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I forgot how funny "The Andy Griffith Show" is!

It was one of the best shows ever! We lived at one time in Mt. Airy, NC in the 1970's, where Andy Griffith was born. I was amazed how the mindset, and accents, of the people there was so much like the show. I have a close friend from that area that I'm still in touch with weekly and we talk about this often, as generations of her family lived in that area.
 
Betty Jo said:
It was one of the best shows ever! We lived at one time in Mt. Airy, NC in the 1970's, where Andy Griffith was born. I was amazed how the mindset, and accents, of the people there was so much like the show. I have a close friend from that area that I'm still in touch with weekly and we talk about this often, as generations of her family lived in that area.
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That is so awesome, Betty Jo! I would love to visit there. We have a town in Tennessee called Granville. They call it our Mayberry RFD. it's a really neat place to visit and they give tours of the town.
 
I'm quite sure we visited Granville. We didn't do the tour, just passing through. We lived in Nashville at the time, so it was twenty three or four years ago. Years later we lived in Elizabethton, TN, near Jonesborough, the oldest town in TN. I loved it there. TN has some awesome small towns.
 
Totally agree other than Barney just totally got on my last nerve. We binged all of the episodes last winter, well I was scrapping while Wendell watched. I was just reading an interview done with Ron Howard a few days ago in People Magazine , he didn't know it at the time, but his dad, Rance Howard, an actor himself, talked to Andy Griffith in the early days pre-production about the scripts. Apparently Opie was being written like every other smart alecky little kid in sitcoms, smarter than the parent. Very interesting. Here's the link, I don't know if it's legal to put the link here so if not @EvelynD2 feel free to delete it.
 
JeanneMN said:
Totally agree other than Barney just totally got on my last nerve. We binged all of the episodes last winter, well I was scrapping while Wendell watched. I was just reading an interview done with Ron Howard a few days ago in People Magazine , he didn't know it at the time, but his dad, Rance Howard, an actor himself, talked to Andy Griffith in the early days pre-production about the scripts. Apparently Opie was being written like every other smart alecky little kid in sitcoms, smarter than the parent. Very interesting. Here's the link, I don't know if it's legal to put the link here so if not @EvelynD2 feel free to delete it.
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Wow! That is such an interesting article! I am so glad his dad did that. I don't think I would have liked the show as much if Opie wasn't the sweet kid as he was on the show. I don't know why Hollywood does that stuff. It's like the whole "mean girls" thing where the mean girls were the popular ones. Some girls then thought they had to be mean to be popular. I saw it when I was teaching elementary school. Thankfully, not all girls acted that one in my class. If I caught them being unkind to each other I handled the situation. Kindness matters!
 
EvelynD2 said:
Wow! That is such an interesting article! I am so glad his dad did that. I don't think I would have liked the show as much if Opie wasn't the sweet kid as he was on the show. I don't know why Hollywood does that stuff. It's like the whole "mean girls" thing where the mean girls were the popular ones. Some girls then thought they had to be mean to be popular. I saw it when I was teaching elementary school. Thankfully, not all girls acted that one in my class. If I caught them being unkind to each other I handled the situation. Kindness matters!
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Amen to that!
 
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