Buddy Ebsen.
Epsom salts.
When did that sow take place, like in the 1400s? :)
I am sure Andy Griffith didn’t believe in any of it and only did it for the paycheck, since he is a raving leftist like most of Hollywood ...
One of my favorite episodes! Today, Buddy would be an illegal alien collecting welfare.
Opie would be at home all day playing video games with no desire to play “Robin Hood” as he does in the episode but instead would spend his time at school protesting Climate Change and idolizing Greta Thunberg.
Andy would designate Mayberry as a sanctuary city so hands off the undocumented immigrant.
Aunt Bee would be an employee at the Mayberry Planned Parenthood. Barney would be fired for trying to arrest Buddy.
Floyd’s would now be a Starbucks.
Mrs Crump would be organizing Mayberry 1st LGBTQ parade on Main Street of which Gomer is the Grand Marshall.
The open would no longer have Opie throwing a stone into the lake and about to go fishing. He would instead be planting trees wearing a tie dye shirt and Birkenstocks.
Theme song is “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie
“There’s no better day than tomorrow to start a job.” :-)
There have been three Nancy Drew series that I have seen and I liked them all. I noticed a new one begins tonight.
I will not even begin to watch it. It will almost certainly contain every liberal idea extant.
Nip it Ange, nip it in the bud.
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. And she can’t change that fact any more than a chicken can change into a cow.
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.
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Buddy led Opie astray? What did he do? Sing before breakfast?
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.
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.
This was trite and crap long before the ‘woke society’. It was crap in reruns in the 1980s.
Andy Griffin was just A Face in The Crowd
You do realize that show was where the popular practice of disrespecting police officers for no good reason came from, right? (And of course, the reciprocity from the disrespected officers, etc.).
There are a lot of stealth socialist themes in that show. No surprise, because Andy Griffiths was *very* liberal.
I was raised on Roy Rodgers, the Lone Ranger, Mighty Mouse, Superman, and all manner of other patriotic shows where good always triumphed over evil and every show had a moral message. Fathers were the wisest members of the house and children usually wound up in trouble in a way that Dad had to teach them a moral lesson.
Today, TV is one long running bathroom/gutter/fart/sexual joke. I can’t explain anything to Millenials, because they have no moral base for me to work with. Not to say they have no morals, but when I try to explain to them the moral foundation I was raised with, it is such a foreign concept to them, it goes right over their heads and they have no ability to comprehend it.
When I tell Millenials we are a much less moral nation than when I was born, they get offended and outraged and can’t see what I mean.
We were polite. We had manners. We stopped our cars for pedestrians. People waved when you did someone a favor in a car. We held doors open for people behind us, especially the elderly. You could walk around town at midnight without fear of violence, rape, or mugging. Many people did not lock their doors at night. You usually did not keep your car doors locked because there was no theft.
Not in my city, but in many places in America people had rifles sitting in gun racks in the cab of their trucks, doors unlocked, and nobody molested the truck to steal the guns.
There were no homeless. There was little apparent poverty. I am not aware that of any large societal drug problems. Kids were respectful to teachers. People respected teachers, scientists, and the police.
The genii cannot be put back in the box. You reap what you sow. The 60s hippies were hell bent on destroying norms and making every lifestyle choice as noble as another. All stigmas were banned. Divorce, illegitimacy, being on the welfare doll, being an unemployed slob, living with your parents into your 30s, being a ne’er do well, having illicit gains, being a con man, killing your babies — these were all stigmatized in a past America when we were still a moral people.
Democracies only last around 200 years. We are right on schedule for collapse. Right on schedule.
“Modern Morals” are a reflection back to the Depression days when the immorality of the post WWI era (The roaring 20’s) was rejected.
The morals of the forefathers were the extreme during their colonial days—thus, they were driven out of Europe. These “morals” made their way into the fabric of parts of the new world.
Settlers moved west at first to get away from their oppressive parents—and that spirit can be found in the US West today.
So, your supposition that the US was full of moral stalwarts since its founding is incorrect. The recent morality was imposed during the depression and as a result of the carnage that our vets saw in Europe and the Pacific.
The second thing is that with the introduction of the internet, immorality can be delivered directly to your desktop or home with a little tap on your phone screen.
The third thing is the complete destruction of the traditional Mom-Dad-Two Kid family unit.
But, things are not as bad as you think. Every time there is a crisis and the media is full of people helping people locally—that stuff hasn’t changed. Babies are born and baptized every day. My church remains full and thriving.
I think we are reading the “man bites dog” news; which is unusual by definition. The majority of the US world is little different in most ways from the way it was when we were children. And in a lot of ways, its better (Better medical, better communication, better food....)