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How much Andy Griffith is too much?

jon f mn

jon f mn

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Sittin at the volvo dealer in OKC waitin on them to fix my truck. Looks like a long day of Andy Griffith reruns. So I'm wondering if there is a limit where I need to stop to prevent permanent damage or if it's ok to watch them all. They are running the later color ones right now. The last one was where Andys friend brought his Italian family over and grampa crashed his new Ford tractor into the shed. Bet that would make Larry mad! Lol
 
Watching the same episodes here in MN, watching the kids while wife is getting her hair done. I've never really watched the color episodes before.
 
Mario,and his pretty sister ,and their father? Marios sister cooked southern fried chicken cattatore?The tractor didnt say Ford on it,,but it looked like a Ford 2000 with selecto speed to me?
 
He did call it an automatic. I'm not a ford guy so I'm not sure, bit it was one of the thousand series.
 
Going to miss the 34 because I had to drive to the dealer today, but it should push me out enough so I can run on my recap next week ok. Was running hard before this. That is unless they don't get it fixed today, then I'll still get the 34 in.
 
Don't get the Andy Griffith reruns (or at least I haven't seen any) but MASH reruns seem to be the ones up here. Strange that everyone thought it so funny ...... I never did, too many one-liner sarcastic replies which obviously some think hilarious. I guess too much of anything is just plain too much. People really never talked to anyone like that did they?
 

I like the Andy Griffith show, but one episode per day is enough. Likewise with the Roy Roger's show, and also the Lone Ranger.

But 2 or 3 episodes of any of the above is still better than watching the evening news.
 
keep a lookout for one of the older episodes,,when they go to tear down Mr Grigsbys chicken farm,,they have a Case Dozer.One more old episode,,Sam Becker,a farmer,is discing with an 8n..If they are showing colored episodes,,watch for when Aunt Bea buys a used 1955 or 1956 Ford convertible from Goober,,it was a sharp looking car.
 
I bought all eight seasons of Matlock and try to watch one episode each day at noon. Often can't because I am working for the auctioneer, working on a tractor,or not home. I love the Matlock shows. I am on my last episode so I just got the complete collection of Diagnosis Murder, 51 disks. Should keep me out of trouble for awhile. I am very busy in retirement but it is nice to have some routine in life. Most of the new shows are so crass that I can't watch them.
 
I am pretty sure that AG has been continuously running on TV Land and similar channels for at least 20 years without being rotated off and replaced. Pretty much every other series comes and goes...not AG.
 
Jon grab a cab and go up on the north side of OKC to The Cowboy hall of Fame is worth your time it just 2 3 blocks off the instate
 
I've had Twighlight Zone on since the news was over last night, so I best not be one to judge.

First time I ever saw the spinning cone this morning as a cone; it has always looked like a funnel to me before.

After all these times of Zone, I see something new!

Paul
 
Chemo messed up my eyes so I can't read right now so watch more TV than usual. I can watch a few episodes of a show and suddenly lose interest and can't stand to watch anymore of them.

It's unfortunate that the best things to watch on TV are old shows from way back when. Guess the newer shows have no lasting value - which is probably why I don't watch them!
 

Shows I can take-
Andy Griffith
Gunsmoke
NCIS
Roy Rogers
Wagon Train
Rawhide
Rat Patrol
Sea Hunt
Voyage to Bottom of the Sea
Gilligans Island (I know, but I can't help it)
Adam 12
Dragnet
Emergency!
Route 66
Run for Your Life
The Fugitive
the old Hawaii Five 0


Shows I can't take at all-
any of the murder shows like Law & Order, Bones or those really stupid forensics shows where autopsies are done in dark rooms and the ME's get in shoot outs.

Any of the spin offs of NCIS.

Sports.

Almost any movie made after 1965.

Lots of black and white TV watched when I get the remote!

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Shows I can take-
Andy Griffith
Gunsmoke
NCIS
Roy Rogers
Wagon Train
Rawhide
Rat Patrol
Sea Hunt
Voyage to Bottom of the Sea
Gilligans Island (I know, but I can't help it)
Adam 12
Dragnet
Emergency!
Route 66
Run for Your Life
The Fugitive
the old Hawaii Five 0


Shows I can't take at all-
any of the murder shows like Law & Order, Bones or those really stupid forensics shows where autopsies are done in dark rooms and the ME's get in shoot outs.

Any of the spin offs of NCIS.

Sports.

Almost any movie made after 1965.

Lots of black and white TV watched when I get the remote!

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NCIS Los Angeles is pretty good. NCIS New Orleans is just sort of not so good.
 
I feel bad for our society when i see posts like this. So much repeticious, mind numbing rot on TV.
TV as a medium had such great potential when it was invented but it has become little more than a tool to dumb down a civilization.
Jon, go get yourself a book to read. It is SO much better for your mind. It doesn't have to be a great or fancy book. But it will exercise your mind 10 times more than the TV will. Read Treasure Island. It is a great little book. One that can be reread many times.
I just finished a great little book about the B29 campaign against Japan. It was so much more memorable than Andy.
Fellas, I'm not trying to make myself out better than others are here. I'm trying to make you all better than you are if you watch a lot of TV.
Off my soapbox now.
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Careful ... too much watching of Andy Griffith reruns and you'll get addicted due to too much opie-oids!
 
have to agree,,but one thing I do watch whenever it is on is the One mans wilderness,,story of the man building the cabin in Alaska and filming it all on his own.They show it on PBS now and then,that Im sure you would like.Ever see it?
 
Larry, it's called "Alone In The Wild." I think the guys name was Ponziac or something like that. Fantastic Show!
Grant
 
Well..... if you start calling the receptionist Aunt Bea and the
mechanic Barney; I'd back out of 'er for a bit!
 
(quoted from post at 19:36:48 01/02/17) I feel bad for our society when i see posts like this. So much repeticious, mind numbing rot on TV.
TV as a medium had such great potential when it was invented but it has become little more than a tool to dumb down a civilization.
Jon, go get yourself a book to read. It is SO much better for your mind. It doesn't have to be a great or fancy book. But it will exercise your mind 10 times more than the TV will. Read Treasure Island. It is a great little book. One that can be reread many times.
I just finished a great little book about the B29 campaign against Japan. It was so much more memorable than Andy.
Fellas, I'm not trying to make myself out better than others are here. I'm trying to make you all better than you are if you watch a lot of TV.
Off my soapbox now.
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Barrett Tillman writes a lot of articles for 'Flight Journal', all very interesting. Will have to get that book. UD- Have you read 'The Three Musketeers of The Army Air Forces'? About Paul Tibbetts and his Crew.
 
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(quoted from post at 13:43:31 01/02/17)
Shows I can take-
Andy Griffith
Gunsmoke
NCIS
Roy Rogers
Wagon Train
Rawhide
Rat Patrol
Sea Hunt
Voyage to Bottom of the Sea
Gilligans Island (I know, but I can't help it)
Adam 12
Dragnet
Emergency!
Route 66
Run for Your Life
The Fugitive
the old Hawaii Five 0


Shows I can't take at all-
any of the murder shows like Law & Order, Bones or those really stupid forensics shows where autopsies are done in dark rooms and the ME's get in shoot outs.

Any of the spin offs of NCIS.

Sports.

Almost any movie made after 1965.

Lots of black and white TV watched when I get the remote!

.
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NCIS Los Angeles is pretty good. NCIS New Orleans is just sort of not so good.
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Tried NCIS LA, stinks. To each their own I guess.
 
(quoted from post at 21:52:42 01/02/17) have to agree,,but one thing I do watch whenever it is on is the One mans wilderness,,story of the man building the cabin in Alaska and filming it all on his own.They show it on PBS now and then,that Im sure you would like.Ever see it?
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It's on You Tube. I watch it a couple times a year.
 
(quoted from post at 20:36:48 01/02/17) I feel bad for our society when i see posts like this. So much repeticious, mind numbing rot on TV.
TV as a medium had such great potential when it was invented but it has become little more than a tool to dumb down a civilization.
Jon, go get yourself a book to read. It is SO much better for your mind. It doesn't have to be a great or fancy book. But it will exercise your mind 10 times more than the TV will. Read Treasure Island. It is a great little book. One that can be reread many times.
I just finished a great little book about the B29 campaign against Japan. It was so much more memorable than Andy.
Fellas, I'm not trying to make myself out better than others are here. I'm trying to make you all better than you are if you watch a lot of TV.
Off my soapbox now.
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I'm working through Stephens "Book of the Farm", the unabridged edition. About like reading all the volumes of Churchills "History of the English Speaking Peoples'. It's a lot of reading!
 
Can't get enough of them. But they seem to have a list of one's that they decide that are the most popular ... like the escaped female convicts with Floyd and Barney at the cabin, that one is worn out. I love episodes that you don't see very often like the one where Andy takes Gomer to report to the Marines and Sgt Carter makes Gomer sing the Halls of Montezuma with a bucket on his head!
 
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