Those old “All in the Family” re-runs are still good, if you can find them. I loved it when Mike had an effeminate friend over to visit...Archie said they ought to open up a window and watch him fly out.
I’m in the minority when it comes to the Andy Griffith show; I don’t much care for it. I know Griffith’s sheriff character was supposed to be folksy and kindly, but whenever he grinned, he looked sinister and sharklike to me...totally fake.
Andy was just the straight man. The real laughs on that show came from the town characters like Barney Fife, Otis Campbell, Ernest T. Bass, Floyd the Barber, et al.
I'm probably one of about three people on earth who hated the Andy Griffith character.
I respect the values he tried to instill in Opie, but I always disliked his patronizing attitude towards his "underlings".
And his politics in real life, exposed in his dotage confirmed what I thought of both the man and his character.
A complete elitist liberal douche, who sneered at the "little people" he happened to be "sheriff" of.