their high school days. The comedian, with dozens of movies and TV programs to his credit, said he was ``a giggler and always got people in trouble for telling jokes.'' The 356-member class was the largest of its time, but the turnout for the reunion was the smallest ever, alumnus Jack Feck said. Of the graduates, 124 have died. ``It may be the last single meeting of this type,'' he said. Knotts seldom passes up a class reunion. ``It feels like I never left,'' he said. ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V2 #261 ***************************** ************************************************** ~ 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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