[albie]

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

[a fool in paradise]

Sounds like The Goode Family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJ8BRsqQZw

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Careful. With Hollyweird's lack of originality and creativity, they might just steal YOUR ideas for a new Mayberry RFD. Look at what they did to Hawaii 5-0, The A-Team, Magnum PI, The Dukes of Hazard, Ghostbusters, and a whole slew of other shows.

[warsaw44]

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

[Sloopy]

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!

[Responsibility2nd]

Good points.

1962 America looked like Maybery.

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

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

You nailed it, except that Opie would be transgendered.