Been watching all the AGS reruns, and was wondering who everyone's favorite character was. There are myriads to choose from, but mine was that wild man of the mountains, , Ernest T Bass!
I always liked Oether Darling and his brothers. They were real cut-ups.
But the songs they played always made me cry.
So many great ones, but Floyd the barber always made me laugh.
Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl.
Don Knotts as Barney Fife is it for me. I particularly enjoyed the episodes involving Barney and Thelma Lou.
A friend of mine wrote Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show.
And I got a tiny credit in it, too...Written by Don Knotts’s brother-in-law, Andy and Don is “a rewarding dual biography that is also a lively look inside the entertainment industry in the latter half of the twentieth century” (News & Observer). Entertaining and provocative, it “captures a golden moment in modern Americana. You’ll not only return again to Mayberry, you’ll feel as though you’ve never left” (Tom Shales, Pulitzer Prize–winning television critic).
-jk
Can we please have a a kind word here for Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle? "Citizen's arrest! Citizen's arrest!"
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Sheriff Lamar Potts.
Oh, y'all said his Mayberry show, not Murder in Coweta County. Well.
The Darlings weren't on very often but they were a real group, the Dillards and as the Dillards they were one of the first great country-rock hybrids. They never sold a lot of records-I bought them all-but they were extremely influential.
Douglas Dillard and original Byrd Gene Clark teamed up as the Dillard and Clark Expedition for a couple of great records.
Can’t believe nobody has mentioned my favorite, Otis.
Floyd the Barber - Growing up, rumor had it that the reason he is always shown in a seated position was that actor Howard McNear was a drug addict and unable to stand for any length of time. Just checking Wikipedia, however looks like he suffered a stroke leaving half of his body paralyzed.
In "The Loaded Goat", Otis tries to jump onto his mattress which is strapped to the wall. Hysterical!
There should be a parallel "Favorite Episode" thread though the episode in which Opie raises some hatchlings he orphaned would probably run away with it. That would be my first choice followed by any episode during which Andy confiscates Barney's single bullet.
Last edited by CameronBlue; 07-13-2020 at 11:51 AM. Reason: or the episode when Andy makes Barney keep the bullet in his shirt pocket.