Plot holes are aplenty on TAGS. I know we’re supposed to ‘suspend disbelief’ and go with the flow, but Paul’s question about Ms. Grayson and how she found where Floyd was located in The Gay Deceiver intrigued me.
I re-watched the first 15 minutes of the episode, to see if there was something obvious that I was missing. If there is, well, I’m still missing it. Ms. Grayson had the address of the barber shop----we know that because she was sending correspondence to Floyd at that address. When she arrived in Mayberry, I have to assume she went to THAT address. It’s the only address she had. When she saw that it was “Floyd’s Barber Shop” and not “Floyd Lawson Enterprises” she may have been confused....but with “Floyd” in the name of both businesses, she probably thought one of his “enterprises” must have been a barber shop. All of this doesn’t explain HOW she found Floyd in Cliff Deveraux’s home. You’ll note that when Floyd and Andy are looking out the window when she gets out of her beautiful car, she has a piece of paper in her hand. She quickly reads what she is holding in her hand and places it in her purse. I have to assume the paper had the address of the home she just arrived at----Cliff Deveraux’s. Simple enough. BUT---who gave her the address? Andy had made it plain this was to be hush-hush and for only one day. He enlisted the support of Aunt Bee. Aunt Bee could have told Clara or....anyone...what she was doing, but how would Ms. Grayson have found out from one of Aunt Bee’s contacts? Opie knew where his pa was...he bolts through door as if he knows he’ll find him there. Barney is not in this episode, but one would have to conclude either Barney or someone else KNEW where Andy was.....he’s the sheriff and someone has to know where he is at all times. Again, this doesn’t tell us how Ms. Grayson came to obtain Floyd’s whereabouts. What we do know: someone told her the address and she wrote it on a piece of paper. I guess it could be as simple as: it’s a small town; she went to the only address she had (the barber shop), asked someone on the street where Floyd Lawson was, someone she met on the street had seen Andy and Floyd (together) earlier and Andy told that person he was headed over to the Deveraux home to do a safety check and subsequently that person told Ms. Grayson the address where she’d find Andy, and possible Floyd still with him. The hole in this theory is the person would have told Ms. Grayson that Andy and Floyd might be at the DEVERAUX house---not Floyd’s house. I’m not how Ms. Grayson would have reconciled that. Talk about over-thinking a situation!! As I said at the beginning of this post, this is one of those things we aren’t supposed to think about. Mental exercises such as this one are fun to do----occasionally----but, on the whole, we’re better off just sitting back and enjoying the best show in the history of television. Thanks, Ken In NC (formerly in AZ) _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
