Andy Discovers America from The Andy Griffith Show

[@sluggzmcgee6272]

American history as told by Sheriff Andy Taylor. Can't beat it.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

Best part of this story is Barneys face; hanging on Andys every word!! such a kid he was!!

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

The kid next to Opie is Little Ricky...

[@danvalant3540]

Greatest TV show ever but,is Helen Crump ever in a good mood???

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

you mean helen GRUMP?? frankly, i thought he shd have married the pretty pharmacist...but in real life he had an affair with anita coursot, the actress....seedy...@@danvalant3540

[@WesternCowboy-n8p]

​@@danvalant3540yes she is

[@terryschiller2625]

It's a shame we don't have Andy or someone like him to teach our children this history today! Now everything is CRT,or history is racist!

[@jeffmckeough4012]

Right

[@LeCanadienErrant1]

Andy Griffith was many things: a stand-up comedian, a folksinger, an actor who was at home both in comedy and in drama… but the one craft in which he truly excelled was as a storyteller. Few people have the gift of weaving a tale and keeping it interesting as well as he did. And the world has been a bit duller since he left us.

[@donhancock332]

Some of them were; the football game, the hillbilly boy coming home from college.

[@LeCanadienErrant1]

@@donhancock332 Indeed, "The football game" was probably the first time I heard him telling a story. But even on his show, check out his retelling of Romeo and Juliet. (kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep7So5KahNmqlac&ab_channel=AMSOMmp)

[@capacola262743]

he was a very talented, gifted entertainer.

[@Breeze0911]

Very well stated. So very, very true. Our 'Andy' left us in 2012, I believe. Even carried his TRUE talents and being to MATLOCK. 😉 👏

[@oscarl.ramirez7355]

One of my Favorite Shows were the black and white TV shows of The Andy Griffith Show. It never goes out of style.

[@JayDogTitan-he6wo]

I love how Barney and the kids are hanging on Andy's every word.

[@Tonetwisters]

The little kid just to "Opie's" left, was "Little Ricky" from "The Lucy Show."

[@charlesmyers5526]

Mayberry should be part of every town and city, life would be so much better for everyone

[@hallsjuju2400]

My favorite show. No fancy sets no violence, no sex, just heartfelt fun. Miss it. Andy and Barney, immortal.

[@kryptonite9890]

The lessons you learn from this wonderful classic

[@MrEsMysteriesMagicks]

"Of all the nerve!" LOL!

[@moncorp1]

Oh get out

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

This is another of my all time favorite Andy episodes ...I have SO many... The looks on the boys' faces and, above all, Barney being such a child along with them is forever funny - classic, clean comedy!

[@hastyhillfarmand4x480]

I love the Andy Griffith show

[@snake9911]

That was a great show. The way Andy was telling that story, I thought that Andy would be a great history teacher. Great show 👍.

[@charlenevarada--Stargazer]

I've ALWAYS loved the way Andy Griffith told the kids this story!

[@aprilina2580]

Wish Andy had been my history teacher 🤩

[@davidce3rash]

Opie's friend, Johnny Paul was Little Ricky Ricardo from I Love Lucy. Nobody could tell a story like Andy. I could listen to him all day.

[@thebigdawg61]

Poor as Job's turkey. A favorite saying of my granny. She's been gone some 35-years but I remember so may of her sayings. "Poor as Job's turkey." "Drunker-n-seven-hundred-dollars." "He'd climb a tree to tell a lie 'fore he'd stand on the ground and tell the truth." "If you can't say something good then you need to keep your voice down." As long as I'm here she's not gone.

[@e.a.p3174]

probably one of the all time great television shows.

[@chrisdelgado3530]

Bless the USA 🇺🇸 Bless our patriots.

[@antoniobarnes694]

They left out the part wear they murdered thousands and thousands of innocent people to steal this country lol a bunch of terrorist 😂

[@andrealuvshouse]

The kid in the middle, Keith Thibodeaux, also played Little Ricky on I Love Lucy. All filmed at Desilu Studios.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

_Andy Griffith Show_ was actually a spinoff from _Make Room For Daddy_ that starred Danny Thomas as Danny Williams. Interesting enough, Danny Williams and his family made a crossover appearance on _The Lucy and Desi Comedy Hour,_ a revamped show of _I Love Lucy..._

[@marthadebolt4326]

Barney is learning along with the boys. Lol

[@JR-zm2yu]

True 😂

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

It certainly nice of Ricky and Lucy to send Little Ricky over to visit Mayberry and to learn about American history from Andy... 1:29

[@alanstrong3295]

Those fellas needed that encouragement to learn. Teachers love that. Parents as well.

[@ChildrensWorld57]

I love theses show I still watch them on Tv too!

[@billyfoster3223]

"The British is coming, the British is coming, we got a revolution!"😁

[@willdrucker4291]

FUN FACT…the boy on Opie’s left (Johnny Paul) is actor Richard Keith…more famously known as “Little Ricky” on “I Love Lucy”

[@anarchistatheist1917]

This episode 'Andy discovers America' is the first appearance of miss crump which later became Andy's girlfriend. Rest in peace Aneta Corsaut.

[@Breeze0911]

Learned in school. Fortunate to have WONDERFUL TEACHERS. ALWAYS, loved 'my' History. Still do to this day.

[@VitalityMassage]

How Many British Soldiers Died in the Revolutionary War? It is estimated that between 24,000 to 25,000 British soldiers died in the Revolutionary War. This number includes battlefield deaths, deaths from injuries and disease, men taken prisoner, and those who remained missing.

[@heatherlynsey3092]

“Of all the nerve” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@patrickperalta59]

the kid next to Opie who said that's a good name. he played Little Ricky on the I Love Lucy Show.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663]

Wrap your head around this: Andy Taylor and Mayberry exists in the same universe as Make Room For Daddy involving an episode with Danny Williams and his family passing through Mayberry and encountering Sherrif Andy Taylor. Lucy and Ricky Ricardo rented out their house to Danny Williams and his family on Lucy and Desi Comedy Hour which was the sequel series to I Love Lucy as well as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo appearing on Make Room For Daddy proving that I Love Lucy and Make Room For Daddy ALSO takes place in the SAME universe. With ALL THAT said, perhaps that could be Little Ricky, for some reason, visiting Mayberry hanging out with Opie and friends in the SAME universe... 🤔

[@patrickperalta59]

@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663 , Yes your right all those characters have been together at one time or another....Andy Griffith first Appeared on Danny Thomas show as Sheriff Taylor... before getting his own show...... as for Keith who played little Ricky on I love Lucy he played Opie's best Friend John Paul.

[@Tjay5679]

Richard Keith was his stage name... real name Keith Thibodeaux... He will be 70 years old on December 1st.

[@suzannedebolt5135]

Don Knotts made this show

[@us-Bahn]

Barney catching up on the 4th grade history he missed out on the first time around.

[@loiscandler814]

Excellent history teacher! 😊

[@byronp2311]

Andy knew how to tell a tall tale. Check out his version of Hamlet. :)

[@irumasuzuki9074]

Learning the founding of America in 3 minutes

[@donhancock332]

That's what Andy Griffith did before movies and television.And he was a master story teller.

[@CuthiePatootie]

Barney killin me over here.

[@spookygirl7761]

He was the greatest.

[@JR-zm2yu]

20 21 we have a new Constitution to draw the line in the sand beyond UK. 👍👍💜🙏

[@sweetcaroline2060]

I remember this. Barney is so dang funny!

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

He had them all hooked. Including the two little boys in the back. Tall and short. 😂😂😂

[@bonniehoke-scedrov4906]

I love this!

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663]

The kid next to Opie 0:25 is Little Ricky from I Love Lucy...

[@mikeg3184]

Why can't t.v. be like this today....

[@tracyk3567]

They left out the best part, Barney; "will you help us?"

[@davidk76]

haha, yep

[@JayDogTitan-he6wo]

I was just thinking that when I clicked on to this, lol.

[@billyfoster3223]

Yes!!☺

[@billyfoster3223]

"Tell us about that gun!" Ha,ha!😁

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

Barney used that same line when Opie found $50 and was going to buy an erector set and asked Andy "will you help us.." 🤣🤣

[@DustyLizard85]

I recall that in real history there was a different fella that did the real work of Paul Revere's legend but I forget his name. It's sad that even now in the Age of Information I forget his name, but I still love this story. It's wild how close our ancestors came to losing the Revaluation outright if it weren't for these moments we carry to this day, regardless of how inaccurate they turned out to be in the details as we learn over time. I'm not trying to tear anything down, it's just really interesting to learn how dire things were in that point, and how so much weighed on luck and circumstance in a war we had so little right to win logistically.

[@anarchistatheist1917]

William dawes worked with Paul revere but was knocked off his horse and injured, and he had to limp home. Samuel Prescott actually delivered the news that the regulars of the British army were out.

[@flyhouseoftruth470]

Sheriff missed his calling should have been a history teacher.

[@jackintexas2450]

They ought to show this video and others like it in school history classes, instead of the anti-American stuff they force feed our nation's school children these days.

[@johnharris7751]

@Big Bill O'Reilly were you born a asswhole or did you work on it your whole life ?

[@peanutbutter2597]

Just watching barny is worth it 😂

[@Breeze0911]

Thus, the Birth of the Federalist Papers, Constitution, women protecting servicemen, 1776 and more.

[@johnnytd1128]

Today if our teachers gave that lesson they would be called racist and fired,,,

[@BigChill73]

USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸!!!!

[@1RichardHunt]

I wonder Andy's way of telling this might have been an inspiration for Mr. Bergstrom from The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Substitute".

[@allenwood3805]

My favorite episode is The Battle of Mayberry

[@sassykathy0830]

Andy always said story to keep everyone attention.

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

Andy really goofed when he said Paul Revere was "as poor as Job's turkey"...he and his pa were among the most renowned silversmiths in all the colonies! I'm pretty sure that's not any sort of min wage profession!

[@tyedmonds1173]

Would have been great if the camera was panning at each boys face to see their surprise and reaction, it looked up at Barney and see his face wide eyed and mouth a-gap

[@ericcarter2020]

Here the way history should be taught! But it ashamed it took some people to destroy the history of America

[@Mitzi73]

Little Ricky! ❤

[@carolynluckas1219]

He should have been a per diem history teacher to the youth.

[@concretekeithkl]

Aw..get out! I still say that sometimes

[@BeautifulSpirit-kf5ld]

kids today would say "uh huh, that's boring," and go back to their video games

[@mattlorenson4266]

"Ho get out..."

[@Breeze0911]

Believe this title should be 'Opie' and/or Barney Learn about America.'

[@peterjoseph2132]

to arms minutemen to arms

[@mattsprayberry0]

@Big Bill O'Reilly I just want to know what is your problem with trump

[@spookygirl7761]

You're no better..........

[@myronbraxtonpemberton1557]

Them British!

[@Tjay5679]

Just like the children when they went back to class said... Christopher Columbus NEVER set foot in the United States...

[@billinorlando2887]

Damn Barney 😂

[@yasufang9379]

Wasn’t it Leif Erickson who discovered America first?

[@anarchistatheist1917]

I believe he was the first known European inhabitant of North America because he was the commander of his group of settlers and they were actually in north America. Not in the Caribbean or the northern coast of South America as Christopher Columbus (a Italian sailor working for Spain)was.

[@Rameus]

It’s a fact!

[@assestokick]

If Paul Revere was alive today he would be riding down the road hollering, the Democrats are coming, the Democrats are coming...🤣🤣

[@chadbassalo5293]

Poor as Job's turkey. Excellent

[@wess4711]

One of the most soothing TV shows ever. Too bad he gets the phrase wrong though. "The British are coming!" is a misnomer - makes no sense as they felt themselves to be English still; most likely one would have yelled the "Regulars" - or "Redcoats" - are a-comin'!

[@jamesrivera4947]

English is the language of ENGLAND, where the original colonists were from. Britain is the land mass which includes Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with its inhabitants identifying as BRITISH subjects 🇬🇧

[@iiHeatedCobra]

MERICA

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

Little Ricky is there next to Opie... 1:29

[@kurtj98]

The horse was not Nelly

[@williamburrell1320]

Great story…..too bad none of it was true

[@moreme40]

Couldn’t show this today without a bunch of racial apologizing

[@justina249]

And Barney was supposed to be a history buff knew it all. Lol

[@Breeze0911]

Rather 'Discovers America.' Andy is teaching, not learning. Oopsy title.

[@DaveE7171]

Sounds like it was the last straw when the red coats started waving to the women.

[@fleagle66]

Israel Bissell Andy. Israel Bissell. Start 'em off right.

[@thecentralscrutinizerr]

Paul Revere never said "The British are coming!" Why? Because the English Colonists were all British, Mr. Griffith. It'd be the same thing as riding through London yelling "The British are coming!" It's a myth that has grown legs down through the years. Only 5 percent of the English Colonists supported the revolution. Most of the colonists didn't want a revolution by a large margin and George Washington had to enlist the help of France to actually fight the British regulars. That's the reason you have a lot of "Fayette" named towns, cities, and streets - name after French General La Fayette. His full name was Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, and he commanded American troops in several battles and was the commander at the siege of Yorktown - not George Washington. It was also two French Warships sitting off the coast of Yorktown that forced Lord Cornwallis' surrender by preventing his escape by sea on British warships who were prevented from rescuing Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown by said French Warships. The Treaty of Paris - which officially ended the American Revolution and the colonist's war with Great Britain - was singed in Paris France, not the United States, hence its name "The Treaty of Paris". And, by the way, Mr. Griffith, my family has lived in North Carolina since 1756. It was French Huguenots that originally settled North Carolina. They were French Protestants who were persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church. "Although Huguenots resided in 10 of the original 13 colonies, the number who came to this country was not large. Their absolute numbers were belied, however, by their considerable influence in shaping the new nation where their descendants played an important role in molding attitudes on such important areas of public interest as religious freedom, individual rights and liberties, scholarship, education, and representative government. John Adams, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, and George Washington are but a few of the Huguenot descendants who contributed to the founding of the United States." www.ncpedia.org/huguenots

[@smug8567]

It was supposed to be funny, not brainy. Thats is why we intelligent people watch dumb things. For laughs, we know its not accuate, but he was not trying to be.

[@dondixon4206]

What Paul Revere Really said was... "The British are coming! The British are coming! Run Away!, Run Away!"

[@thecentralscrutinizerr]

@@smug8567 It's spelled "accurate" not "accuate", Mr. Intelligent.

[@smug8567]

@@thecentralscrutinizerr Typo

[@micahcurry4359]

Some people like ASMR. I personally think it's really creepy, and 2:07 gave me more tingles than gals whispering in the camera ever would.

[@234dilligaf]

Disturbing to know that Opie grew up to be a lib.

[@wallacebell4311]

It is more disturbing that you have to label other people!

[@donhancock332]

Nobody cares about how you grew up now do they?

[@DaveE7171]

True. The slippery slope of a JFK democrat to today's democrat with a platform of Marxist ideals. At least I rarely hear him discuss it... like Jim Carey.

[@EerieVonIII8574]

.....says the trump worshipper

[@sheilahadley3420]

Great indoctrination........

[@chisonikavoosi8975]

33

[@captainron1960]

oh get out lol

[@jb6712]

I loved the show as a kid and right on through most of my adulthood. But now, as I hit my septuagenarian years, I've come to realize that the Andy Griffith show was loaded with a lot of lying---among the adults, definitely the adults to the kids (Andy being one of the most prolific liars of the entire series), and the almost-but-not-quite innocent occasional "minister" that might make a brief appearance. Lots and lots of lies about many, many things, and they managed to make them seem quite acceptable.

[@jamesziegler2763]

Awww get out.

[@chrisking3849]

fun, but much is just lies