This is clearly one of the best episodes of the entire series. Excellent choice not to use a laugh track and the emphasis of Andy's fatherly discipline mixed with fatherly pride was terrific
I'm not sure that the predictable comments that it was just a better time then and we cannot have shows with that style parable any more, based on a more modern emphasis on non achievement hit the mark. This sounds like people who embrace the overall 1950s forgetting that the country was rigidly segregated, auto deaths were huge etc. Same applies to most of the 1960s. The idea that revolutionary shows like All in the Family were bad because they took a different approach to dealing with major issues is un nuanced and tinged with other issues.
THIS was a tremendous Andy Griffith show based on the singular aspect of a father and son relationship. All in the Family dealt with racism, Vietnam, LGBT rights and more. The Andy Griffith show did none of that. And it would be unfair to bash it because it didn't. Instead, I will simply applaud THIS episode and several more.
I'm not sure that the predictable comments that it was just a better time then and we cannot have shows with that style parable any more, based on a more modern emphasis on non achievement hit the mark. This sounds like people who embrace the overall 1950s forgetting that the country was rigidly segregated, auto deaths were huge etc. Same applies to most of the 1960s. The idea that revolutionary shows like All in the Family were bad because they took a different approach to dealing with major issues is un nuanced and tinged with other issues.
THIS was a tremendous Andy Griffith show based on the singular aspect of a father and son relationship. All in the Family dealt with racism, Vietnam, LGBT rights and more. The Andy Griffith show did none of that. And it would be unfair to bash it because it didn't. Instead, I will simply applaud THIS episode and several more.