John Masters was about to kick Barney out from the choir - the very day he asked him to join. John called the emergency meeting (to tell then he was going to tell Barney Fife to get out of the choir). Andy, Thelma Lou & Aunt Bee refused to tell Barney so John restated "then I'll tell him". One diversion (secret meeting practice - John's idea) and reaffirmation that he'd tell Barney. The last meeting with Andy, Thelma Lou and John left little doubt when he tells Andy that it's "you or me" led Andy to develop his alternate ways: uvula (I got one) & the solo microphone.
John delivered the bad news when the Ralph Prichard, first tenor, had to drop out - of course, that was an announcement and not a "man-up" confrontation... John called the PO-lice to evict the Darlings when he KNEW there was more than one tenant in the hotel room. He knew better than to take the law into his own hands. Gary A. Johnson Chicken thieves & whatnot Lubbock, near Kelsey's Woods, TX Message: 3 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:58:59 +0000 (UTC) From: jgr...@frontier.com To: wbmutbb@wbmutbb.com Subject: Observation of the pageant and names Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I watched "the Pageant" recently. That teh episode about the Centennial, and Aunt Bee trying out for Lady Mayberry. Just some rambling thoughts here. There were a few times when Aunt Bee had to go to Play practice, that Andy just seemed to be kicking back at home. Why wasn't he, as "James Merriweather" going to play practice as well. Perhaps they were just working on certain scenes, but he doesn't seem the type not to be there to support. Did John Masters ever deliver bad news? He chickened out and had Andy tell Barney when he was a lousy singer, and he had Andy do the same thing when Aunt Bee was a lousy actress. For a guy so worried about his reputation in the norther part of th state, he was a bit spineless. If the script of Happy Valley was true..whetever happened to the Indian reservation, and Nugatuck's family?? All we hear about after that is one Native American at election time. I find it interesting that just a few days ago, I made fun of my own name (Gritton) with my post about "the Grit" and then there was a little moulage about the name Crump and Ken's piece that I found very witty and harmless. We can all be like Barney at times and be "high-spirited" but we goota watch that vein poppin out of our neck, when we take things too seriously. I agree that the name Crump, was conjured up by the writers to make Andy think of a teacher who might be somewhat repulsive. Miss Crump then showed by her physical appearance, and manner, that you can't judge a person by their name. She, if fact, brought a certain grace and dignity to the name Crump "C_R_U_M_P". I agree,though, that we need to respect the names of real people. We've all probably been teased about something, and a name is something every deserves repsct for. Grittin..my teeth--The Untrained Voice no, My Name is Talyor, I don't need the Tailor stop. _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
