# Ron Howard, Opie, and Ritchie for Obama

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-opie-and-ritchie-for-obama/469275>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 24, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-opie-and-ritchie-for-obama/469275 "2008-10-24T00:00:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-opie-and-ritchie-for-obama/469275/21 "2008-11-06T08:17:24Z")

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> [@SkipMagic](#):
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> In addition to telling others to "fuck off"being against the rules of Cafe Society (or any forum outside the Pit, really), you’re just being a jerk here. Knock it off.

I believe the “Fuck Off” was directed at Howard et al, not elelle

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-opie-and-ritchie-for-obama/469275/22 "2008-11-06T18:50:09Z")

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I fear poor Andy won’t be around much older. He’s in his 80s and he really looks it. There’s also something kind of sad about a wrinkled Fonzie. Still, wonderful to see the characters reprised again; you can’t help but wonder whatever happened to some of these characters. (Did Lucy and Ricky ever divorce? Did Lamont Sanford ever break into acting? Did Archie Bunker ever remarry?)

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-opie-and-ritchie-for-obama/469275/23 "2008-11-06T19:55:31Z")

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1. No. After Lucy found out Ricky was boinking every chorus girl at the club she cut out his cheating Cuban heart. You don’t fuck with Irish girls.

2. No. Rollo got him hooked on coke and he burned down the Sanford Arms while freebasing.

3. No. I mean, really–what woman would have him? He held no appeal to younger women and ones his age were through with being some old fart’s slave.

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**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-howard-opie-and-ritchie-for-obama/469275/24 "2008-11-07T01:49:24Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> I fear poor Andy won’t be around much older. He’s in his 80s and he really looks it. There’s also something kind of sad about a wrinkled Fonzie. Still, wonderful to see the characters reprised again; you can’t help but wonder whatever happened to some of these characters. (Did Lucy and Ricky ever divorce? Did Lamont Sanford ever break into acting? Did Archie Bunker ever remarry?)

Well, Andy did get active this election season, doing Ron’s piece, and an ad for our new first female NC governor, [Bev Purdue](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGFDrHs6z18). He looks pretty good there, a few months ago.

And, can’t help but think, Carroll O’Connor did do that “Heat of the Night” TV series spinoff, which, even though kinda really yeah well really a cartoon of the South, had some decent moments.

Lamont Sanford married Poly Esther Pruitt, who inherited her grandaddy’s cotton plantation in a hotly contested estate settlement with the Mississippi Prewitt family, and now runs a successful blues club in Clarksdale, “Libbeth’s”

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