Posted on 01/10/2017 3:03:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
My friend worked in Hollywood for a time and he said Andy Griffith had the foulest mouth of all the men he met there. (He said Suzanne Pleshette took the “prize” among the actresses.)
Is that old police cruiser still there...the ‘60-’61 Ford Galaxy (?) with the dummy in the front driver seat dressed like a cop?
For it’s handling of guns it was the worse show on television.
He should have stayed as “Permanent Latrine Orderly”.....
They are terrible, aren’t they?
Swinging the weapons around like flower bouquets...at times they even just throw the long guns through the window into the back seat of the car.
And when Barney shoots a hole in the floor or blows out a light fixture, Andy just frowns...lol.
wow, how did Andy Griffith go so wrong?
“wow, how did Andy Griffith go so wrong?”
I don’t think he “went wrong”; I think he’d always been that way. It’s who he was.
I still enjoy the Andy Griffith show on Netflix, but was very disappointed in Griffith's real life left-leaning politics. He was a big Obama supporter and advocate for Obamacare (He and Opie both).
But you know what? Kids like me (born in ‘60) had no clue what Andy was really like. Andy Taylor, Ward Cleaver, and my Grandfather taught me how to be a Father, and a real man. Be there for your sons, apologize when you are wrong, and always live by the standards you teach.
Andy’s influence on kids like me can never be reversed, no matter how flaky he really was. The character is what we saw. TVLand’s several hours of Andy Taylor each day totally eclipse who he was, since that is hardly ever shown on TV. Unwittingly, he strongly taught people to disagree with him.
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Griffith destroyed any positive reputation that he had when he became an Obamacare spokesman.
Yep, he completed ruining himself helping Barry RAM that mess down the nation’s throat. His retirement hometown Manteo NC residents did not hold him in high regards irrespective of the senile ads.
Godfrey was who it was based upon, but Rhodes was the real Griffith under his folksy veneer (for that matter, so was Bubba Clintoon).
There’s a surprise. :-P
As for the late Miss Pleshette, there was something about her that I found to be a tad off-putting.
Yeah, the old cop car was still there last time I passed by.
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