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Remember her from late 1980's-early 1990's
He played a Batman villain
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Your reading comprehension is non-functional. You obviously did not read my second sentence. I allowed for Andy having many kids (as quite a number of Southern families did) and not one friend being a minority as an example of racism. Are you a bot? Mayberry had been mentioned as a town that had a couple thousand people and to take the Taylor's household of three as an example of racism is ridiculous. Three percent of anything is not a large enough sample size to draw a conclusion. Again, I would ask for examples actually provided on the show that would in turn demonstrate what is shown as racist. The question is about the show itself and not the South in general. Can you comprehend that? I have my doubts.
You obviously missed my point in my prior post. Having minority characters often opens a Pandora's box. On a show that revolves around a sheriff and his deputy and the community jail would you accept a minority character being jailed for an offense? The show referenced that some of the offenders wound up in state prison. Some were fined for acts such as speeding with the Fun Girls. Would your take be that the offender got what they deserved or would you feel that the white sheriff and his deputy had their collective thumbs on the scales of justice against the offender?
You might have a better point if Andy were in charge of the local factory or superintendent of schools were he could expect to cross paths with hundreds of people with none being minorities. Or if he had a dozen kids and never had a minority friend that came to the Taylor house or dated a Taylor kid.
For the most part you are reading into things that do not exist. The only evidence I would accept in terms of segregation are signs written or otherwise that say so. Mayberry had maybe 2,000 people and maybe 50 people were portrayed in that town. This means we do not know what the makeup and character was for 98 percent of the town. I never saw any signs on the show that said "whites only" or "colored people not allowed." What Griffith said decades after the fact or was pressured to say really had no bearing on it. I never heard Floyd the Barber or Wally the filling station owner say anything derogatory towards minorities on the show. Also, shows back then were budgeted cheap when it came to actors. There was never going to be a huge cast to reflect every person in a small town. A fair number of episodes only had Aunt Bea, Andy, and Opie in them. As said elsewhere in this forum minorities were probably fortunate not to be protrayed as a fair number of the characters shown would be on the other side of the law. After all Andy was the Sheriff and Barney a deputy so law enforcement would be the subject of a fair number of episodes. The Mayberry jail did have occupants in a fair number of episodes. Would it be fair to have all the law breakers white and nothing else? I think it is ridiculous to look for racism in a show that was about one small family and not much else. Their reach in the community was quite limited as it often happens in real life. Floyd and Goober were never invited to dinner once at the Taylors! Not once! Sure, there was racism in the South but it is quite a stretch to go looking for it on TAGS. As others pointed out bigotry comes in many forms and is directed at many people. But somehow I don't think that fits the agenda you have here.
Why does NC have to be like Texas? I've known people from both states and the cultures vary significantly. As a Yankee from the North if given a choice I would rather mingle around NC than Texas as a lot of Texans are xenophobic. As to casting on a sitcom I would not draw too many conclusions as to social policy and practice. As said elsewhere in this forum the Mayberry shown on the show would not overly reflect a NC town in the early 1960's. The show was good for some laughs but was never presented as a history lesson. By the way the episodes "A Black Day for Mayberry" and "Citizen's Arrest" are coming up on the Me TV schedule and you will see African Americans in the crowd scenes.
Assuming 100 meals per month not counting snacks and late dessert I would bet he ate out on his own money for 80 meals or more for that month. I don't think that Aunt Bea bringing lunch or having Barney over for dinner happened all that much. Dinner with Thelma Lou was not implied to be a regular occurrence. I think that in a couple episodes he sent money home to his mother.
He just about always ate out which is not a good use of income.
Ralph probably lost more through his schemes than Norton even though the series never touched on it much. Ralph probably played the numbers more than he ever let on to Alice about it.
People need to see the production aspect of wardrobes for characters. A "uniform" costume ultimately is cheaper as it can be used in filming most scenes of a show. A lot of times it is not literally a uniform but just a standard way of dressing a character. Like the Skipper with his polo shirt or Andy Taylor in his sheriff's uniform. Studios back then had a reputation of pinching pennies when it came to production costs and very few names such as Lucy and Desi were big enough to avoid the mandates.
Drinking in the AM? Jackie Gleason has been dead for decades.
You will never make friends with that kind of attitude. Are you feral?
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