[UA] Lone Jack

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Tim Bisaillon <knightbane at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >===== Original Message From Tim Bisaillon
> <ua at lists.uchicago.edu> =====
> > >>Could you unpack that a bit for those of us
> who've never heard of
> > >>Mayberry? (A quick websearch seems to point at
> something called "the
> > >>Andy Griffith Show", which I've never heard of
> either.)
> > >
> > >Well now... I feel like I am in a Twilight Zone
> episode. A world where 
> >The
> > >Andy Griffith Show never exsisted. [shudder]
> >
> >Watch it, or you'll end up in the Cornfield!
> >
> >http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/goodlife.html
> 
> awwwwwwwww crap!

Ahem.  

For those on the list who aren't Matlock fans, here's
a breif (and probably slightly inaccurate, well, maybe
wholly inaccurate) history of Mayberry.

Way, way back when (in the 60s), a young actor named
Andy Griffith starred in a very funny movie/play
called "No Time for Seargants" in which a very dumb,
very strong backwoods hick with a high alcohol joined
the airforce and turned things on their ear. (Sound
like another American sitcom?  Well, that's another
story.)

Andy Griffith got a lot of attention for this show, as
well as some of his other comedy work, and he landed a
television show.  The Andy Griffith Show was about a
small town southern Sherrif (played by and named after
Andy -eponymous, eponymous, eponymous- ) who solved
problems with home-spun wisdom and clever tricks
rather than, as many other Sherrifs did on TV before
and since, with a gun.  The show featured Don Knotts
as Andy's very nervous, gung-ho deputy (who, as I
recall, was not allowed any bullets for his own gun -
out of fear for public safety.)  The show also
featured a young Ron Howard (who starred as the
dangerously psychic child in the Twilight Zone episode
based off Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life.")

Perhaps it should be noted that Bixby also wrote "Day
of the Dove" for the old star-trek series, one of the
most Ua-able of all that series' run (except for,
hahaha, the one where Captain Kirk and this woman
switch bodies so, hahahaha, Shatner acts like a girl
almos the entire episode.  I laughed so hard I broke
all my furniture.)

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