I can still watch The Ghost and Mr. Chicken and almost pee my pants when he starts screaming "Murder! Murder!"
Sticking to the Israel-Lebanon live thread, I missed the first half of the first half (first 1/4th, I guess that would be) of my Sunday night-Monday morning dose of Mayberry.
I only get one night a week of a double-feature (have only MSM) and wouldn't ya know it, I had not seen either of these two.
We're into the color episodes now, without Barney - not quite as good, unfortunately.
This morning the first was Opie getting his tonsils out and evidently, Andy had been worried sick about the doctor and the operation. The doc was Father Mulcahey on M*A*S*H, who has played another Mayberry character previously - an IRS man just a week or so ago.
The second one was where Opie and his friend Arnold find a baby abandoned on the steps of the sheriff's office - and they decide to take it to their clubhouse and hide it, so Andy won't give it to CPS, who might give it to bad people.
They go around town asking people like Ms Crump and Goober about babies and whether they like them. LOL, of course Helen thinks Opie's talking about *her* having a baby and Goober thinks the boys are talking about some unknown babies he might have somewhere.
All this prompts Helen and Aunt Bee to tell Andy to have the "birds and bees" talk with Opie ASAP. He doesn't want to, so he asks Arnold's dad to do it, who refuses, lol. Finally, Sheriff Taylor sits Opie down (he's about 12-13 now, you realize) and starts "the talk."
Before he can get to the "good part," in walks a married couple who had had a fight that morning and the wife had left their baby on the doorstep because she was mad. Heh heh, the hubby was Jack Nicholson.
Opie and Arnold bring the baby back and everything is A-OK. As they walk off down the street, Opie tells Arnold he'd had "the talk" with his dad. Arnold asks if he told Andy he already knew it all - nope, Opie says he didn't want to spoil it for him!
(PS - Saw an interview with Bryce Dallas Howard earlier - Opie's daughter - talking about her newlywed status and how it wasn't all that different, since they'd lived together for 5-1/2 years first.)
"Atta boy, Luther!"