Re: Tom Silby
>>>I recently saw the episode (Opie's Charity) where Tom Silby comes back from >>>Charlottesville. Andy told Tom "I haven't seen you since.your funeral"! >>> But since there was no body in the casket that his wife Annabelle brought >>>back to Mayberry for the "funeral", Andy could NOT have "seen" Tom. >>>Comments please?<<< Danny, I've thought the very same thing while watching that episode. Obviously, Annabelle made sure it was a closed-casket funeral! So Andy would have last seen him before Tom left town. However, the line as Andy says it is funnier, so my guess is that's why they had him say it that way. Thelma Lou (Janet) ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
Re: Barney getting gassed
>>>Something that you would think would rarely happen seems to happen to Barney >>>quite a bit. That is getting accidently gassed ( as Andy would say).<<< That is true, but I think it's just because Don Knotts portrayed that so well and was so very funny doing it that the writers probably tried to come up with story lines where Barney could get gassed. They knew it would be good for many laughs! Thelma Lou (Janet) ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
Trivia Question
The 2 episodes where Barney jumped rope were, A Medal For Opie and The Haunted House. Orville Hendricks - Mount Pilot Butter and Egg Man ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
We lost a Veteran!
Fair Winds and Following Seas, Shipmate! Donald Jay Rickles, United States Navy, WWII. SALUTE!! ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
1930' versus 1960's and also "seeing Tom Silby"
I don't comment as much as I'd like to, but I wanted to comment now on a couple of things. In all of the discussion about the 1930's versus 1960's influences on TAGS, I'd like to just say this - I'm in my late 60's and back in the late 1950's and early 1960's our family would visit relatives who lived in fairly small farming towns in Colorado and Kansas. I thought then, as I still do today, that those small towns were somewhat behind the times, compared to the larger town that I came from. I think that is what is reflected in a lot of what we see in Mayberry in the TAGS episodes. Things in the world began to change much more rapidly beginning in the middle of the 1960's. I think that is part of the reason, when viewing TAGS shows now, it may seem like sometimes it was from an earlier time, when actually that was the way a lot of small towns were in the early 60's. My apologizes to Harriet The Chicken Thief, but I just couldn't help myself! The other comment I wanted to make was about when Andy, in the episode "Opie's Charity", told Tom Silby (Stu Erwin) that he hadn't seen him since his funeral. Because Tom had left his wife, Annabelle (Lurene Tuttle) and she was too proud to let people know that, she made up a story that he had been killed in a car accident in Charlottesville. My thought is, that because Tom had supposedly died in an automobile accident, they probably had a closed casket. If that was the case, Andy probably just assumed Tom was in the casket when he told Tom that was the last he had seen him. Thanks For Listening - or reading. Sheriff Poindexter ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
