This episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" is much more comedic than usual and never fails to make me smile. It seems to teach the moral lesson that it's best to say what's bothering you instead of trying to be nice and keep it all bottled up inside.
The show begins with Aunt Bee making a batch of her nauseatingly bad pickles. According to the lucky recipients of her first batch (Barney and Andy) they smell and taste like kerosene! But, they want to be nice and say nothing and plan on eating these dreadful pickles. Later, though, they have an idea--to buy pickles and substitute them for Bee's evil pickles! As a result, everyone likes her pickles and Bea decides to enter them in the county fair! The boys can't let her possibly win this way and their plan starts to unravel--with very funny results.
The best things about this episode are the reactions of the guys to the dreadful pickles as well as the writing. Plus, in a rare case, Clara was shown sympathetically and not as an annoying neighbor--which she often was later in the series. Clever, funny and memorable.
The show begins with Aunt Bee making a batch of her nauseatingly bad pickles. According to the lucky recipients of her first batch (Barney and Andy) they smell and taste like kerosene! But, they want to be nice and say nothing and plan on eating these dreadful pickles. Later, though, they have an idea--to buy pickles and substitute them for Bee's evil pickles! As a result, everyone likes her pickles and Bea decides to enter them in the county fair! The boys can't let her possibly win this way and their plan starts to unravel--with very funny results.
The best things about this episode are the reactions of the guys to the dreadful pickles as well as the writing. Plus, in a rare case, Clara was shown sympathetically and not as an annoying neighbor--which she often was later in the series. Clever, funny and memorable.