Warning: if you're a big fan of the Andy Griffith Show like I am, this video clip of "Opie" and "Andy" endorsing Obama and his Marxist "Change" agenda will surely sicken you...
"Ron Howard's Call To Action:
Ron Howard wants to talk about the election. So does Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler"
http://www.funnyordie.com/ron_howard
or...
“I can’t stomach shows like Leave It To Beaver for that reason (the goodie-goodie factor).”
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You don’t think, Eddie Haskell and Lumpy Rutherford were big enough pr!cks to provide relief from the wholesomeness?
Plus, Wally and the Beav got into plenty of trouble on their own.
No, it’s not the goodie goodie factor. For some reason, the material in CB (peanuts I’m informed), just grates me. The music, the interactions... I don’t know why, it just does.
I like the Andy Griffith and Leave it to Beaver shows. While they may not reflect society perfectly, they did provide a nice moral platform for kids to learn from. And I might add, that could just as easily have transcended racial boundaries if people had let them.
A host of shows from the 50s and 60s provided decent moral values. Then I began to see folks talk about their “white bread” content, which just floored me. Is that really all they saw in those shows?
If I can watch a show or movie with Black characters and enjoy it, shouldn’t others be able to watch programming with Whites in it, and glean meaning from it?
I’m not inferring this is what you were addressing at all, but it’s something that comes to mind when discussing those old shows.
As for Ron Howard, Henry Winkler,... it saddens me to see them do some of the things they have. Howard’s treatment of the Catholic Church in his movies is disturbing to me, and I was raised to see that church in a negative light. I still realize that if they can do that to one religion, they can and will do it to all of them.
Thanks for the mention.