When Andy, Barney, and Aunt Bea went to the landfill to find the remaining editions of Opie/Johnny Paul's gossip paper, she may have had Clara/Bertha-Edwards/Johnson sit for him, like she did on other episodes. I vaguely remember Bea mentioning for Opie to go stay with other ladies in other episodes (when she had to run off all of a sudden), as well. In a perfect world, Andy would have already married Ellie Walker, or one of the Mary's, or Lucy Matthews, and they all could have gone to the landfill, even Opie, because I'll bet it wasn't past 8 or 9PM, and he was probably 11 or 12 years old by then, anyway. But I guess the point was that even though they scolded him for writing and distributing papparazzi-style gossip, they were still very interested in that gossip, though they didn't want him to know how interested they were (blonde, right out of a bottle). Charlie Varney in SA (dry as dust)
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