...his OCD, his paranoia, his ADD, etc...

Tries really hard to make us think he is...

But when you'll only allow people on your show who agree with you, that indicates a serious shortage in the balls department.

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I watch all of these shows and Countdown is one of the best. Hosts get to run their shows the way they want to. His is mostly a commentary show; it is a limited interview show. His accuracy is non-pareil. Noone will take him on. Not O'reilly, Ingrahm, Beck, Cavuto, Dobbs, Hannity, Savage - noone. He quotes them and explains their faux-pas and inaccuracies and they do not retort because they can't.

At this time he is still waiting (as I am) on Sean Hannity's agreement to be waterborded and take up Keith's challenge to pay him for every minute he can endure it.

While his interviews are 'limited', they are still with people who are in total agreement with him. Yawn. It's easy to give commentary, pull quotes here & there and point out what one perceives as 'inaccuracies'. But if Olberman had any real guts, he'd be willing to engage in a bit of debate, which he is clearly afraid to do. Chris Matthews on the other hand, is a liberal who's show is at least a bit more interesting, because he DOES have on guests with opposing views.

The challenge from Olberman is a silly ploy to begin a little war with Sean Hannity, who as everyone knows has about a million more viewers, and always welcomes spirited debate on his show (both tv and radio). Hannity (and all others at FOX) are wise to ignore him, because why should they bother to give attention to anyone at a network they are clobbering in the ratings.

Keith Olberman is the Barney Fife of politics; all full of bluster when it works for him, but apparently unable to hold his own (if he has one) in a real challenge. Two big differences: 1. Olberman isn't funny and 2. He doesn't have a pal like Andy to prop him up).

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Olberman,Hannity, O'Reilly....all of them are entertainers first commentators second. They are probably always preaching to the choir anyway. I think Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are better commentators even though they admit they are comedians.

BTW how did a thread on Mayberry go this far?

I'm not sure how this Mayberry thread got here either but I'm going to put a stop to it now! In the words of Barney Fife; "Citizen's arrest!!! Citizen's arrest!!!"

(One of my fav episodes!)

Actually that was Gomer, not Barney. Barney was a police officer so he could make arrests. Gomer as a citizen could make "citizen's arrests."

One of my faves was the one where Barney put the State police in jail and let the crook go free.

Finally someone posted that Goober and Gomer never got married because they were cousins. Since when was that an isue in rural North Carolina?

You are right, Dontomasso. My typing was working faster than my brain...not news. Thanks for the correction.

Two other classics took place in Raleigh. In one Andy and Barney are there for some kind of sheriff's convention and Barney is conivevinced by a jewel thief that the house detective is a thief and that he is the house detective. Barney locks up the house dectective but Andy saves the day and gives Barney credit. Come to think of it thats the ame plot as the one where Barney put the State Police in Jail.

The other one is when Andy goes to Raleigh to visit Barney who
has meved to a boarding house, and who is bragging about how well he is doing. Andy learns that in truth Barney is about to be fired, and that the people he lives with are a ring of thieves who hold up grocery stores. Again Andy catches them but by sleight of hand convinces the Raleigh PD that Barney set up the whole thing.

In that episode DT, Barney "catches" the grocery store thief who has returned to the scene of the crime. Of course, it's the store manager and, as the police chief tells Barney, we've been here for over an hour. Although it was just a show, you have to wonder if there actually are people out there that are so stupid.

A favorite episode of mine is the one where Barney and Floyd are held hosstage in a cabin by a gang of three hardened female prison escapees, one of whom finds Barney to resemble her former boyfriend.

They are making hamburgers when the women are carefully captured (one by one) by Andy and the cabin owner, who wandered into town. Barney got the last one to tango with him and he danced her out the door where Andy slapped the cuffs on her.

At the end of the excitement Floyd, unaware of what had happened, stepped outside to say that somebody better watch the burgers on the stove because they were burning.

How gay is THAT?

And how dykey were those three? Especially the big one!

The episode in which Floyd convinces Andy to open up a mansion and pretend that Floyd is a millionaire to impress a woman to whom Floyd has been lying in correspondence to her, according to IMDB is titled "Floyd The Gay Deceiver." You can look it up.

BTW it turned out that the woman was a con artist, and Andy manipulated things so she would leave and Floyd's deception remained intact.

Jack Nicholson's first appearance on primetime television was on Andy Griffith. Probably one of his ONLY television appearances, being a film actor.

Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttGg5xGamHI

Yep I remember the episode

Wow, I'm going to see Andy Griffith in a whole new way now lol

ANd lets not forget the all male Mayberry Marching Band, and the episode where Andy conned the mayor to use tax dollars so they could all take a bus to Rapeigh to stay together at some hotel.

I'm watching the show on TV Land; back to back episodes all day. The one on now is The Manicurist with Barbara Eden. I just heard Barney say that with a woman like her, he'd be inclined to "rough'em up a little." Could a comedy show get away with that these days?

I was watching as well. No he could not say that today, nor could Otis be a character.


I thought the whole manicure thing supports the Gayberry theory.

I do recall Ernest T. Bass getting a pedicure in one episode.

I don't even want to think about the possibilites when it comes to Ernest T. Bass or the Darling family.

Thanks for sharing some home movies with us, Mig!

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Actually, that's sort of how my parents met...except my Sicilian grandpa was throwing my hayseed dad's butt out the window on to Aberdeen Street!

On a different show is there any question aboout the Skipper and his "Little Buddy?"

Well DT, if there ever was "speculation" about two guys on a boat, those two had to be the guys.

I recall an episode where Andy loaned Ernest T. Bass a deputy's uniform to impress a woman. Barney found out and went ape-shit. But when Ernest T. put that unform on (it was Barney's, so it was kinda tight), Ole Barney had a gleam in his eye, the likes of which I've never seen. Oh yeah, Barney was poking Ernest T, for sure.

Dont ask. Do tell!