Red and Rover by Brian Basset for February 17, 2009
February 16, 2009
February 18, 2009
Transcript:
There sure isn't much crime in Mayberry. That's because Sheriff Taylor and Deputy Fife are on the job. What about the other six days of the week the show's not on?
Well, the setting is sort of nostalgic/timeless. He’s pretty careful to show nothing that didn’t exist in the late 1960s (which I guess was when he was a kid with his dog), but there’s nothing that says the things he does show couldn’t exist later than that period.
I think of it as a little bit of a parallel to the old Calvin & Hobbes existential puzzle - there was never any empirical proof to settle whether Hobbes’ state of being was the projection of Calvin’s fertile imagination or was Hobbes in fact under some sort of enchantment that only allowed him ‘life’ in the absense of any observers but Calvin.
I’d say later than ‘62, by the way. R&R have been shown watching Star Trek, and that only came on the air in ‘66.
jrs111456 almost 16 years ago
Where do they live that Andy Griffith is only on one day a week? It’s on several times a day here!
farren almost 16 years ago
They live in 1962, approximately.
rmbdot almost 16 years ago
Well, the setting is sort of nostalgic/timeless. He’s pretty careful to show nothing that didn’t exist in the late 1960s (which I guess was when he was a kid with his dog), but there’s nothing that says the things he does show couldn’t exist later than that period.
I think of it as a little bit of a parallel to the old Calvin & Hobbes existential puzzle - there was never any empirical proof to settle whether Hobbes’ state of being was the projection of Calvin’s fertile imagination or was Hobbes in fact under some sort of enchantment that only allowed him ‘life’ in the absense of any observers but Calvin.
I’d say later than ‘62, by the way. R&R have been shown watching Star Trek, and that only came on the air in ‘66.
Radical-Knight almost 16 years ago
Nothing happens in Mayberry on the other 6 days.