when was the maddest andy got
was it when opie was playing with matches?
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It probably was. He was also angry when he tried to go on vacation and kept getting interrupted.
shareAndy Griffith usually played "angry" in a rather low key way. Andy Taylor didn't have a violent temper.
He seemed the most genuinely angry when Opie disappointed him. He was very angry at him when Opie entered the track and field events, lost them all and went home to sulk. Andy was upset with Opie's lack of sportsmanship.
Andy could also get angry when citizens broke the law, no matter their age. He was very angry in "Opie and the Spoiled Kid" when the kid in question disobeyed Barney and continued to ride his bike on the sidewalk. Andy had to impound the bike. The spoiled kid in question was bratty and Andy looked like he wanted to take the kid "to the woodshed" himself.
Sometimes Andy was angry out of frustration when Barney interfered in his personal life a bit too much. Bachelor Barney was an "expert" on women, marriage and raising kids. Sometimes Andy got angry, but not as angry as most men would get!
You are correct. He was mostly angry when Opie disappointed him. Funny thing is a lot of the times
he jumped to the wrong conclusion regarding Opie. Remember when Opie broke his piggy bank and Andy
thought he went on a "spending spree". Only to find out he wanted to buy his girlfriend a coat.
It seemed a lot of his anger was caused by frustration and annoyance. Like when Gomer stayed with
him for awhile or Goober took apart Gilley Walker's car and put it together in the jailhouse.
Usually ended with "You beat everything you know that".
Oh yeah, forgot about the car in the courthouse! LOL
Also, when Opie found that wallet full of money and no one claimed it, Andy allowed him to spend some of it. The farmer who lost it went to the courthouse. He told Andy that he spoke to his Opie, but it appeared that Opie pretended not to know about the money.
Andy was fit to be tied. But actually, Opie went out to return the fishing pole he bought so that he could return the money.
Sometimes it seemed like Andy didn't trust his own parenting skills. He raised Opie right, but he didn't seem to know it!
That's right. He found Parnell Rigsby's wallet. I've always loved that name by the way.
I've always said he didn't trust Opie, but you may be correct. Maybe it was his own parenting skills he questioned.
Probably had a lot of doubt being a single parent.
Remember when Opie broke his piggy bank and Andy
thought he went on a "spending spree". Only to find out he wanted to buy his girlfriend a coat.
That was two different episodes. In the coat episode he simply doesn't want to give money to a school charity drive, when he breaks the bank it's to give the money back to the guy whose wallet he found. share
Holy crap. You're right. Thank you for correcting this for me. Apparently I was trying to rewrite the show.
Another episode I thought of where Andy didn't trust in Opie was Mr. McBeevee.
Excellent example, dewey; just watched that fun episode recently. Notable to me was that Opie wouldn't relent even when Andy threatened him with punishment. Apparently by this time, " Pa " had driven home some life lessons about courage and integrity.
shareGreat point db. He stuck to his guns and didn't really talk back to Andy. He was ready to take his punishment
like a man even though he knew he was in the right.
Saw one such episode just this morning which started with Andy becoming frustrated and angry when his girlfriend Peggy broke a date with him because an old male acquaintance showed up unexpectedly. He left her house scowling after slamming the door.
Enter know-it-all, meddling Barney, trying to fix him up with other women, keeping him annoyed and frustrated until he was finally manipulated into a situation where he ended up in a physical altercation. In the final scene, we see Andy sporting a huge shiner, confronting Barney about his meddlesome ways, yet his anger is still low key. The guy had great anger management skills!
Andy got angry many times. One that hasn't been mentioned here yet was when Warren put Aunt Bee and some other ladies in jail for gambling and refused to drop the charges.
shareI think Andy got maddest at Aunt Bee's jackass former boyfriend Roger Hanover. He was the only one whom Andy pointed a shotgun at and implied he would shoot him.
shareYou are forgetting Edgar Buchanan's handy man who Andy pointed the gun at after Andy talked to the Sheriff over in Mt Pilot about the handy man's background.
shareI think he got mad enough to beat Opie when he thought he was lying about the great and powerful Mr. Macbeevee. Andy took off his belt and went whip wild if I recall correctly. Two things never happened after that - Opie never told lies again, and Opie never walked again.
shareAndy was also quite upset when he caught Barney and Goober spying on him and Helen through her window late at night.
shareAndy was also quite upset when he caught Barney and Goober spying on him and Helen through her window late at night.
Famous for Goober's line, "They're doin' it! They're doin' it!" share
I would say in the episode "The Bazaar" when Warren arrested Aunt Bee and the Ladies' Auxiliary for gambling and refusing to drop the charges at Andy's behest. Throughout the episode, he stormed out of the courthouse several times, got mad enough to pick up a rock and throw it (breaking some glass in the process) and even rushed out of the house heading to the courthouse telling Opie "I'm not sure I'm old enough to hear what I'm gonna say"
shareThe first thing I thought of was in a wife for Andy where at the beginning Barny keeps preaching to Andy that a man without a wife gets too desperate and becomes more irritable. Then Andy snaps and yells really loud, "Will you shut up!"
shareHe was probably the most angry when Barney ran his mouth to the female reporter which prompted the hearing in the courthouse as to removing Andy from office.
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