Tea shop

[Paul Mulik]

A scene I would like to have seen

After Aunt Bee wins a trip to Mexico, Barney decides to enter a contest too, 
and he wins a trip to Australia.  Naturally, he invites his best friend Andy to 
accompany him.

They arrive in Australia and spend the first morning sightseeing, and after a 
few hours they pay a visit to the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage. It turns out that 
the Sisters of Mercy operate a small tea shop, so Andy and Barney decide to 
have lunch there.

They ask for coffee, but the nun who waits on them explains that they don't 
serve coffee, only tea.  However, she adds, that it's the finest tea available 
anywhere in the world.  She goes on to explain that the best tea comes from the 
leaves at the very tops of the trees, and that the abbey has a team of koala 
bears who are specially trained to climb to the tops of the trees and pick 
these leaves, and furthermore, the Mercy tea shop is the only tea shop in 
Australia with trained koala bears, which is why no other tea shop anywhere can 
offer tea as good as theirs.

So naturally, Andy and Barney order cups of this special tea.  When it arrives, 
Barney takes a gulp but is dismayed to see clumps of soggy tea leaves floating 
in his cup.  So he says to Andy ...

Wait for it ...

"The koala tea of Mercy is not strained."

Paul Mulik
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No drinks at the table

[Elizabeth Busby]

I wonder if there were no drinks to avoid spills. You know how Nora's boys
are and how Briscoe and the boys passed food. Elizabeth in Ga
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Re: No drinks

[Janet Anderson]

>>>Noticing again, no drinks on the table at suppertime when Aunt Bee has a
big pork chop dinner to announce to Andy that she is buying Goober's car.
I know it happened also with the spaghetti dinners, but any other times?<<<


I have to admit that this is something I had never thought about before!  I 
will have to keep a sharp eye out for this in the future.  There is at least 
one exception to this that I know right now, though.  If you look at the scene 
in "Man in a Hurry" where Mr. Tucker is listening to the Mendlebright sisters 
on the phone and you see the table in the background where Andy, Barney, and 
Opie are sitting and beginning to eat, you can see that there is a glass of 
something next to Opie's plate.


Thelma Lou

(Janet)
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