Favorite Andy Griffith Show character

[WI_DEM]

What a great show!! who is your favorite resident of Mayberry?

[terrya]

1. Otis. How can you not like a drunk who voluntarily locks himself...

up in the jail at night??

:-)

Terry

[Rowdyboy]

2. Sorry to be difficult, but I go with Ernest T Bass

all-time favorite character and champeen rock thrower.

[southpaw]

3. Ernest T. Bass!!!

the precursor to Adam on Northern Exposure... Ernest T's infrequent appearances turned Mayberry on it's hokey, middle-American ear.

[NuckinFutz]

4. Definitely Ernest T. Bass

I also enjoyed the music-playing family who seemed to always wind up in legal trouble and whose young female was always trying to spark with Andy.

[ET Awful]

8. That family was called the Darlings in the show. . .

AKA the Dillards in real life, a pretty well known bluegrass family (ranked right up there with the Carter family). Great stuff.

[Bridget Burke]

9. "Wheatstraw Suite" by the Dillards was seminal country rock....

They definitely came from bluegrass but crossed all kinds of boundaries with that album. One of the Dillards later recorded a couple of excellent albums with ex-Byrd Gene Clark.

As fine as he was, Gram Parsons was not the sole inventor of "country rock". However, he hung out with the Stones--the Dillards played the Andy Griffith show. Gram OD'd at 26--some of the Dillards are still playing.

[arwalden]

10. It's Me, It's ME!!! Ernest T!!

[mac56]

5. Floyd.

"Oooooh, Andyyyyy...."

[XNASA]

6. Great quote from Sherriff Taylor

Andy Taylor: When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. Gotta be this guy - -

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http://donknotts.tv/

[TheMightyFavog]

11. That reminds me.....

I was in an improv class during the Beltway sniper's reign of terror. We did a scene involving The Beltway sniper and Mayberry.

"Now Barney, this's a very dangaras sitchuacun, so I'ma gonna give ya TWO bullets to put in ya pocket!"

[OneBlueSky]

12. anybody see the gang last night on the TVLand Awards?

the Andy Griffith Show received some award or other, and most of the surviving cast members (less Ron Howard) were there to receive it . . . pretty neat . . .

[WI_DEM]

14. yep I saw it

Very nice.

[Skittles]

13. Helen

she did the best anger face imaginable. So freaking righteous.