I wish Andy was still telling stories to us today. The world needs more Andy.❤️

The world's greatest tragedy told in under 5 minutes as a comedy. Shakespeare himself would chuckle at that.

“Romeo! Romeo! Where for art thou, Romeo?” “Well, I’m right cheer!”

My favorite line in this episode isn't in the retelling of "Romeo and Juliet"; it's when Andy says that he thought that Friar Laurence should have ended the feud before marrying the lovers. Then, after Andy tries to do just that and fails, he looks off into the distance thoughtfully and says: "Friar Laurence, I'm starting to see what you was up against."

"Romeo! Romeo. Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" "I'm right chere!"

Now, if I had HIM for an English teacher in high school Shakespeare plays would have made a WHOLE lot more sense to me!

“A soliloquy is when you kinda look waaaaay off and talk to yourself 😁” 🤣😭😭 he’s not wrong tho! He said you do that today and someone’ll take you away haha 🤣🤣💀💀

Opie was so cute. Great actor for his age💙

I want more Andy Shakespeare! "To be or not to be; that's a pertty fer question!" "Friends, Romans, countrymen; y'all come on over and listen fer a spell..."

Nobody tells a story like Andy, pure genius.

Ronnie Howard was adorable! You could tell that he was enjoying it. What a television masterpiece.

You missed the ending lol..where Opie goes "....that Romeo and Juliet sure would make a good tv show!"

I can watch these shows over and over again,they were great!

The Best Show I have ever seen. It was and remains hilarious, witty, sad, has moral to it educational all wrapped up into a lovely story, but never full of cussing or filth. It has never lost it's appeal!! I never lived then but thinking of this show, I wouldn't have minded those hazy lazy happy uncomplicated days! Andy Griffith and Ron Howard were amazing as Father and Son! The entire acting crew too made the show the 5 Star Show it was!

Andy Griffith had a way of story telling that was unmatched. Another good one was his story of the revolution and Paul Revere.

Every episode of this show was a classic

10/21/22: Watched these episodes as a child, and still love them at 67. These were the best of times.

“What light by yonder winder shines?” “I’m right cheer”!!!

Opie and I are the same age.....still love this show

One of my fave episodes of all time. Plus Opie was just so cute.

The best TV father... and a comedic legend!!!

The soliloquy part still cracks me up to this day.

Master storyteller. I hate very much that this voice is now still, but happy that it lives on in film.

loved the look on Aunt Bee's face!

I'm Bill Shakespeare, and I approve this message!

R.I.P. Andy...

I enjoy listening to the stories that Andy tells Opie for they are the gist of the original stories but only in a more folksy manner. Romeo And Juliet is a classic William Shakespeare tragedy that ought to be told and retold often.

A few of you will get this: "What is was, was football", which you can find here and is older than even me.

The look on Aunt Bee's face is priceless. Looks like she wad thinking but not saying anything to interrupt Andy's masterpiece story telling.

Love this show! ♥️ classic shows are so much better than the junk reality shows that are on television today.

This will be a classic forever.

Romeo: I'm right c'here.

This is a comedy routine that he used to do early in his career.

Why the heck did I have to read the whole thing for literature when he explains it in 5 minutes???

I never saw that expression on Opey's face before.

Romeo, Romeo, where are't though? " I'm riggght here"....Hahahahaha. Only Andy can tell this story. ❤

When Juliet said "wherefore art thou Romeo" she did NOT mean where are you, she meant WHY are you? She was asking WHY are you Romeo? That is, by what cruel circumstance is my beloved born to the family with which my own family is at odds? Too bad that this is almost universally misunderstood.

TV brilliance unmatched by anything since then.

Andy Griffith had his own unique acting style and he mastered it, he was a really smart, talented, and deep individual. He portrayed himself as the simple southern boy he was, but still an intellectual.

I'm going to start using hark a lot more now. xD

Aunt Beas face….. 🤣🤣🤣

There was such great writing on this series.❤

Well that's certainly was one way to describe it LOL!

You cut it too soon at the end! Opie's reaction to the story he heard gave it comical context.

Andy Taylor's version of "Romeo and Juliet" is basically just an excuse for Andy Griffith to do one of his old comedy routines.

Absolutely brilliant

Absolutely, a simple wedding is cheaper than a double funeral. Romeo should have consulted with his accountant instead of Friar Lawrence.

My favorite show

Fanfare...for the common man. Well done...

This episode was very early on in the show, when Andy was depicted as an extremely dumb stereotypical backwoods country boy. As the show went on, it truly found its footing when Andy became the capable, level-headed straight man to Barney’s chaotic antics. And then when Don Knotts left the show, the entire series became a complete and utter train wreck that should’ve ended at season 5, the last decent season.

best way to tell a tragic story :)

I caught a few moments of the Andy Griffith Show, A Feud is a Feud. (It’s in my book, Mayberry at Arms.) This time I noticed that when the face off occurred, Mr. Carter arrives from the right, and Mr. Wakefield is on the left. Both are holding double barrel shotguns. Wakefield’s SXS is a sidelock shotgun. Carter’s SXS is the more common boxlock. Andy goes to check the feudee’s arms, turns his back to both and proceeds to unload both shotguns. He then hands each back a shotgun, but neither got the shotgun back that they arrived with! You would think they would notice.

“And see, their daddies could’ve saved themselves the expense of a double funeral if they’d just paid for a cheap wedding.” *Trying not to burst into laughter while my family’s asleep

I bet Frances Bavier, being the classical actress that she was, cringed the whole time Andy told this story. LOL

BEST. STORY. EVER. 🙏

how adorable lil ronnie howard!!

That's a bit you can find on his Album's

This is headed to my ELA classroom too!

Shakespeare will never be the same😂.

And of course Jim Nabors.

Andy just introduced Americans to Furrin' Writin'

Appropriate, since the flip side of his classic "What it Was, Was Football" routine was also a retelling of Romeo & Juliet, and it was pretty much word for word the same as this.

Actually Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou), Jackie Joseph Lawernce (Romina Ackerman, Ernest T's girl), James Best (Jim Lindsey), Elenor Donahue (Ellie Walker) and many others are still with us, just so many have gone that it is easy to think they have all gone.

Opie has to to be the only cast member left alive just like Betty White after the Golden Girls.

That was Both a funny and sad Story as only Andy could tell ...

Shakespeare.

Southern folks can sure tell a story😂

right from the record

😊👍👍💜🙏

I saw that episode on TV a few days ago. Definitely wouldn't tell a story like that to a child Opie's age.

Good bye, good bye, until it be morrow....in other words, I'd like to stay and jaw with ya, but I got to be a movinig on.

This is so funny.

Andy misquoted Romeo's line from the balcony scene. It's not "hark, what light through yonder window shines," it's "but soft, what light through yonder window breaks." An easy mistake, but people also misquote Juliet in that scene. She says "that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet," but most people quote it today as "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." (And that wasn't Romeo's line as Andy claims here.)

❤😂

Good stuff; but this is a re-play of his stand-up comedy.

season 1 a Feud is a Feud

Try an e on the end of his name.

Tyler childers uses a clip in his intro to way of triune god joyful noise

Glad it was only a story.

When I was in college as and doing teacher observation, the teacher the year before that she translated "Romeo And Juliet" into modern language for her remedial class and they all scored an A on the test.

"Shakespear"?

Folks, it's "ratcheer." Yankees...

Is it just me or does Andy distill complicated stories with a simple, down-home manner. I don't know but it sort of seems like that to me.

Bob

Damn so that's why Ron's gay ..lol