ITL043 : What Andy Griffith Can Teach Us About Parenting

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

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4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2012

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In honor of Andy Griffith’s passing, Andy and A.T. discuss The Andy Griffith Show and what it can teach modern families.

How did The Andy Griffith Show have an impact on Andy growing up?

· He watched the show with his family. They would laugh and be entertained and have a good time while they watched.

· At the end of the show, Andy’s dad would always say, “Now what was the moral of that show?”

· There was always a bit of wisdom or a lesson in every episode, and those lessons still hold up to this day.

· Andy thinks the first 5 years of The Andy Griffith Show was the best programming in the history of television.

· To this day, Andy and his family will still quote lines from the show to each other.

· The show was still the number one show in the nation when Andy Griffith left it after eight years.

The show had a very natural sense of comedy.

· Opie was funny in the way kids in real life are actually funny.

· That’s not what kids on modern sitcoms are like. Now, they try to make the kids seem smarter than the adults and wittier than actual comedians.

Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) talked about the responsibility that people on television have for what they produce.

· A.T. is finding that it’s harder and harder to find quality programming for his children on TV, especially because of what is shown on commercials now.

· The Andy Griffith Show is a great alternative that families can still enjoy on TV.

· The atmosphere and sense of community on the show is something that Andy and Polly are trying to create for the environment in which their boys grow up.

· Andy really encourages moms and dads to get this show to watch with their family.

· Season four is the best, and season three is awesome too.

Andy’s Top 10 episodes of all time:

· “Citizen’s Arrest”

· “The Pickle Story”

· “Man in the Middle”

· “Barney and the Governor”

· “The Loaded Goat”

· “Opie the Birdman” (one of the best father/son discipline moments of all time)

· “Ernest T. Joins the Army”

· “Mountain Wedding”

· “Haunted House”

· “A Black Day for Mayberry”

Questions for Listeners

· Do you have an idea for a future show, or just a question you’d like Andy to answer? Let us know!

o Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY

o E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop with Andy Andrews, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times best-selling author, Andy Andrews.
0:12.3	Now here's your host, Andy Trob.
0:15.2	Welcome back to In The Loop with Andy Andrews.
0:17.1	I am your host, A.T., and we're joined by my friend and yours, Andy Andrews. How you doing
0:21.7	today? Good AT. How are you? I'm great. We're going to talk about something that kind of heavy,
0:27.9	pretty personal, I think probably for both of us, but I really just want to get your perspective on it.
0:32.0	Now there's someone who recently passed away that, as I said, had a profound effect on my life, yours, and also just millions
0:39.2	of other people. And that man was Andy Griffith. And, you know, he was famous because of
0:44.8	the Andy Griffith show, which I didn't know this, Andy. I was doing some research for the episode
0:48.4	today. It was only on the air for eight years. It seems like it was on. Only five of them
0:53.8	with Barney.
0:54.8	Wow.
0:55.1	And so Don Nott's was actually five years, and those five years of black and whites are the
1:04.0	ones that the real officinados of the Andy Griffith show, those are the ones we consider.
1:10.8	Those are the ones we consider.
1:12.3	Those are the main ones.
1:16.5	You know, I mean, after other people got on the show and different changes were made,
1:18.9	it was a different type thing.
1:26.2	It was still great, but those first five years, I think that was the best show in the history of television.
1:30.4	So he passed away, you know, within the last month.
1:37.0	And we just wanted to talk about, you know, people want to know more about, because you write about it.
1:37.8	I mean, it's obviously a huge part of your writing is the people that have influenced you
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