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That was back in the day of broadcast standards and practices. Even then once in awhile something is surprising, but for the most part it is pretty clean stuff.

There was one episode of the Andy Griffith Show where good old Floyd the Barber, commenting to someone on Barney's erratic behavior, says something close to: "You see, Barney was never married. If he had a wife, little things like this wouldn't bother him so much". Meaning of course, he was getting _____ regularly. At least that's the way I took it (many years later).

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Correction to an earlier post:

“There was one episode of the Andy Griffith Show where good old Floyd the Barber, commenting to someone on Barney’s erratic behavior, says something close to: “You see, Barney was never married. If he had a wife, little things like this wouldn’t bother him so much”. Meaning of course, he was getting _____ regularly. At least that’s the way I took it (many years later).”—me
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Should have been:

(pp)”If he had a wife, little things like this wouldn’t bother him so much”. Meaning of course, if he was getting _____ regularly.

Left out the “if” (the 2nd one).