Andy's Rival
- Episode aired Sep 20, 1965
- 30m
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6.6/10
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Andy gets jealous when a big-city teacher arrives to work with Helen and ends up spending several evenings with her.Andy gets jealous when a big-city teacher arrives to work with Helen and ends up spending several evenings with her.Andy gets jealous when a big-city teacher arrives to work with Helen and ends up spending several evenings with her.
- Director
- Writers
- Laurence Marks
- Sheldon Leonard(uncredited)
- Aaron Ruben(uncredited)
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- TriviaFrank Smith brings wine to dinner at Andy's house. Some people think that this is evidence that Mayberry County is no longer a dry county from earlier episodes. However, even in a dry county, alcohol possession would still be legal. A dry county prohibits the manufacturing and selling of alcohol, but it does not prohibit private possession and consumption. Note that Andy only goes after those distilling and selling alcohol, but does not ever go after private citizens. Frank could legally purchase the wine in a wet county, and then bring it to Andy's to drink. This would be perfectly legal.
- GoofsIf Frank, played by Charles Aidman, is supposed to be so smart and cosmopolitan, he should know how to pronounce the name of the wine he brings to dinner at Andy's house. Its correct pronunciation is Pouilly-Fuissé, with an acute accent on the final e. Frank neglects to pronounce the final e.
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Strange Episode
Can't quite figure this one out. Andy is unusually passive and seemingly way too prepared to take a back seat to the new teacher friend (Frank) of Helen's. Helen sits closer than I would think appropriate in almost every scene while Frank though seemingly mild is fairly annoying as a kinda know-it-all.
It seems to me from the first night Helen brought Frank over, Andy should have stepped up more, for instance when sitting on the bench out front with Helen prior to the guitar scene, he didn't so much as put his arm along the bench behind her to indicate their relationship status. That being said, I think Helen was being disrespectful towards Andy in several instances.
From what I understand with reading of the Andy and Don biography book, there was a certain amount of sexual tension between Andy Griffith and Aneta Corsaut as they were into each other though he was married, so this may very well have played over into some of the series episodes.
Aunt Bea and Gomer are the only ones that seem to have any sense in this episode as to commenting in regards to how things are playing out. Especially Gomer in the scene at the café.
From what I understand with reading of the Andy and Don biography book, there was a certain amount of sexual tension between Andy Griffith and Aneta Corsaut as they were into each other though he was married, so this may very well have played over into some of the series episodes.
Aunt Bea and Gomer are the only ones that seem to have any sense in this episode as to commenting in regards to how things are playing out. Especially Gomer in the scene at the café.
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- Mar 19, 2018
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