I nominate Goober & the talking dog, seen last night on MeTV.

Runner-up, Aunt Bea flies an airplane.

A Girl For Goober. None of the actors were even trying, just reading their lines off cue cards while half-baked.

Actually all the Goober episodes were BAAAAD! :p

If I had to be asked to choose which episode was the worst TAGS put out, it would be Man in the Middle with Opie Loves Helen, Divorce Mountain Style,Opie flunks Arithmetic, Goober takes a car apart, Guest in the house, and the three color seasons as a close second.

In my opinion the only thing that would have saved Man in the Middle (and the way this kind of plot is usually wrapped up) would have been for someone other than Andy, Helen, Thelma Lou, and Barney (I was thinking Aunt Bea or Goober ) get affected by the nonsense that was going on and then for Aunt Bea or Goober to get very angry and royally tell Andy, Helen, Thelma Lou, and Barney off for acting childish and come up with a punishment for Andy, Helen, Thelma Lou and Barney that would make them pay and make them realize what idiots they were.

(P.S. As much as I hate the color episodes, I thought Aunt Bea's big moment was handled very well )

I thought the one where Ernest T. Bass went back to school. Having him attend class with regular school-age children seemed totally ridiculous to me.

I thought it would have made more sense to have him attend night school. Hellen could still have been the teacher. I think it would have even been funnier to see other adults in class react to him.

Actually all the Goober episodes were BAAAAD! :p

The Fun Girls & Dinner at 8 were good but George Lindsey was much better in dramatic roles which was mostly all he done before TAGS.

I thought the one where Ernest T. Bass went back to school. Having him attend class with regular school-age children seemed totally ridiculous to me.

I thought it would have made more sense to have him attend night school. Hellen could still have been the teacher. I think it would have even been funnier to see other adults in class react to him.

Personally, I don't think Helen should have even been involved in an Ernest T Bass episode because her character just isn't designed to deal with someone like Ernest T Bass. Helen is a strict authoritative disciplinarian who has a zero tolerance for nonsense and when nonsense happens she does everything she can to put a quick stop to it while allowing her temper to get the better of her. You can't have a character like that interact with Ernest T Bass and get comedy out of it. Compare Helen's interaction with Sergeant Hacker's interaction with him in Ernest T Bass joins the Army. Both got angrier and angrier with Bass until they snapped. But whereas Sergeant Hacker's built up his annoyance to Ernest T Bass (and he was able to keep control of his temper) Helen goes straight to angry with Ernest T and acts more like a female Barney (straight up angry) than she channels Andy, Sergeant Hacker or Mrs. Wiley dealing with Ernest T. Again just my two cents

Sergeant Hacker's interaction with him in Ernest T Bass joins the Army. Both got angrier and angrier with Bass until they snapped. But whereas Sergeant Hacker's built up his annoyance to Ernest T Bass (and he was able to keep control of his temper)

Sgt Hacker never appeared on TAGS, Allan Melvin's character in that episode was a recruiting Sgt but his name wasn't Hacker.

Sgt Hacker never appeared on TAGS, Allan Melvin's character in that episode was a recruiting Sgt but his name wasn't Hacker.

Yeah I realized that as I posted it that the recruiting sergeant in Ernest T Bass joins the army was unnamed. My mistake.

almost all the color ones, especially the ones with Warren.

The where Warren went after Helen while he was sleep walking, because who in their right mind would go after Helen?

And the one where the lady from the PTA found out Helen had been in jail. Any episode centered around Helen was bad.

The where Warren went after Helen while he was sleep walking, because who in their right mind would go after Helen?

And the one where the lady from the PTA found out Helen had been in jail. Any episode centered around Helen was bad.

The only episode centered around Helen that was sort of decent (In my opinion) was the episode Senior Play. However, even this episode isn't that great because This was one of those episodes where Helen should have been yelling with fury(The High School Principal deserved to be blasted the way Helen blasted Andy in Andy discovers America) but for some reason the writers didn't have her get that angry at him. It seems the writers had a habit of making Helen over the top angry in situations that didn't need it and having her be a lot calmer in situations where she should should have been red in the face and yelling her head off.

Good point that Helen often reacted in a very over the top manner at Andy for minor things, but then let others get by with things. Helen was not too bad early on, but became increasingly grumpier as the show went on.

Andy should have stuck with Nurse Peggy... funny and WAY hot!

This was one of those episodes where Helen should have been yelling with fury(The High School Principal deserved to be blasted...she should should have been red in the face and yelling her head off.

Helen didn't want to lose her job obviously :rolleyes:

Helen didn't want to lose her job obviously :rolleyes:

Helen wouldn't lose her job because the Principal wasn't Helen's boss. Helen Crump was a middle school teacher. The Principal was a High School Principal and would have had no authority over Helen. She could have blasted the principal like she blasted Andy in Andy discovers America and her job would still be secure.

I thought the episode when Aunt Bee learned to fly an airplane was pretty lame. I also didn't like the bird episode, when Opie killed the mother bird. It was too sad and it made me feel awful.

I thought the episode when Aunt Bee learned to fly an airplane was pretty lame. I also didn't like the bird episode, when Opie killed the mother bird. It was too sad and it made me feel awful.

The thing that got me about Opie the Birdman was that it made the one hundred greatest TV episodes of all time. In my view, man in a hurry should have been on that list

For me a couple come to mind:

1. The Manicurist starring Barbara Eden. I don't know who was the most ridiculous the men or the women. Andy for the first time jumped on that idiot bandwagon but he made up for it later.

2. The Governor's car. That had to be the dumbest episode. First of all, I would think that the Governor's official car would have some insignia on it or on the Licence Plate telling you that its a state car. Also, like the governor who is running a state has time to thank a local deputy for tagging his car is dumb.

3. Aunt Bae running for office. It was obvious that she was way over her head from the very start. That debate between her and Howard Sprague where all she would say is "The will of the People" which says nothing unlike Howard who had ideas for the town.

Howard on the island was the worst of all!!

I pretty much dislike any scenes with Helen Crump regardless of the episode.
I may be in the minority, but I actually didn't mind the Howard on the island episode. Ridiculous to be sure, but somewhat amusing.
The color episodes seem like a whole different world much of the time, mostly because they are without Barney. Not a bad world, but infinitely less interesting.

For me, most of the color episodes and most of the Ernest T Bass episodes. He is way overrated. Especially for only being in about 4-5 episodes.

What I didn't like about "Opie the Birdman" was Andy's blatant hypocrisy. What Opie did was strictly an accident, whereas Andy on more than one occasion talks about going out with the intent purpose of shooting crows.

He believes that intentionally killing a crow is less offensive than accidently killing a song bird.

At least Opie did the responsible thing by taking care of the baby birds. I don't imagine Andy gave a thought to any baby crows.

Is it any different, the way people treat squirrels vs. rats, from Andy's "hypocrisy" as you call it? Even though they're both members of the rodent family, people would never permit rats to run all over their neighborhoods.

If your town becomes overrun by a large population of crows, what would you suggest as the answer? Maybe Andy's shooting is a more humane solution than permitting the birds to starve to death. I'm not a hunter, so I have no agenda to push on that.

I don't see the inherent problems of man vs. nature as leading necessarily to hypocritical decisions. Without intervention, dominant species unchecked would lead to more animal deaths. For example, if deer population is never touched by man, other species could die out from lack of food. The problem is that nature's other predators have been exterminated in the past.

I thought the episode when Aunt Bee learned to fly an airplane was pretty lame. I also didn't like the bird episode, when Opie killed the mother bird. It was too sad and it made me feel awful.

Funny thing, as tired as I may be of seeing those two episodes, I never turn them off... I still watch them, over and over.

Not sure why, but I always find some aspect of this series to focus on, that interests me.

A Girl For Goober. None of the actors were even trying, just reading their lines off cue cards while half-baked.

Actually all the Goober episodes were BAAAAD! :p

True... really, Goober was actually even more annoying than Warren, now that I think on it.

For me a couple come to mind:

1. The Manicurist starring Barbara Eden. I don't know who was the most ridiculous the men or the women. Andy for the first time jumped on that idiot bandwagon but he made up for it later.

2. The Governor's car. That had to be the dumbest episode. First of all, I would think that the Governor's official car would have some insignia on it or on the Licence Plate telling you that its a state car. Also, like the governor who is running a state has time to thank a local deputy for tagging his car is dumb.

3. Aunt Bae running for office. It was obvious that she was way over her head from the very start. That debate between her and Howard Sprague where all she would say is "The will of the People" which says nothing unlike Howard who had ideas for the town.

Okay, those are pretty crappy, but I love watching Barbara Eden any chance I get.

:)

I thought the episode when Aunt Bee learned to fly an airplane was pretty lame. I also didn't like the bird episode, when Opie killed the mother bird. It was too sad and it made me feel awful.

To make it all worse, for some reason these two episodes always seem to come on again, two of those that seem to get rerun far more often than some others.

Howard on the island was the worst of all!!

For me, that was one of the "so terrible and bizarre it was good" ones.

Completely outlandish, surreal, and out of character for TAGS, the show and its characters.

For me, most of the color episodes and most of the Ernest T Bass episodes. He is way overrated. Especially for only being in about 4-5 episodes.

I like the ETB episodes, but I'm to the point where I've seen them all plenty enough times to last me for a few years.

:)

How about the episode in which Warren had been barely introduced before he started giving tickets, fines and citations like a .. Barney Wanabee? I know that Barney was irreplaceable but having Warren START OUT over the top and obnoxious was no way to have the audience want to get to know much less like or think Warren funny. I actually felt sorry for the performer here because I can't imagine any performer somehow turning the character into a sympathetic person with the lines he was given. :(

What I didn't like about "Opie the Birdman" was Andy's blatant hypocrisy. What Opie did was strictly an accident, whereas Andy on more than one occasion talks about going out with the intent purpose of shooting crows.

He believes that intentionally killing a crow is less offensive than accidently killing a song bird.

At least Opie did the responsible thing by taking care of the baby birds. I don't imagine Andy gave a thought to any baby crows.

Andy's blatant hypocrisy in that episode was for the birds. Not to mention all of that fried chicken they consumed. ;)

He could be way too hard on Opie, Mr McBeevee comes to mind. Opie essentially did nothing wrong and he is on the road to get a whoopin'?

Andy could be such a ***** sometimes. :(

how about the one where opie ruined aunt bea.s rose even after opie said that he was sorry for doing it we still had to listen to her whine and cry and act like opie was conspiring to make her lose the garden/flower show intentiolly also i know that i will take alot of flack for this but i have always thought that man in a hurry was an overrated and somewhat boring ep

Andy's blatant hypocrisy in that episode was for the birds. Not to mention all of that fried chicken they consumed. ;)

He could be way too hard on Opie, Mr McBeevee comes to mind. Opie essentially did nothing wrong and he is on the road to get a whoopin'?

Andy could be such a ***** sometimes. :(


I agree. Andy about to give Opie a whipping for his belief that he was lying about Mr. McBeevee was dumb. I was glad that Andy's good sense took over before he did that.

Another episode where this strange man comes to town and acts like he knows everyone and invades their space like he is an old friend. The scene with him sticking his face in the baby carriage would certainly upset any parent.

I understood the townspeople being upset. I would as well if some person who I have never seen before acted as if we were old friends.

I agree about the McBeevee episode, however --

I think fathers tended to "father" their sons a little hard in the '60s. When I was around age 4+ circa 1969, my older brother and a couple of his friends decided to "take a whiz" by the outdoor patio -- so I did the same. When my dad found out, I got it in the behind with a strop, just like my brother. No mollycoddling despite my very young age. It was a different era.

I agree about the McBeevee episode, however --

I think fathers tended to "father" their sons a little hard in the '60s. When I was around age 4+ circa 1969, my older brother and a couple of his friends decided to "take a whiz" by the outdoor patio -- so I did the same. When my dad found out, I got it in the behind with a strop, just like my brother. No mollycoddling despite my very young age. It was a different era.
your brother, his friends and you actually did that? :lol: :lol:

After reading all the posts.....Too many to mention!!! There were some real clunkers in the later years. That waitress who had a thing for Andy but wound up with Goober was pitiful.

How hard up were the women in Mayberry that Goober was considered a catch?

How about when Flora Goober's girl decided she no longer would work at the station and put on a dress. Goober is filling up the tank at the time and kisses Goober. Very suggestive by today's standards.

I understand everyone's reasoning for the episodes they particularly dislike, even if I don't agree. But when I consider how many eps per season they filmed back then-- as many as 39-- we just have to expect that some are not going to be up to our standards of taste, while some will be especially endearing.

Most of the disliked eps mentioned seem to be because a featured character is one the poster dislikes anyway, and that's another longtime rule of sitcoms. Barney is full of pride, though impractical, ignorant and bumblingly nervous; but Goober can be even more so. Yet it seems nobody really minds Barney being as he is, as that's just his comic character; but the more extreme Goober threatens his position in such a way. I certainly don't like the talking dog episode, because it just makes Goober too stupid-- stupid enough to be pitied, not laughed with. As for Howard going away to the tropical island, to me that's better than the time he tried to make his house a swinging bachelor pad-- because it's a bold step toward a new way of life, not trying to cut a decade or more of his life out, when his mother was still there, and try to become what he knows he is not because she's longer there. While he makes a similar mistake by going to the island, he tried to change his environment; not depend on a new artificial environment to change him. But, take your pick, if you like one and not the other.

I don't think anyone has mentioned the final (?) season ep in which Opie and Arnold find the baby in a basket at the courthouse door. It's discomforting as Opie asks Helen and Goober "Do you want to have a baby?" and everyone thinks Opie needs a facts-of-life lecture from Andy. But if Andy is really a competent law official he could not have let the couple take the baby when they changed their minds and wanted her back. The writing attempts to portray it as Andy giving a stern warning that if they are ever leave the baby again, the case will be turned over to the Child Welfare department (or the equivalent). But Andy would have been required to do that the first time (I'm assuming) they left their baby where anyone could take her or in possible danger. Andy's "go not so much by the book as by the heart" philosophy fizzles in a case like that.

Just one more thing,... I do like "Opie the Bird Man" because of its symbolic implications-- Opie becomes a mother, per se, because of death when he has no mother for the same reason, and he wants to continue taking care of his 'children,' but he realizes he has to let them go and be what they were meant to be. It's like confirmation that we know Opie also will be what his mother would have meant for him to be.

I understand everyone's reasoning for the episodes they particularly dislike, even if I don't agree. But when I consider how many eps per season they filmed back then-- as many as 39-- we just have to expect that some are not going to be up to our standards of taste, while some will be especially endearing.

Most of the disliked eps mentioned seem to be because a featured character is one the poster dislikes anyway, and that's another longtime rule of sitcoms. Barney is full of pride, though impractical, ignorant and bumblingly nervous; but Goober can be even more so. Yet it seems nobody really minds Barney being as he is, as that's just his comic character; but the more extreme Goober threatens his position in such a way. I certainly don't like the talking dog episode, because it just makes Goober too stupid-- stupid enough to be pitied, not laughed with. As for Howard going away to the tropical island, to me that's better than the time he tried to make his house a swinging bachelor pad-- because it's a bold step toward a new way of life, not trying to cut a decade or more of his life out, when his mother was still there, and try to become what he knows he is not because she's longer there. While he makes a similar mistake by going to the island, he tried to change his environment; not depend on a new artificial environment to change him. But, take your pick, if you like one and not the other.

I don't think anyone has mentioned the final (?) season ep in which Opie and Arnold find the baby in a basket at the courthouse door. It's discomforting as Opie asks Helen and Goober "Do you want to have a baby?" and everyone thinks Opie needs a facts-of-life lecture from Andy. But if Andy is really a competent law official he could not have let the couple take the baby when they changed their minds and wanted her back. The writing attempts to portray it as Andy giving a stern warning that if they are ever leave the baby again, the case will be turned over to the Child Welfare department (or the equivalent). But Andy would have been required to do that the first time (I'm assuming) they left their baby where anyone could take her or in possible danger. Andy's "go not so much by the book as by the heart" philosophy fizzles in a case like that.

Just one more thing,... I do like "Opie the Bird Man" because of its symbolic implications-- Opie becomes a mother, per se, because of death when he has no mother for the same reason, and he wants to continue taking care of his 'children,' but he realizes he has to let them go and be what they were meant to be. It's like confirmation that we know Opie also will be what his mother would have meant for him to be.

The difference between Barney and Goober is that Barney's likable and has shown time and time again that he deeply cares for his friends and loved ones and is competent when the going gets tough. Goober on the other hand was never shown to be competent when it came to matters beside fixing motors and the writers dropped the ball when it came to him interacting with other character. It always shocked me how Andy was supposed to be his friend considering how many episodes had the two butting heads (particularly in the colored seasons). The only episode I can think of where Andy blasted Barney the way he did Goober was The Case of the Punch in the Nose, which Barney deserved for starting up a ruckus (Not to mention that scene was actually funny)

THE absolute worst was the final episode. Lucky for Mayberry RFD that they didn't continue in this vein.

The episode where Andy dated Mavis Neff...well, she was SO bad she was good.

A Girl For Goober. None of the actors were even trying, just reading their lines off cue cards while half-baked.

Actually all the Goober episodes were BAAAAD! :p


Oh no, that's a classic! Lydia Crosswaith anyone? She was a fox, she gets the herpies you know!

Oh, heavens, Lydia Crosswaith! Egad...LOL! Goober didn't do anything for that episode, but Lydia...whoever she was, she deserved an award!

You know, they could have had another episode and got her with the fun girls...they would have educated her.

Goober and the talking dog had to be down there at the bottom and any show with that horrible Warren the deputy is at the bottom too.

I agree. Andy about to give Opie a whipping for his belief that he was lying about Mr. McBeevee was dumb. I was glad that Andy's good sense took over before he did that.

Another episode where this strange man comes to town and acts like he knows everyone and invades their space like he is an old friend. The scene with him sticking his face in the baby carriage would certainly upset any parent.

I understood the townspeople being upset. I would as well if some person who I have never seen before acted as if we were old friends.

Even moreso in those ancient days before everyone plastered their lives on Facebook.

:)

Oh no, that's a classic! Lydia Crosswaith anyone? She was a fox, she gets the herpies you know!

There was a good article on the actress who played Lydia Crosswaith on the MeTV website a month or so ago.

I agree about the McBeevee episode, however --

I think fathers tended to "father" their sons a little hard in the '60s. When I was around age 4+ circa 1969, my older brother and a couple of his friends decided to "take a whiz" by the outdoor patio -- so I did the same. When my dad found out, I got it in the behind with a strop, just like my brother. No mollycoddling despite my very young age. It was a different era.

"Spare the rod and spoil the child."

Remember, Andy had a woodshed behind the Courthouse for the father to take his son, the brat with the bicycle.

Unless Howard saved up an enormous amount of money I don't think he would have lasted very long on the island.

For me, it would have to be one of the Ernest T. Bass episodes, not sure which one. I simply can't stand that character.

For me, it would have to be one of the Ernest T. Bass episodes, not sure which one. I simply can't stand that character.

Ernest T. Bass should have been a one and done. I don't know why they kept bringing him back for more. "Ernest T. Bass Joins the Army", "My Fair Ernest T. Bass" and "The Education of Ernest T. Bass" were all pretty bad IMO.

It's probably the first Ernest T. where he goes to Mrs. Wiley's party--it should have been the only one. Later they have him sitting in a class of kids--even in Mayberry that's ridiculous.

But back to the subject, I don't think anyone mentioned the one with the horse that wouldn't eat (Dolly) because they took her off her delivery route.

It's probably the first Ernest T. where he goes to Mrs. Wiley's party--it should have been the only one.

I think this was one of the most iconic sequences in 1960's television

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That episode is way up there. So much funny stuff...Andy teaching him to greet Mrs. Wiley, him slinging "Romena" over his shoulder, which she didn't mind...on and on. Classic.

Then we work out way down to the season 6 confrontation with Malcolm, which was a reused script with the old adult bully routine, Allan Melvin before, Howard Morris on this one.

That episode is way up there. So much funny stuff...Andy teaching him to greet Mrs. Wiley, him slinging "Romena" over his shoulder, which she didn't mind...on and on. Classic.

Then we work out way down to the season 6 confrontation with Malcolm, which was a reused script with the old adult bully routine, Allan Melvin before, Howard Morris on this one.

First, Barney bullied by Alan Melvin. Then, Howard again by AM. Lastly, Earnest T. bullies Malcolm. I love the Howard & ETB rehashes. I was just talking to a TAGS fan on how brilliant all 3 were. Lots of fresh twists. Come on ETB crashing right through Goober's fence, then taking his dirty vest off saying " I wish not to soil my vest " isn't funny?

Watching Season 8 on DVD, the final episode was an awful ending, really just a Mayberry RFD episode (in fact, that's the title) with just a touch of Andy at the start.

Best thing about the episode is the look at the Mayberry train station, where the sign gives the population as 5,360, elevation 671. Anyone know where this scene was filmed? It doesn't seem to be 40 Acres, since there's a real train.

Season 7. The Senior Play episode was just awful IMO. Easily the worst to me.

I think "Floyd, The Gay Deceiver" is the worst episode. Not because the script is bad, but because everyone seems to be acting out of character. We learned from previous episodes "Those Gossipin' Men," "The Jinx," and "Quiet Sam" that Floyd has a wife and son. So why is he now a member of a lonely hearts club? And it seems completely out of character for Andy to devise a ruse to deceive the lady into thinking Floyd is something that he is not. And Aunt Bee went along with the ruse, too.

I think "Floyd, The Gay Deceiver" is the worst episode. Not because the script is bad, but because everyone seems to be acting out of character. We learned from previous episodes "Those Gossipin' Men," "The Jinx," and "Quiet Sam" that Floyd has a wife and son. So why is he now a member of a lonely hearts club? And it seems completely out of character for Andy to devise a ruse to deceive the lady into thinking Floyd is something that he is not. And Aunt Bee went along with the ruse, too.

There were a lot of inconsistencies throughout the series. In the first few episodes, Andy and Barney were cousins, then they were not. Also the distance to Mt. Pilot varied. In Andy and Opie Housekeepers, Aunt Bee takes a bus to Mt. Pilot. And in Barney's First Car, it takes Mrs Lesh four hours to drive from Mt. Pilot. However in later episodes, it is a quick trip as they often go to Mt. Pilot for shopping, dinner, cocktails, etc. In The Clubmen, Andy and Barney drive to Raleigh for dinner at the Esquire Club, but in Andy and Barney in the Big City, they take a bus to Raleigh and stay overnight. Then there is Gomer's knowledge about cars. He quickly goes from knowing only about putting in gas and air to a car repair expert. In Barney Mends a Broken Heart, Lydia Crosswaith is living in Mt. Pilot. But in Goober and the Art of Love, she is living in Mayberry. And there are a lot more. I doubt anyone thought we would still be analyzing the show 60+ years later. :lol:

Watching Season 8 on DVD, the final episode was an awful ending, really just a Mayberry RFD episode (in fact, that's the title) with just a touch of Andy at the start.

Best thing about the episode is the look at the Mayberry train station, where the sign gives the population as 5,360, elevation 671. Anyone know where this scene was filmed? It doesn't seem to be 40 Acres, since there's a real train.

I think it was filmed at the Union Pacific Pomona station.

Aunt Bee learning to fly was bad. Goober getting a date from a computer match was lame too.

I didn’t the episode where Barney is kicked out of the boarding house was very good either

I will watch Goober's computer dating ep because I'm a Nancy Malone fan. Also it was the final episode to be filmed, though not the final aired one.

One color ep I have little interest in: When Andy goes into the laundry/laundromat business. Not one I care for at all.

I will watch Goober's computer dating ep because I'm a Nancy Malone fan. Also it was the final episode to be filmed, though not the final aired one.

One color ep I have little interest in: When Andy goes into the laundry/laundromat business. Not one I care for at all.

Not as bad as when Aunt Bea ran the Chinese restaurant.

🙂

A Girl For Goober. None of the actors were even trying, just reading their lines off cue cards while half-baked.

Actually all the Goober episodes were BAAAAD! :p

True, Goober was so unrelentingly cheesy.

Opie Finds a Baby

I'll take "The Wedding" as the worst episode. The basic plot is Howard's mother suddenly gets married and moves away. Howard gets the house to himself and furnishes it with a bunch of junk from some shop in Mount Pilot. The main thing is a party he throws where the only woman present is Helen, and she has to dance with Goober and Howard because they couldn't find dates. A truly weird and cringeworthy episode.

I'll take "The Wedding" as the worst episode. The basic plot is Howard's mother suddenly gets married and moves away. Howard gets the house to himself and furnishes it with a bunch of junk from some shop in Mount Pilot. The main thing is a party he throws where the only woman present is Helen, and she has to dance with Goober and Howard because they couldn't find dates. A truly weird and cringeworthy episode.

Plots like this is why some tv stations are hesitant to air the color TAGS episodes. The color episode cringe is strong with Howard, Goober, Emmitt, Helen, Aunt Bea and Grumpy Andy.

Plots like this is why some tv stations are hesitant to air the color TAGS episodes. The color episode cringe is strong with Howard, Goober, Emmitt, Helen, Aunt Bea and Grumpy Andy.

Howard's mother, ugh.

I'll take "The Wedding" as the worst episode. The basic plot is Howard's mother suddenly gets married and moves away. Howard gets the house to himself and furnishes it with a bunch of junk from some shop in Mount Pilot. The main thing is a party he throws where the only woman present is Helen, and she has to dance with Goober and Howard because they couldn't find dates. A truly weird and cringeworthy episode.

Yes, Howard's swinging bachelor pad.

A Girl For Goober. None of the actors were even trying, just reading their lines off cue cards while half-baked.

Actually all the Goober episodes were BAAAAD! :p
While that may have not been one of the series' best, one scene, the one where Barney and Goober are at Helen's home looking through the front window watching Helen and Andy on the couch watching TV, is a highly funny scene.

Goober gets overly excited and blows the whole "surveillance" where Barney is trying to teach Goober on how to "make moves" with a woman.

I break out laughing every time I see that scene.

While that may have not been one of the series' best, one scene, the one where Barney and Goober are at Helen's home looking through the front window watching Helen and Andy on the couch watching TV, is a highly funny scene.

Goober gets overly excited and blows the whole "surveillance" where Barney is trying to teach Goober on how to "make moves" with a woman.

I break out laughing every time I see that scene.

True, that's a good one.

If I had to be asked to choose which episode was the worst TAGS put out, it would be Man in the Middle with Opie Loves Helen, Divorce Mountain Style,Opie flunks Arithmetic, Goober takes a car apart, Guest in the house, and the three color seasons as a close second.

In my opinion the only thing that would have saved Man in the Middle (and the way this kind of plot is usually wrapped up) would have been for someone other than Andy, Helen, Thelma Lou, and Barney (I was thinking Aunt Bea or Goober ) get affected by the nonsense that was going on and then for Aunt Bea or Goober to get very angry and royally tell Andy, Helen, Thelma Lou, and Barney off for acting childish and come up with a punishment for Andy, Helen, Thelma Lou and Barney that would make them pay and make them realize what idiots they were.

(P.S. As much as I hate the color episodes, I thought Aunt Bea's big moment was handled very well )

Not the worst but definitely on the unreasonable color episode list is showing today on the 9am broadcast of TAGS on WRBL-3, the Taylors visit Hollywood.

The where Warren went after Helen while he was sleep walking, because who in their right mind would go after Helen?

And the one where the lady from the PTA found out Helen had been in jail. Any episode centered around Helen was bad.

yes the warren one is terrible and creepy.

yes the warren one is terrible and creepy.

Warren Ferguson just never seemed to work in any episode, glad when he packed and went back to Boston.

I thought Warren was beginning to fit in by The Cannon episode. I'm in the minority, but I thought he was funny in this episode. They had toned down his "Huh" schtick by this point which made him more likeable.

Just watched the episode where Howard moves to the island again yesterday.

Really has to be in the top five most awful color episodes of the Andy Griffith Show.

I nominate Goober & the talking dog, seen last night on MeTV.

Runner-up, Aunt Bea flies an airplane.

I feel sorry for George Lindsey, It must have been embarrassing to play that episode.

I feel sorry for George Lindsey, It must have been embarrassing to play that episode.

That was a really bad episode, in retrospect I'm surprised Andy allowed it. Griffith didn't want the characters on the series portrayed as country bumpkins, in this episode Goober came across as the village idiot.