# Ron Howard on: The Andy Griffith Show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-on-the-andy-griffith-show/555160 "2010-09-27T00:31:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-on-the-andy-griffith-show/555160/1 "2010-09-27T00:31:58Z")
Here’s a great interview with Ron Howard. I was never a big fan, but of course I saw it often in my youth. I thought this was such a nice interview I would [share](http://www.popeater.com/2010/09/22/ron-howard-opie-andy-griffith-show-50-years/?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl2%7Csec1_lnk3%7C173006). So often you hear only bad things from former childhood actors. It is nice to hear only good memories from him. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-on-the-andy-griffith-show/555160/2 "2010-09-27T14:43:24Z")
Funny how the child actors that go on to bigger and better things usually are the least jaded. I wonder how his brother feels 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-on-the-andy-griffith-show/555160/3 "2010-09-27T15:29:18Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Funny how the child actors that go on to bigger and better things usually are the least jaded. > > I wonder how his brother feels 😃 As long as Ron keeps giving him work, he’ll probably be okay. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-on-the-andy-griffith-show/555160/4 "2010-09-27T15:50:17Z")
Wil Wheaton has generally had positive things to say about Star Trek; some of the fans, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-on-the-andy-griffith-show/555160/5 "2010-09-27T18:06:33Z")
One story Ron doesn’t mention is the famous plans for a porn film to be titled: **Opie Gets Laid** It seems after the Andy Griffith show ended, Ron couldn’t find any acting work due to being identified as only “Opie”. He mentioned in an interview/article that he and a friend had seriously planned to make that porno and were close to beginning the film when he suddenly got a call to do some little movie called “American Graffiti”. Needless to say, things perked up in his career after than and plans for the porno never continued. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-on-the-andy-griffith-show/555160/6 "2010-09-27T18:25:12Z")
Neat insights from Ron Howard, but needs editing (\*diluted \*for _deluded_, for one). _[Barnaby](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_%28comic_strip%29)_ was a great, disarmingly funny comic strip (done by Crockett Johnson of _Harold and the Purple Crayon_ fame), about a kid and his fairy godfather Mr. O’Malley - I guess the pilot Ron Howard did was a tv version of that. I’d love to see that.