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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/28/2007 1:08:50 PM
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59. Three's A Crowd
One of the most popular episodes, and the first time that Barney mistakenly believes that Andy is going to "pop the question" to a girlfriend. For someone who dated the same girl for years without proposing, Barney is quick to assume that Andy is ready to get engaged after a month or so.
Andy tries to spend some time alone with the ever cheerful county nurse, Mary Simpson (played by a different actress, Sue Ann Langdon, than three episodes ago. Barney keeps inviting himself along on their dates, which seriously puts a crimp in Andy's fast moving style.
One of the funniest scenes is when Andy tires to tell Barney that he wants some time alone with Mary, and Barney interprets it to mean that Andy want some time alone with him, and cancels his date with Thelma Lou.
When Andy finally makes his intentions clear, Barney jumps the gun as usual and assumes that Andy is going to propose to Mary. Barney rounds up food and neighbors for a party and tracks Andy and Mary to where they are parked at the lake. The surprised couple sets Barney straight, but the party goes on anyway.
While everyone is having fun, and ignoring the happy couple, Andy and Mary have the most passionate kiss that I ever saw on the show.
Note: In this episode, Barney is at his comic best.
Note 2: This is one of several episodes in which Andy smokes. It seems that he has smoked more in the last few episodes. I wonder if a cigarette company is a sponsor.
Note 3: Sue Ann Langson makes her only appearance. She was a busy actress who generally played perky/comic/sexy parts. I remember her best as Opal Ann in The Cheyenne Social Club
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/28/2007 8:25:51 PM
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58. Wedding Bells For Aunt Bee
Aunt Bee's friend Clara convinces her that Andy is not going to the church social, and in fact is still single, because he doesn't want to leave Aunt Bee alone. After a series of misunderstandings and bad communication, Aunt Bee feigns an interest in Fred Goss, one of the only repulsive characters ever on the show.
Mr. Goss is a gossip, has a bad personality, and always has a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. Despite being a dry cleaner: "always pays to look your best", Mr. Goss is sloppy and covered with ashes.
However, Aunt Bee pretends to like Mr. Goss seems to be marching toward ill-fitting matrimony, all for Andy's sake. By the way, Andy is not his usual "quick on the uptake" self in this one.
Andy explains to Opie about that "deep, forever" kind of love that people who want to get married have. On the porch that night Opie notices, that while Andy and Aunt Bee are talking about the advantages of her marrying Mr. Goss, love is never mentioned. In looking at Aunt Bee's face (the woman was really a good actress), Andy realizes that she doesn't love Mrs. Goss, and makes a touching speech that let's her know that it's not right for him and Opie if it's not right for her too.
Andy breaks up the romance by describing to Mr. Goss Aunt Bee's new dress: yards and yards of paper taffeta, the upper part all flocking, a double row of plastic buttons, and 36 rhinestone buttons in the back. Truly a cleaner's nightmare.
Andy then foists Mr. Goss off on Clara and he, Aunt Bee, and Opie drive off to Mt. Pilot for Chinese.
This is one of Mrs. Kerrlaw's favorite episodes.
Another episode that I don't remember.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/30/2007 1:31:41 PM
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60. The Bookie Barber
For the only time in memory, Floyd is over-run by customers at the barber shop. Conveniently, an out of town barber seeking semi-retirementwants to work in Floyd's shop on a commission basis.
Just what Floyd has always dreamed of - a two chair shop. ("...and I've got the magazines to swing it.")
It quickly becomes apparent that all is not on the up and up, as the same three customers come to the new barber every day. These are rough looking guys who are coming in, ostensibly, for facials. Says Barney: "I'd hated to have seen him before the facial".
We learn that the barber is a bookie laying low until the heat dies down in the big city, and the "customers" are the pickup and delivery men. Andy figures this out quickly and lets Barney know. Barney immediately wants to go undercover, but Andy forbids it.
Barney decides to try to catch the gang anyway, and dresses up as an old woman looking to make a bet. "I want to put two dollars on the horsie's nose." and "I've got this daughter-in-law who won't let me have any fun, I have to go down to the gas station to take a dip of snuff. She's a beast, that's what she is, a beast. See, she married late and has this skin condition..."
The thugs are on to Barney pretty quick and have him pinned down when Andy saves the day.
Floyd remained blissfully oblivious to it all, never knowing why the new barber left.
Good acting by both Barney and Floyd in this episode.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/30/2007 1:52:42 PM
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61. Andy On Trial
Andy goes to Raleigh to arrest J. Howard Jackson, A big time publisher who has flaunted the law by not appearing in court on his speeding ticket. He appears with his lawyer, and is fined $15.00, which infuriates him, as he apparently he see it as a waste of his valuable time.
He hires an ace reporter, played by Ruta Lee, who poses as a college student writing a thesis on local government. She vamps Barney, who blabs about Andy tearing up Emma Walker's jaywalking tickets and delivering groceries in the squad car.
The publisher then runs a scathing article about Andy, alleging misconduct and malfeasance in office. The state attorney's office launches an investigation, suspends Andy and makes Barney sheriff, and schedules a hearing before a Commissioner the next day. No delays in the legal system here.
To his surprise Barney is called as the star witness for the state. The state attorney throws his words back at him and brings in the "college student" to refresh his memory.
When Barney is excused as a witness (the concept of cross examination has not yet reached Mayberry) he refuses to step down and makes a beautiful speech in defense of Andy: "The only ruckus you'd ever have in Mayberry is if you try to remove Andy from office, then you'd have a riot. This is a small town. The sheriff is more than a sheriff, he's a friend. He's been trying to teach me something since I started here, you don't just go by the book, you go by the heart."
The commissioner dismisses the charges and apologizes to Andy.
Barney later apologizes to Andy and tells him that if he ever starts running off at the mouth again to punch him in the nose. Barney answers the phone and immediately starts telling Thelma Lou how he saved the day and "tied the state attroney in knots." Andy stuffs Barney's hat in Barney's mouth.
Very good episode and a superb acting job by Don Knotts.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 10/30/2007 6:54:54 PM
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Barney decides to try to catch the gang anyway, and dresses up as an old woman looking to make a bet.
Oh My Goodness...I remember that one!!!! HILARIOUS!!!!!
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/2/2007 9:54:25 PM
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Barney decides to try to catch the gang anyway, and dresses up as an old woman looking to make a bet.
Oh My Goodness...I remember that one!!!! HILARIOUS!!!!!
I watched that one yesterday on one of our local channels.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/7/2007 11:29:37 AM
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62. Cousin Virgil
Barney's awkward Cousin Virgil, played by an impossibly cute and cloying Michael J. Pollard (pre Bonnie and Clyde), comes to Mayberry for a visit.
Virgil manages to miss the bus at the rest stop because he is mailing a card (which would better have been hand delivered) to Andy and Barney. The boys track him down (interestingly, they pull up behind Virgil, when it seems logical that they would be meeting him), and bring him to Mayberry.
At dinner, Virgil manages to dump the roast on Andy (who is amazingly clean a few minutes later), knock water on the table, and then smash the squad car into the garage. Nevertheless, Barney wants Andy to let Virgil help out at the court house.
After a couple more mishaps, Barney gives Virgil the simple job of cleaning up the jail cell keys.
Otis has left a wake-up call because he has a important job interview at the feed store. Unfortunately, Virgil has sand papered the keys so much that they no longer turn the tumblers, and Otis is locked in.
Opie show Andy some beautiful wood carvings that Virgil has done, and after Andy talks to Virgil, he realizes that it is a confidence problem. Andy boosts his confidence by letting Virgil be alone to work out how to open the cell.
Virgil is successful and lets Otis out - just as Barney pulls the bars out of the windows with a rope tied to the squad car.
The show has settled into it's formula for success: letting Andy, with wit and homespun wisdom, resolve the problems of the other characters.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/7/2007 11:49:30 AM
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63. Deputy Otis
Both of our heroes have forgotten their keys, so Otis has to wake up and let them in. In going through the mail, Barney finds a letter addressed to Otis. It seems that during his "visits" Otis has used Sheriff Dept. stationery to write his brother, who now has the idea that Otis works for the Sheriff.
aside: Barney has also received one of those great letters from the Ubacher brothers, up at state prison.
Barney: "We ought to drive up there some Sunday and surprise them."
Andy: "It seems like only yesterday that they were waving goodby to us from the back of the prison van."
Andy feels sorry for Otis and wants to help him impress his brother. Barney is reluctant.
Barney: "He's lazy, careless, and irresponsible. What kind of job can you give him?"
Andy: "I'll make him a deputy."
Barney tries to whip Otis into shape; "Stick out those hips, suck in that gut.". Andy: "It's got to go somewhere, Barn."
Mrs. Campbell, after consulting with Andy, makes Otis pour out the "intoxicating beverage" that he has hidden.
Ralph, the brother, is skeptical that Otis could ever amount to anything, and really doesn't believe that he is a deputy. When Ralph can't be found, Otis believes that he is out in town asking questions about Otis. Then Ralph staggers in and locks himself in the jail cell "this is how we do it back home." Turns out that he is the town drunk where he lives.
Otis is quick to get on his high horse and lecture Ralph, who is so contrite and inspired that he vows to quit drinking (yeah, right).
Andy is convinced that it will be a "good, long time" before Otis takes another drink. And it is - all the way until next season.
Thus ends Season Two.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/9/2007 10:45:46 AM
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61. Andy On Trial
I've long thought that Barney's speech at the end of this episode was quite possibly Don Knotts' finest moment on THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW.
I'm also wondering, since when does the government consider a newspaper article as a legitimate charge? And without even conducting their own investigation?
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/11/2007 4:52:18 PM
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I agree Tafkam.
And as I've said before. The concept of bail hasn't reached Mayberry. The accused just stays in jail until trial.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/13/2007 5:28:55 PM
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64. Mr. McBeevee
This popular episode kicks off Season Three. Opie has fun playing with his imaginary horse (and Andy has Barney convinced the horse is real for a while).
Opie then comes in wth a hatchet and a story of how "Mr. McBeevee" gave it to him. Andy begins to get worried and tells Opie to take the hatchet back where he found it. The audience then gets to see Mr. McBeevee, a real person working to string telephone line through the countryside. He takes the hatchet back and gives Opie a quarter (for bringing him water and other errands).
Barney uses his investigative techniques to determine if McBeevee is real.
Opie describes the shiny hat, the 12 extra hands (tools on his belt), walking around in trees (true), and making smoke come out of his ears (also true). It seems funny to Andy until Opie tells about the quarter, then Andy gets serious.
Opie just can't bring himself to say that Mr. McBeevee is imaginary. Andy had intended to spank him, but decides to believe him: "I've asked to believe a lot of other things that must have seemed just as strange to him".
I love the scene where Andy walks into the woods (smoking) and sarcastically says "Mr. McBeevee", only to have the gentleman answer and climb down from the tree.
Funny closing scene where Andy tells Barney he has met Mr. McBeevee and he is real, and is coming to supper. Barney tells Andy to "just let your mind go blank" and calls the doctor: "nothing important, just a checkup" (then whispers: "Hurry, it's an emergency").
Barney's expression when McBeevee calls is priceless.
This episode has a great moral about trusting your children and using your imagination.
side note: The DVD collection includes the original sponsor spots. The sponsors are Jello and Sanka. Each spot obviously ran at the end of the show and ties in with the theme of the show. In this one they are having some jello chocolate pudding and, to Barney's great surprise, a real horse sticks his head through the kitchen window. Andy ends each ad with a big smile and a "thank you and goodnight."
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/14/2007 9:09:58 PM
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side note: The DVD collection includes the original sponsor spots. The sponsors are Jello and Sanka. Each spot obviously ran at the end of the show and ties in with the theme of the show. In this one they are having some jello chocolate pudding and, to Barney's great surprise, a real horse sticks his head through the kitchen window. Andy ends each ad with a big smile and a "thank you and goodnight."
I always love seeing those commercials on the old shows!
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/23/2007 7:05:39 PM
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65. Andy's Rich Girlfriend
Andy is dating the county nurse, Peggy McMillan (played by Tatum O'Neal's real life mother).
They start with a drive up to Myers Lake with Barney and Thelma Lou, where they skip stones and go wading.
Favorite line is when Barney is reluctant to go wading, Andy wonders why.
Barney: " Well, I don't want to take off my shoes and socks, with the girls and everything."
Andy: "Go ahead Barn, both of the girls have brothers."
It turns out that Peggy is from a rich family, which Andy discovers after he sees the new T-bird convertible in front of her house.
Andy takes Peggy to a fancy restaurant in Raleigh, where she orders a fancy New Orleans drink and he orders a beer. Andy tells a great story about how he and Barney started out for New Orleans once after they graduated high school. They burned out a bearing in Andy's old car and sold it for $12.00. "Just as well, I don't think they would have let us camp out in New Orleans anyway."
Another favorite line by Andy when Peggy orders escargot for them: "I believe that I'll let the snails go by."
Andy makes the mistake of listening to Barney, who convinces him that the rich are different and that Peggy is just slumming with him to pass the time. Andy begins to avoid Peggy.
They later go to the lake separately to think and run into each other. Peggy correctly calls Andy a snob, since she wants to date him and he doesn't want to date her. They patch things up, skip some stones, and walk off hand in hand.
Pegggy is never seen on the show again.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/25/2007 7:08:52 PM
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65. Andy's Rich Girlfriend
Andy is dating the county nurse, Peggy McMillan (played by Tatum O'Neal's real life mother).
They start with a drive up to Myers Lake with Barney and Thelma Lou, where they skip stones and go wading.
Favorite line is when Barney is reluctant to go wading, Andy wonders why.
Barney: " Well, I don't want to take off my shoes and socks, with the girls and everything."
Andy: "Go ahead Barn, both of the girls have brothers."
It turns out that Peggy is from a rich family, which Andy discovers after he sees the new T-bird convertible in front of her house.
Andy takes Peggy to a fancy restaurant in Raleigh, where she orders a fancy New Orleans drink and he orders a beer. Andy tells a great story about how he and Barney started out for New Orleans once after they graduated high school. They burned out a bearing in Andy's old car and sold it for $12.00. "Just as well, I don't think they would have let us camp out in New Orleans anyway."
Another favorite line by Andy when Peggy orders escargot for them: "I believe that I'll let the snails go by."
Andy makes the mistake of listening to Barney, who convinces him that the rich are different and that Peggy is just slumming with him to pass the time. Andy begins to avoid Peggy.
They later go to the lake separately to think and run into each other. Peggy correctly calls Andy a snob, since she wants to date him and he doesn't want to date her. They patch things up, skip some stones, and walk off hand in hand.
Pegggy is never seen on the show again.
Kerr,
Was this episode before or after the episode where Peggy cooked dinner for Andy and Opie while Aunt Bea was away? I can't remember how that one turned out, but it was the same actress, no?
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/26/2007 7:44:53 AM
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Mike, You are right.
Peggy is actually in three more episodes in the third season.
It is too late to edit my original post. I meant to say that Peggy was never seen on the show after the third season.
side note: I caught a few minutes of an Andy marathon on TV Land last night, and they had those little pop up info notes. It said that the actress who plays Helen was chosen for the show because a producer was impressed by a certain part of her body.
Hint: It rhymes with Crump.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/30/2007 12:57:45 PM
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66. Andy and the New Mayor
One of my least favorite episodes.
The new mayor, Roy Stoner, is a headstrong jerk who is always criticizing Andy. He is an unwelcome change from the lovable Mayor Pike.
Note: The actor who plays Stoner, Parley Baer, is said to have a real sweetheart in real life.
Andy lets a prisoner out of jail for three days to harvest his crop (modern penal methods). The mayor is apalled and orders Andy not to do it. Andy let's Jess out anyway when the mayor leaves.
Barney tries to cover for Andy, even to the extent of locking himself in the cell and covering up on the cot. The mayor catches on and is angry.
When Jess is late, our boys and the Mayor go out to find him. He is discovered, literally, "up a tree" and won't come down. (Jess doesn't see fit to warn everyone about the bear that has treed him.) When the mayor tries to take things in his own hands, he ends up scratched and battered and in the tree with Jess. The bear ends up in in the squad car.
note: It has always irked me that on the show the mayor tries to order Andy around. Andy is elected just like the mayor, and everyone in the south knows that the Sheriff is the most powerful person in the county. Certainly a county sheriff is much more powerful than a town mayor.
Maybe that's why Andy never gets upset with the mayors. He knows.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/30/2007 1:07:39 PM
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67. Andy and Opie, Bachelors
Aunt Bee goes out of town for a couple of days, leaving behind enough food and clean underwear for a week. Nevertheless, she asks the sultry Peggy to look in on the boys.
They enjoy the first night, but Andy gets spooked by Floyd's warnings that Peggy is using the opportunity to "move in" on Andy - leading to the names on the mailbox being changed. Andy discourages Peggy, but soon realizes that his fears are unfounded, and "allows" Peggy to cook for him and Opie.
A so-so episode made better by Andy's description to Opie of Barney's vacation in Raleigh: (in part)
"He gets a corner room at the YMCA, after breakfast he hangs around the lobby and watches TV, reads a magazine and eats a pear. Then he gets the early bird special for supper (those little Vienna sausages in sauce). Then he goes to a lecture, probably about sportsmanship and hygiene, then it's time for tapioca and hot chocolate before bed."
Both Opie and Floyd are impressed.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 11/30/2007 1:11:55 PM
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After a few average or below episodes, we are about to view a string of really great ones.
Prime TV, and I'm looking forward to it.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 12/8/2007 3:44:20 PM
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Have we finished the series already?????????
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 12/11/2007 6:56:29 PM
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Have we finished the series already?????????
No, but sometimes I feel like I'm howling in a vast wasteland.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 12/11/2007 7:14:49 PM
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68. The Cow Thief
Someone is rustling cows, and the Mayor insists that our boys do something about it. The Mayor calls the state police in Raleigh and brings in an investigator. Meanwhile, Andy sees that an old drifter named Luke Jensen has returned to town. Andy is uncharacteristically harsh to the old man, but we later learn why.
Barney wants Andy to join him in giving the "big freeze" to the "interloper" from Raleigh. But when Detective Upchurch thinks Barney is the Sheriff and then recalls an essay Barney wrote on safety, Barney falls all over himself to assist the detective.
Investigating the crime scene, Upchurch (who wants to make a plaster casting of the prints) notes that they have not made a moulage. Barney says: "No, we told one or two people, but we didn't want to make a big moulage about it."
Upchurch, to the delight of Barney and the Mayor, uses the scientific evidence to desribe the men who stole the cows. Andy is looking bad, but is developing a theory of his own.
When Andy points out that they have footprints of three men, but not the prints of the cow, he is brushed off and everyone leaves Tate Fletcher's house (where they have gathered to try and protect his cows) to look around.
Barney comes back, and makes a touching speech about how another Mayor thought that Andy hiring Barney was a harebrained idea, so Barney puts his faith in Andy.
Sure enough, poor ol' nearsighted Luke tries to put shoes on an ornery bull that Andy has placed in the corral, and ends up the worse for wear. The muddy shoes that Luke has had the cows wear provide all the evidence needed.
A little silly, but I have always liked it.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 12/13/2007 8:43:14 AM
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69. Barney Mends A Broken Heart
Andy shows up for a date with Peggy to find that an old (male) friend from college has unexpectedly dropped in. She is in an awkward position, but Andy has little sympathy: "He's a pharmacist, let him go down to the drug store and practice making milk shakes."
Andy storms off and goes to the courthouse to pick up a magazine. Barney offers a shoulder to cry on, but Andy just wants to go home and read his magazine. Opie keeps using the phrase "stood up", to Andy's annoyance.
Barney and Thelma Lou decide to help Andy forget Peggy by bringing over Lydia Crosswaithe, one of the best bit players the show has featured.
Lydia lines (delivered deadpan):
"My name means native of Lydia, in ancient Greece, but I'm not from there, I'm from Greensboro."
"I hate the guitar, I don't mind the clarinet, but I hate the guitar."
"I hate chit-chat. I don't mind ordinary conversation, but I hate chit-chat."
Barney manuvers to get Andy intimate with Lydia, but to no avail, and she leaves with Barney and Thelma Lou.
Barney then lures Andy to the Tip Top cafe in Mount Pilot on the pretext of illegal liquor sales (plot flaw in that this is out of Andy's jurisdiction). Barney has arranged for Skippy and Daphne (later known as the "fun girls") to meet them there. The fun girls are two more great characters. Skippy with her crazy laugh and the deep voiced Daphne: "Hello doll" make a couple more appearances in later episodes.
Andy tries to make a graceful exit, but Daphne's gentlemen friend comes by and starts trouble, leading to Andy getting into a fight ("We don't appreciate being called squirts) when the bully assaults Barney, and getting two black eyes.
Peggy comes by the next day and sees Andy's eye, they talk, apologize, and make up with a hug.
This is Peggy's last appearance on the show, and just as well in my opinion. She is way too sexy and sultry for Andy. As was pointed out before, the actress (Joanna Moore) went on to marry Ryan O'Neal and was Tatum's mother. She had a hard later life, troubled by addiction.
One of my favorite episodes.
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RE: Mayberry After Midnight - 12/14/2007 9:24:05 AM
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Personally, of all the ladies, I'd have liked to see Andy take up with Ellie, with Peggy a close second. I just cannot for the life of me understand what he saw in Helen Crump.
Not that Barney had it any better. Thelma Lou was just as prone to get mad over nothing as Helen was, and even though we never saw her Juanita down at the diner always sounded like she'd be a lot more fun.
Man, I soooooo need a life........ 
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