Breaking Mayberry

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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End Music: "Appalachian Coal Mines" by Ask Again: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ask%20Again/Midnight_Caravan/Coal_Miners
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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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Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky
End Music: "Appalachian Coal Mines" by Ask Again: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ask%20Again/Midnight_Caravan/Coal_Miners
Art by Emily Christina: www.instagram.com/scriblemly/
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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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Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky
End Music: "Appalachian Coal Mines" by Ask Again: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ask%20Again/Midnight_Caravan/Coal_Miners
Art by Emily Christina: www.instagram.com/scriblemly/
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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.

Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky
Art by Emily Christina: www.instagram.com/scriblemly/
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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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Art by Emily Christina: www.instagram.com/scriblemly/
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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

Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky
Art by Emily Christina: www.instagram.com/scriblemly/
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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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Art by Emily Christina: www.instagram.com/scriblemly/
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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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Art by Emily Christina: www.instagram.com/scriblemly/
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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?

Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky
Art by Emily Christina: www.instagram.com/scriblemly/
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It's another trek through the long cons and manipulations of Mayberry's finest with Marty and Dan taking on Season 1, Episodes 15 and 16 - "Those Gossipin' Men" and "The Beauty Contest"

First, an irritated Aunt Bee drives the entire town to madness with one sentence and the men of Mayberry either save a man from suicide or drive him to it - we can't tell which.

Second, Andy is picked to be the sole judge of a beauty contest and hey, maybe there's a reason that's never a thing that actually happens.

Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky
Art by Emily Christina: www.instagram.com/scriblemly/
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