How is it possible to have never seen The Andy Griffith Show?

[DawgHouse]

I made reference at work the other day to an old Andy Griffith episode. My coworker was walking past me and she had so many keys that she jingled when she walked. So I said, "you sound just like Mr. McBeevee." She didn't know who I was talking about so I briefed her on the episode where Mr. McBeevee befriended Opie, and yada yada yada. I figured this was one episode she'd never seen.

But then she said, "Oh. You know, I've never seen one episode of that show." :wtf: Is that possible? She's 43 years old and has spent her whole life in the U.S.

[DS1]

1. Easy, couldn't make it through the credits

Lots of crap on American TV

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. Im in your boat! n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

2. I made a reference to my mom

to Aunt Bea, and she didn't know what I was talking about. I couldn't believe it. We almost ended up getting into a fight about it.

[Webster Green]

4. Some people have actual lives....

I've gone many, many years at a time without ever looking at the tube, and I've had a lot of those kinds of conversations where someone is amazed that I've never seen some sit-com.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. If you are under 40 or so, it is possible.

Also, many people have no memory for things like that. It's only a gifted few who know about all that old stuff anymore.
McBeevie had an Irish brogue as I recall....

[DawgHouse]

16. According to Opie, he jingled when he walked

He blew smoke from his ears and he walked in the trees. He was a telephone lineman and yes he had a lovely Irish brogue. :)

[demnan]

6. Honestly

I don't remember that one either. I don't think it's surprising in the scheme of things, to forget a minor reference to a single episode of a T.V. show that has not had a new episode for close to forty years.

[DawgHouse]

7. I didn't think it was weird that she didn't remember that

particular episode. It was that she'd never seen any of the shows that surprised me. She's not up on her I Love Lucy trivia either. :)

I know she watches television because she always talks about Spongebob Squarepants and Lilo and Stitch.

[callous taoboy]

8. I missed seeing Jim Neighbors (Gomer) by 20 minutes.

He had just left my favorite barbeque joint the other day. He apparently has friends near here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Well, I 'm 61, and I've never watched it either....

:shrug:

[DawgHouse]

11. Well, then I guess it's not so strange

Have you seen I Love Lucy?

[callous taoboy]

12. Seinfeld claimed to have never seen one episode of I Love Lucy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. OH yes...I grew up with Lucy, and loved her!

I was a kid in the 50's...and that was one of my favorite shows...

Haven't watched it in syndication though...just hardly watch TV these days..

:hi:

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

18. You've seen Lucy but not Andy???? How is that possible????

You must have been very busy in the 60's...come on..for real...NOT one episode????

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. I was VERY busy in the 60's!

Got married in 1965, first daughter in 1966...we watched Star Trek, and Mannix, and like that...

We were very choosy about what we would watch, even then..NOT even ONE episode!

Sorry!

:shrug:

[GalleryGod]

10. "All Wisdom springs from Barney Fife" James Carville.

:wtf: Nip it! Nip it! Nip it!

[callous taoboy]

13. No more days of peanut butter sandwiches...... Fife is the greatest.

[callous taoboy]

23. Barney: "Just 5 minutes in the alley." Andy: "He'll kill you."

[SOteric]

15. I grew up in an area of San Francisco wear many had no tv.

Not only because they were pricey, but also because the majority household didn't speak English.

I can imagine that was the only district in the U.S. where that was the circumstance.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

17. I hate TV too but never having seen an episode of AG show is

anti-American. It was one show well worth watching. Sure it seems a little hokie now but if all fathers were like Sheriff Andy Taylor the world would have alot less problems than it has now. It's classic. I wonder how many people lied on this thread that said they never watched it?

[kwassa]

19. I've never seen the show either, and I am older than she is.

we just didn't watch it in my family.

[mcscajun]

20. She would have been about 6 years old when the show went off the air.

If her parents didn't watch, she didn't either.

It hasn't exactly had a full life in syndication. It's only recently I've noticed it on cable. And I don't watch...it's time has passed.

[DawgHouse]

22. She and I are the same age

She's heard of the show, she's just never seen it. It's been on cable for a very long time, on TV Land, I think.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

21. How on earth could you get through life not knowing

that Otis Campbell was the town drunk and let himself out of jail in the morning because the keys were next to the cell door?

Floyd the barber would have just rolled his eyes at you. And made that tsk, tsk sound.

Good memories!

[trackfan]

25. It's not possible. She's obviously a pathological liar. Stay clear.

[DawgHouse]

26. LOL! Yep, probably so!

But I already stay clear because she's a freeper!