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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/15/2007 6:18:08 PM
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morningmike
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Shemp never really wanted to be a Stooge.
He only joined to help his brothers Moe and Curly when Curly became ill. Interesting that Curly and Shemp died young, but Moe lived to a fairly old age.
Kerr, are you sure about that? I had always understood that Shemp was one of the original stooges, to be replaced by Curly, who, of course, was later replaced by Shemp.
Shemp, to my way of thinking, was really funny in his own way.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/15/2007 6:32:19 PM
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Mike:
You are right that Shemp was an original Stooge. All I know about them I read in Wikipedia last night. It said that Shemp was reluctant to rejoin after Curly got sick, apparently because he had his own good career going.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/15/2007 7:03:07 PM
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morningmike
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Shemp was one of the originals, but didn't really become widely known to the public until he rejoined after Curly's departure.
By the way, I just looked at the Wikipedia entry...my goodness there's a lot of info in there!
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/15/2007 11:08:53 PM
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14. The Horse Trader
This episode has a clearly defined moral.
The town is trying to sell the old cannon to replace it with a plaque that a former resident is donating.
Andy lectures Opie about the Golden Rule when he discovers that Opie is going to cheat a friend by swapping "licorice seeds" for skates. Andy later undos the lesson when Opie hears him make up a story about the cannon to sell it to an antique dealer.
Opie does the same thing, trading an old cuff link for skates by telling his friend that it is a button off the coat of George Washington. When an angry Andy confronts Opie about it, he tries to rationalize his own actions, but stutters and stammers around until he admits his mistake and makes things right with the antique dealer.
Very funny scene where Barney, disheartened by Andy's falsehoods, tries to drown his sorrow in ice cream sodas. "If you won't sell it to me, Ellie, I'll just get it somewheres else."
In the final scene Andy reads a letter from the town's benefactor who, instead of a plaque, is sending the same cannon that Andy has just sold. Poetic justice.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/16/2007 3:47:09 PM
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Coming out of lurk mode just to say me . . . uh . . . whatever! (back to lurk mode now)
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/16/2007 9:26:43 PM
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15. Those Gossipin' Men
The only episode in my recollection where Aunt Bee is devious.
Andy makes fun of the women gossiping when he catches Aunt Bee, Clara, and Emma in the act. (this Clara is played by the woman who played Rose in the first episode.
Aunt Bee: "According to you (Andy), there are two sexes, men and blabbermouths."
Andy: "Very well put."
This was after Barney scratched his finger while cleaning his gun, and by the time it went through the grapevine, the story was that he had shot himself in the chest.
Before you know it, Orville (the undertaker and TV repairmen) had backed the hearse up to the courthouse.
In order to prove her point, Auunt Bee hints that a poor excuse for a traveling salesman may be more than meets the eye. By the time the barbershop gang runs with the rumor, the men believe that the poor guy is the producer of a New York variety show.
The men line up to audition (or have their children do so) under the guise of buying shoes. (Sidelight: One of the auditioners is Floyd's son, but later Floyd is portrayed as a widower with no children.)
The men order 67 pairs of shoes, and the incompetent salesman has set a one-day record for his company and hits the road with renewed confidence.
As he drives away, the looks exchanged between Andy and Aunt Bee are priceless.
There is a scene at the hotel, which reminds me of a fantastic scene that I failed to note earlier in my account of Stranger In Town.
Barney, trying to spy on the stranger, reaches in the stranger's mailbox, and we hear the "click" of a mousetrap. Andy comes in at that time and and Barney leaves his hand in the box. It goes something like this:
Andy: "What are you doing?"
Barney: "Nothing."
Andy: "Why do you have your hand in that box?"
Barney: "Oh, I like to come by here every so often and put my hand in this box."
Andy: "Really."
Barney: "Yeah. Sometimes I put both hands in (putting both hands in)
YEOW!!. Barney pulls out both hands caught in mousetraps. Andy laughs.
Barney: "Get 'em off, get 'em off."
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/16/2007 9:43:06 PM
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I have a couple of other favorites.
The episode where an Indian medicine man visits the town and Aunt Bee buys a whole lot of elixor (sp)
She starts drinking the cureall and when Andy comes home Aunt Bee and Opie are belting out tunes at the piano. Later she has the entire ladies group home and they are all really drunk. I might be confusing episodes but it was really fun watching Aunt Bee at the piano.
Another moment was when opie had killed a bird but had to take care of its babies.
When the bird flies away Opie says that the cage looks empty but Andy says the the trees look mighty full.
Very touching stuff.
Black and white made the show but there are some good color ones. Its just not right without the Don Knotts dynamic.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/16/2007 9:55:54 PM
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I have a couple of other favorites.
The episode where an Indian medicine man visits the town and Aunt Bee buys a whole lot of elixor (sp)
She starts drinking the cureall and when Andy comes home Aunt Bee and Opie are belting out tunes at the piano. Later she has the entire ladies group home and they are all really drunk. I might be confusing episodes but it was really fun watching Aunt Bee at the piano.
I think that one is called Aunt Bea's Medicine Man- that one is my favorite, followed closely by the Christmas episode.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/18/2007 5:04:58 PM
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so far I have seasxons one threw seven on dvd
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/18/2007 6:35:42 PM
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so far I have seasxons one threw seven on dvd
How many are/were there?
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/19/2007 8:58:58 AM
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Lots! Ron Howard grew up on the show.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/19/2007 12:30:59 PM
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imdb shows 8. We have 1-5, I think. Haven't started collecting the color episodes after Barney left.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/19/2007 2:00:37 PM
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16. The Beauty Contest
The City Council decides to hold a beauty contest in conjunction with Founders Day (ever notice that the City Council apparently changes from month to month). At Ellie's suggestion, Andy is appointed judge.
Andy is still not fully developed into his character, and has a little too much of the naive, "aw shucks" personna in this episode. He makes the mistake of letting Ellie know that he believes that she nominated him for judge so that he would pick her.
Ellie tells Andy off on the street, causing passers-by to stare. Andy tries to cover up the scolding: "That's a good story, Ellie, tell me another one."
Most of the humor is provided by the parade of potential winners making excuses to bump into Andy and by the kin of the contestants pushing their favorites.
Good Lines -
Mayor Pike: "we don't care which of our three daughters you pick."
Andy (referring to feed store owner's daughter): "I can't give her too many points for for beauty, but I gotta give her credit for muscle."
Andy (referring to finishing school girl parading around the table with a cup for sugar): "The kitchen's right over there, if that's what you're groping for."
The night of the pageant, everyone (except Aunt Bee) is surprised when Ellie's name is called as a contestant. Ellie threatens Andy not to pick her.
Andy saves the day by picking Miss Bishop, the elderly lady who has worked tirelessly to make the contest and the pageant a success.
He crowns her among the weeping "beauties" as Floyd launches into his original song'  Hail to you, Miss Mayberry, hail to you, all hail..."
There is a neat final scene in the barber shop when Andy crowns Opie's little girlfriend as "Miss Mayberry Junior". (she is the same cute little thing that Andy locked up with her parents in Christmas Story. As Floyd breaks into song again, she gives Opie a big wink.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/19/2007 2:03:10 PM
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Kerrlaw
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BTW, when Andy went off the air after Season 8 it was (despite being in color for three seasons) No. 1 in the ratings.
Only I Love Lucy and Seinfield share that distinction.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/19/2007 4:36:08 PM
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BTW, when Andy went off the air after Season 8 it was (despite being in color for three seasons) No. 1 in the ratings.
Only I Love Lucy and Seinfield share that distinction.
 They just don't do TV like that anymore.
We're going to get the other three seasons someday, but decided to collect I Love Lucy first---but then ran into SUCH a bargain that we ended up buying the whole I Love Lucy series in one day. Maybe between my birthday, Valentine's Day, and hubby's birthday we can get the final three of AG.
But then what? The other two that I would love to have are not on DVD yet. WKRP in Cincinnati and Newhart.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/19/2007 5:19:57 PM
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monamie - WKRP Season 1 is out. I got it from Amazon.com. I haven't checked lately to see if there are any more.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/19/2007 9:38:37 PM
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Kerrlaw
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But then what? The other two that I would love to have are not on DVD yet. WKRP in Cincinnati and Newhart.
We may have been separated at birth. I want both of those when they come out.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 8/19/2007 9:45:52 PM
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Kerrlaw
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There is a neat final scene in the barber shop when Andy crowns Opie's little girlfriend as "Miss Mayberry Junior". (she is the same cute little thing that Andy locked up with her parents in Christmas Story. As Floyd breaks into song again, she gives Opie a big wink.
Isn't she also the girl that Opie gave the coat to and the little girl whose family is about to be evicted?
I don't remember seeing the girl that Opie was saving to buy the coat for, but it was the same girl that was the daughter in the family that Ben was trying to evict, though their name was changed from Muggins to Scobey.
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