The real reason Mayberry was a place that was happy all the time...
No one was married.

List of Single people in Mayberry:
Andy
Aunt Bea
Barney
Floyd
Howard
Goober
Gomer
Sam
Ernest T Bass
The Darlin Family
Helen
Thelma Lou
Clara

The only married person in Mayberry was Otis, and he stayed drunk.

Funny. I'm gonna go with ethics and morals meant something there.... unlike what we live in

Emmett the fixit man was married. So was the mayor.

Hootie

We watch/record 2 episodes a day during the week......lots of repeats obviously......but good tv to watch.

My 12yr old son started watching it last year in school.......at least 1 teacher is trying to teach the good morals/ethics.

It did my heart good for my son to sit down and watch it as a family!

I don't know, but I miss those days gone by of America... Happy thanksgiving fellas.

I like that show! Gomer and Barney are pretty awesome. 

Things were a lot more simple back then.

I think Rafe Hollister is married, too.

Ernest T. Bass also gets married.  And I think if he stopped throwing rocks through windows, it lasted.

Good clean TV shows. The 50's, the 60' were innocent. Some of the 70's was ok.

I grew up in a small town in Jersey. Till ten yo. Twenty minutes from the city. Like Mayberry spmetimes in the fifties.

One of my all time favorites.  I watch it every night on ME TV.  I have seen every episode.  Watched it straight though on Netflix one year.  While Floyd has a son,  no mention of being married.  Both mayors were married.   I do see you point however.

Think about this Don Knotts was supposed to be the straight man in this show and Andy the goofball. Half way through the first eppisode Andy told the directors that there was no way that he could keep up with Don's comedic genious. Therefore they redid the pilot and the rest shall we say is history. Can you imagine how different of a show that would have been.

I was going to say Floyd's hair "tonic".

 Could this be the answer?

 

It's a fictional television show.

 Could this be the answer?

 

It's a fictional television show.

 

It can't be.  I've seen it on the internet.

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