Only the Andy Griffith show could take a fish story and turn it into a manhunt! What a show. Howard McNear is magnificent as Floyd the barber. "Awful pushy those carps. Oh yes." A bigone era when talent rained and reigned like a storm across the small screen. The GOAT of all television shows. Greatest of all time.
it's actually a double subversion. at the end, because of her pike line, we're not sure if she knew they were talking about fish all long or simply making a comparison
@@cagneybillingsley2165 Well yeah It was a reflective joke on racism. The actual joke was she thought they were talking about Asians (carp a racial slur for Asians, usually reserved for Chinese immigrants) and she mentioned not killing a pike ( Short for Pikey, a racial slur for those of Romani heritage). Now the word pike is used to slap the audience in the face and make them reflect on why they assumed that it was a race joke. It was in fact a race joke but also a fish joke with the idea of making people aware of racist thoughts they may have had.
The Beverly Hillbillies did something similar. Jed was speaking unknowingly to an undertaker, with this long tale about "putting a mess of greens in the ground" back home. Planting turnips, of course, but the undertaker thought he was talking about a family named Green who they feuded with. Jed says: "Made the mistake of planting those Greens on a slope, a gullywasher come, and the next morning, they was Greens all over our porch!" The mortician was horrified, heh...
Well the idea is that carp was a racial slur for Asians (particularly Chinese) and the Asian immigrants of the time were well known for being pushy. Well carp are also known for being a very pushy fish. If you are baiting or feeding fish in a pond they will push in and eat all the food even maiming and killing other fish to do so unless all other fish in the pond are also carp of a similar size. Even then they are pretty pushy and aggressive. Due to the time period this is what sold the 3 layer joke. The race joke that was also a fish joke but also a joke of "haha it was a fish joke all along you are a racist hahaha".
Where I live in TN carp are the some of the biggest game and best fighters, especially in creeks. They've absolutely taken over all the creeks and have really devastated native fish populations. Very pushy!
You talking about the Asian Carp? I have heard they were spreading in the south. In Illinois they were fighting those things all up the Illinois River because they were afraid they would get into Lake Michigan and destroy the fish populations there.
I know where I live.. Carp is sold in the fish market for food.. 😅 The fish vendor sell Carp buy the ton. everyday.. Because it's a real cheap price. Yes I do live in the Philippines 🇵🇭
the best part about the way this joke is written is that right at the end when she says “anymore than i’d kill a pike”… it makes you question whether or not she knew he was talking about a fish the whole time and she was just an animal rights type of person. they could’ve had her say any other name that wasn’t also the name of a fish. but they chose that specifically to throw the whole joke into a more “meta” thing. that type of writing wasn’t beret common back then. love it
The few times I watched this as a kid, I always thought that being a sheriff looked like the easiest job any man could have. And Floyd reminded me of my 7th grade geometry teacher.
Lewis Grizzard once did a column on this fish. He said there were three things his grandfather couldn't stand. They were: Jehovah's Witnesses, opera singers on the Ed Sullivan Show, and carps. Her last line wouldn't have worked with Mayor Stoner.
When I saw this on TV, I immediately thought that this came across like the work of Paul Henning. Sure enough, when the credits rolled, Paul Henning had written this episode. Make a few changes to the costumes and character names, and this scene could have been done word-for-word on another Paul Henning effort, ' "The Beverly Hillbillies".
This scene reminds me of an episode of The Beverly Hillbilly's,where Jed calls Happy Valley to buy a plot of land for Granny to plant a garden on not realizing it's a cemetery,and the man he talks to played by Richard Deacon thinks Jed and Ellie killed her and a family back in the hills named the Greens.
Comedy has always had profanity and sex, for literally thousands of years. Go read a some 2000+ year old Greek Comedies, they're so filthy we wouldn't put them TV nowadays.
It’s hard to understand this conversation. We have carp here where I live. Rare to see one in the wild. They are sold in pet stores. Breeders develop huge ponds to keep them in. Some come in the most amazing colors. We have a best in breed show once a year. I guess in the mainland they let them go wild. They are much admired here. It takes money to be able to afford them. It’s rare to see them offered to eat at fish counters.
I was having the opposite problem. I've honestly never heard of carp being admired. Where I live, they've always been thought of as a nuisance -- basically the rats of the lake. If you told someone you were breeding them, it'd be like telling them you were breeding wild field rats. They'd think you were some kind of nut. Fascinating to know that they're perceived differently elsewhere.
Here in Iowa my brother would spear them and throw them up on the bank. When we'd fish and catch one it would go up on the bank behind us to die. Real pushy fish!
So carp were a problem even back then? I’ve been hearing about the problem up in Indiana and Ohio rivers but I thought it was just the invasive Asian species
The only flaw with the show was that Andy should have been a town marshal instead of a sheriff. A sheriff has jurisdiction over the entire county and Andy only has jurisdiction over Mayberry that would have made him the Mayberry marshal. Not the Mayberry sheriff. See films like high noon and shows like lawman to see what I mean
@@SonGokusa666 I will do research. Because I needed to know what type of fish it is. Not just be told that it's a fish as if I didn't already know that. Thanks for trying to insult me.
A deep-bodied freshwater fish, typically with barbels around the mouth. Carp are farmed for food in some parts of the world and are widely kept in large ponds.
@@patriciaedwards6793I feel like SonGokusa666 wasn't trying to insult you. You did initially ask "What the heck is a carp anyway?", which definitely implies and sounds as if you didn't know that it's a fish and he was just telling you what it was.
@@coloradostrong Which witch hazel is the winnah? Might be the witch leading the Flying Monkeys in prayer. Which only goes to show ya.... a witch by any other name is still a pain in the ass.
I pulled one out of the water off an abandoned bridge. Took me at least five minutes to get him up to where I could kill him. He did not want to die. They're pushy! I asked my brother, "should we eat him?" He said no, too many bones, just leave him on the bank. People around my town were glad when we caught a carp and just threw them on the riverbank to die.
This is one of my favorite bits of dialogue from "The Andy Griffith Show". I grew up in the city, but my family moved to the country when I was in high school. City people think country people are odd, but believe me, country people feel the same way about city people! By the way, from what I've read, carps are considered pests in many parts of the country because they kill other fish. Thus, Floyd was quite right when he said they were "pushy"!
My brother and I just about died laughing at this one when we first saw it. I can understand why the lady was fooled. She walked in after learning that Andy always gets his man. Great scene.
I don't get it. The comedy is supposed to be that she thinks Carp is a person, but at the end she says "...any more than kill a pike" so she knew he meant a fish. What am I missing?
It's a standard way to resolve a silly situation: you top it with an unexpected twist that's even sillier. The writers knew full well that a pike is another fish. Spoiler: *sigh* yes, the reporter never realized it was a fishing story and not about a manhunt.
@@spencerfrankclayton4348 I wouldn't say "creepy", but the scene has more of an edge than most sitcom "misunderstanding" episodes, given that the woman actually believes the sheriff is going around murdering people.
@@spencerfrankclayton4348 That's why it's not really "creepy". Again, it's just a bit edgier than the old Three's Company misunderstanding joke when someone thinks Chrissy is pregnant when she isn't. Someone thinking Andy Taylor is a serial killer is funny and a bit surreal.
Only the Andy Griffith show could take a fish story and turn it into a manhunt! What a show. Howard McNear is magnificent as Floyd the barber. "Awful pushy those carps. Oh yes." A bigone era when talent rained and reigned like a storm across the small screen. The GOAT of all television shows. Greatest of all time.
it's actually a double subversion. at the end, because of her pike line, we're not sure if she knew they were talking about fish all long or simply making a comparison
@@cagneybillingsley2165
Well yeah It was a reflective joke on racism.
The actual joke was she thought they were talking about Asians (carp a racial slur for Asians, usually reserved for Chinese immigrants) and she mentioned not killing a pike ( Short for Pikey, a racial slur for those of Romani heritage).
Now the word pike is used to slap the audience in the face and make them reflect on why they assumed that it was a race joke.
It was in fact a race joke but also a fish joke with the idea of making people aware of racist thoughts they may have had.
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Never been a shoe that has absolute staying power like TAGS.
There will never be another Andy Griffith
It’s 2023 and I STILL watch the ANdy Griffith show every now and again . Shame that they don’t show more of the episodes with Floyd .
The Beverly Hillbillies did something similar. Jed was speaking unknowingly to an undertaker, with this long tale about "putting a mess of greens in the ground" back home. Planting turnips, of course, but the undertaker thought he was talking about a family named Green who they feuded with. Jed says: "Made the mistake of planting those Greens on a slope, a gullywasher come, and the next morning, they was Greens all over our porch!" The mortician was horrified, heh...
Floyd what a great character
My favorite on this show.
@@lleaha no he actually had a stroke during the fifth season, so he couldn’t move one side of his body well
Floyd was kinda of annoying sometimes, but funny as hell!! 😂
I always loved Floyd in this scene, "Pushy, They're awful pushy, Nobody likes a Carp.
Yes awesome man
Just listened to that line while typing this!!!!!
So funny. This is a good example of good comedy.😂
Only Floyd would describe a fish as being "pushy".
But they are pushy.
that is so funny !!! what a great episode !!
Well the idea is that carp was a racial slur for Asians (particularly Chinese) and the Asian immigrants of the time were well known for being pushy. Well carp are also known for being a very pushy fish. If you are baiting or feeding fish in a pond they will push in and eat all the food even maiming and killing other fish to do so unless all other fish in the pond are also carp of a similar size. Even then they are pretty pushy and aggressive.
Due to the time period this is what sold the 3 layer joke.
The race joke that was also a fish joke but also a joke of "haha it was a fish joke all along you are a racist hahaha".
They had such marvelous writers on that show!
Where I live in TN carp are the some of the biggest game and best fighters, especially in creeks. They've absolutely taken over all the creeks and have really devastated native fish populations. Very pushy!
You talking about the Asian Carp? I have heard they were spreading in the south. In Illinois they were fighting those things all up the Illinois River because they were afraid they would get into Lake Michigan and destroy the fish populations there.
Where in TN you live ?
I know where I live.. Carp is sold in the fish market for food.. 😅 The fish vendor sell Carp buy the ton. everyday.. Because it's a real cheap price. Yes I do live in the Philippines 🇵🇭
Best show ever made.
City folks.....
Classic TV show for young and old ....floyd the barber is the best.
Floyd
Great show one of the best still is
the best part about the way this joke is written is that right at the end when she says “anymore than i’d kill a pike”… it makes you question whether or not she knew he was talking about a fish the whole time and she was just an animal rights type of person. they could’ve had her say any other name that wasn’t also the name of a fish. but they chose that specifically to throw the whole joke into a more “meta” thing. that type of writing wasn’t beret common back then. love it
I just now realized that the mayor's last name is Pike so everything fit in place perfectly for the joke.
Even back then the Media got it wrong!!!...Smh!! :)
😂😂😂
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The few times I watched this as a kid, I always thought that being a sheriff looked like the easiest job any man could have. And Floyd reminded me of my 7th grade geometry teacher.
Must be one of the earlier episodes. They portrayed Andy as a lot more "yokelish".
November 20,1961
Also Floyd is on his feet. in later episodes he has had some kind of medical problem and was only shown sitting in the barber chair.
Lewis Grizzard once did a column on this fish. He said there were three things his grandfather couldn't stand. They were: Jehovah's Witnesses, opera singers on the Ed Sullivan Show, and carps. Her last line wouldn't have worked with Mayor Stoner.
Great show.
Andy Griffith is such a nice great funny show how everyone acted in the show of
Andy Griffith
Fake news Sheriff kills Mr. Carp lol
Sorry what
Don't say that
@@chantseboucher8113 He already did...
WTF?!?!?!?!?
It's a joke son!!
Her accent when she says “I’m so thrilled”. lol
How cool is that scene?😂
ummm.... medium cool?
When I saw this on TV, I immediately thought that this came across like the work of Paul Henning. Sure enough, when the credits rolled, Paul Henning had written this episode. Make a few changes to the costumes and character names, and this scene could have been done word-for-word on another Paul Henning effort, ' "The Beverly Hillbillies".
Green Acres, too
Great scene, very funny
This misunderstanding is right up there with threes company
Haha yeah that's true.
Yeah, threes company I remember Barney Fife went on to become a eccentric landlord
Somehow, this applies to life now🤔🤔
What about Howard Sprague? Now there's a man of action.
Lol
Floyd...the one barber who can cut the air to pieces...LOL
This how the media handles things today.
This scene reminds me of an episode of The Beverly Hillbilly's,where Jed calls Happy Valley to buy a plot of land for Granny to plant a garden on not realizing it's a cemetery,and the man he talks to played by Richard Deacon thinks Jed and Ellie killed her and a family back in the hills named the Greens.
Crap are biggest fishes love Andy Griffith show
This is good one
BACK WHEN COMEDY DIDN'T NEED profanity AND sex
blah blah blah....
HEAR, HEAR! 👏👏
Comedy has always had profanity and sex, for literally thousands of years. Go read a some 2000+ year old Greek Comedies, they're so filthy we wouldn't put them TV nowadays.
@@themonkeyhand - Put them TV?
Doesn't need it now....Idiots in Hollywood think it does
It’s hard to understand this conversation. We have carp here where I live. Rare to see one in the wild. They are sold in pet stores. Breeders develop huge ponds to keep them in. Some come in the most amazing colors. We have a best in breed show once a year. I guess in the mainland they let them go wild. They are much admired here. It takes money to be able to afford them. It’s rare to see them offered to eat at fish counters.
That's interesting
I was having the opposite problem. I've honestly never heard of carp being admired. Where I live, they've always been thought of as a nuisance -- basically the rats of the lake. If you told someone you were breeding them, it'd be like telling them you were breeding wild field rats. They'd think you were some kind of nut. Fascinating to know that they're perceived differently elsewhere.
Here in Iowa my brother would spear them and throw them up on the bank. When we'd fish and catch one it would go up on the bank behind us to die. Real pushy fish!
Carp Lives Matter
The reporter got a bit confused.
I thought I had seen every episode of TAGS but I've never seen this scene.
Just shows to go ya that people will jump to conclusions all the time. Very funny.
Helarious that both can be fish or people names.
So carp were a problem even back then? I’ve been hearing about the problem up in Indiana and Ohio rivers but I thought it was just the invasive Asian species
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Throwing carp on the bank was SOP on the upper Alleghany.
The only flaw with the show was that Andy should have been a town marshal instead of a sheriff. A sheriff has jurisdiction over the entire county and Andy only has jurisdiction over Mayberry that would have made him the Mayberry marshal. Not the Mayberry sheriff.
See films like high noon and shows like lawman to see what I mean
and that's why the crime rate is so low.
I used to read meandering with Margaret al the time.
The mayor's name just HAD to be Pike.
Them Carp's... = Media... Not knowing what the heck they reportin' on'...!
I think Floyd never actually cut any hair.
What the heck is a "carp" anyways?
A fish. Goldfish are part of the carp family. Lake carp can get quite large.
@@SonGokusa666 I will do research. Because I needed to know what type of fish it is. Not just be told that it's a fish as if I didn't already know that. Thanks for trying to insult me.
A deep-bodied freshwater fish, typically with barbels around the mouth. Carp are farmed for food in some parts of the world and are widely kept in large ponds.
@@patriciaedwards6793I feel like SonGokusa666 wasn't trying to insult you. You did initially ask "What the heck is a carp anyway?", which definitely implies and sounds as if you didn't know that it's a fish and he was just telling you what it was.
0:06 Floyd was observing Andy's hairy chin.
I think Floyd was drinking the which hazel
"witch" hazel not "which"
@@coloradostrong Which witch hazel is the winnah? Might be the witch leading the Flying Monkeys in prayer. Which only goes to show ya.... a witch by any other name is still a pain in the ass.
I don’t really get the joke. Nobody really likes carps. They eat up everything that’s good.
mayor pike. typical politician
What gets me is ya have white people with a b.l.m sign wth is wrong with thease people
What??
😂😂😂😂
Bua ha ha ha
What happened to this humor.....hell you couldn't air this today on NBC etc,,,,the radical Liberals would sh$t!!!
Why do you say it could not be aired?
My question also??
@@Ed_H. One of those people? Lol ,,,,,,oh wait did you vote for Joe? Cause I'm thinking you may be one of those people!!
Now for the Large Mouth Trump.
Canyonero to Kia Nero the Near appearance of nothingness, NEO or was that NERO OR ZORO OR ZORBA TO JAUN?
This joke is funny yet kinda bad in taste 😆
I killed a few carp in my time too they sure are fighters
I pulled one out of the water off an abandoned bridge. Took me at least five minutes to get him up to where I could kill him. He did not want to die. They're pushy! I asked my brother, "should we eat him?" He said no, too many bones, just leave him on the bank. People around my town were glad when we caught a carp and just threw them on the riverbank to die.
Greatest TV show ever!
Amen
That's an awful bold statement, but I would tend to agree.
This is one of my favorite bits of dialogue from "The Andy Griffith Show". I grew up in the city, but my family moved to the country when I was in high school. City people think country people are odd, but believe me, country people feel the same way about city people! By the way, from what I've read, carps are considered pests in many parts of the country because they kill other fish. Thus, Floyd was quite right when he said they were "pushy"!
personally, I think everyone is odd, humans in general are just odd creatures
My brother and I just about died laughing at this one when we first saw it. I can understand why the lady was fooled. She walked in after learning that Andy always gets his man. Great scene.
@@danger.snakes I agree 100%!
She wasn’t being odd. It was a misunderstood word.
@@brianarbenz1329 I didn't say she was being odd. I said the others thought she was odd.
An old fashion woodshed. Everyone needs one!
He was so funny Would have loved to have spent an afternoon with Howard
I like to come back to these just to enjoy them all over again!
I don't get it. The comedy is supposed to be that she thinks Carp is a person, but at the end she says "...any more than kill a pike" so she knew he meant a fish. What am I missing?
The mayor's last name is Pike
She did mean a person named "Pike." There are many in North Carolina. But I understand the confusion.
It's a standard way to resolve a silly situation: you top it with an unexpected twist that's even sillier.
The writers knew full well that a pike is another fish. Spoiler: *sigh* yes, the reporter never realized it was a fishing story and not about a manhunt.
That's right: Mayor Pike. Floyd says his name at 0:55 and, Miss Williamson knew his name was Pike and says "Mayor Pike" at 2:42
They are pushy lol
All of these people is already dead was on That Andy Griffith Show. Have already passed away Heaven or Hell
My dad had a fish story where he had to kill the fish with a boat paddle.
Today's liberal....
Creepy scene, like something right out of that there Twin Pikes.
Enrico Sanchez How is that creepy?
@@spencerfrankclayton4348 I wouldn't say "creepy", but the scene has more of an edge than most sitcom "misunderstanding" episodes, given that the woman actually believes the sheriff is going around murdering people.
@@bookerjones8123 That's the joke; it's not dark, though, since Andy isn't murdering anyone.
@@spencerfrankclayton4348 That's why it's not really "creepy". Again, it's just a bit edgier than the old Three's Company misunderstanding joke when someone thinks Chrissy is pregnant when she isn't. Someone thinking Andy Taylor is a serial killer is funny and a bit surreal.
@@bookerjones8123 - Not much of an edge.
Them cops are corrupt and sadistic
All lives matter not just black people