Single Ladies, Sawyer and Mayberry or burry
>>>After watching "The farmer takes a wife" episode, it bothers me; why are there so many good looking girls of marriage age in Mayberry that are not married. Is it due to the lack of available men? If that's the case, it seems like the guys over in Mt Pilot would alleviate that situation in a hurry. Don't forget how many nice single ladies there were when Barney tried to fix up Andy. I believe there were enough for a softball team! I'm on my writer's view kick again, but I have to say that they often would exaggerate personalities or circumstances for the sake of the story. Would it have been as interesting if Thelma Lou only had 3 girls over? No, it made a better story that there was a whole room full and Jeff picked Thelma Lou. I watched an old "Newhart" episode the other night on Hulu.com. This voice sounded so familiar and I could not place who it was. When I watched the credits, it hit me.. William Lanteau..Ed Sawyer (stranger in Town) as an old funny bald man (who appeared as Chester in over 12 Newhart Episodes). Watch Newhart and look for Chester. I used to joke that that episode, Stranger in Town, had such a unique cast of characters including the one-time Floyd, George Saferly, and Lucy Matthews that Ed took his friends and started his own new town called Sawyerberry. In reality, Lanteau went on to star in 71 different shows and movies. The TAGS appearance was one of his first half-dozen appearances. Check him out..he's no stranger now Does anyone say May-burry instead of Mayberry besides Mayor Pike and Gentleman Dan? Just a quirk I've noticed. The Untrained Voice ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
BATS!
"Ghosthunters" may all be fake, I don't know; but last night Steve and Kris were crouching in a blind panic because bats were all around them---they knew, like Barney, that bats will lay eggs in your hair and you'll go crazy! (My Grandmother swore that was true) ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Mayberry Creek
To be accurate, (I tried to study accounting), Mayberry Creek, Virginia includes a church and some houses, but they are scattered around way back in the woods. Did anybody notice that the English Chancellor of the Exchequer's name is Darling? (And he looks just like Mr. Bean, with white hair, from that superb English comedy show, but that's trivial trivialities). ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Rachel Ray Show
I normally don't watch the Rachel Ray Show but one of my modern day heroes, Bill O'Reilly, was on there today. Many people don't like him and I know he wouldn't fit in in Mayberry but as he likes to say, he watches out for the folks, and I like that! Anyway, Rachel told a story about something stupid that a police officer had done and Bill referred to him as Barney Fife. Now that's not watching out for the Mayberry folks! RMJ _ Quick access to your favorite MSN content and Windows Live with Internet Explorer 8. http://ie8.msn.com/microsoft/internet-explorer-8/en-us/ie8.aspx?ocid=B037MSN55C0701A ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Ad Libs
Dear Kind Behind the Eyes and All. I don't know for sure about ole Barn and Andy but I read an interview with Hal Smith where he mentioned "ad libbing".in particular he was referring to the episode of Aunt Bee the Warden. He said he added in such moves as raising the ax to Aunt Bee behind her back when she points to the woodpile and says "get to it!" I'm sure there are references this this in the books written on TAGS.hope this helps Mari Ellen Resident Northern Person ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Re: Mayberry single girls
DeLayne, You may be on to something here. Not only were there many single girls in "The Farmer Takes A Wife," but let's not forget about "A Wife For Andy." Barney brought in so many prospects for Andy that there was even talk about starting a girls' softball team. According to the calculatin' machines down at the bank - and those machines are real good - that'd have to be at least 10. And of course, the Darlings were less than impressed with the choice of prospective husbands for little Andylina - even with that fine dowry as part of the deal. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
ad libs
>>> When Barney puts the dogs into the car and goes around to the other side, >>>he tells the Airedale, "Move over, I'm driving." That seems like an ad lib to me ... Could there be episodes with ad libs? I expect that's exactly what happened; the dog was in the way, so Don Knotts ad libbed that line. According to George Lindsey, the actors were never allowed to ad lib; however others such as Hal Smith and Howard Morris did a lot of ad libbing on set. Howard Morris would make up all of Ernest T.'s rhymes (such as "if a duck stands still, you can catch him by the bill"), and Hal Smith loved to improvise. For example, when Otis took Barney's sobriety test in A Plaque for Mayberry, he was supposed to touch his fingertips together as Barney ordered, but he thought it would be funnier if he pinched Barney's nose, so that's what he did and it stayed in. I expect it had to do with the preferences of different directors. I don't know anything about directing TV episodes, but I do know about directing musicians. There are some members of my orchestra who do a great job when playing ad lib solos, while other members do much better if they stick with the printed notes on the page. I suppose it's the same way with actors speaking their lines. Paul Mulik P.S. It is very common for scripts to include "ad lib greetings" at the beginning of a scene or "ad lib goodbyes" at the end of a scene, but that's different. For example, if Helen and Thelma Lou were at Andy's house talking with the Taylor family, when the girls left everybody would just say something like "bye now" or "have a nice evening" or "you take care" or whatever. None of that would be written into the script, the actors would just make something up, and if they did multiple takes it would be different every time. It sounds much more natural that way. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Single Girls in Mayberry
It really comes as no surprise to me that there are so many pretty single girls in Mayberry, After all, look who the eligible men are. There's Goober, Gomer, Howard, Floyd, Asa, Old Man Kelsey, old Jud, Ernest T., the Darling Boys, Mr., Schwump, Fred Goss, and of course the guy with the cute button nose, the guy with the twitching muscles, and the fellow with the long eye lashes. Granted there are those good looking farm boys next to Frankie Flint, but other than them the pickens in Mayberry are rather slim. I mean the two big hunks, Andy and Barney, are spoken for. Ken Anderson Eau Claire, Wisconsin kanderson8...@charter.net www.mayberryreflections.com E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.12100 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Congratulations to "Fluffy"
If you've been to Mayberry Days, you've likely heard some great fiddling from Jim "Vip" Vipperman (or as The Mayberry Deputy likes to call him, "Fluffy".) Congratulations go out to him for being named the 2009 Brown Hudson Folklore Award winner. The full article is in Thursday's edition of http://www.mtairynews.com/ Mayberry Days isn't complete unless David Browning rubs Vip's head and Floyd comes out and takes a little off the top. Jeff ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Thelma Lou and her magic trick
Have any of you ever seen Thelma Lou's magic trick? I've noticed this before and I did again last night. It cracks me up every time I see it (I'm amused easily OK). Now I don't know if this is on the DVD, I've never checked. I'm thinking it's just a result of a scene being cut out on TVLand. Anyway, in the episode "Farmer Takes a Wife" when Andy, Barney, and Jeff Pruitt are all over at Thelma Lou's house during the hen party, Thelma Lou does her magic trick. You see Thelma come into the room to drop off a tray of drinks/food, she says hi to Jeff and then she walks back into the kitchen. You never see her walk back in to the living room but poof she magically reappears there the next second or so. My husband just laughed while I made sure he watched. me saying "OK OK, here she comes with the tray. she sets the tray down.now watch...she goes into the kitchen...she doesn't came back in but look there.poof.. she's back in the living room. How does she do that " He said maybe there's another way back in but I've looked I don't see one. Ya all think that maybe we've found out what Thelma Lou's job is a magician??? Jen ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Mayberry single girls
After watching "The farmer takes a wife" episode, it bothers me; why are there so many good looking girls of marriage age in Mayberry that are not married. Is it due to the lack of available men? If that's the case, it seems like the guys over in Mt Pilot would alleviate that situation in a hurry. DeLayne E Rand, Ettrick, WI 'der...@centurytel.net ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
