Folks, I've been going through my season four DVD set, and I've noticed some things that are new to me and that I don't believe I've heard mentioned before on the digest (though I may have missed them). Any non-TAGS fan would probably think me a bit daft to get excited about such trivial trivialities, but I figured my digest friends would appreciate them!
1. In "Prisoner of Love," there are two scenes (one where Barney is frantically getting a pillow and stuffing it through the cell bars for the lady prisoner and one where Andy and Barney are dragging Otis from his cell and out of the court house) where Barney is obviously not wearing the right hat. The hat is way too big, dropping down to his neck in the back and squishing his ears. In the other scenes, he is wearing his usual well-fitting hat. This made me wonder if somehow his hat got misplaced between scenes and they had to use Andy's hat (I'm guessing he would take a larger size) as a substitute. When you notice it, it looks downright ridiculous, especially since the hats change between scenes! 2. In "Hot Rod Otis," Andy is in the midst of undressing for the night when Otis asks for a drink and then wants Andy to tell him a bedtime story. When Andy unlocks the cell door on both occasions, there are TWO rings, each with a key, hanging on the peg between the cells. He takes one off the peg, and another is left hanging on the peg. I don't recall any other time that I saw TWO separate key rings hanging up. Does anyone else? (I also noticed that the first time Andy closed the cell door, he left the key hanging in the lock, but when he came back to tell Otis the story, the key was back on the peg, and he had to grab it to put back in the lock. A little slip-up by the continuity person, I guess.) 3. Now this last one got me almost as worked up as the two key rings! I was watching "The Shoplifters" last night when I realized that Mr. Weaver's tie looked mighty familiar. So I did some checking with the zoom feature, and I discovered that Mr. Weaver was wearing Gomer's tie from "A Date for Gomer"! You know, the purple one with acorns on it? However, the more I thought about it, the less amazing it seemed. After all, Gomer likely bought all his new accessories right there at Weaver's, including the tie. Mr. Weaver just happened to select the same tie to accessorize his own suit. I guess that, despite being a prominent businessman and community leader, his taste wasn't any better than Gomer's! Wonder if he was also wearing those "porous" yellow socks?? Sorry for the long post! I just had to share my discoveries with my Mayberry friends! Thelma Lou (Janet) _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
