Talk:The Andy Griffith Show

message: I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 16:08, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

message: How cum there are no references to the several appearances of the Dillards as the Darlin's?  Mark Sublette (talk) 18:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Somebody apparently made a decision to only list recurring characters who appeared in 10 or more episodes. The Darlings are mentioned in List of The Andy Griffith Show cast members. Clarityfiend (talk) 18:57, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to The Darlings article, they appeared in six episodes. --rogerd (talk) 20:22, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Okay - I guess it is reasonable to establish a minimum for inclusion.  Mark Sublette (talk) 21:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  But that also disqualifies Ernest T.  -  Sub*  Mark Sublette (talk) 21:56, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Where are the Darlin's?

message: #We were wondering if certain info in The Andy Griffith Show is appropriate, in either its original form or its current toned-down version. The discussion is here. 18:30, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Third opinion(s)

message: Please discontinue the excessive and constant reverts which serve absolutely no purpose in improving this article. There's a kind of unreasonable stubbornness to what you're doing. It's as if you're trying to establish who has the right to edit this article. I've reformatted the Recurring characters section with debuts and last dates removed because such information is more useful in the spinoff article about cast members. Here, such info only makes the article unnecessarily lengthy and tiresome. Such information is "technical" and works better elsewhere. Cease and desist with your irrational and unnecessary reverts! EatNoPig (talk) 14:12, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If that comment is addressed to me, that's the pot calling the kettle black. You have reverted and edit warred as much or more than anyone in the last couple of days. Look at the edit history. You were asked to discuss on talk, but you reverted after the request. You didn't write the above until after I asked you to stop edit warring. So let's set the record straight. Your comments above apply to yourself. "Cease and desist with your irrational and unnecessary reverts!" Thank you. Ward3001 (talk) 15:19, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit warring

message: Please STOP the continual childish reverts to inferior editions of this article. ReverendLogos (talk) 04:27, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ReverendLogos, please stop defying WP:CON, WP:OWN, and WP:NPA. Ward3001 (talk) 21:05, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Reverted. Give us a source that "Both Griffith and Knotts agreed that the reference to "cousin Andy" in the first regular episode was not only meant as a "joke" line for the audience, but that they also treated it between their characters as such", then you can add it back to the article. Ward3001 (talk) 18:52, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cease and desist

message: I hate to plead ignorance, as most people do, so I'm writing this reluctantly. On The Andy Griffith Show main page, there is a reference to Bob Ross as a producer of the show, but when I click on it, I'm steered to Bob Ross the painter on PBS. It's not the same guy because I know that the producer died in the late 60s or early 70s. I don't know how to fix the link or change it because I can't find a page about the producer. Help!
:I'm not sure how you saw a link because "Bob Ross" was not linked in the article when you posted your request. In any event, there does not appear to be an article on Bob Ross the producer. But if there were an article titled "Bob Ross (producer)", you would use a pipe link like this:  Bob Ross. Cresix (talk) 17:50, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: How do you do it?

message: As a native North Carolinian, I was a little surprised that there is almost nothing in the article about the setting being there. There are several references in the show to real places in North Carolina – Frances Bavier surprisingly retired to one of those places, Siler City, North Carolina, and Mayberry itself is a takeoff on Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina (and that connection is played up to this day in multiple tourist attractions), as just two examples. There are numerous online resources that spell out the fictional and real names. Shocking Blue (talk) 09:46, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: North Carolina connection

message: I remember this show as a child, but didn't have the experience or education to properly judge it. Seeing it more than a half-century later, I can appreciate its quality.
I detest sentimentality, and hearing people talk about "family values" makes me want to throw up, but TAGS avoids the former and refuses to shove the latter down the audience's throat. TAGS comes across as a comic version of The Rifleman with a widower trying to keep his son on the straight-and-narrow.
Somewhere there must be a serious article about the show's actual values, rather than mindless adulation of its "wholesomeness". (I hate wholesomeness.) WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 14:47, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: superior programming

message: You write: “In a few early episodes in the first season, Andy and Barney comment that they are cousins….but this relationship is rarely mentioned later.” 
The first part of this statement is correct: they are called cousins in episodes 1, 2, and 6. The second part of this statement is incorrect: after episode 6, and for the remaining 243 episodes, they are NEVER referred to as cousins. “Rarely” does not mean "never." 71.162.113.226 (talk) 15:03, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  wrong on cousins