Political: Ron Howard's call to ACTION

[MacUser]

Ron Howard's call to ACTION
Sadly this isn't going to warm your heart.
Watch at your own risk of blowing a fuse.

Ron Howard, Andy Griffith, Henry Winkler produce a parody of our most cherished vintage TV shows and make them political (pro-obama).

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d

I am EXTREMELY disappointed in these guys. Zowie. Read the comments below it also.

Why is a friends of terrorists, socialist redistribute wealth, voted to offer NO medical support to babies born alive from abortions, half brothers living in third world huts he doesn't help, etc etc.

Rant off.

[Sherry]

I saw this last night and my Opie bubble was burst.

[dolfan]

Double post, sorry.

[dolfan]

The bigger question for me -- and I agree 100% with you -- but I keep wondering why and why now. This is the kind of stuff you'd expect to see in a close election with a month or more to go, isn't it? Here we are, early voting is underway in many states, people have pretty well made up their mind (even if they're not saying so to pollsters) and there isn't much left to be said except to just go vote. So, why are these people trashing their own legacies on the altar of Barack Obama's power?

Well, let's see. Henry Winkler is a successful TV show director and occasional guest on a TV series (like Law and Order). Andy Griffith is a bloated old guy no one really cares to see anymore because he's nothing like the character he played on TV but has always been a self-promoter who got a lot of mileage in 2 series off the same basic character, who used the audiences that believed he really was that like that character to shovel off badly performed 1-800 gospel albums, retrospectives of the Andy Griffith Show, Ritz crackers and anyone else who'd pay him to act like Andy Taylor. It was not Andy Taylor, but Andy Griffith who wouldn't have any relationship with Frances Bavier because (as he waited until after she died to blame her for it) her own personality difficulties. He's campaigned for two Democrat governors. He never won an Emmy for either the AG show or Matlock (which I cannot stand). But, Aunt Bee and Barney each won Emmys and Matlock, although nominated, never won. Clearly, the people around Griffith make him seem better than he really, truly is. At heart, the guy is just another actor and what he does disposable and forgettable, to be used and forgotten.

[DeWayneTN]

I am impressed that Obama could get Henry Winkler to put the jacket back on. He's refused and only worn preppy sweaters since that show ended. Maybe there is hope for an Obama presidency after all. Do you think he could get Steve Perry back into Journey, too?

[DaJudge]

I choose to pretend that I didn't see this. I'll just watch my Andy reruns blissful in my ignorance of what doofuses these people have turned in to. I'll give Andy a pass and chalk it up to dementia or something.

[crispfin]

I posted a link to these in the Entertainment forum.

http://www.jude2.com/viewtopic.php?t=22577

I figured if Obama had any powers, it was to resurrect old tv characters.

[soulsearcher]

Wow, dolfan, your words regarding Griffith pierce the heart, and yet somehow ring true. I realize that my love for Griffith was actually a love for Andy TAYLOR. As for Howard, never cared for him anyway, and now... forget him. Finally, the Andy Griffith Show was successful because of perfect casting, creating a "family" we all felt we really knew and loved. But less face it, the real star of that show was Don Knotts.

[dolfan]

Wow, dolfan, your words regarding Griffith pierce the heart, and yet somehow ring true. I realize that my love for Griffith was actually a love for Andy TAYLOR. As for Howard, never cared for him anyway, and now... forget him. Finally, the Andy Griffith Show was successful because of perfect casting, creating a "family" we all felt we really knew and loved. But less face it, the real star of that show was Don Knotts.

Right. Do you ever watch any of the in-color episodes? I don't. They're awful. Why? No Barney. The replacement deputy (whose name now escapes me) looked like Gomer, sounded like someone from the midwest. Howard Sprague was the new goofball who, when he donned a suit it looked like a brown version of Barney's famous "salt and pepper" suit, and was a chicken like Barney, was just not Barney. Barney made that show, Don Knotts made Andy Griffith. Who can forget the scene in "No Time For Sergeants" when Andy Griffith's character, a precursor to Gomer Pyle, was in the physical for entry into the " 'ar farce!" (as his character pronounced it) and he sat in front of ..... DON KNOTTS as an examiner (this was 3 years before the AG show)in one of the movies best scenes?

[soulsearcher]

Exactly. I was going to say that Andy Taylor was actually a continuation of Griffith's character in "No Time For Sergeants."

Yuk! Color episodoes of The Andy Griffith Show

The same goes for Lucy. I Love Lucy - absolute perfection in casting. The Lucy Show (color) - no thanks. Why? No Ricky and no Fred! And then poor Lucy just digressed down the toilet until that last ghastly pitiful "grandma" series finally did her in. What a shame.

[Mike Vande]

I pushed the "Die" button...