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Today's Topics:
1. Warren's Big (Dan Goodwin)
2. mayberry (tim owens)
3. Floyd's exit ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
4. Re: Otis & Floyd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
5. (no subject) (Janet Bowlin)
6. Aunt Bee's Car's Ignition Switch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
7. RE: WBMUTBB digest, Vol 1 #328 - 16 msgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
8. Back Bay Boston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
9. Re: WBMUTBB digest, Vol 1 #328 - 16 msgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
10. Andy Painting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
11. Re: Story Consultant on TAGS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Message: 1
From: "Dan Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Warren's Big
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:26:17 -0400
The "yeah, huh" bit that Warren used with Andy is actually a routine Jack
Burns and Avery Schriber developed when they were a team. Avery was a cab
driver and Jack was the passenger and similar "yeah, huh" bits would appears
in their skits.
dan
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:31:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: tim owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mayberry
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i think u people and allen think yall are mayberry and have lost yalls mind,,,
this digest is becoming almost unhealthly,,, when thelma lou herself can say
she hates the show where she comes back to mayberry married and u cant say it
here,,, i love the show but allen thinks he is the show.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:07:26 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Floyd's exit
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:12:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: T Schott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Out of doors
>
> Also, when Howard McNear died there could've been a
> funeral for Floyd, in the way only TAGS could've
> presented it.
Mr. McNear died in early 1969, months after TAGS wrapped up its 8th season (and
RFD was half-way into its 1st year). He retired due to poor health at the end
of the 7th season, and lived for another year-and-a-half.
Floyd was written out of the show by retiring, off-screen. Since McNear was
alive, I think that was the most graceful exit for all concerned; including the
viewers. For example, Frances Bavier chose not to participate in "Return to
Mayberry" (1986). The scene where Andy visits Aunt Bee's grave is touching,
but when you consider that Frances was still with us, it can be an
uncomfortable scene to watch... and maybe a little bit in poor taste.
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Message: 4
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:12:15 EDT
Subject: Re: Otis & Floyd
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<<I'm a little behind in reading TAGS, so I'm writing about the Aug. 25
notes. I've weighed in on this before but TAGS missed a brilliant opportunity
to deal
with alcoholism in the way only TAGS could>>>
That's because it was extremely risky in those days to have a regular,
beloved character go through a crisis like that. Sitcoms like "Leave It to
Beaver" occasionally dealt with alcoholism, but it was usually the drunken
handyman who only appeared in the one episode, not say, Fred Rutherford. It
wasn't until the 1970s that anyone ever thought we'd see characters who came
into our living rooms every week having such severe issues (Archie Bunker's
gambling addiction, Maude's husband Walter fighting alcoholism, Charles
Emerson Winchester III hooked on pills).
<<<Also, when Howard McNear died there could've been a funeral for Floyd, in
the way only TAGS could've presented it.>>>
People very, very rarely died on sitcoms in those days either. They did do
that on "Make Room For Daddy" when Danny's first wife died, but it was
handled entirely off-camera with no funeral or death scene. Even in the
intervening years, we've very rarely seen a funeral scene involving a
regular cast member, and precious few "emotional impact" episodes like the
ones in which Henry Blake or Edith Bunker died. Mostly it's handled off
camera and in passing like it was with the Coach from "Cheers." Besides,
the writers may have felt a funeral scene would have violated the spirit of
Mayberry.
Dixon
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Message: 5
From: "Janet Bowlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:18:58 -0500
Subject: (no subject)
My grandfather used to call the little store that took orders over the phone
the "jot-em-down" store. I think maybe that term came from Lum and Abner.
There is a site on the internet where you can order a lot of different kinds
of drinks, and they come in the bottles. I didn't find a nectarine crush
however, but they have grape, strawberry and orange crush. The grape one I
remember from growing up was Nu-Grape. They don't have it on this site, but I
think I saw it in bottles in Wal-Mart one day.
http://www.popsoda.com/soda-pop/index.html
I'll be at the duck pond....Thelma Lou's cousin from Arkansas
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Message: 6
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:22:09 EDT
Subject: Aunt Bee's Car's Ignition Switch
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 08/30/2002 6:04:14 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I've noticed in some of the color episodes, when Aunt Bee is driving her
> convertible that she reaches to the left of the steering column to start
> the car. I've asked my husband why the ignition would be on that side and
> he didn't know.
Hi: I remember from my childhood two Ford automobiles that my dad owned
where the ignition/starter switch was located on the far left side of the
dashboard, next to the driver's door. These two cars were of '50s vintage,
and I think placement of the ignition switch at the far left was a Ford
feature of that era. Apparently, judging from Aunt Bee's car, this switch
location must have persisted into the '60s too. Mayberry says "Happy
Motoring." Larry in CO
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Message: 7
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: WBMUTBB digest, Vol 1 #328 - 16 msgs
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:46:45 -0500
Great news about Harvey Bullock at Mayberry Days.
Now....could someone please tape his presentation with Mr. Brower so that
unfortunates such as myself who cannot be there can hear their words of
wisdom?
Steve in Kansas City
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Message: 8
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:35:57 EDT
Subject: Back Bay Boston
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mrs. Wiley utilized the phrase "Back Bay Boston" in describing where she
thought Oliver Gossage, a.k.a. Ernest T. Bass, was from. Back Bay Boston is a
famous district in Boston, Massachusetts. Warren Ferguson was originally from
Boston.
"Huh? . . .huh?. . .huh?"
Brian Rodahaver
Stevensville, Maryland
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Message: 9
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:57:36 EDT
Subject: Re: WBMUTBB digest, Vol 1 #328 - 16 msgs
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ted.........
In Alabama we ate our moon pies with an RC!!
Leigh Anne
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Message: 10
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:01:04 EDT
Subject: Andy Painting
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andy re-painted his house after the guy ( played by Don Rickles)
painted...........
Leigh Anne
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Message: 11
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 23:36:24 EDT
Subject: Re: Story Consultant on TAGS
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something has got me to wonderin' lately. In the end credits of TAGS, there
is a "Story Consultant" listed (I think the name given in the episodes that
I've noticed it is Bob Ross). Now, I remember some time back that someone
asked about the "Script Continuity" person and what that job entailed. But
what did the "Story Consultant" do? Did this job have anything to do with
keeping things consistent from episode to episode? I'm just curious and was
hoping somebody (maybe Paul?) could fill me in.
Thelma Lou
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