The CBS Color id at the beginning of this piece is voiced by my dad, Bob Hite, Sr. (1914-2000) who worked at CBS from 1944 to 1979. Before that he was a narrator of the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, Yukon Challenge and the Shadow at WXYZ, Detroit. He's best remembered as the long time announcer who introduced the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite from 1970 to '79.
I just figured it was a southern thing until I spent a year in Kansas City where they put pop in their buggy (shopping cart) and the cashier then puts it in a sack (bag). America; the land of diversity! @
For some reason I liked Don's movies better than Mayberry. They were so.......vivid, in my memory. "The Incredible Mr. Limpid," " The Reluctant Astronaut, " and the one with the haunted house. His films magnified the plight of the ultimate underdog. The pathos, yearning and incredible humaness of the man.60 years later why do those silly comedies still resknate?
My grandparents lived in small town Clinton, Illinois from the 1930's to the 1970's. They lived next door to a filling station. The same kind of pumps from TAGS. When we were grade school kids, we actually DID walk to the filling station for a bottle of pop all the time! We'd get Grape Nehi, Orange Crush, Yoo-Hoo, you name it.
I’m 58 years old, this is still one of my all time favorite shows. T.V. back then had writers that could actually keep you laughing without any foul language or Innuendo. We’ve all seen each episode numerous times, but I never get tired of them. The show is still on, and I watch it every chance I get. It’s a part of me that I will never let go. May Andy & Don Rest In Peace. -Stephen, Ohio 🇺🇸
You mean when writers created a fantasy land that didn't really exist anywhere? Ask your parents or grandparents if they are still living. I'm 45 and had grandparents tell me it was never like that and we are from and I still live in a town that is as small as Mayberry.
@mj. rock through Obama. It used to be the land of the free and home of the brave. Abraham Lincoln once said that we will never be destroyed from the outside. If we are to fall, it is because we destroyed ourselves.
@@benadams3569 Not so sure about that. I am in my 50s and from a small town in the south and I can recall life being very much like that when I was a child and I ask both my mamaws, papaws, mom, dad about this and it was much like that --- visiting, Sunday dinners, etc. I have of my Mamaw's journals as well that reflect kind of simple living. They did not do ANY work or Sundays. That being said there was still plenty of evil, unkindness, hardships, and deceit going on then just as today. Folks just didn't air the family dirty laundry then.
Oh I don't know about that... I kind of enjoyed the episodes of Opie becoming a teenager, the Howard Sprague episodes, the ACT be taking flying lessons, Ernest T bass going to school episodes, and Emmett's Fix-It Shop features! I love Don Knotts but the show was still just as good even after Don left as they developed the other characters in his absence!
Gentlemen, there will NEVER be another team like you. Not. Even. Close. From my heart, I thank you for the many smiles you rested upon my face. God bless you dear friends. May you rest peacefully in our Heavenly Father's arms.🙏💕🙏💕🙏
@3M.... well almost.. there was the matter of Barney seeing Juanita behind Thelma's back, and a few white lies here and there.... But it really was TV worth watching..... best of the best
Don Knotts was from my Mom’s hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia and graduated from her school, and Mayberry (Mount Airy), North Carolina isn’t too far from where my dad grew up and where we live today. The Andy Griffith Show is obviously my family’s favorite all time show. I can’t explain how much we like this show.
Me too. It makes me feel old but I guess I am. I'm in my early fifties. I was raised in a small town the town is julesburg Colorado. We were so lucky. We were able to live like this. If I was ever out of line someone told my mom and dad. Then I was in trouble
Marc, idk if you know it but this show had a twist from the start. Originally Andy was supposed to be the funny one and Don was supposed to be the serious one but Don was such a natural at being goofy and funny that Andy jus let him go and run with it, Andy had a huge, generous heart that says a whole lot about him. I've been watching the reruns since I was a young kid and it NEVER gets old!!! 😂🤣
This is classic TV of which we will never see again...thank goodness for reruns that keep these shows alive. My daughter is 12 and she had rather watch these shows than anything out today.
Andy was (and remains) my role model as a child and benchmark as a father. I watched every episode growing up in the 60s and found rewatching the shows when, as a parent, I needed some insightful inspiration. Andy's manner of dealing with life straight forward, fair and square honesty, understanding and compassion is a guide for life. Although he passed on his legacy will live forever! God has blessed Andy, Barney and the folks of Mayberry, I'm sure.
I frequently told my kids that you can learn everything you need to know about being a decent person by watching "The Andy Griffith Show". My great-grandmother used to say in the 70's that the weather changed "when those guys brought those rocks back from the moon". She was also amazed at how football players had such big shoulders...we never told her about the shoulder pads.
I raised my four children on Andy Griffith and The Dukes of Hazzard and they’ve all grown into respectful and successful adults. Thankfully they’re not falling victims to the cancel culture that society is now.
My wife just began watching The Andy Griffith Show on MeTV. Apparently somehow she never watched the reruns when she was a kid. She absolutely loves it.
I am 62 years old, and I watched these two together as a kid on a b/w TV. I LOVE METV! It is a newer channel than most of the country cable shows. I watch a great deal on it, many from my childhood. Some I don't remember because I had a heart attack in 2010 and was dead for about 4 minutes. Part of my brain that is memory was a great loss. My head knows what I want to say, but my mouth occasionally chooses not ţo participate. So frustrating.
@@karenbeach5896 I know that I'm getting old, when people missed seeing it live, and talk about their childhood years watching reruns of The Andy Griffith Show.
@@karenbeach5896 Wait a minute! You had a heart attack in 2010, and dead for 4 minutes, Karen? They call that a Near Death Experience (NDE), right? Do you remember anything that happened during those 4 minutes?
this was priceless. so funny and I laughed out loud when Opie`s arm stuck out from the window and handed Andy the history book. And Barney said "how Opie had grown"
On the Andy Griffith TV show, they had quite a few scenes with the two of them sitting on a porch just talking. This was deliberate because they were so good playing off each other.
The Almighty god of CZcams could sense the anger and anxiety that was bubbling dangerously up in my inner soul from all the political and societal news that I had foolishly decided to watch because they were on my recommended list. THEN, this gem appeared, caught my attention, and I watched it. And now all is right again with my soul. Classic stuff!!
“The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized, our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.” - Calvin Coolidge
"Transcendental Meditation gives you piece of mind." -- Stevie Wonder (It brings the mind to wakeful stillness. From there we can rise up and perform what needs to be done.)
@@vandermixon God, shut up you moron. Spoken like a true snowflake. Shutting your big mouth and learning to reason with one another???? Just can't grasp that old concept huh?????
"Andy?" "Yeah, Barn..." "Andy, can I have my bullet back now?" "No Barn, ya can't." "As gee Andy, why not?" "I don't want you to hurt yourself !" Never before, and never again will we see comedic genius like this. God Blessum! ✌😔
You’re welcome. I didn’t mean to suggest that “duo” by itself is wrong. It’s perfectly o.k. to say “comic duo”, where “duo” is the noun and “comic” is the adjective; but since “comics” is the plural form of the noun, one must use the adjectival form, “dual”, as a modifier. I agree: Andy Griffith and Don Knots together were magic - it doesn’t get better than that...I miss them, and am grateful for all the joy they brought to so many of us. I used to watch the old re-runs as a boy in Greece (with Greek subtitles, of course) but their humour and talent transcended linguistic and cultural boundaries - they were amazing! Ditto: Requiescant In Pace.
I had no idea that they did a special together. Getting to watch them use their legitimate acting chops in front of a live audience to recreate one of their classic bits is beyond price. (I guess that's the meaning of "priceless.")
i was 4 when this aired 57 now loved watching this with family and still do especially around the holidays. keep this tradition alive and spend some time with family watching Andy and Don its like internal medicine for the soul. Do yourself a favor and watch the colorized x-mas special from a few years ago enjoy a fum family show that brings it all home. I cant explain its just right you will see after watching. ENJOY
I've been watching since my grandparents and I watched it in the 60s, Barney always made my grandpa laugh. Fond memories of this show and the characters. I still watch it to this day. One of my favorites 60s shows. There once was a man named Barney Fife, his gun was all dusty, his knife was all rusty and he never caught a crook in his life. That poem stayed in my head nearly 60 years
I couldn't STAND Don Knotts back in the day. After I retired and dropped dial-up for streaming I watched all the original shows on YT, in chronological order. My appreciation of Don has gone up 100 fold on this show. I agree with someone who said this show wasn't the same when Don left, but I also say that I didn't see much of what he did after, and have no appreciation of his talents beyond this show. He was also a regular on The Tonight Show Starring Steve Allen, but I was too young for that one. I believe they did this same gag in the sheriff's office, but whether it was the G-Address or something else I can't recall.
Truly remarkable to look back on these classic moments in television history. God rest the mortal souls of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. Truly remarkable and humble men. Moments like this never get old. Thank you for sharing friend!
My Uncle Bill owned a Gulf filling station in Eden, North Carolina back in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. When I would visit with them during summer break I would go hang out at the station and play checkers and drink Sundrop pop. His pop machine was old school where you opened the side door and pulled the bottle (real glass !) out of a rack. The machine would roll down a new one to replace it. Eden was very much like “Mayberry” as depicted in the Andy Griffith show.
For those old enough to remember the Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show from radio, we'd put Phil Harris and Elliot Lewis right in there with the best comic duos.
...and George Carlin. And Richard Prior. And Norm McDonald. All of them really. so many. Lon Chaney. Buster Keaton. Charlie Chaplin. Boccaccio, Cervantes, Shakespeare. I can hardly stop. Zebras, giraffes, and duck billed platypus’s. Men and women. Who’s in charge here? Is what I want to know. Republicans and Democrats. It almost seems like a joke.
My favorite show of all time!!!! I watch it everyday, and record it!! It is the most pleasant, loving, funny show left on TV!!!! No garbage, like today's TV show's!!!! I love the old show's, The Honeymooner's, Bewitched, That Girl, Gomer Pyle, The Big Valley!!!! Now those were great show's!!!!! 👍👍👍❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹.....
Magic! R.I.P.Andy,Don,and all the cast of the Andy Griffith show who have passed on.Your legacy will live on longer than you could have ever imagined.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Best show ever! I grew up with my dad introducing it to me so we'd always watch it together and now I've done the same with my girls. My 11yr old can tell us what season on Netflix every episode we want to watch is in. We watch at least one episode every night just to unwind and de stress from their day at school. They've already decided to carry on this tradition to their kids.
"want to go down to the fillin station and get a bottle of pop"? See I was born in 1980. My grandparents on my mom's side were born in 1919 and 1927 and my dad's parents were born in 1923 & 1928. I spent a lot of time with all of them and being born in 1980 I was around when gas stations were still called"filling" stations and they had attendants. When there were only about 5-10 channels on the tv. We had a rotary phone. Pop was drunk out of glass bottles that we took back to the grocery store to recycle. Late every night around 3am the star spangled banner came on TV and then it went off. Gas was about .85¢ a gallon. We had nuclear bomb drills in school. Cars weighed about 6,000 pounds and were huge. Everyone watched the tonight show after the local news and went to sleep. It was a great time to live for sure...
When Andy got his new show, he said Don called and asked what it was about. Griffith said it was about a small town sheriff. Don asked if there was a role he might play, but Andy said couldn't think of one. Most had already been cast. Then Don said, "Wouldn't a sheriff have a deputy? " From that conversation, two friends got to work together again and the world is a better place because of it.
Michael Collins We came over from Germany 4 years ago and have been found the show. We love it a lot. In the 60s and 70s we grew up with Bonanza, Lessie (in German of course) and so on. But now I know we missed the best back then. By the way God to learn some English;-)
What I always found so amazing Don Knotts was initially signed only to make cameo appearances on the 1st 3 episodes ~ Barney was such a hit they scramble to insert his character into more episodes
Thanks for sharing There was only one Don Knotts a comic that did not need help. He was a born natural. RIP to all of these great entertainers None of the new "entertainers" could ever hold a candle to these greats. RIP guys...I bet you must make HIM LOL on a regular basis...how do I know...when it is raining HE is LOL so hard he loses #1.
@socal rocks oh yeah like the messiah obama didn't twist, distort and bend the Constitution to his plans. He got away with it due to lower courts being packed with prog judges, same ones who are sticklers now that Trump is in office
@socal rocks - Move to cuba and spare us your claptrap... that or grow the fuck up already. I don't recall you dipshits saying one word when Barry wiped his ass with the constitution every week.
When thinking about the Andy G show I always remember the bird episode..."The cage seems awfully lonely..." says Opie..."Yeah, but my don't the trees seem full" replied Andy...special while it was here but now that we've had to let it go it seems fuller...
JJ Grey yep.....had to have been 1 of the top 2 or 3 episodes..... if not the best.....at least that final scene...where the 2 look up into the trees an turn around to walk into house.. was classic
Before I had ever seen the episode. At around 12 years old I got my first BB gun. Went outside messing around(like Opie)and ended up shooting a bird(chickadee). One of my worst days as a kid. I could only pray it didn't have chicks waiting for its return.
@@josephdunn3757 I remember the very first episode aunt bee let's dicky the Bird's cage open.after cleaning it in syicated reruns they cut off the ending the bird flies back in the cage.
@@josephdunn3757 don't mention chickadee to Andy wasn't she one of the good time girls chasing Andy and Bernie (I mean Barney)while their girlfriends were away?
I loved these 2 guys. It was almost as if you knew them personally. I find myself looking for reruns on TV all the time. Yeah I know I can watch them on the internet anytime I want, but there’s just something about coming home after work, getting in my recliner, and turning on the old B/W episodes of Andy. It’s hard to explain, maybe I’m turning into my father. Times were so much simpler then. Oh how I wish I could go back. Thanks for posting this video.
These 2 have brought many smiles to millons... both are my in my favorites with red Foxx, good days of TV, miss those simple common sense days..very different today....
Odd that you would compare Redd Foxx to Andy and Barney. Redd Foxx was famous for his extremely "dirty jokes". That's how he made a name for himself. I have some of his comedy albums from his early days. He was hilarious, but his humor was definitely what they used to call "blue".
My favorite Calvin Coolidge line: When a fellow said he'd been bet that he couldn't get "Silent Cal" to say three words in a row to him, Coolidge replied "you lose."
I'd love to walk down to the filling station and get a bottle of pop with Andy and Barney. Once there, I would have to decide, like Floyd Lawson did, whether I wanted a Huckleberry Smash or a Nectarine Crush.
I would love to buy either one of them a bottle of pop. These two were a huge part of our lives when I was growing up. I was born in 1965, so I guess that all the episodes I watched were Already re-runs. But I really enjoyed them then, and I STILL enjoy them Now. 🇺🇸😎
I loved Floyd! I didn't care for Barney that much. He kind of freaked me with all his weirdness. It was awesome that Andy and Don were friends until the end of Don's life, and Andy was with him when he died. Good friendship is hard to find.
@@su-rv2uq Even so, Knotts' ability to become Barney Fife was a talent from a bygone era, something that is unfortunately missing from most modern television. The show still feels like a time capsule; when I put it on, it's as though I'm stepping into small-town America in the 60's. Mayberry still holds a sense of wonder for me in our divided world; a town where outsiders are welcome and everyone is friendly and knows everyone else. Andy and Don epitomized friendship, which is a welcoming diversion from modern dramas of feuding co-stars and angry departures.
This bit mimicked the one they did on their first season where Barney said he memorized the sheriff's code book and Andy tested him, and it went just like this, including Barney mussing his hair. Hilarious! What a duo!
Knotts was so funny on this show that Andy could hardly keep a straight face half the time. Don was a natural born comedian. I would have loved to watch these two in person.
That would have been called dinner in Mayberry and if it was served on Sunday. And it was Barney reciting the preamble to the Constitution on the show, not the Gettysburg Address. And yes, my education was worth every penny. ;-) Thanks for posting this. It's one I had not seen. They sure loved working together huh?
I've heard people say today is the best time to be alive....not true....we could trick or treat, walk and bike everywhere and no one bothered us,ever. Neighbors were nice and we wore hand-me-downs.....no one cared, it was who you were, not what you had.
Even though Black folks were still living in a country with prevalent racism, under Jim Crow laws, and seemingly in the absence of ANY concern by their White fellow citizens about their plight. Thank the Lord we will NEVER go back to those 'good old days'. You might as well accept the fact that one 'race' or privileged group (e.g., White folks) will never run stuff again. That is NOT the idea of America.
You mean a time where thousands of black people in the south were being beaten, lynched, and killed in the streets, Lyndon Johnson had just mobilized ground forces in Vietnam, Kennedy had been shot only 2 years before, the fear of a Soviet missile attack was constant, the Berlin wall was being converted from barbed wire into solid concrete, Malcom X got killed, polio hadn't yet been eradicated, and you had to PAY for porn? Not to mention that the most salient issue of the day was white privilege and the advancement of rights for black people. Your memory of the "good old days" is ridiculously skewed
And that's the problem. Some (White) folks would rather believe in their fantasy rewriting of history-the "Good Old Days"-instead of recognizing the reality that is America. It's not resentment, or bitterness, or 'Debbie Downer-ness', it's just that statements like the OP and the sentiment behind it are simply untrue to the vast majority of Americans, especially Black people. That world-a 'simpler' time where the majority of American citizens lived out their Bill of Rights freedoms-NEVER existed. Never. I'm really not sorry to rain on your parade.
Wife and I watched this series with our 3 kids (18, 12, 9) last year. The kids absolutely loved it! I remember watching it as a kid and loving it. But as an adult, I have grown to appreciate the solid acting and writing. It was far deeper than just Barney and Gomer being silly. This show will always be my favorite.
What was the show with Moe and Curly, oh yeah, the three stooges......I saw that again when I was older but it wasn't that funny....kids loved it, but Andy Griffith was for everyone.....
The CBS Color id at the beginning of this piece is voiced by my dad, Bob Hite, Sr. (1914-2000) who worked at CBS from 1944 to 1979. Before that he was a narrator of the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, Yukon Challenge and the Shadow at WXYZ, Detroit. He's best remembered as the long time announcer who introduced the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite from 1970 to '79.
That's awesome!
What was this?!
You should be extremely proud and I’m sure you are
What a great voice. Thank you for sharing!
@@stemofthefly Here's an 8-min piece you'll enjoy:
Type in "Bob Hite Sr. Eulogy and Last Ride"
Who else would like to walk down to the fillin' station with those two and get a bottle of pop?
I am putting my walking shoes on now
Not sure why pop is considered such an odd word. Apparently it's very common here in the north central region of America but not so much anywhere else
I got my nickel, I'm ready to go! I'd love to have a REAL Dr. Pepper like they tasted back in the 60's.
I just figured it was a southern thing until I spent a year in Kansas City where they put pop in their buggy (shopping cart) and the cashier then puts it in a sack (bag). America; the land of diversity! @
It's always been used here in the South. You don't get out much do you?
Don Knotts could make you laugh without saying a word. What an incredible talent he was.
For some reason I liked Don's movies better than Mayberry. They were so.......vivid, in my memory. "The Incredible Mr. Limpid," " The Reluctant Astronaut, " and the one with the haunted house. His films magnified the plight of the ultimate underdog. The pathos, yearning and incredible humaness of the man.60 years later why do those silly comedies still resknate?
Agree until threes company.....he didn't fit there.....
I think he was the greatest actor of all time!!!!!!!!!!😂😂😂😂
How Andy kept a straight face I'll never know. Those two were magic together.
Didn't you notice that he was unable to keep a straight face all the time?
My grandparents lived in small town Clinton, Illinois from the 1930's to the 1970's. They lived next door to a filling station. The same kind of pumps from TAGS. When we were grade school kids, we actually DID walk to the filling station for a bottle of pop all the time! We'd get Grape Nehi, Orange Crush, Yoo-Hoo, you name it.
I’m 58 years old, this is still one of my all time favorite shows. T.V. back then had writers that could actually keep you laughing without any foul language or Innuendo. We’ve all seen each episode numerous times, but I never get tired of them. The show is still on, and I watch it every chance I get. It’s a part of me that I will never let go. May Andy & Don Rest In Peace. -Stephen, Ohio 🇺🇸
Great writers, love the actors!
You mean when writers created a fantasy land that didn't really exist anywhere? Ask your parents or grandparents if they are still living. I'm 45 and had grandparents tell me it was never like that and we are from and I still live in a town that is as small as Mayberry.
@mj. rock through Obama. It used to be the land of the free and home of the brave. Abraham Lincoln once said that we will never be destroyed from the outside. If we are to fall, it is because we destroyed ourselves.
@@benadams3569
Not so sure about that. I am in my 50s and from a small town in the south and I can recall life being very much like that when I was a child and I ask both my mamaws, papaws, mom, dad about this and it was much like that --- visiting, Sunday dinners, etc. I have of my Mamaw's journals as well that reflect kind of simple living. They did not do ANY work or Sundays. That being said there was still plenty of evil, unkindness, hardships, and deceit going on then just as today. Folks just didn't air the family dirty laundry then.
@@benadams3569 Well my town was exactly like Mayberry! (and this was my childhood in the 70's) Sorry your grandparents lived in a crappy town! :(
The Andy Griffith show was never the same when don Knott's left
Helps to imagine him living in nearby Raleigh during the color episodes. Then to keep that image alive, they run a few episodes with him in there.
i won't even watch an episode with Warren as deputy
Oh I don't know about that... I kind of enjoyed the episodes of Opie becoming a teenager, the Howard Sprague episodes, the ACT be taking flying lessons, Ernest T bass going to school episodes, and Emmett's Fix-It Shop features! I love Don Knotts but the show was still just as good even after Don left as they developed the other characters in his absence!
I know it wasn’t
Agreed. That's when the show jumped the shark.
I 'visit' Mayberry every day!👍
Gentlemen, there will NEVER be another team like you. Not. Even. Close. From my heart, I thank you for the many smiles you rested upon my face. God bless you dear friends. May you rest peacefully in our Heavenly Father's arms.🙏💕🙏💕🙏
Very well said.
Back then when TV was worth watching with your family without worrying about anything. Quality T.V.
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Amen brother Amen
Moral, funny, and a lesson usually with every episode
True.
@3M.... well almost.. there was the matter of Barney seeing Juanita behind Thelma's back, and a few white lies here and there.... But it really was TV worth watching..... best of the best
Don Knotts was from my Mom’s hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia and graduated from her school, and Mayberry (Mount Airy), North Carolina isn’t too far from where my dad grew up and where we live today. The Andy Griffith Show is obviously my family’s favorite all time show. I can’t explain how much we like this show.
I didn't think the show was too funny but I loved the music. Did the groups Andy Griffith sang and played with in the show please your family too?
Been there, Morgantown is beautiful....blue ridge mountains are my favorite 🥰 you are blessed to have this background.
He had the Declaration of Independence down just as well!
One of the best shows in television history. Full of wisdom and life lessons.
Considered by many...as THE BEST show... EVER. And there were some good'uns.
Still playing every night in North Carolina. 😎
This was real comedy…clever, witty, and clean. Miss the days.
Me too. It makes me feel old but I guess I am. I'm in my early fifties. I was raised in a small town the town is julesburg Colorado. We were so lucky. We were able to live like this. If I was ever out of line someone told my mom and dad. Then I was in trouble
And with that new color technology!
Wow in color Opie had black hair on his arms. But by the time he met Fonzie it was red again.
@@rickraub5448 thanks .boy do I miss that life my dad always told me to respect our elders because they had life. Experiance
I really enjoy these shows, I feel like I belong to that generation. But I'm an 80's kid.. probably just an old soul..
Every single episode was not only worth watching, but it was time well spent 👍
Andy is one of a kind, but that Don was really something special. What a Duo!
Marc, idk if you know it but this show had a twist from the start. Originally Andy was supposed to be the funny one and Don was supposed to be the serious one but Don was such a natural at being goofy and funny that Andy jus let him go and run with it, Andy had a huge, generous heart that says a whole lot about him. I've been watching the reruns since I was a young kid and it NEVER gets old!!! 😂🤣
What an amazing Duo. So good.
these two men really loved each other, you can see it on this skit.
This is classic TV of which we will never see again...thank goodness for reruns that keep these shows alive. My daughter is 12 and she had rather watch these shows than anything out today.
Don Knotts was a comedy genius! If I could choose one TV show to actually live in as a character, it would be this one.
Andy was (and remains) my role model as a child and benchmark as a father.
I watched every episode growing up in the 60s and found rewatching the shows when, as a parent, I needed some insightful inspiration. Andy's manner of dealing with life straight forward, fair and square honesty, understanding and compassion is a guide for life.
Although he passed on his legacy will live forever!
God has blessed Andy, Barney and the folks of Mayberry, I'm sure.
Still is useful
Andy on tv was a great role model, Andy off tv was far from it.
I frequently told my kids that you can learn everything you need to know about being a decent person by watching "The Andy Griffith Show".
My great-grandmother used to say in the 70's that the weather changed "when those guys brought those rocks back from the moon". She was also amazed at how football players had such big shoulders...we never told her about the shoulder pads.
There is a bumper sticker on my Dad's truck that reads "the world needs more Mayberry and less Jersey Shore" or some such like that... its truth.
I raised my four children on Andy Griffith and The Dukes of Hazzard and they’ve all grown into respectful and successful adults. Thankfully they’re not falling victims to the cancel culture that society is now.
Don Knotts a native West Virginian, WVU graduate. We are so proud him.
My wife just began watching The Andy Griffith Show on MeTV. Apparently somehow she never watched the reruns when she was a kid. She absolutely loves it.
What a treat for her.
I am 62 years old, and I watched these two together as a kid on a b/w TV. I LOVE METV! It is a newer channel than most of the country cable shows. I watch a great deal on it, many from my childhood. Some I don't remember because I had a heart attack in 2010 and was dead for about 4 minutes. Part of my brain that is memory was a great loss. My head knows what I want to say, but my mouth occasionally chooses not ţo participate. So frustrating.
@@karenbeach5896 I know that I'm getting old, when people missed seeing it live, and talk about their childhood years watching reruns of The Andy Griffith Show.
Wow! How cool would it be to be able to experience them for the first time again. I hope she is still enjoying them 🙂
@@karenbeach5896 Wait a minute! You had a heart attack in 2010, and dead for 4 minutes, Karen? They call that a Near Death Experience (NDE), right? Do you remember anything that happened during those 4 minutes?
this was priceless. so funny and I laughed out loud when Opie`s arm stuck out from the window and handed Andy the history book. And Barney said "how Opie had grown"
On the Andy Griffith TV show, they had quite a few scenes with the two of them sitting on a porch just talking. This was deliberate because they were so good playing off each other.
I read somewhere that many of these scenes were filler, when the show was too short for the allotted time.
@@swmovan Filler back then was miles above the main content of so many modern shows.
The Almighty god of CZcams could sense the anger and anxiety that was bubbling dangerously up in my inner soul from all the political and societal news that I had foolishly decided to watch because they were on my recommended list. THEN, this gem appeared, caught my attention, and I watched it. And now all is right again with my soul. Classic stuff!!
I miss these two. One of the greatest shows ever to be on television.
There really isn't anything good on TV anymore. Decency is almost gone.
“Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”
― Calvin Coolidge
“The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized, our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.”
- Calvin Coolidge
he was not drama like today. Coolidge goes underappreciated. Hoover and FDR set in motion some bad trends that we are paying for to this day.
Spoken like a person sitting comfortably in power. For those living under the thumb of oppression- rise up and and do not keep still.
"Transcendental Meditation gives you piece of mind." -- Stevie Wonder (It brings the mind to wakeful stillness. From there we can rise up and perform what needs to be done.)
@@vandermixon God, shut up you moron. Spoken like a true snowflake. Shutting your big mouth and learning to reason with one another???? Just can't grasp that old concept huh?????
"Andy?"
"Yeah, Barn..."
"Andy, can I have my bullet back now?"
"No Barn, ya can't."
"As gee Andy, why not?"
"I don't want you to hurt yourself !"
Never before, and never again will we see comedic genius like this.
God Blessum! ✌😔
Won’t get better than that, the best comic duo of all time, absolutely amazing
R I P Andy and don .
Nick Haghighi - dual.
Dorian Philotheates
Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome. I didn’t mean to suggest that “duo” by itself is wrong. It’s perfectly o.k. to say “comic duo”, where “duo” is the noun and “comic” is the adjective; but since “comics” is the plural form of the noun, one must use the adjectival form, “dual”, as a modifier. I agree: Andy Griffith and Don Knots together were magic - it doesn’t get better than that...I miss them, and am grateful for all the joy they brought to so many of us. I used to watch the old re-runs as a boy in Greece (with Greek subtitles, of course) but their humour and talent transcended linguistic and cultural boundaries - they were amazing! Ditto: Requiescant In Pace.
They never lost that chemistry -- comedic gold.
Hahaha , I always like how Barney thinks that he knows everything , but he always needs Andy's help ! 👍😂😂😂
I had no idea that they did a special together.
Getting to watch them use their legitimate acting chops in front of a live audience to recreate one of their classic bits is beyond price.
(I guess that's the meaning of "priceless.")
That was GREAT ! Thanks
I love these clips! The man with the hairy arm handing the History book over to Andy had me cracking up! This was so funny! XO
Love it when he messes his hair up.
i was 4 when this aired 57 now loved watching this with family and still do especially around the holidays. keep this tradition alive and spend some time with family watching Andy and Don its like internal medicine for the soul. Do yourself a favor and watch the colorized x-mas special from a few years ago enjoy a fum family show that brings it all home. I cant explain its just right you will see after watching. ENJOY
A great wholesome show. Kids today will never enjoy something like this. I miss those good old days.
One of the best show ever. Gunsmoke too.
Makes me long for a time when you could relax on your porch on Sunday afternoon and then stroll down to the filling station to get a bottle of pop.
I've been watching since my grandparents and I watched it in the 60s, Barney always made my grandpa laugh. Fond memories of this show and the characters. I still watch it to this day. One of my favorites 60s shows. There once was a man named Barney Fife, his gun was all dusty, his knife was all rusty and he never caught a crook in his life. That poem stayed in my head nearly 60 years
Written by Opie!
Watching this I'm not sure who is having more fun, the audience or Don and Andy. What a legendary comedic duo!
I couldn't STAND Don Knotts back in the day. After I retired and dropped dial-up for streaming I watched all the original shows on YT, in chronological order. My appreciation of Don has gone up 100 fold on this show. I agree with someone who said this show wasn't the same when Don left, but I also say that I didn't see much of what he did after, and have no appreciation of his talents beyond this show. He was also a regular on The Tonight Show Starring Steve Allen, but I was too young for that one. I believe they did this same gag in the sheriff's office, but whether it was the G-Address or something else I can't recall.
I love when Barney messes up his hair when he doesn't know something. Lol!!!!
Truly remarkable to look back on these classic moments in television history. God rest the mortal souls of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. Truly remarkable and humble men. Moments like this never get old. Thank you for sharing friend!
My Uncle Bill owned a Gulf filling station in Eden, North Carolina back in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. When I would visit with them during summer break I would go hang out at the station and play checkers and drink Sundrop pop. His pop machine was old school where you opened the side door and pulled the bottle (real glass !) out of a rack. The machine would roll down a new one to replace it. Eden was very much like “Mayberry” as depicted in the Andy Griffith show.
Two legends from a better time. When TV was great.
Still this day 5-4-2019 not a better show has ever been made!!!! Facts
I agree. It is the best show ever made for tv. Nothing else compares. I never turn on tv unless it's to watch The Andy Griffith Show.
Abbot and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, Griffith and Knots. 'Nuff said.
Couldn't have said it better well played dawg
For those old enough to remember the Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show from radio, we'd put Phil Harris and Elliot Lewis right in there with the best comic duos.
@@avlisk that's one of my favorite radio shows along with the Jack benny show were Phil Harris got his start
...and George Carlin. And Richard Prior. And Norm McDonald. All of them really. so many. Lon Chaney. Buster Keaton. Charlie Chaplin. Boccaccio, Cervantes, Shakespeare. I can hardly stop. Zebras, giraffes, and duck billed platypus’s. Men and women. Who’s in charge here? Is what I want to know. Republicans and Democrats. It almost seems like a joke.
George Burns and Gracie Allen.
My favorite show of all time!!!! I watch it everyday, and record it!! It is the most pleasant, loving, funny show left on TV!!!! No garbage, like today's TV show's!!!! I love the old show's, The Honeymooner's, Bewitched, That Girl, Gomer Pyle, The Big Valley!!!! Now those were great show's!!!!! 👍👍👍❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹.....
one of our greatest comedy teams ever assembled
Two very underrated American actors/comedians. I'd say in the top 10 of the 20th century. Am I wrong?
Not wrong at all.
Have you heard Andy's first great bit?
The football game......
Andy and Don still had it. They really bounced off each other pretty good.
Magic! R.I.P.Andy,Don,and all the cast of the Andy Griffith show who have passed on.Your legacy will live on longer than you could have ever imagined.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Love that it was in color but my family didn't have color TV until 1969😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
One of the best duos ever. Two of my favorite guys period.
Best show ever! I grew up with my dad introducing it to me so we'd always watch it together and now I've done the same with my girls. My 11yr old can tell us what season on Netflix every episode we want to watch is in. We watch at least one episode every night just to unwind and de stress from their day at school. They've already decided to carry on this tradition to their kids.
That Barney, he beats everything! You know that!
Haha !! Barney's hair when he's struggling to remembe. Hysterical !!
Don Knotts was an expert comedian. He would done well in any era.
I love to walk down with these guys to get a bottle of pop.
Never gets old!! Just as funny now !
"want to go down to the fillin station and get a bottle of pop"? See I was born in 1980. My grandparents on my mom's side were born in 1919 and 1927 and my dad's parents were born in 1923 & 1928. I spent a lot of time with all of them and being born in 1980 I was around when gas stations were still called"filling" stations and they had attendants. When there were only about 5-10 channels on the tv. We had a rotary phone. Pop was drunk out of glass bottles that we took back to the grocery store to recycle. Late every night around 3am the star spangled banner came on TV and then it went off. Gas was about .85¢ a gallon. We had nuclear bomb drills in school. Cars weighed about 6,000 pounds and were huge. Everyone watched the tonight show after the local news and went to sleep. It was a great time to live for sure...
Didn't you just love those big Ford Station Wagons. My dream as a kid was to own one !!
.... I wonder will people say the same about today about 30 years from now?
@@richardnixon2469 "I remember when we had to actually hold our smart phones with our hands. Ah, the good ol' days."
Wouldn’t you give anything to go down to the fillin’ station and get a bottle of pop with these two?
Yes I would.
Absolutely
3:00 Opie had a growth spurt 😂
Love Barney also doing We the People!!Messing his hair up is classic!!Lol
When Andy got his new show, he said Don called and asked what it was about. Griffith said it was about a small town sheriff. Don asked if there was a role he might play, but Andy said couldn't think of one. Most had already been cast. Then Don said, "Wouldn't a sheriff have a deputy? " From that conversation, two friends got to work together again and the world is a better place because of it.
Absolutely
Michael Collins We came over from Germany 4 years ago and have been found the show. We love it a lot. In the 60s and 70s we grew up with Bonanza, Lessie (in German of course) and so on. But now I know we missed the best back then. By the way God to learn some English;-)
Also, Andy and Barney were 1st cousins in the show..
What I always found so amazing Don Knotts was initially signed only to make cameo appearances on the 1st 3 episodes ~ Barney was such a hit they scramble to insert his character into more episodes
@@Nuerth You forgot Gomer Pyle.
I almost fell in the floor laughing the first time I saw this
Two Best friends doing what they did best making us laugh R I P Andy and Don
Never gets old can watch it a thousand times , those were the days
Dang! Ole Barney knows the Gettysburg address almost as good as the preamble to the Constitution.
This NC gal will always love The Andy Griffith Show!
I never really understood the Gettysburg address until Barney recited it to Andy. (wink)
Thanks for sharing
There was only one Don Knotts a comic that did not need help. He was a born natural.
RIP to all of these great entertainers
None of the new "entertainers" could ever hold a candle to these greats.
RIP guys...I bet you must make HIM LOL on a regular basis...how do I know...when it is raining HE is LOL so hard he loses #1.
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race." -- Calvin Coolidge
@socal rocks oh yeah like the messiah obama didn't twist, distort and bend the Constitution to his plans. He got away with it due to lower courts being packed with prog judges, same ones who are sticklers now that Trump is in office
Old Cal may not have said much, but what he said was plenty!
@socal rocks - Move to cuba and spare us your claptrap... that or grow the fuck up already. I don't recall you dipshits saying one word when Barry wiped his ass with the constitution every week.
socal rocks You're an idiot who has probably never read the Constitution. President Trump is bringing us back in-line with the American Constitution.
@socal rocks - WHAT.....(?) in the HELL are you talking about?
Metv plays the Andy Griffith show!!!!
Yes, I try to watch it every night.
Yup we watch it nightly
When thinking about the Andy G show I always remember the bird episode..."The cage seems awfully lonely..." says Opie..."Yeah, but my don't the trees seem full" replied Andy...special while it was here but now that we've had to let it go it seems fuller...
JJ Grey yep.....had to have been 1 of the top 2 or 3 episodes..... if not the best.....at least that final scene...where the 2 look up into the trees an turn around to walk into house.. was classic
JJ Grey I agree with you 100%. that scene still chokes me up to this day.
Before I had ever seen the episode. At around 12 years old I got my first BB gun. Went outside messing around(like Opie)and ended up shooting a bird(chickadee).
One of my worst days as a kid. I could only pray it didn't have chicks waiting for its return.
@@josephdunn3757 I remember the very first episode aunt bee let's dicky the Bird's cage open.after cleaning it in syicated reruns they cut off the ending the bird flies back in the cage.
@@josephdunn3757 don't mention chickadee to Andy wasn't she one of the good time girls chasing Andy and Bernie (I mean Barney)while their girlfriends were away?
I loved these 2 guys. It was almost as if you knew them personally. I find myself looking for reruns on TV all the time. Yeah I know I can watch them on the internet anytime I want, but there’s just something about coming home after work, getting in my recliner, and turning on the old B/W episodes of Andy. It’s hard to explain, maybe I’m turning into my father. Times were so much simpler then. Oh how I wish I could go back. Thanks for posting this video.
Netflix has Andy Griffith reruns.
Netflix
That's what Roku players are for...
That's funny. I am in my 50's and I do the same. Every night on METV. Love it.
They're on the TV too. MeTV on weeknights.
Funny thing is, Don could probably have gone through the whole thing without a pause.
What a duo.
These 2 have brought many smiles to millons... both are my in my favorites with red Foxx, good days of TV, miss those simple common sense days..very different today....
Odd that you would compare Redd Foxx to Andy and Barney. Redd Foxx was famous for his extremely "dirty jokes". That's how he made a name for himself. I have some of his comedy albums from his early days. He was hilarious, but his humor was definitely what they used to call "blue".
Poor Barney! His insecurities are so great that it’s near impossible for him to admit any faults or that he doesn’t remember stuff.
Anita Calloway He should run for potus, those characteristics don't seem to matter now
😆☺
Anita Calloway Does that remind you of anyone else we know about? Hmmmm...
I miss this show
My favorite Calvin Coolidge line: When a fellow said he'd been bet that he couldn't get "Silent Cal" to say three words in a row to him, Coolidge replied "you lose."
Such a good team! I just loved...watching those two together!
Love and miss them both.
I'd love to walk down to the filling station and get a bottle of pop with Andy and Barney. Once there, I would have to decide, like Floyd Lawson did, whether I wanted a Huckleberry Smash or a Nectarine Crush.
I would love to buy either one of them a bottle of pop. These two were a huge part of our lives when I was growing up. I was born in 1965, so I guess that all the episodes I watched were Already re-runs. But I really enjoyed them then, and I STILL enjoy them Now. 🇺🇸😎
Love the show. The Calvin Coolidge part was Floyd's lines. He was classic too. Morgantown's own, Don Knotts was one of the funniest guys ever!
Exactly!
Floyd was such a funny guy, always rambling to himself. He passed shortly after the series ended. A real shame.
Who didn't see the Calvin Coolidge line coming?
I loved Floyd! I didn't care for Barney that much. He kind of freaked me with all his weirdness. It was awesome that Andy and Don were friends until the end of Don's life, and Andy was with him when he died. Good friendship is hard to find.
@@su-rv2uq Even so, Knotts' ability to become Barney Fife was a talent from a bygone era, something that is unfortunately missing from most modern television. The show still feels like a time capsule; when I put it on, it's as though I'm stepping into small-town America in the 60's. Mayberry still holds a sense of wonder for me in our divided world; a town where outsiders are welcome and everyone is friendly and knows everyone else. Andy and Don epitomized friendship, which is a welcoming diversion from modern dramas of feuding co-stars and angry departures.
Ok the hair was hilarious in the middle of the joke
Barneys hair or Opie's hairy arm?
This bit mimicked the one they did on their first season where Barney said he memorized the sheriff's code book and Andy tested him, and it went just like this, including Barney mussing his hair. Hilarious! What a duo!
Wasn't it the preamble? Or did they do the skit twice? I've just started watching the show so I might've missed them doing one for the code book too.
Knotts was so funny on this show that Andy could hardly keep a straight face half the time. Don was a natural born comedian. I would have loved to watch these two in person.
That would have been called dinner in Mayberry and if it was served on Sunday. And it was Barney reciting the preamble to the Constitution on the show, not the Gettysburg Address. And yes, my education was worth every penny. ;-) Thanks for posting this.
It's one I had not seen. They sure loved working together huh?
The Best type of comedy, Ever! The crap of today is just that! Crap!
Yes - you've established that: crap is crap.
Pure comedic Gold.
Hard to believe they're both gone but what a wonderful time we had back then. Sweet memories.
I've heard people say today is the best time to be alive....not true....we could trick or treat, walk and bike everywhere and no one bothered us,ever. Neighbors were nice and we wore hand-me-downs.....no one cared, it was who you were, not what you had.
No preaching about White Privilege here, no SJW BS. No Liberal Socialist rhetoric. Loved it so much - a better time and pure comedy!
Thank you!
Even though Black folks were still living in a country with prevalent racism, under Jim Crow laws, and seemingly in the absence of ANY concern by their White fellow citizens about their plight.
Thank the Lord we will NEVER go back to those 'good old days'. You might as well accept the fact that one 'race' or privileged group (e.g., White folks) will never run stuff again. That is NOT the idea of America.
You mean a time where thousands of black people in the south were being beaten, lynched, and killed in the streets, Lyndon Johnson had just mobilized ground forces in Vietnam, Kennedy had been shot only 2 years before, the fear of a Soviet missile attack was constant, the Berlin wall was being converted from barbed wire into solid concrete, Malcom X got killed, polio hadn't yet been eradicated, and you had to PAY for porn?
Not to mention that the most salient issue of the day was white privilege and the advancement of rights for black people. Your memory of the "good old days" is ridiculously skewed
🙄 Here comes Debbie downer...
@@RobbyGAMEZ Could you two take your cold water someplace else, please?
And that's the problem. Some (White) folks would rather believe in their fantasy rewriting of history-the "Good Old Days"-instead of recognizing the reality that is America. It's not resentment, or bitterness, or 'Debbie Downer-ness', it's just that statements like the OP and the sentiment behind it are simply untrue to the vast majority of Americans, especially Black people. That world-a 'simpler' time where the majority of American citizens lived out their Bill of Rights freedoms-NEVER existed. Never. I'm really not sorry to rain on your parade.
this is so precious. I loved watching them two so much.
Wife and I watched this series with our 3 kids (18, 12, 9) last year. The kids absolutely loved it!
I remember watching it as a kid and loving it. But as an adult, I have grown to appreciate the solid acting and writing. It was far deeper than just Barney and Gomer being silly. This show will always be my favorite.
What was the show with Moe and Curly, oh yeah, the three stooges......I saw that again when I was older but it wasn't that funny....kids loved it, but Andy Griffith was for everyone.....
Even after decades, this is very relatable