Though Griffith attended UNC in the 1940s, the school that produced so many North Carolina greats remains unchanged in many ways. But before the local legend was a Hollywood star, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Andy Griffith Show charmed the world with its southern values, idyllic hometown, and moments of comic relief from an otherwise hectic world.
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With the soaring popularity of his self-titled TV series, Andy Griffith became a household name in the 1960s. The most famous student would be none other than Andy Griffith. Unknowingly, I am not the first nor last Surry Countian to go to Chapel Hill. But what has remained the same is the rich experiences available through campus life. The album sold a million copies and launched Griffith’s career.Īndy Griffith as Sir Walter Raleigh alongside his wife Barbara.Īs a college student attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during COVID-19, many experiences have been quite different than any other year for students. The album’s most famous comedy sketch about a naive country gentlemen arriving at his first football game, was set in a fictional world based on Kenan Memorial at UNC in Chapel Hill. It is instead a way of saying we have drifted far from an entertainment world that could give us really, really decent human beings always making final resort to decent behavior to solve their problems, with no untoward innuendo or sex scenes thrown in.Album Cover for “What is was, was Football!” album. Nothing I have run across has the wholesomeness of the Griffith show, which is not the same as saying sitcoms should all be fashioned in that mode. I supplement all of this by reading about TV, and here is my impression: There's some splendid acting and obvious intelligence and artistic ability behind the best of the shows, but many of the cable dramas and sitcoms are crude beyond belief, a great deal of both cable and broadcast is stupid beyond belief and some of the reality shows are trashy beyond belief.
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My wife and I do watch an occasional series and I surf the channels sometimes to see what is there. I admit that I mostly watch current-events shows and sports. So how does the Griffith show compare with TV fare today? In the end, he would do what made sense, as is pointed out in an excellent July 4 New York Times piece by Neil Genzlinger. Of course, Barney Fife, as played by comedic genius Don Knotts, might be described as yokel-like, though much else was at play in his personality, such as a sense of self-importance perhaps compensating for a deeper sense of not measuring up. Griffith stayed nice but quit being a yokel in "The Andy Griffith Show" of the 1960s. Griffith played a yokel again in the 1958 movie, "No Time for Sergeants," which I remember as very, very funny, although I have not seen it in years. You can revisit the routine on the Internet and hear him describing the game as a fight over a pumpkin in a cow pasture, and I defy you not to laugh. But I am old enough to remember his 1953 monologue on college football, in which he comes across as a yokel utterly likeable through and through.
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