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wbmutbb-digest Monday, September 25 2000 Volume 02 : Number 326 Topics in this issue: Re: I can't tell -- I wasn't wearin' my glasses Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #324 Re: Andy afraid of marriage? Marriage this and that Re: Harvey Bullock Court house facing Sharon Despain Cary Grant and Judy Re:holler fish Andy scared of marriage? Directions Part 2 backdrop TAGS cast on game shows Tying the knot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:46:15 -0700 From: Bill Standley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: I can't tell -- I wasn't wearin' my glasses Yo, I've always been struck by the Danny Thomas episode where Andy's squad car clearly has no windshield or side windows, which I've always assumed was because of the reflections (as Paul mentioned in his response.) Bill > >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Has anyone ever noticed that Floyd's glasses seem to be without glass in > them? I know that sounds silly........but they sure look glass-less to me. > >>> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:12:40 -0500 From: "Joe Fly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #324 Can't tell you all how much I have enjoyed the list. It's great just to sit and talk, polite-like, with other folks who are interested in the same things we are. BTW, I have the book, Mayberry 101, by Neal Bower on my bookshelf. It's priceless! But does anyone know if Mr. Bower (or is that Professor?) is planning a sequel? I read somewhere that he had planned for two more books just like this one. Joe Fly, Lubbock, TX ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 00:47:53 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Andy afraid of marriage? In a message dated 9/24/00 11:28:08 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Does anyone have any idea as to why Andy was so afraid to get married again? Why was it never written in to the script? Just one of those questions that came up while watching Andy , Opie and Peg having a "gala" of a dinner one night while Aunt Bee was out of town. >> In the all-time classic episode in which Barney fixes Andy up with Helen (remember Thelma Lou's softball team??), Andy just says he hasn't met the right woman yet. In later episodes he and Helen say something about Helen finishing her teaching or something, or at least getting in a few more years... Dixon =========== Remember THE Hollywood Squares...the original and the best http://www.geocities.com/screenjockey/classicsquares.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:55:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Sandra and Joe Causby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Marriage RE: >Does anyone have any idea as to why Andy was so >afraid to get married >again? >Why was it never written in to the script? Just one >of those questions >that >came up while watching Andy , Opie and Peg having >a "gala" of a dinner >one >night while Aunt Bee was out of town. Actually, I'm not sure Andy was "afraid" to get married since he told Barney in one episode where Barney was attempting to push him along the matrimonial road, that he "wasn't putting it off". He said he missed being married and coming home to a wife, but he said, "I ain't found the right girl, yet"! Barney was saying "you mean in all of Mayberry, there isn't a right girl for you?" (or something to that effect) and Andy replied that that might be so, but he hadn't found her yet. For the life of me, the episode name and # escapes me and I don't have time to look it up just now. Of course, Andy turned the tables on ol' Barn and asked him what he was waiting for with Thelma Lou and Barney got a little nervous and started back peddling! ha Also later on in the episode called "The Authoress" where Helen writes a book, there is a mention made of her being Andy's fiance, but I have never seen the episode where they become engaged and don't recall it being mentioned in other episodes after that one. Right Curious! Ya'll have a Mayberry kind of day and act like somebody. I am heading for the good ol' USA this weekend for a few weeks. YIPPEE! "Pa, just what can you do with a grown woman?" Sandy in Saudi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:58:09 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Knopfel) Subject: this and that Hello friends, it's been a long time since I've been on here...and Allen, please forgive me if this wasn't the address I was supposed to post to (I had this one saved up in my address book, so didn't know if this was the correct one or not)..anyway..was watching an old MASH episode the other night, and Hawkeye told Trapper to go up an alley and hollar fish..that was the only other time I've ever heard of it besides TAGS...also, a few nights ago, I was up late watching the insomniacs theatre and there was an old movie on (from the 30's or 40's), I didn't get the name of it, and it wasn't in my local tv guide, anyway..the movie had edward everette horton in it...it was about two neighbors and their 20 something year old sons, possibly switched at birth at the hospital, and grew up living next door to each other..anyway, Mayor Pike was in it...if any one knows the name of this movie, please let me know..it was funny, and I would like to see the entire film, and know the name of it...lastly, like everyone else, I'm anticipating this weekends Mayberry Days, (can't wait for a Snappy pork chop sammich, ummmmm!), so for all who's going, I wish a happy and safe trip...see everyone there! Scott K.from St. Louis ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 05:37:41 +0100 From: Paul Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Harvey Bullock I was just wonderin'.....if we were to see Harvey Bullock on the street......how many of us would be tempted to holler......"Hey Harvey!"....or even "Hey Harv!"...You know...the bigger they are the nicer they are! Daddy you are sooooooo right! And.....by the way....."If those hamburgers are ruined....I won't be responsible!" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:28:51 GMT From: "Harriet Browder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Court house facing >Okay, who can tell me which direction the Mayberry Courthouse door >faces >(North, South, East or West)? The court house faces the north. How do I know this????? I ain't talkin', I ain't talkin', the more you ask, the more I'm balkin'! Harriet _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:30:12 -0400 From: "Dan Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Sharon Despain Caught Sharon DeSpain having a drink with Maverick the other day. But then, she always was a big city girl. dan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:34:08 GMT From: "Harriet Browder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Cary Grant and Judy >As regards the Cary Grant impression. I believe there was a movie that > >starred Cary Grant and Doris Day called "That Touch of Mink" in which > >the Doris Day character was name Judy Timberlake. He (Cary) did >say >"Judy" in that film, Sorry, but Doris Day's name in "That Touch of Mink" was Kathy! Maybe it was spelled with a C but it definitely was NOT Judy. Harriet _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:46:15 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:holler fish > Anyway, in the movie, I saw where he used the same line that got > Gomer in trouble in the "Citizen's Arrest" episode: > "why don't you run up an alley and holler fish?". > > I was born and raised in the South and have never heard that > saying other than on the show and in the movie. Has anyone > else ever come across it? What, if anything, does it mean? I found the following quote in the book "Mayberry 101" from Everett Greenbaum who wrote "Citizen's Arrest" along with his partner Jim Fritzell : "'You just go up an alley and holler fish,' was one of my mother's sayings," says Everett. "It meant 'hush up' and came from the vendors who sold food in the alleys of her Philadelphia childhood." Steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:46:49 GMT From: "Harriet Browder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Andy scared of marriage? >Does anyone have any idea as to why Andy was so afraid to get married >again? Why was it never written in to the script? This issue was addressed in the episode that starts out with Opie's cuts and bruises from playing to rough. Barney tries to tell Andy that he can't be a mother and a father to Opie and then goes into a big moulage about how Andy ought to get married again for Opie's sake. Andy explains that he isn't ready for marriage and that he hasn't found the right woman. He mentions that maybe she was right there in Mayberry but he has hasn't found her yet. Then Barney invites a bunch of women to Andy's house for Andy to look over, cull out the dogs, and by process of elimination find the perfect Mrs. Taylor. Now, with Mayberry being such a small town and Andy being the sheriff, you'd think that he'd know just about every women in town and whether she was hitched, charmed for, or single. Ya think??????? Harriet _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:25:20 -0500 From: "Hull, Darrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Directions Part 2 To clarify, by "which way the Courthouse door faces," I mean whichdirection would you be walking if you walked out of the front door of the courthouse. So far, I've gotten two different answers and they're not the same as mine. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:57:03 -0500 From: "Paul Mulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: backdrop >>>If I had to guess as to the reason for this inconsistency (among others I'd noticed), I'd probably guess it would be because there were twin sets - one at the CBS studios, and the other on the outside lot some miles away? >>> The interiors were filmed indoors (naturally) at Desilu studios, so when characters are inside a building and looking out the window, all they really looking at is a backdrop (a large curtain painted to look like an outdoor scene). Creating new backdrop curtains for each episode would have been very expensive, so the producers had to use whatever ones the studios happened to have on hand. The exterior scenes were filmed on a backlot called 40 Acres, a completely separate facility. - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:03:28 -0500 From: "Paul Mulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: TAGS cast on game shows >>>Speaking of Mayberrians on game shows, does anyone know of any others? I understand there was a black and white episode of "To Tell the Truth" in the early 1960s in which our beloved Goober, a then-unknown George Lindsey, was an impostor. Anyone ever seen that one? Dixon >>> I don't recall ever seeing that one, but I have spotted a number of TAGS actors on other game shows, thanks to old reruns on the Game Show Network. George Lindsey and his wife did do a number of "Tattletales" episodes, but I haven't caught any of those either. I did see a few with Barbara Stuart and her husband Dick Gautier (Hymie the robot from Get Smart). I have seen Ron Howard on Celebrity Dating Game (he won a date with the girl who played Alice at Disneyland!) and Denver Pyle and James Best on Celebrity Family Feud (the Dukes of Hazzard beat The Waltons, but lost to some long-forgotten show called "Angie"). - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:24:10 -0500 From: "Paul Mulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Tying the knot >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone have any idea as to why Andy was so afraid to get married again? Why was it never written in to the script? >>> I presume you mean Andy Taylor (not Andy Griffith in real life). The main reason Andy and Barney didn't marry was so that the writers could have more creativity in coming up with different situations for the characters to get into. If Andy had been married, we wouldn't have had such episodes as "A Wife for Andy," "The Rumor," or any of the three involving the Fun Girls. Same goes for others like the Darling family and Ernest T. Bass - every episode featuring them had something to do with somebody wanting to get married. - --Paul ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V2 #326 ***************************** ************************************************** ~ 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. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your email address, first unsubscribe using the command above and then re-subscribe using the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe wbmutbb-digest
