Ron Howard has often said his favorite episode was the one where he nured a bird to health and then had to let it go...
You mean when Opie killed a bird w/ his slingshot and then nursed the 3 motherless chicks (Winkin, Blinkin & Nod) left behind in the nest?
And then grew attached to them but realized in the end he had to set them free?
And when he did mentioned how empty the cage was but then Andy said, "But don't the trees sound nice and full?"
That one? Yeah, it's one of my favorites too.
Really good one was where Opie had to deal with the bully who kept getting his lunch money...but then he stood up to the kid in the end and wound up with a black eye but said the other guy's was worse. Andy was so proud! Of course, another situation which probably couldn't be aired thanks to the politically correct boobs of today.
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