Bakers Dozen

Characters from The Andy Griffith Show

  1. Floyd the barber
  2. Barney Fife
  3. Ernest T. Bass
  4. Otis Campbell (the drunk)
  5. Opie Taylor
  6. Goober Pyle
  7. Aunt Bea
  8. Sheriff Andy Taylor

Characters from The Andy Griffith Show

  1. Floyd the barber
  2. Barney Fife
  3. Ernest T. Bass
  4. Otis Campbell (the drunk)
  5. Opie Taylor
  6. Goober Pyle
  7. Aunt Bea
  8. Sheriff Andy Taylor
  9. Howard Sprague

Characters from The Andy Griffith Show

  1. Floyd the barber
  2. Barney Fife
  3. Ernest T. Bass
  4. Otis Campbell (the drunk)
  5. Opie Taylor
  6. Goober Pyle
  7. Aunt Bea
  8. Sheriff Andy Taylor
  9. Howard Sprague
  10. Jim Lindsey

James “Roscoe P. Coltrane” Best’s guitarist character who was in a couple of episodes.

Characters from The Andy Griffith Show

  1. Floyd the barber
  2. Barney Fife
  3. Ernest T. Bass
  4. Otis Campbell (the drunk)
  5. Opie Taylor
  6. Goober Pyle
  7. Aunt Bea
  8. Sheriff Andy Taylor
  9. Howard Sprague
  10. Jim Lindsey
  11. Andy’s girlfriend/Opie’s teacher

Characters from The Andy Griffith Show

  1. Floyd the barber
  2. Barney Fife
  3. Ernest T. Bass
  4. Otis Campbell (the drunk)
  5. Opie Taylor
  6. Goober Pyle
  7. Aunt Bea
  8. Sheriff Andy Taylor
  9. Howard Sprague
  10. Jim Lindsey
  11. Andy’s girlfriend/Opie’s teacher
  12. Gomer Pyle

11 is Helen Crump: Helen Crump - Wikipedia

Characters from The Andy Griffith Show

  1. Floyd the barber
  2. Barney Fife
  3. Ernest T. Bass
  4. Otis Campbell (the drunk)
  5. Opie Taylor
  6. Goober Pyle
  7. Aunt Bea
  8. Sheriff Andy Taylor
  9. Howard Sprague
  10. Jim Lindsey
  11. Helen Crump
  12. Gomer Pyle
  13. Thelma Lou

I did one recently so I’ll pass.

How about the opposite of one of the topics done last week:
Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this Hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this Hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this Hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire

And I’ve heard from people who’ve been there the reality is much worse.

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this Hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this Hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws
  5. Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Apparently, it’s a silly place.

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws
  5. Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  6. Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws
  5. Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  6. Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
  7. Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate

Some movies make Manhattan look great, but the Pacino movie Devil’s Advocate made even the nice areas look like the most sterile, unwelcoming, overcrowded and generally evil concrete and steel corpse imaginable.

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws
  5. Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  6. Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
  7. Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate
  8. Space, Apollo 13

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws
  5. Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  6. Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
  7. Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate
  8. Space, Apollo 13
  9. Iraq, The Hurt Locker

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws
  5. Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  6. Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
  7. Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate
  8. Space, Apollo 13
  9. Iraq, The Hurt Locker
  10. Saudi Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia
    Or really pretty much anything else filmed in or near the Arabian desert.

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws
  5. Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  6. Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
  7. Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate
  8. Space, Apollo 13
  9. Iraq, The Hurt Locker
  10. Saudi Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia
  11. rural Texas, No Country for Old Men

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws
  5. Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  6. Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
  7. Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate
  8. Space, Apollo 13
  9. Iraq, The Hurt Locker
  10. Saudi Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia
  11. rural Texas, No Country for Old Men
  12. Cartagena, Colombia, Romancing the Stone

It also made good old Gainesville, Florida look like a total redneck town. I was going to school there at the time the movie came out. The audience burst out laughing when Keanu Reeves said, “I’m not going back to Gainesville!”

Places you HESITATE to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this hesitation.

  1. Appalachia, Deliverance
  2. Rio de Janeiro, City of God
  3. Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
  4. The Ocean, Jaws
  5. Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  6. Flint, Michigan - Roger and Me
  7. Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate
  8. Space, Apollo 13
  9. Iraq, The Hurt Locker
  10. Saudi Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia
  11. rural Texas, No Country for Old Men
  12. Cartagena, Colombia, Romancing the Stone
  13. The Philippines (the interior part), Apocalypse Now

Next up: In honor of Jerry Leiber’s death today, link to a YouTube of a classic Jerry Leiber song- any artist is fine. (Here’s a partial list of Leiber’s songs- there are many more, and you will definitely know at least some of them even if you don’t know Leiber’s name.)

  1. Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton

Next up: In honor of Jerry Leiber’s death today, link to a YouTube of a classic Jerry Leiber song- any artist is fine. (Here’s a partial list of Leiber’s songs- there are many more, and you will definitely know at least some of them even if you don’t know Leiber’s name.)

  1. Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton
  2. On Broadway, George Benson