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Marty and Dan are back for Season 2, and we start with a very special episode about the dangers of bullying, and how Opie is impervious to pain.

In S02EP01 "Opie And The Bully", Opie is constantly losing his milk money to a slightly taller child, and Andy provides the best course of action: Lying to his son to put him in physical danger. Marty and Dan take on the Great British Baking Show and the evil likes of the American Milk lobbyists.

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It's the Season 1 Finale of Breaking Mayberry, and we're closing out with our first movie episode! Going back a few years before the AG Show premiered, we're taking on 1957's "A Face In The Crowd", starring Andy Griffith as a conman drifter named Lonesome Rhodes. It's the darker side of the Mayberry coin as Marty and Dan talk about the Hollywood blacklist, Andy's cult following, and the difference between ships and boats.

Since this is the Hollywood History episode, "Join us, won't you?"

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End Music: "A Face In The Crowd" by Andy Griffith
For more on Elia Kazan, listen to Karina Longworth's You Must Remember This episode "On The Waterfront": http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2016/5/23/on-the-waterfront-elia-kazan-blacklist-episode-13

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It's an ACTUAL sequel, not one we screamed into existence! When Jim Lindsey, the famous guitar player from episode 2 of our podcast returns to Mayberry, Marty and Dan have a great realization: We absolutely hate Jim Lindsey. Also, the boys have to say good-bye to their true love, Elinor Donahue, as she leaves the Andy Griffith Show never to be mentioned again. Next, Marty and Dan take on Episode 32, "Bringing Up Opie", an episode so dull that I don't even have the energy to finish this.

It's the long-awaited sequel to MANHUNT and Marty and Dan are absolutely thrilled. When an escaped criminal comes for Barney, it's a non-stop thrill ride of body-blocks and serious shocks or something like that. Look, this episode rules. Just listen.

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In this episode, we witness a scientific miracle happening in Mayberry - the miracle of birth, but without that whole pesky part of "women" being involved. Comedy Writer Jordana Lipitz joins us for Season 1, Episode 29 "Quiet Sam." We get some new theories on Barney's days in the war, do our best Spongebob impressions and debate the merits of menstruation tents.

Then, Dan and Marty return for Season 1, Episode 28, "Andy Forecloses", in which a man is sold into indentured servitude and Opie acts like a tiny meth addict.


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Marty and Dan come back to the farm for just... just a shocking amount of sexism, even by 1961 standards, holy hell.

Season 1, Episode 27, "Ellie Saves A Female" refers to women as "female" in the title and it doesn't get better from there.

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In this episode, Marty and Dan are both absolutely furious, but at different times. It's a real bad cop/also a bad cop situation.

In Season 1, Episode 25, "A Plaque For Mayberry", the town of Mayberry ignores an alcoholic's obvious cries for help, and Marty and Dan are thrown by a Southern-ism that makes even less sense than usual.

Next, Season 1 Episode 26, "The Inspection," in which it finally looks like the boys' prayers will be answered and an authority figure will finally hold Andy Taylor accountable.... haha, no, this show's just gonna kiss his bumpkin ass like it always does.

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This week breaks Marty and Dan a little as they deal with episodes ranging from needlessly convoluted to unbelievably dull.

First, in episode 23, "The New Doctor", Andy is jealous of a new young doctor in town that he thinks is trying to steal Ellie. In the studio, Marty and Dan stumble upon a piece of Queer Lit history and wonder how many Opies it would take to beat one Barney Fife in hand-to-hand combat.

Next, Marty and Dan's sprits are broken by "Andy and Opie, Housekeepers,"an episode we're not going to describe here because it sucks and is so insanely boring and we'd rather be talking about literally anything else oh god please help.

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This episode is full of romantic antics and serial killer seduction! First, Marty and Dan take on S01EP21 "Andy and the Gentleman Crook", AKA "Silence of the Fifes." When Mayberry plays host to a smooth-talking con-man, everyone but Andy is taken in by his charms - including Marty and Dan. Barney is wildly incompetent at his job and it nearly gets everyone killed, but it's cool.

Then, we go onto some middle-school hijinks that Marty absolutely hates in S01EP22 "Cyrano Andy", in which NO ONE ACTUALLY CYRANOS and it's bullshit.

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It's Christmas in July and the Breaking Mayberry crew is celebrating with a special guest, Joe Wade from the hit podcast Christmas Creeps! (https://christmascreeps.com/)

Joe joins us to talk about S01EP11, "The Christmas Story", the only holiday episode in the entire Andy Griffith canon - and maybe it's not even that? Join us for holiday hijinks and traditional Mayberry madness on this most festive of episodes! And don't forget to give us the holiday gift of shares, ratings, and reviews!

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We're back on the recap track with episode 18 of Season 1, "Andy the Marriage Counselor." Dan and Marty needed an adult in the room for this one, so we got special help from Sharon Rice, a social worker and relationship educator with Women Against Abuse (www.womenagainstabuse.org)

We also talk about The Lockhorns, the anger of youth games, and how to make sure your child looks fly as fuck at bedtime.

Nathan Rabin's Lockhorns Article: https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2018/3/20/the-deep-deep-pain-of-the-lockhorns

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(Sharon's views here are her own and do not represent WAA in any official capacity)

It's the mental health episode of Breaking Mayberry!

We're not actually recapping any AG episodes this time, but we thought it might be a good time at the halfway mark to unburden ourselves and talk through some of the things we've learned and observed on our journey so far. Join us as Dan introduces us to an unsung hero of the Red Scare, Marty introduces us to newspaper comic strips, and in general we make some half-thought-through ideas.

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"The Weird History of Hillbilly TV" by Gabe Bullard at the Bitter Southerner: http://bittersoutherner.com/the-weird-history-of-hillbilly-tv/

Another round of Mayberry goodness and this time we have a special guest - Joseph McCarthy! (No seriously, we talk about McCarthyism and blacklisting in this one, turns out the Andy Griffith show was not immune from it.)
First up, yet another episode about a stranger coming into town and getting under Andy's skin, but this one has like 30% more bluegrass - it's S01EP19 "Mayberry on Record"

Next, it's the fascist reign of Barney Fife we've all been wating for when Barney takes over as acting sheriff in S01EP20 - "Andy Saves Barney's Morale" and to be honest, this one is so dark in context that we end up kinda loving it.

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Okay, look, we talk about a LOT of stuff on this episode and at one point we have a complete breakdown about a line we totally missed.

This time around, Breaking Mayberry covers S01Ep17 - "Alcohol and Old Lace," talking about Andy and Barney's crackdown on the controlled substances in Mayberry County, NC. We brought on freelance cannabis writer Russ Smith to talk about some parallels to today's most contentious Type-1 narcotic, and we get into the fallout of the war on drugs, the Federal v. State law debacle, and some extreme parts of class warfare.

Yes, this is still a podcast about The Andy Griffith Show, why do you ask?

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Maggie Peterson Mancuso (born January 10, 1941.
Peterson is best known for playing Charlene Darling on The Andy Griffith Show.[2] She also played the character of Doris in the episode "A Girl for Goober" (1968).

Aside from the The Andy Griffith Show, Peterson also appeared on other TV shows such as Love American Style, Green Acres, Gomer Pyle USMC, and The Odd Couple. She appeared in an episode of "Mayberry R.F.D. as Edna, a cafe waitress; in the 1986 movie Return to Mayberry; as the innocent Rose Ellen in the 1969 film The Love God?, starring next to Don Knotts; and in the 1968 film Angel in My Pocket.

Peterson landed a role as Susie, the coffee shop waitress on The Bill Dana Show, another spin-off from The Danny Thomas Show, which aired from September 1963 to January 1965.

Peterson grew up in a musical family. While growing up in Colorado, she has said her earliest memories were of music. Peterson, her brother Jim and two of Jim's friends formed a small group called the Ja-Da Quartet. They would ride around in the back of a pickup truck singing to people.In 1954 at a Capitol Records convention, Dick Linke (manager of Andy Griffith and Jim Nabors) heard Peterson singing and was so impressed with her, he encouraged her to come to New York. So in 1958 after graduating high school Maggie and the group did just that. They landed a number of stints on the Perry Como Show and the Pat Boone Show, and in 1959 they released their album "It's the Most Happy Sound." Soon after the band broke up and went back home.

A short time later Peterson joined another group, The Ernie Mariani Trio (later renamed Margaret Ann and the Ernie Mariani Trio). The group traveled for several years and had stints in resort areas such as Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno, where Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack were often seen in the audience while Maggie performed. It was while she was on tour that Maggie was discovered by The Andy Griffith Show director Bob Sweeny and producer Aaron Ruben.

For The Andy Griffith Show Peterson initially read for the role of love interest for Sheriff Andy Taylor, but the role went to Elinor Donahue (Ellie Walker). Soon after she was selected to play the role of Charlene Darling. The only daughter of Briscoe Darling, she had a crush on Sheriff Taylor ("Pa, can't I just look at the pretty man?").

The Darlings, including Briscoe's four boys (played by The Dillards bluegrass band), lived in the mountains and came to town on many occasions. When in town, they enjoyed playing music with Andy. One of Charlene's favorite songs is "Salty Dog." The one that made her cry was "Boil that Cabbage Down." Ernest T. Bass had his eyes on Charlene and believed he had courting rights because her marriage to Dud Wash had been performed by Sheriff Andy Taylor acting as a justice of the peace. He tried to steal her away on the day they were to be remarried by a preacher. Threatening the gathering with a high-powered rifle, he runs off with the fully veiled "bride." While Charlene and Dud are hurriedly married by the preacher, Ernest T. discovers the person in the veil is really Barney Fife. Charlene and Dud had a daughter together, Andilina. They tried to betroth Andilina to Opie as it was customary in their family. Briscoe called off the engagement of Opie and Andilina when he discovered there was witchery in the Taylor family.In 1968 while she was singing as an opening act for Andy Griffith at a casino in Lake Tahoe, Peterson met jazz musician Gus Mancuso who was playing bass in a lounge act. The two married and have been together ever since. The couple spent a number of years in Los Angeles, where Peterson worked doing commercials, until they decided to settle in Las Vegas where Maggie now works as a location scout for film and television.

In April 2008 The Darlings received a star on the Missouri Walk of Fame in Marshfield, Missouri. Peterson and Darlings/Dillards band members Dean Webb and Mitch Jayne were on hand representing The Darlings.
In May 2016 Peterson appeared as the guest of honor at the Mayberry In The Midwest Festival in Danville, Indiana.

Andy Griffith is a sadistic hunter of humans in SAVAGES (1974), the TV movie based on the book, Deathwatch, and recently adapted as the Michael Douglas film, Beyond The Reach (2015).

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