So Long, Andy Griffith
That sound you hear is the sound of unwrapped Werther's Originals rolling across the linoleum floor after every memaw and pepaw dropped their favorite candy to cover their mouths in sadness at the news that the star of the only shows they watch has gone up to the great big Mayberry in the sky. Just a day before the Fourth of July, America has lost one of its national treasures. Andy Griffith's good friend Bill Friday tells WITN that Ben Matlock and Sheriff Andy Taylor passed away this morning in North Carolina. Andy was 86.
Bill Friday says that Andy died early this morning at his home in Dare County. Most know Andy from Matlock and The Andy Griffith Show, but he was also in Waitress and Pray for the Wildcats. While reading about Andy on Wikipedia, I learned that was never nominated for an Emmy for Matlock or The AG Show. I know, pick up those Werther's and drop them again.
Rest in peace, Andy Griffith. Grampa Simpson will never be the same again.
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Submitted by Frank N. Beans on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 2:42am.
lol, I'm sure ol' Andy heavily influenced federal legislation. Just like Charles Schwab, everyone stopped to listen.
RIP Andy Griffith.
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Submitted by Frank N. Beans on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 2:42am.
I'm glad the old commie is dead. His support of Obama's healthcare shit that was rammed up our asses was the last straw.
Besides, I hate people who whistle
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Boring troll is boring. You try way too hard around here.
I'm glad the old commie is dead. His support of Obama's healthcare shit that was rammed up our asses was the last straw.
Besides, I hate people who whistle.
I really liked him! An ex-boyfriend of mine loved Matlock. And this is when we were in our 20s. That Andy Griffith. He certainly had appeal.
I always liked and admired Andy Griffith because the man could flat-out act (as others have noted, see "A Face in the Crowd"); he gamely played the straight man on TAGS to Don Knotts, even though the show was supposed to revolve around him; he was multi-talented (comedian, actor, all-around entertainer); and he never came flat-out and said the actress who played Aunt Bea was a cunt (which by all accounts, she was).
He implied it but never said it. LOL.
RIP, Sheriff Taylor.
@karen-yes a face in the crowd was fantastic!!!
RIP Andy! I think Aunt Bea only let her hair down for sexy times!
" Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer"..William S. Burroughs
From nc, but not a fan of the show .... However, dlisters, if you can check out"a face in the crowd " electrifying performance ... Guy goes from drunken slob to folk hero, reminds me of certain pill popping am radio talk show host... Shows the gullibility of the public and stupid celebrity worship ... Old movie but it rings true today ... A film that I have never forgot ....light years ahead of it's time and still totally relevant today !!!!!!
You don't have to be an oldster to appreciate Andy Griffith. His show was a terrific character study. He was a sheriff that rarely carried a gun. It's still watchable. Righteous dude. RIP
It wasn't that long ago I watched all of the Andy Griffith shows on Netflix. That show was awesome, such an American classic. Sucks, why do good ppl have to die.
Rest in peace Andy!
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The Best Andy Griffith bit ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxLxTZHKM8
Very few have made 30 minute sitcoms that people can say they are better off for having seen.
Sads.
Loved Matlock back when I was but a little headache.
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Manteo, NC is the bomb (outside of hurricane season). Fishing, boating, ducking, crabbing, shellfishing, etc. Bet it's a great place to retire.
Submitted by boredasfuckyo on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 2:28pm.
Submitted by Whamo on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 11:21am.
He represented an America that no longer exists. Andy seemed like a nice enough feller and I don't really recall any controversy surrounding him personally. 86 is a good long life though so RIP AndYYY
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I read "AndYYY" in the voice of Aunt Bee...
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Yup:)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
*whistles the opening credits*
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"Let s/he who is without sin, cast the first Stoney."
Now what will happen to Otis when he goes on a drunk? Andy always let him sleep it off in the cell. Just as an aside, I've named all my dogs after characters from the show. They don't make names like that anymore - Opie, Barney, Aunt Bee, Floyd,Clara, Thelma Lou, Emmett, Juanita, Gomer, Goober,Jud,Howie,Briscoe,Cyrus,Flora,Orville,Elmo,Farley,and who could forget Ernest T Bass. This is just a few of the names. I guess I got a lot more names for my dogs, but I never called one Andy. He was the warden in the nuthouse on that show.
R.I.P. to one of my childhood babysitters...the only friendly neighborhood old man my Mom could trust to leave me alone with for an hour....*wipes a tear*
*swipes fingerful of Cuppy's frosting on my way out for consolation*
Sad to see another tv icon go, even if he was a horrible man to work with. I guess the good ones always are "difficult".
I met him once. He was a curmudgeon. One of those "You kids get the hell outta my yard!!" type, and didn't like to be asked for autographs, or pictures with fans.
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I've read similar stories. Wouldn't sign autographs, take pictures.... Supposedly bitter about his failed movie career and being type cast as a hillbilly sheriff.
Goober authored a " tell all" :)
aaaww, he seemed like he was a decent one... sad.
rest in peace, Mr. Griffith.
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"I could listen to a babbling brook,
and hear a song that I could understand.
I keep wishing it could be that way.
Because my world would be a Wonderland."
No mi gusta la policia but even I love me some Sheriff Taylor.
RIP Andy. Thanks for the laughs.
ah shit that sucks.
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Sigh. Another golden oldie bites the dust.
"Step by step
Heart to heart
Left right left
We all fall down like toy soldiers"
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Who are you calling silly cow?
Submitted by Whamo on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 11:21am.
He represented an America that no longer exists. Andy seemed like a nice enough feller and I don't really recall any controversy surrounding him personally. 86 is a good long life though so RIP AndYYY
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Well said, and I read "AndYYY" in the voice of Aunt Bee...
and once again...NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I want you to get on them fat chubby knees and take muh manhood in to your sugarwalls!-Early Cuyler -Squidbillies-
From everything i've heard, he sounds like he was a pretty cool guy.
Submitted by mike on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 2:10pm.
Submitted by dlaugher on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 1:41pm.
I love that he lived back in North Carolina. I didn't know that.
He lived in the community of Manteo, just in from the Outer Banks. He was a big property owner, and within the past few years had donated large pieces of land to conservation efforts.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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I want you to get on them fat chubby knees and take muh manhood in to your sugarwalls!-Early Cuyler -Squidbillies-
RIP, Sheriff Taylor. I never liked the show but enjoyed spending time with my Pop pop...watchin' him laugh made me laugh.
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I thought everyone from the AG Show have long been dead. Well besides Opie-meal.
RIP AG
RIP, Andy. Andy Griffith Show was daily watching for me for years, and imo it has stood the test of time. and i think he and Dick Van Dyke were my first childhood crushes. yeah, he did make a great bad guy too. he was on my list of Hollywood people i would have liked to meet.
/Estrada and Johnson? fine, sooner the better. but who the hell put Roger Moore on that list?!?
"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12
Never got a tv Emmy? And yet they hand out movie Oscars to anyone who shows up.
Strange world.
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Submitted by dlaugher on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 1:41pm.
I love that he lived back in North Carolina. I didn't know that.
He lived in the community of Manteo, just in from the Outer Banks. He was a big property owner, and within the past few years had donated large pieces of land to conservation efforts.
RIP.
Seeing him as the bad guy was a thrill.
NOOOOOO! :-((((
RIP Grumpy ol' bastid. Great actor.
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"Once you go cat, you'll never go back"- Mrs.Kravitz on August 19, 2008
"We wanted diamonds, sherbet, or a squirrel with a gun."-Izzard
♥♥ If you don't talk to your cat about catnip, who will? ♥♥
I love that he lived back in North Carolina. I didn't know that.
i've been meaning to watch the Andy Griffith show with my kids. An antidote to their yugi oh world. i wish i could be a parent like andy.
loved that shock of white hair too.
we'll miss you andy!
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I always like him...he seemed like a good guy. Who could dislike Sherriff Andy?
Rest in peace.
Everything I ever read or heard about him was positive. I'm sure he could be cranky like anyone.
I came to this site fully prepared to be so pissed at all the snarkiness from the Dlisters over this story. I <3 snarkiness more than anyone, but not about my beloved Sheriff Taylor. So imagine my surprise (and a few tears, those darn onions I'm chopping) to read not snarkiness, but full appreciate for this man and his legend. Thanks dlisters for not making me have to burn this place to the ground with my defense of Andy! -Signed, faithful reader, born and raised in the big town of Raleigh NC.
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really winniwins? I hope you're thinking of Buddy Ebsen. I remember he was nasty when Miss Hathaway ran for office
I loved the AG show. Fond memories of watching it with my Gramps. As for Andy Griffith- hasn't anyone else heard about what a massive dickhole this guy was? According to some stories he sounds like he could give Alec Baldwin a run.
RIP andy griffith...i am one who loved, loved, loved the old b&w andy griffith show with the little opie...when it comes on tv, i still watch them like i've never seen before and laugh..
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Hi crazyinjapan,
Half-Vietnamese in Rogers, AR! in the 70s! I'm afraid I am scarred for life from that experience. Loved the natural beauty of the place, and some people were nice, but it was my first and most extreme experience of racism.
I was regularly called a chink. Remember being called "n****r lips" because I have full lips. (WTF.) My mother kept me and my other biracial cousins in the house when the KKK would periodically march down the avenue. And she recalls signs that said, "If you're not white and still out after sundown, consider yourself warned." Or something to that effect.
So even though our move to Texas in my teens was a little better (the racism there was "softer"), and I moved to NYC as soon as I could at 19, PART of Arkansas taught me the ugly side of Americans for sure.
But then there was Andy Griffith. Surely no one on that show would have made fun of me for being a "boat person," even if I had never been one? (Was a US citizen because of my father, so left Vietnam where I was born by plane. But I remember thinking as a kid, how cruel to make fun of people because they had to escape a wartorn place by any means necessary!)
Sigh. Arkansas. Hope it's moved on!
Matlock is still one of my favorite shows. I have watched it from the very beginning. I still watch the re-runs, too. I will have a hotdog in your honor today.
R.I.P Mr. Griffith
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A decent man who made decent television shows, and who would probably look at reality TV faux-celebs the way we would look at a strange animal at the zoo.
RIP Dear Andy.