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Posted on 10/30/2019 5:25:59 AM PDT by lonster

I was sitting here watching an old episode of Andy Griffith with Buddy Epson as a guest star and was thinking about how the plot would be considered trite in todays "woke" society. Buddy was a tramp who was leading Opie down a bad path and chose in the end to remedy that by using himself as a bad example. The stark contrast in light of modern morals is a sad state in my opinion.


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To: albie

- including guest appearance and political struggle session with Pete Seeger!


21 posted on 10/30/2019 6:10:10 AM PDT by warsaw44
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To: lonster

The show was written to display the 30’s and 40’s time frame in a small town. I grew up in a small town in California, starting in the late 40’s, and, to be honest, it looked a lot like a town like Mayberry in many ways. The show itself was filmed in the 60’s when the more liberal thought process was coming into its own so it created a real memory for many of the show’s viewers that lived during that 30’s/40’s time frame.

Of course it was a sitcom, before they called them that, and the plots were extreme as something needing handling didn’t happen every day like it did on every show. And our police did carry more than one bullet and didn’t name them names like “Roscoe.” But they used them about as much as Barney did as about everyone knew everybody else. We would go months without anything exciting happening like some cattle busting a fence and getting on the road. Very peaceful. And safe to grow up in.

rwood


22 posted on 10/30/2019 6:11:26 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: albie

Sad, but true.
But, your creative writing skills get 5 stars from me!
If your “screen treatment” were presented in Hollywood today, it would be snapped up, then some “clever” producer would add a twisted and dark subplot, and voila! award winner!


23 posted on 10/30/2019 6:12:06 AM PDT by Sloopy
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To: lonster

Buddy led Opie astray? What did he do? Sing before breakfast?


24 posted on 10/30/2019 6:13:46 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.>>>)
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To: lonster

I really suggest watching the Andy Griffith show very closely.

All of the progressive ideas plaguing us today can be seem in there infancy on that show. It was not a bastion of conservative thought actually quite the opposite. The most blaring being the pragmatic ways Andy deals with problems.

Progressivism doesn’t kick in the front door and take over, it comes in dressed like a old friend.


25 posted on 10/30/2019 6:19:34 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: lonster

I don’t have much time or inclination to watch TV (I read a lot), but when I do, it’s always the old TV shows or movies. I watch “Gunsmoke” pretty much every night. A couple of weeks ago I caught a PBS fundraiser special on the music of the ‘50s, everything from The Platters to Perry Como. I was born toward the end of that era, and that’s the music that was on the one radio we had when I was smaller. It was nice to hear it. It occurred to me that that music, and all the old shows, are relics of a vanished world. So am I, I guess. It might be a good sign, though, that the relics are still around, and still have some popularity.


26 posted on 10/30/2019 6:20:15 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: lonster

This was trite and crap long before the ‘woke society’. It was crap in reruns in the 1980s.


27 posted on 10/30/2019 6:24:34 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Put it on eBay. Some classic vintage computer gear is worth something these days.


28 posted on 10/30/2019 6:25:16 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Sirius Lee
Buddy led Opie astray? What did he do? Sing before breakfast?

My post #10 summarizes it.

Perhaps unpopular here, but I liked Ebsen's character in that show.

Somewhat out of character for today's "liberals", though, as Buddy would not have had access to any healthcare, etc, haha.

And singing?


29 posted on 10/30/2019 6:38:35 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Tax-chick

There’s GOLD on them there bits....


30 posted on 10/30/2019 6:39:37 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: SecondAmendment

“... Andy Griffith didn’t believe in any of it ... is a raving leftist”

My friend worked for years in Hollywood and said that Andy Griffith’s mouth was the worst potty mouth there. (He said the worst female’s mouth was Suzanne Pleshette.) He sure did put on a good front.


31 posted on 10/30/2019 6:43:02 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: MayflowerMadam

In later years, I recall the same being said of Bob Sagget.


32 posted on 10/30/2019 6:44:20 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs

Probably. My friend worked in Hollywood in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. Pre-Saggett, I guess.


33 posted on 10/30/2019 6:46:10 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: lonster

Andy Griffin was just A Face in The Crowd


34 posted on 10/30/2019 6:48:21 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record hoping some might read and pass around)
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To: mosesdapoet

Thanks, had to look it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Face_in_the_Crowd_(film)


35 posted on 10/30/2019 6:49:46 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs

Oh, well that’s something.


36 posted on 10/30/2019 6:52:13 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Down with the ChiComs! Independence for Hong Kong!)
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To: Spruce
An early black and white episode of Beverly Hillbillies has Jed instructing Ellie May that just because she can outrun, outfight, and outshoot every boy she is still a girl.

That was patently obvious.

37 posted on 10/30/2019 6:53:54 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: albie

Good points.

1962 America looked like Maybery.

2019 America is ‘Modern Family’. Or even ‘Shameless’.


38 posted on 10/30/2019 6:55:26 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: lonster
Do you think a scene like this would be allowed on today’s television?

Andy Griffith Show Christmas Story

39 posted on 10/30/2019 7:06:36 AM PDT by dznutz
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To: Tax-chick

Should have included the link. :-)

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Extract-Gold-From-Electronics/


40 posted on 10/30/2019 7:08:20 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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