Andy Griffith Remembered by Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou)

Thelma Lou Reminisces About Andy Griffith -
We have always known her as "Thelma Lou", Barney's girlfriend on The Andy Griffith Show.
Her real name is Betty Lynn and she was in 26 episodes of the show from 1961-1966.
In 2006 she moved from her home in West Hollywood to Mt. Airy, NC, the inspiration for Mayberry.

[@stayprogressive6775]

I think Andy and Betty Lynn have done a lot for Mt. Airy-- what a lovely soul she is!!

[@UtubeuserLMJKBD]

What a sweet gentle hearted and loving woman. She's the kind of person everyone would be blessed to have as a friend.

[@MrSalty-eg4zb]

52 and still watch this show every day and it always takes me back to a time when life was care free..

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

What a sweet woman is Betty Lynn! God bless her. RIP Andy and Don

[@michelleramirez2443]

Love Andy Griffith show!!! Love them all!!!. Great interview..

[@prettyinpink550]

Thank You Betty Lynn for your kind words about Andy Griffith. The show was always my favorite and I loved it and never tire of watching it. Yours was such a sweet character as Thelma Lou and what a great job you did! Thank You all for the great show that was and is a wonderful part of my life.

[@carolynroberson8407]

I had a daddy that watched Andy and acted like Andy. I had great parents. Love you, Ms Betty and loved Thelma Lou!

[@laurenvandevendel7743]

Carolyn Roberson my dad is just like Andy and I think that’s why I always have loved the show🖤

[@pattyhaley9594]

Now that made me shed a tear. What a wonderful tribute Betty! I bet Andy felt and thought the same about you too. God bless you!!

[@opie1956]

Thanks for the memories Betty Lynn. RIP Andy

[@joehodges8459]

I tell you, there's no funnier scenes than Thelma Lou and Barney. I still watch The Andy Griffith Show and boy do I still roll with laughter. She's a jewel. One of my all time favorites.

[@keithsw2566]

Rest in peace, Betty. Thanks for entertaining us for so long

[@MicheleMJJ]

She was so perfect as Thelma Lou. A very lovely lady. I watched Andy Griffith as a kid, and at 67 I am still watching reruns. They are just as funny as the first time.

[@brendaannedufaur6244]

I wish I could tell Betty Lynn how great she was. She may have been lucky to get the Andy Griffith show but the Andy Griffith show was incredibly lucky to have her too. I wish she had been in more episodes. She was one of my absolute favorites and every episode with her in it are my favorites ones. She was beautiful, she had comic flare and was a good actress and she had a beautiful figure. Men loved her! And I did too. She's so modest. Once, in later years, she told the audience that she had had no acting training and maybe you could tell. She is wrong. She was a wonderful actress. She never made a false note and you loved her completely. She was like a bright sun. She had the most wonderful personality. But she also had some pepper in it too which i loved.

[@psw4763]

What a sweet lady she is and loved her character as Thelma Lou. She really is genuinely sad over the passing of her friend.

[@susanj-eyberg4375]

Betty Lynn aka Thelma Lou, I grew up watching Andy Griffith and again when my mom was going thru the early stages until the last stages of Alzheimers I played reruns for her and what a welcome relief for us both, she would smile and laugh something I heard seldom and the only thing she said at that point was my dads name. Your cast was dearly loved by her and continues to be by me, Bless your heart and all of the people that made a contribution that truly touched so many lives for all time:)

[@scottjones9187]

What a sweet wonderful woman, truly genuine person. Wish we had more actors and actresses just like her. She is a joy!!

[@rpal320]

You are still beautiful after all these years! Bless you Thelma Lou! 💕

[@SuperRay1961]

Thank you very much for being part of my childhood. All of you.

[@dionvalentine4358]

I'm almost 50 years old I remember running home from school just so I can see Andy Griffith and get my daily dose of Opie and still yet today I still find happiness in the reruns that still play today a time when people really cared about each other when life was simple even in my trouble times watching The Andy Griffith Show I'm able to smile and reflect on the memories

[@elimybud1]

God bless you Betty...thank you so very much for all the memories.

[@kendramalczyk2613]

Thank you, Betty. We watch Andy Griffith all of the time. 😃♥️ You’re a lovely lady. Your morals are excellent. I also wish those times never had to end. It’s a much different world now. 😥

[@karlwestfall2404]

The Andy Griffith Show will always remain timeless.

[@MorningMary67]

I'm so thankful that we can still watch this TV show. Every time I watch it, I'm awestruck with the talent that these marvelous actors had. She seems like a wonderfully sweet lady!

[@davidb8397]

MorningMary67 you are so right.the actors were so good you can forget that your watching a show they make the characters seem so real I can't watch enough of the Andy Griffiths show

[@karlachasteen1068]

The Only One's I Don't Watch Are The Coloured Episodes. They Have Jack Burns In Them. " The Replacement Of Donn Knotts "

[@MorningMary67]

@@karlachasteen1068 same here!

[@DonC11669]

@@karlachasteen1068 Jack Burns and George Carlin were best of friends before fame during thier rise in comedy.

[@artdanks]

I always really liked the character Thelma Lou because she was so sweet and gracious. Now I see that this was a natural extension of the actress Betty Lynn! Never her her interviews before. What a sweet lady!

[@Jane_Snow_]

It is so refreshing to see a beautiful actress who hasn't had plastic surgery. I love you Betty Lynn. xx

[@georgegoff2550]

Absolutely!

[@donbvs]

What a sweet woman, so humble and grateful for her life. Bless you, Betty "Thelma Lou" Lynn.

[@jerryburgess4783]

Awesome loved the show still watch it

[@gregschultz2029]

Watched Shows A Thousand Times ,Know All The Words ,Still Laugh ,Classic TV At It’s Best !!!

[@davidrobbins8941]

This girl was beautiful on the show and is beautiful in heart. I still watch the show 👍.

[@janethartwig774]

Betty Lynn is such a precious woman. I just love her. 💞💞 she keeps the show alive for me.

[@raypitt9350]

I still watch the show .God bless Betty Lynn.

[@HENRYBERRYLOWRY1845]

My kids are 3 and 5 and we all love The Andy Griffith show. I watched it with my parents too.😍

[@buddybates3247]

You can still feel the love coming from her ! A big heart! A big star that just loves to share her love with people ! Thank you for that dear ! Wish she could read all the comments posted ! She'd know that she is Loved very much too! Peace....

[@stephensgate1]

Betty Lynn, we love you! I still watch the show every chance I can. I never tire of it. Hugs to you, from my family here in Ohio. -Stephen ♥️♥️♥️

[@jasonlove5366]

BuckeyeBushcraft L. I live in Ohio too and love Andy Griffith.

[@ropermrmeredith06]

beautiful lady with class!

[@hannahpavoldi5232]

On of the best shows that ever aired on TV!

[@elizabetholiviaclark]

Betty Lynn said she isn't deserving of all of the love, but that's just not true. She is very deserving of it. She's a dear soul.

[@pjgumby]

Still a beautiful person, inside and out.

[@ginnylorenz5265]

"Dear soul" puts it perfectly.

[@tb9489]

My favorite scenes were when it was so obvious that Barney and Thelma Lou were making out. Barney had lipstick kisses all over his face and his hair was messed up..

[@darmstead9]

Betty Clark I watch it at 8 am and 3 pm at 10 pm every week night I love u to

[@billolsen4360]

Oh yeah!! Thelma Lou sitting behind Andy's desk with her hands flat on the surface & that guilty look on her face ;-)

[@billtaylor4224]

one of the many shows from the days when television was wholesome.

[@trustmeimblack1620]

Except when Barney always be turnin off the lights when he alone with Thelma Lou!

[@gregbeckett7307]

What a very beautiful person Betty is. Thanks for all you have given us love u Thelma Lou.

[@wyatt1153]

We love you Ms. Lynn. Thank you for Thelma Lou.

[@MKalee]

Love her! Love the show! I'm still watching it... it's my escape from all of the turmoil in our world today. For me, it calms me and makes me happy. I know that sounds crazy but it is true. I'm glad that she will know how much she is loved. God Bless you Betty!

[@rogerbrown5088]

I met her a couple of years ago at the Andy Griffith museum and she was the most humble and sweetest person I ever met

[@wildbill5670]

Bless her heart. I've watched the show many many times over the years. Very common for me to stop on the show if I'm just channels surfing. Probably one of the most wholesome shows of all time that is very entertaining.

[@outcastpiper714]

We love you dear, God bless. Thank you for the joy, memories and the love.

[@melindalemmon2149]

this is precisely what made thelma lou such a beautiful classy woman and character...as if she were playing herself.

[@TheDAT573]

One of my favorite show, The Andy Griffith Show. Thank you to 'Thelma Lou' for sharing these wonderful memories. It means a lot to me.

[@debhill1985]

There will never be a better show than this! I have it all on DVD but I still watch it on TV.

[@hectorurrutia4189]

I still watch it over, and over.

[@BellaFirenze]

A lovely person and great actress.

[@LamborghiniGal]

Love her! What a gracious, kind and warm woman.

[@northtowersax]

I met Betty Lynn last year at a function I was performing at in Mt Airy last year and she was such a kind and genuine person. I truly hope I get the opportunity to speak with her again in the future.

[@dementedweasel1]

It's so refreshing to see a tv celebrity that is also a decent human being. Hats off th you Betty Lynn. Hopefully Heaven may be a little like Mayberry. Even with "The Fun Girls".

[@dwf150101]

This is such a beautiful, heartfelt interview. None of the posturing you see from so many celebs. She's just a beautiful person.

[@norms3913]

@Bella Bella no Barney married Thelma cause Barney moved to mount pilot to become a city detective

[@bills5621]

“Hello Doll”. Lol. What a hoot

[@norms3913]

@@bills5621 ok Bernie no it's Barney 😆

[@dennisbrown2106]

Hello doll

[@tommarks3726]

what a classy, sweet and genuine lady. thxs for sharing this.

[@monicaabel1989]

I wish I could adopt her as my granny. What a loving sweet person .

[@MyzteriousLadyX]

I remember the first time I saw Betty Lynn. She had a small part in "Cheaper By The Dozen" with Clifton Webb, Myna Loy and Jeanne Crain. She was delightful and so when I saw her in the "Andy Griffith Show" I was so happy! What a great show it was and still is :-) I Go to Mayberry when I get frazzled with the pressure of today's world and it always slows me down and lets me smell the flowers for a spell.

[@pnutbutrncrackers]

Also she has a great bit part as a babysitter in her very first movie called "Sitting Pretty" (1948). I believe it is posted here on KZbin. Check her out -- you'll love it! Just as darling as ever (and funny!).

[@pdelmercado]

I grew up in the 1960s watching The Andy Griffith show, and I still watch it! I was thrilled to find it on MeTV. There is very little on TV today that I bother to watch, even on satellite TV.

[@illuminatedcrosshairs7865]

For some reason, I always knew she was my favorite on Andy Griffith. God bless you Thema Lou !

[@rosacantu342]

You were so beautiful back then and you still are

[@staceykeibler770]

I love Betty Lynn. She really is a sweet down to earth person just like her character, Thelma Lou.

[@jonwilson7542]

Bless your heart!..Betty. And we all loved you!..And your Character!

[@terrysr9569]

jon wilson I agree Jon, we all loved Thelma Lou!

[@nancyphillips8001]

I can watch it over and over again and never get tired of laughing.

[@stevemccoy8138]

I loved that show , watched it for years, Thanks Thelma Lou ! 😘

[@valeriecarpenter4631]

definitely we need more shows like The Andy Griffith show. Mayberry was such a simple town it's not a real place in the world that's like a place that everyone wishes there were a place like that. I watch the show every morning that I get the chance to. Everything good or bad comes to an end sometime or other. I hope they keep this show on forever.

[@markmarsh27]

What an amazing Sweet Heart you are Betty Lynn. You still shine like the innocent Thelma Lou, a woman innocent and forgiving enough to love a knucklehead like Barney Fife. Beautiful tribute to Andy Griffith. Thank you.

[@hdlowrider5413]

Oh my what a wonderful piece. She seems like a nice lady. Mayberry will always be in my heart.

[@michaelhodges6824]

What a beautiful person she is! I always loved, her character she seemed to have such a kindness to her. I could tell it was real.

[@JackJames202]

Agree completely...bless her heart.

[@1065Olivia]

What a wonderful interview. Much love to you sweet lady! I saw you in the movies when you were just a girl.

[@WoodlandMeadows]

Betty Lynn/Thelma Lou still beautiful and gracious!

[@keith14452]

God bless you Betty Lynn! Me, and my family will always love you, and the whole cast of Andy Grifiith Show! Still, and always the best show on tv!

[@maryannmillsaps5604]

you are Beautiful Thelma Lou, always loved you on the show!

[@chucknchar]

Love you Thelma Lou, broke my heart you didnt end up with Barn, you will always be loved.

[@robertlorenzo5166]

I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. Back in those days most of the tv shows were great, especially the life lessons that I learned from a very young age from watching shows like Andy Griffin. Now as an adult I still watch Andy Griffin. But I think how lucky Barney was to be with such a nice girl like Thelma Lou, what a Sweet Heart. Thank you so much.

[@emptynester7985]

Betty Lynn, your Thelma Lou character, was a benchmark for what I looked for in a wife. I found her, and had a lifelong, 32 year marriage to her.

[@observerlink4124]

Ms. Lynn, you expressed this so beautifully and articulately. Thank you. And you DO deserve the love and regard you get.

[@josephleannais4823]

God bless you, Betty Lynn!! Keep the good memories alive!!!👍😀

[@2members]

God Bless you Thelma Lou. You said it and you said it right. Children need parents and they need them more than ever.

[@re575817]

Very sweet. God Bless you Ms. Lynn

[@fancysfolly554]

We met this lovely lady years ago when we went to Mt Airy, NC for Mayberry Days.....she was as sweet and down to earth as anyone I’ve ever met...she actually, as she said, lives up there in NC now.

[@donaldvice5580]

Oh my what a nice surprise Ms Lynn. Thank you for your words of understanding and enlightenment about Andy and of course the entire cast. We will all miss Andy and all the members of the Andy Griffith show.... all... everyone and especially you Thelma Lou!

[@aliciarodgers6857]

I had the wonderful privilege of meeting this lady! What a beautiful soul. May you lovely lady RIP 🙏🏼❤️💐

[@jmackenzie1953]

Great job Ms. Lynn!

[@johnhagood1279]

it is amazing how Betty is so lucid and easy to communicate with at her age I think she is a remarkable lady

[@83thechaz]

Betty you are a wonderful, down to earth lady. As a writer (wont ever be a Poe or Hawthorne), I know a persons personality, everything that makes you you, shines through no matter what. We saw your true essence in your role as Thelma Lou and we all loved it. So yes, you deserve a lot. You remind me of my own fiance-kind, sensitive, caring, able to put up with Barney Fife personality traits...lol. God bless you. Hopefully I'll get to meet you one day :)

[@pcvideos100]

This woman reminds me of my Mom, shes been gone for a few years, kind of nice to hear the same sentiment.

[@lakemichigan6598]

What an exceptional woman. And it seems nearly every regular cast on this iconic program was in real life the kind of fundamentally good person portrayed on it. So great a show it holds up very well today while nearly everything television produced around it back then is thoroughly dated. It's no wonder so many from the Andy Griffith Show see this work as their finest professional hour.

[@omahaw1728]

Such a sweet lady. I love to watch the Andy Griffith shows with Thelma Lou.

[@Carpenterdane]

Love her to pieces 💜

[@chuck4221]

thank you guys, I always love watching the show, it always takes me to a place where i would have loved to live in, there was an innocence in the characters and the town that we don't have and never will have in our time now, I know it was a TV show, nothing was real but I have the right to dream just like everybody else. As a grown man and a father I used to watch it with my kids and loved every show, I still watch it whenever I can. wish I could crawl into the show and stay there. Thank you so much.

[@GorrillaKong]

Bless your heart Betty i just love you and all the folks on the Andy Griffth show.

[@mikeshrader8651]

Best show ever produced. Betty you’re a class act and a wonderful human being. I wish you the best and I hope to meet you one day.

[@thervers2140]

WHAT A GIFT. THANK YOU,

[@PorkChopJones]

What a great show this was, in my opinion, there will never be another show like this. It had such realism along with family values, living in a town where people really cared about each other. Plus of course the regular goings on some good some bad like in any small town. But the thing that sticks out about living in a small town is either everyone knows one another or they know of each other. All the characters had different personalities.Barney, Aunt Bea, Opie ,Floyd the barber, Goober,Thelma Lou, Sue Ann, Ernest,etc.etc.Many of them have passed on, may they RIP.

[@TheJulestiba]

Thank you for sharing. I love the Andy Griffith Show and all the actors. :-)

[@solidwoods6995]

What a life long joy she must have to be a piece of a large beautiful puzzle , The Andy Griffith show.

[@LucyDesiFan51]

We love you Betty Lynn...I love you with Barney on The Andy Griffith Show. You are such a sweet person.

[@halholbrookspussy]

First of all, this was a lovely interview. Thank you for sharing it. My one negative comment is that the interviewer keeps asking essentially the same question over and over again towards the end of the interview. Betty finally has to say "I think I've said everything I have to say about it.". Interviewers need to have more self-awareness as to when enough is enough and you've already got what you need from somebody, especially when they're grieving.

[@DC-ft8er]

Exactly. She was polite in her response to the interviewer when it must have been annoying to have basically been asked the same thing over and over.

[@JayDogTitan]

Betty Lynn is just as beautiful today as she was long ago as Thelma Lou on the Andy Griffith show, What a warm wonderful person, A true lady.

[@rickweber7734]

very sweet interview, warm hearted and sincere, on the show, I always thought Andy was the philosopher, and Barney was his close friend and comic relief, I always look forward to watching the show when I'm home, a time when JFK was still president, the Beatles hadn't come to our shores yet, hair cut's at Floyd's Barber shop was 2 dollars and life, even though it had it's ups and downs, still had an innocence, that we'll never know again, unless we visit the town of Mayberry..

[@garyking2480]

My heart goes out to her. Can see she is holding back the tears. ❤ and ✌ to you.

[@baldy194859]

I always loved the Andy Griffith show and all the cast members ! I have several DVDs of the show !

[@Closeoutracer]

What a nice .. warm lady. Mt Airy would do well to get her involved with their tours.