Showing posts with label Andy Griffith Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andy Griffith Show. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Andy Griffith: 1926-2012


I'm about to cry here. Andy Griffith is dead.

As a son of the South and as someone who grew up loving
The Andy Griffith Show, this hits hard and deep. When I heard the news on the radio today, I found myself yelling "Nooooo!" at the thing.

Wouldn't it be grand if awful news could so easily be undone?

BUT IT can't. And all we have now is memories and film and videotape and records.

We also have Mayberry -- the fictional town where we'd all have liked to grow up -- in our hearts. Though this side of Paradise, we'll never find a real place of such charity, humor and gentle eccentricity, Griffith's TV portrayal of such a place stands as a rebuke to --
and a salve for -- the hardness of our postmodern hearts.

OK, now I am crying here. Dammit. Above is one of my very favorite episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, "The Loaded Goat."

Rest in peace, Sheriff Taylor. You, too, counselor Matlock.

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When Thelma Lou is getting robbed by a guy named Shirley (now there's a motive right there) in the real-life Mayberry, you know we must be living in a time somewhere near the end of the world.

And good riddance.