This morning TV Land was showing old Andy Griffith shows. I enjoy watching these old shows. The show reruns were always on in the late morning on one of the Youngstown TV stations when I was a young child and I enjoyed it then.
Today, as an adult and father, it often surprises me how relevant so many of the old Andy Griffith reruns are. Most of them are silly old slapstick but many have messages that are as relevant today as they were then. Many are values that seem long lost.
The two scenes linked below from the episode "A Medal for Opie" are two conversations Frederick Christ Trump Sr. obviously failed to have with little Donny. If he had these type of character-building lessons with little Donny, Donny may have developed some maturity rather than being a 74 year old spoiled brat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4moswaa7_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OS-LJgBj_s
Besides these scenes being some little Donny obviously didn’t get as a child, it is also easy to look at them as a narrative. In this narrative Andy (Paw) is representing the majority of this nation as reasonable and intelligent mature Americans and 8 year old Opie is the 74 year old outgoing spoiled brat and bully and those gullible enough, and/or bullied enough, to blindly accept his unfounded unproven lunatic fringe conspiracies and rants.
Surprising how well these two scenes from the 1962-episode parallel current events.
~ J $ ~