So if you don’t remember Andy Taylor and Barney Fife being related… At all… You’re not crazy. As The Andy Griffith Showwent on, it became too much of a convenient stretch. What? Why? Once cousins, always cousins! Right? According to Jim Clark, our “Presiding Goober Emeritus” of the Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club (and as sharp fans will recall who remember later episodes of the show) – “The references evolved to Andy and Barney just being good friends since childhood.”Īpparently, the “cousin” bit was exactly that – a bit. “Once the producers realized what a key character Barney was going to be - and once they had used the cousin joke about all they could for laughs - they dropped the cousin references,” the paper continues. This seemingly final answer isn’t where the story ends! It was also a device to get some easy laughs,” cites the Winston-Salem Journal. “Making Andy and Barney cousins was a way to explain how someone as seemingly unqualified as Barney got to be deputy. In fact, they’re cousins! Everyone’s Family on ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ In short: Yes, Andy and Barney are related. Clark is the “Presiding Goober Emeritus” of the Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club,” and besides this being the best position title we’ve ever heard – Clark has answers, too.Īccording to Clark, “References are made to Andy and Barney being cousins in three of the first six episodes to air.” Those episodes are: “Were Barney and Andy really related on the show? Once I heard Andy say they were cousins.” L.M.Īnd Sam has the answer.
At the very top of Sam’s list is the question on everyone’s mind: After a session on The Andy Griffith Show, the paper used their “Ask Sam” column to answer questions from readers about the show in October of 2019.
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