Well done, everyone who came up with answers to my most recent trivia question, which was to name an instance in or near Mayberry in which someone other than Ernest T. Bass is known to have broken something made of glass.
BTW, this is a minor point, but when replying to another person's comment on this list, it is best to use the exact same wording in the subject line. That way your comment will be grouped with the original comment in the digest archives. I don't know about the rest of you, but sometimes the digest doesn't show up in my daily email (half the time it goes to the junk folder, but sometimes I don't even get it there) but it can always read it in the archives. Anyway, I've been compiling a list of the answers given and here it is: ANDY throws something, probably a rock, and we hear glass break in The Bazaar, after Warren locks up a bunch of women for playing bingo. BARNEY breaks the new glass being delivered to the courthouse when he backhands his pistol into it, and he also breaks a pane in the courthouse bookcase with Opie's slingshot. OPIE admits that he threw a ball and busted that old window in Mrs. Priddy's back door, and he drops a bottle of colored water (not perfume) while working at the drugstore. Speaking of the perfume bottle, wouldn't you think the boy would notice that it didn't smell like perfume? Maybe he thought it was supposed to smell like an old catcher's mitt or something. AUNT BEE, in her kitchen, drops and breaks something which sounds like glass when Briscoe yells at the dinner table; ditto after getting buzzed on Indian Elixir GOMER accidentally throws his pistol through the glass of the courthouse bookcase and also dumps a basket full of Christmas light bulbs from the roof MALCOLM breaks Andy's upstairs window while struggling with the ladder KAREN MOORE shoots six bottles in rapid succession (Barney knocks his bottles over with his hand (not his pistol), but it does not appear that any of his broke). COUSIN VIRGIL breaks the glass in the courthouse bookcase while sweeping ARNOLD WINKLER* hits a baseball through a window of the Remshaw House (Opie doesn't break any glass in this episode) STEVE QUINCY uses an apple to break a streetlight globe (funny how the shards of glass fly in all directions, but when Andy pulls up it's all in a neat pile, with the apple). I guess Steve must have broken the bulb too. MR. CRAWFORD breaks a perfume bottle on purpose so Opie won't feel bad about breaking one FRED AND JENNIE BOONE were mentioned, however Jennie threw only china plates and cups, and nothing made of glass. Notice that Fred never throws anything at her; I expect the censors would have considered that unacceptably violent. He is reported to have thrown a glass pitcher of water at his male friend, but we later see the unbroken pitcher on the table. I am thinking of three more that haven't been mentioned yet. Here are some hints: one occurs at an illegal outdoor assembly, one is the result of gunfire (not from Barney), and the other is something that had previously been repaired, more than once. Paul Mulik * the name of Opie's friend who hits the baseball into the Remshaw House is never mentioned in the episode, but he is played by Ronnie Dapo, the same actor who had earlier played the spoiled brat Arnold Winkler. Perhaps after a trip to the nice old fashioned woodshed he became a well-behaved child. Or it may be a completely different character. If anybody should happen to have a script for this episode, please consult it and let us know. _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
