Best Andy Griffith Show episode ever?

For me it is maybe, "citizen's arrest"

The one with Opie and the baby birds.

The one with the really busy man who's stuck in Mayberry.

The Christmas episode.

Any episode with Ernest T. Bass.

But my favorite episode was the one with Aunt Bee's pickles.

when Aunt Bee was holding the prisoners at the house. The prisoners thought she was the cruelest person in the world, a real barbara bush type. Hilarity through and through, wish I could remember the episode name. It is the only one I have only seen once!

He called it "The Rock." A good choice.

How the heck can it be any good?

:evilgrin:

There's also one in which a stranger is hanging around Mayberry.....Barney is convinced that the stranger is going to rob the bank "just like in that Glenn Ford movie that was on the TV the other night..." and everyone keeps reassuring him: "Why, he doesn't look anything like Glenn Ford."

But I think my favorite is Mr. Jingles....

I always liked that episode. Just a sweet, funny one.

Barney’s Motorcycle.

"Would you tell her to quit hanging her head out the window like a dog?"

The motorcycle is another great one.

to Opie. Opie's take? "Poor Horatio, he wuz just half a boy, paw..."

There was one episode where some strangers came to town and attempted to break into the town bank. The robbers spent an inordinate amount of time cracking the safe and when they get in there, Andy is waiting for them. They ask him how long he's been there and he says he saw them go into the bank and so he used the regular door to the safe. It seems the bank manager forgot the combination to the safe, so they had a regular door installed! LOL!

LOVE :loveya: that episode, there are awhole lot of GREAT episodes but my favorite is the pickle one. :-) :bounce:

Much to the horror of Andy and Barney.

The underlying theme of that show is "never attempt to improve your lot in life."

Plot summary of half of the Andy Griffith Shows:

a. Something good happens to one of the ensemble cast.
b. Cast member starts to do this thing and realizes how unhappy he is to not be living his humble life in Mount Airy. (Called Mayberry in the show, but it's Mount Airy, NC, which looks the way Mayberry did in the AGS.)
c. Cast member stops doing it and returns to his humble life in Mount Airy.

Plot summary of the other half:
a. A stranger appears in Mount Airy.
b. Stranger sees how wonderful the quiet, simple life in Mount Airy really is.
c. Stranger leaves Mount Airy vowing to renounce his un-quiet and un-simple life.

The only ensemble-cast member who had something good happen to him and didn't execute part (c) was Gomer Pyle, who joined the Marines. And they spun him off!

you must be a little crazy, or maybe I am for watching it every night on TV land before I go to bed. One of us has got problems.

The Andy Griffith Show was a lyrical look at human foibles. Compassion, humor, and all the things that make us human. The earlier poster should stick to Seinfeld.

Seinfeld was never funny. That puts me out of synch with 95 percent of America, but what the hell, I voted for Walter Mondale.

MASH was funny. (And it got even funnier after I enlisted.) All in the Family was funny. Sanford and Son was a riot.

On a certain level, Andy Griffith is humorous. But there's the underlying message--the life you have is the only life you should ever have--that gets me. Springsteen sang about it in The River: "I come from down in the valley, where mister, when you're young, they bring you up to do just like your daddy done." Andy Griffith lived down in the valley.

And Ernest T wants a shot at courting her before the nuptials.
All that and Barney in a wedding dress.
Best. Episode. Ever.





edit:typoe

Opie wanted to buy a Christmas present for a little girl in his class and Andy though it wasn't appropriate. He kept telling Opie he couldn't do it, then he found out that what Opie wanted to buy the little girl was a coat, because she didn't have one.

LOL..that one where Barney tries to find the still from Otis.
The other classic to me is when Barney puts the mic in the cell to hear the "secrets" of the prisoners. He has Opie sit in the cell and try to say "We are busting out"...Lmao. He has to get right up to the microphone for Andy to hear them.

Way too many to choose from. The motorcycle episode, and the cave rescue, and Barney is stretched to retain his deputyship, and Aunt Bee gets drunk, and Opie slingshots the songbird, and "Welcome, Sweet Springtime" (Barney sings), Floyd tries to impress his "pen pal" woman friend, the gossip episode . . . Ohmigod. So many. The best show, maybe, ever (at least the first five years).