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DeathByUngaBunga		2012-07-03 10:56:35 AM

6 votes:

Nobody is making fun of Andy Griffith -- I can't emphasize that point enough.

Epicedion		2012-07-03 10:43:55 AM

6 votes:

Not just a face in the crowd.

CaptSS		2012-07-03 12:41:08 PM

4 votes:

I don't usually give a rats ass about the passing of a celebrity but when I told my wife about it this morning, I almost choked up.

The Andy Griffith Show will forever be one of the finest shows in history. It showed how a community could and should be. Neighbors that know each other, people helping people, respect all around. AG took a back seat to Barney so that he could get the laughs. The show was written where he would often give Opie enough rope to venture out, maybe get in trouble but not hang himself. And learn a lesson in life doing it. Mayberry was depicted as being as close to Utopia as you could get. And they did a fantastic job doing it. I think society as a whole would be so much better if we had more Mayberry today.

I thank him for his contribution to society. RIP.

inelegy		2012-07-03 10:44:14 AM

4 votes:

Watch "A Face In The Crowd" today. Thank me later.

/RIP, funny man.

Hobodeluxe		2012-07-03 10:31:51 PM

3 votes:

quasimike		2012-07-03 11:05:41 AM

3 votes:

Mayberry R,I.P.

Goldstein		2012-07-03 10:47:31 AM

3 votes:

This is one of the greatest movies ever, mostly due to Griffith's performance.

cleveoh		2012-07-03 10:46:11 AM

3 votes:

When I think of America's Sheriff, I'll think of Andy Taylor, not Joe Arpaio.

Also, a very underrated actor, as anyone who's seen "A Face In The Crowd" will attest.

drumfreek		2012-07-03 10:45:09 AM

3 votes:

astro716: I bet the cause of death involves Aunt Bea's canned tomatoes.

Do you mean her kerosene cucumbers?

markie_farkie		2012-07-03 10:45:07 AM

3 votes:

RIP, enjoy the view

AdolfOliverPanties		2012-07-03 12:27:04 PM

2 votes:

I assume the proper kind of h'ors d'ouevres will be served at his wake:

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Crewmannumber6		2012-07-03 12:14:15 PM

2 votes:

Altitude5280: UNC_Samurai: Churchy LaFemme: The Teabaggers might be too distraught to protest Obamacare this weekend...

No, sadly, they'll complain about how he was in favor of health care reform and how he criticized the Bush Administration about the Patriot Act.

Via Freepville-To: Semper911; All
Well, I used to have a soft spot for "Sheriff Taylor", but after the Obamacare debacle was passed with Andy Griffith leading the cheering for it, I saw a different person.

Griffith was a total communist and hated this country. He was a bitter resentful person as Libs usually are.

He was wasting air that someone else deserved.

I won't miss him in the least.

Um, wow. So, because he took an opposing position on issues from you, that makes him a cummunist and hater of America? At the risk of repeating myself, wow. As someone who has been a registered republican since i was old enough to vote, this sort of vitriol and animosity towards people who don't subscribe to your values absolutely turns my stomach. Jesus farking christ people! We are turmning into siunis and shiate Americans. Have some discourse. Agree to disagree. Common courtesy for crissakes! I've never been a fan for the traditional democrat vast array of social subsidies, but the latest incarnation of right wingers are absolutely unfathomable in their blind sighted faith. Unfortunately left wingers aren't much better.

notchit		2012-07-03 12:07:25 PM

2 votes:

/RIP Harry Broderick

trippdogg		2012-07-03 11:41:28 AM

2 votes:

No one dies in Mayberry - he's just gone to Mount Pilot.

UNC_Samurai		2012-07-03 11:01:12 AM

2 votes:

He got his start playing Sir Walter Raleigh in the Lost Colony outdoor drama:

www.lib.unc.edu

He was also an English and drama teacher at Goldsboro High School, where he convinced one Carl Kassel to become his understudy.

wraithmare		2012-07-03 10:54:27 AM

2 votes:

Another great one gone. He was an American icon. RIP.

/And yes, somewhere Abe Vigoda is brandishing a sword and grinning with power.

fisker		2012-07-03 10:53:51 AM

2 votes:

RIP Griff Tannen

Kentucky Fried Panda		2012-07-03 10:51:36 AM

2 votes:

Don't say this often in these threads.... but this guy really made a significant contribution to the Americana Culture. Will be missed. That being said, I knew it was only a matter of time when I saw those commercials a while back where he was pitching some medical insurance or something of the sort. Anyways, goodbye funny man.

kid_icarus		2012-07-03 10:51:27 AM

2 votes:

astro716: I bet the cause of death involves Aunt Bea's canned tomatoes.

*Pickles

cirby		2012-07-03 10:46:29 AM

2 votes:

If you haven't seen "A Face in the Crowd", you'll probably get a chance this week.

It's not the Andy Griffith you normally think of... and it'll sure make you think twice about some politicians and showbiz types you currently like.

elvisaintdead		2012-07-03 10:44:57 AM

2 votes:

Juanita's still a whore.

RIP, Salvage man.

kdawg7736		2012-07-03 10:44:15 AM

2 votes:

I am younger than the generation that watched this and he was one of the best from his time. RIP Andy.

DrPainMD		2012-07-04 01:10:54 AM

1 votes:

RIP, Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes

Strolpol		2012-07-03 11:18:38 PM

1 votes:

This is a really nostalgic show for me, despite being born in 1985. This was pretty much the only show that my grandparents would let me watch when I stayed with them, and I made a lot of memories spending time with them.

It's a testament to Griffith's skill that, even though the world has changed in countless ways over the last fifty-some years, the show is still both funny and remarkably relevant.

Griffith's character had a very rare combination of humor, patience, and common sense that is all too uncommon in the world, especially with authority figures.

Yeah, it's an idyllic world that ignored a lot of the real-life social problems around it...but it wasn't a documentary, nor did it portray itself as anything other than entertainment.

HAMMERTOE		2012-07-03 08:35:49 PM

1 votes:

Wow. Buried 5 hours after he died. It would seem that he knew how to go with just as much class and humility as he lived. No drug problems. No taste for little boys. No need for a huge opulent funeral, with everybody white who was anybody white making a big fuss over him.

Truly a class act.

Pathman		2012-07-03 06:09:57 PM

1 votes:

tudorgurl: The best part of threads like this? I get to figure out who all the dummies are who post those stupid RIP posts. Seriously, guys. Stop doing that shiat and grow up.

/RIP Andy
//Lots of great memories watch the AGS with my grampa, eating Red Vines and drinking Dr. Pepper.
///Say hi to grampa for me, ok?

grow up?
we're on fark.

i love andy griffith too - but i think the R.I.P. randomness is funny.
unclench - he's dead, he doesn't need you white-knigting nor is any of this disrespectful to him.

semiotix		2012-07-03 05:22:49 PM

1 votes:

Tsar_Bomba1: Met him years ago during the height of Matlock.

He was quite the grumpy mother f*cker. Didn't want to talk at all about The Andy Griffith Show on set.

ClassicLantern: I met Andy and Jerry Van Dyke on the set of "the Headmaster" in 1970. Had the same experience as you. He was a total asshole to everyone on the set. That day I learned the person can be 180 degrees from the character. Jerry, on the other hand, was exactly the same on and off camera. He was a hoot.

Sure, celebrities are not always as nice (or as rapey, or as smart, or as dumb, or as whatever) as the characters they're associated with. But by the time he got to Matlock, Griffith had already had half a lifetime of people losing their shiat because Sheriff Taylor just walked into the room. This isn't someone where you nudge the guy next to you and say, "Hey, check it out, that's Ben Vereen." You just know that every single person he ever met who owned a TV between 1950 and 1980 went running up to him saying ZOMG IT'S HIM IT'S ANDY IT'S SHERIFF FREAKING TAYLOR WOOOOOOO!" and hugging him because his character would be cool with it. That shiat has to get old.

So I'm going to go ahead and say it's okay with me if he was a grumpy motherf*cker about it. Especially on the set of a different show.

Cat Food Sandwiches		2012-07-03 04:33:29 PM

1 votes:

Think I'll have another Big Orange drink in his honor tonight.

Johnny Bananapeel		2012-07-03 04:03:48 PM

1 votes:

/in tribute

ClassicLantern		2012-07-03 03:00:14 PM

1 votes:

Tsar_Bomba1: He was quite the grumpy mother f*cker.
I met Andy and Jerry Van Dyke on the set of "the Headmaster" in 1970. Had the same experience as you. He was a total asshole to everyone on the set. That day I learned the person can be 180 degrees from the character. Jerry, on the other hand, was exactly the same on and off camera. He was a hoot.

hugram		2012-07-03 02:30:23 PM

1 votes:

Crewmannumber6: Altitude5280: UNC_Samurai: Churchy LaFemme: The Teabaggers might be too distraught to protest Obamacare this weekend...

No, sadly, they'll complain about how he was in favor of health care reform and how he criticized the Bush Administration about the Patriot Act.

Via Freepville-To: Semper911; All
Well, I used to have a soft spot for "Sheriff Taylor", but after the Obamacare debacle was passed with Andy Griffith leading the cheering for it, I saw a different person.

Griffith was a total communist and hated this country. He was a bitter resentful person as Libs usually are.

He was wasting air that someone else deserved.

I won't miss him in the least.

Um, wow. So, because he took an opposing position on issues from you, that makes him a cummunist and hater of America? At the risk of repeating myself, wow. As someone who has been a registered republican since i was old enough to vote, this sort of vitriol and animosity towards people who don't subscribe to your values absolutely turns my stomach. Jesus farking christ people! We are turmning into siunis and shiate Americans. Have some discourse. Agree to disagree. Common courtesy for crissakes! I've never been a fan for the traditional democrat vast array of social subsidies, but the latest incarnation of right wingers are absolutely unfathomable in their blind sighted faith. Unfortunately left wingers aren't much better.

You have a disgusting tea partier saying hateful things about a person that just died... You are a Republican and very upset at this tea partier for saying the hateful things, and deservingly so... and yet, you couldn't stop yourself from throwing a jab at the left, who had nothing to do with this guy's comment that led you to your post in the first place?

Can you guys ever be mad at your side without sending a subsequent insult to the other side?

R.A.Danny		2012-07-03 02:26:52 PM

1 votes:

Tanukis_Parachute: pulled pork with slaw

Carolina BBQ has a very special place in my "well blessed" heart.

Tanukis_Parachute		2012-07-03 02:26:09 PM

1 votes:

I spent many a summer at my Grandmothers house in Durham NC when I was much younger. I developed a fine appreciation for Sweet Tea, hushpuppies (the bread, not the shoe), pulled pork with slaw, brunswick stew, and catfish amongst other things.

Two shows we used to watch together were reruns of Andy Griffith and NWA rasslin'.

I used to ask her to take me to Mayberry so that I could at least see the town since I learned that Andy and Opie were real actors. She told me it wasn't a real town and that there was no real Mt. Pilot either.

I have been to Mt. Airy though many a times when I worked in the forestry field.

This text is now purple		2012-07-03 01:54:10 PM

1 votes:

UNC_Samurai: Will McAvoy was right - this country is more polarized than its ever been.

It was pretty polarized from 1861-1865.

Peacedog		2012-07-03 01:17:41 PM

1 votes:

If I'm having a bad day or stressed or whatever else I could always watch a couple of episodes of Andy Griffith and it relaxed me. I think a man could be proud that he created a legacy that comforted so many people. You'll be missed Andy. RIP

Fiction Fan		2012-07-03 01:15:35 PM

1 votes:

R.I.P. Andy Capp

OBBN		2012-07-03 01:04:54 PM

1 votes:

TODAY is a sad day. I am not ashamed to admit I shed a tar or two when I saw the headline. The TAGS has always been an escape for me, of a time that has passed and of a time I wish could be again. I have watched the show so long that it almost feels as if the cast members were people you knew. Godspeed Andy, I hope that Barney was waiting for you on the other side. Thanks for the forty years of entertainment. Hollywood will be hard pressed to find another like you.

Fiction Fan		2012-07-03 12:35:18 PM

1 votes:

Met him once.

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Godscrack		2012-07-03 12:26:20 PM

1 votes:

Mmmmm

Loadmaster		2012-07-03 12:20:22 PM

1 votes:

One of the best TV shows. A top-notch blend of humor and pathos.

exvaxman		2012-07-03 12:19:39 PM

1 votes:

Hopefully this is not a double post. Safari crashed when I hit submit.
I had a chance meeting with him years ago when he was filming a tv series outside of Wilmington, nc. My wife and I were going the back roads to cherry point, nc. We stopped for lunch at a small diner and he was at the counter. I stopped my wife from going over and getting an autograph, telling her in a quiet voice to let the man have his lunch. My wife was steaming at me. Right after he left the diner, the waitress came over with two slices of pie and said that he had paid for our lunch. She also handed me a menu that he had signed that said thanks for the piece and quiet.

towatchoverme		2012-07-03 12:11:49 PM

1 votes:

Crewmannumber6: He was very good in Waitress too

^^ A big fat helping of THIS ^^

He was excellent in that role.

TimSTP		2012-07-03 11:56:18 AM

1 votes:

bigpeeler: [i.imgur.com image 640x432]

He was very good in this, a 1983 made-for-TV movie, "Murder in Coweta County." Griffith plays a homicidal county sheriff in 1940s Georgia who matches wits with non-homicidal sheriff Johnny Cash. Recommended if you can find it.

optimistic_cynic		2012-07-03 11:38:33 AM

1 votes:

barneyfifesbullet: The Andy Griffith Show is the greatest show ever.

I always laugh when morans say Arrested Development or some shiat. Who is going to be watching that decades from now? Nobody.

This. Although Arrested is good, but not AG good.

FriarReb98		2012-07-03 11:32:10 AM

1 votes:

RIP, North Carolinian awesome-man.

\seriously, has any other actor ever been such a poster-boy for his state?

jackandwater		2012-07-03 11:28:41 AM

1 votes:

JohnBigBootay: Damn.

I think I'm gonna' go home, have me a little nap, and then head over to Thelma Lou's and watch a little TV.

Be sure to stop by Floyd's barber shop and get a trim before heading to Thelma Lou's. You will want to look nice.

R.I.P. Andy Taylor/Griffith

and subby can jump in a lake. I watched the "Andy Griffith Show" when it was on prime time TV. I would rather watch reruns of that for the 10th time than some of the crap that passes for TV these days. Yeah, get off my lawn!

/still love the crappy genetically mixed monsters/reptile movies on Sy-Fy tho

Altitude5280		2012-07-03 11:26:35 AM

1 votes:

One of the best movies ever made is A Face In The Crowd. And it so happens it will be shown on TCM this Thursday afternoon.

Frehar		2012-07-03 11:26:23 AM

1 votes:

Its gotta be hard for Ron Howard as the youngest actor on the show. He has watched them all pass.

tudorgurl		2012-07-03 11:24:47 AM

1 votes:

The best part of threads like this? I get to figure out who all the dummies are who post those stupid RIP posts. Seriously, guys. Stop doing that shiat and grow up.

/RIP Andy
//Lots of great memories watch the AGS with my grampa, eating Red Vines and drinking Dr. Pepper.
///Say hi to grampa for me, ok?

zappaisfrank		2012-07-03 11:22:03 AM

1 votes:

I watched "A Face In The Crowd" very recently, and there is a very interesting political subtext to a key part of the film that is eerily relevant today.

When Rhodes, at the behest of the sponsor's CEO, gets involved with a Conservative senator who is in the middle of a faltering presidential campaign. There's a sequence where Rhodes has the senator on his show and the topic of discussion is how awful social security is. It was a very interesting aspect of the film, considering it was made in 1957 and now, 50+ years later, we still have Conservative politicians wanting to get rid of it.

The film is an eerie predictor of the media environment we have now, and is one of Griffith's most memorable performances. Plus it has a young, nubile Lee Remick in some very revealing (for 1957) outfits!

HopScotchNSoda		2012-07-03 11:21:27 AM

1 votes:

drumfreek: astro716: I bet the cause of death involves Aunt Bea's canned tomatoes.

Do you mean her kerosene cucumbers?

The kerosene schtick was a carry-over from No Time for Sergeants in which he explained his immunity to commercial boose was from having grown up on his pappy's moonshine of grain alcohol flavoured with kerosene.

lh4.ggpht.com

Later in the movie, he met Klinger:
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HAMMERTOE		2012-07-03 11:19:21 AM

1 votes:

The man single-handedly "humanized" the face of law enforcement. He was the Sheriff who could be your neighbor. Laid back and peaceful, he was the saving grace to Barney Fife's bungling heavy-handedness. Law Enforcement has been over 50 years undoing the damage he's done to their street cred.

This text is now purple		2012-07-03 11:16:12 AM

1 votes:

cirby: If you haven't seen "A Face in the Crowd", you'll probably get a chance this week.

It's not the Andy Griffith you normally think of... and it'll sure make you think twice about some politicians and showbiz types you currently like.

Henry Fonda had a similar type movie with Once Upon a Time in the West. It's weird seeing him as a villain.

imtheonlylp		2012-07-03 11:14:56 AM

1 votes:

RIP Van Winkle

DancingElkCondor		2012-07-03 11:10:55 AM

1 votes:

Weak greenlit headline

However, Andy Griffith was a legend. His shows were legendary. He will be missed greatly

Brother_Mouzone		2012-07-03 11:08:23 AM

1 votes:

I highly, highly recommend Face in The Crowd. It's a tremendous movie. he plays a local radio announcer who rises up in the country and becomes a real influence in government. His denouement is awesome. Its by Elia Kazan and most people havent heard of it because it was made during the communist era and Kazan had ratted people out.

also, I never watched Andy Griffith Show until a few years ago because I thought it was something stupid. But its a very good show and not cliche at all. I hate Barney though.

bigpeeler		2012-07-03 11:06:31 AM

1 votes:

Trivia: Andy and Barney were cousins on the show.

UNC_Samurai		2012-07-03 11:06:05 AM

1 votes:

Churchy LaFemme: The Teabaggers might be too distraught to protest Obamacare this weekend...

No, sadly, they'll complain about how he was in favor of health care reform and how he criticized the Bush Administration about the Patriot Act.

Musikslayer		2012-07-03 11:02:14 AM

1 votes:

drumfreek: astro716: I bet the cause of death involves Aunt Bea's canned tomatoes.

Do you mean her kerosene cucumbers?

Thank you.

RichieLaw		2012-07-03 11:01:03 AM

1 votes:

Wow. I grew up watching the Andy Griffith Show (I'm 30) and this really hits home.

/no words.

Tsar_Bomba1		2012-07-03 11:00:02 AM

1 votes:

Met him years ago during the height of Matlock.

He was quite the grumpy mother f*cker. Didn't want to talk at all about The Andy Griffith Show on set. Makes me wonder if he was really like Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes in real life.

offmymeds		2012-07-03 10:59:53 AM

1 votes:

cleveoh		2012-07-03 10:59:10 AM

1 votes:

RIP, guitar player guy from Duran Duran....

topcon		2012-07-03 10:54:37 AM

1 votes:

I'm in my 30's, still watch The Andy Griffith Show. It's on Netflix, too. Only the black and white episodes, the color ones suck. Naturally, the ones with Don Knotts are the best.

elvisaintdead		2012-07-03 10:53:20 AM

1 votes:

Let us not forget-
www.classicflix.com

JohnBigBootay		2012-07-03 10:52:31 AM

1 votes:

Damn.

I think I'm gonna' go home, have me a little nap, and then head over to Thelma Lou's and watch a little TV.

bigpeeler		2012-07-03 10:50:37 AM

1 votes:

He was a good cracker. Goooood cracker.

Nana's Vibrator		2012-07-03 10:49:01 AM

1 votes:

There's only one proper tribute.

/Whistling his theme to myself.

Alphax		2012-07-03 10:45:38 AM

1 votes:

Abe Vigoda gets more Quickening.

Evil-Imposter		2012-07-03 10:44:38 AM

1 votes:

eltejon: Feeling a little older this morning.

This.

miss diminutive		2012-07-03 10:44:30 AM

1 votes:

Posthumously named, now.

biyaaatci		2012-07-03 10:43:40 AM

1 votes:

Not MAAAAATTTTTLOOOOOCK!

detroitdoesntsuckthatbad		2012-07-03 10:43:03 AM

1 votes:

There will be riots in Mt. Airy tonight!

/RIP Cop man

Oldiron_79		2012-07-03 10:42:42 AM

1 votes:

RIP General Rancor

/hopefully not obscure

natural316		2012-07-03 10:42:39 AM

1 votes:

MAAAATTTTLLLOOOOCCCCKK

PainfulItching		2012-07-03 10:42:27 AM

1 votes:

This is the one that got greenlit? Bah.

Spooky... I was just thinking about No Time For Sergeants this morning.

/saluting commodes
//RIP you funny man