The Andy Griffith Show - The Complete Fifth Season (2006, DVD)

Just like the past 4 seasons this disc set is great. The quality is unbelievable. I would recommend this series to any.

I know it's before my time, but I used to watch reruns of Andy Griffith when I was a kid. I fell in love with him then, and my feelings toward it have only grown. I have the first 4 seasons, and when I got done watching them all, I just had to have the 5th, so here I am.
This show takes you back to a day where BIG problems are actually nothing on todays scale of difficulties. Also, kids were kids and adults were adults. The kids didn't run the show, and parents didn't give in to every whim of the child. Families were close, friends were close, and in a small town such as this, gossip was there, but it was innocent and funny. Everyone was there to back you.
I know that if I had lived in this time, I would be quite elderly, or even gone from here, now. But I just wish I could find a little town where the values were such that the biggest crime might be a boy breaking a street lamp to impress his friends, or a jay walker might be taken in by "The Barn."
People don't always seem to really like people anymore. I'm not saying everyone, for sure. There are beautiful and wonderful people everywhere, even now. I know many. But you could do more for each other then. Even little things meant so much.
I guess my biggest love of this day is time. Time went on and on because people weren't rushing like they do now. There were always times where Aunt Bea had to rush a bit to get her homemade pickles to the fair contest for judging, or Opie had to run because he was late for school, but picture it: Sunday morning, get up, eat breakfast together as a family, walk to church, greeting people on the street as you go, never worrying that anyone would give you the cold shoulder....sit and listen to the preacher, nudging the codger next to you because he kept falling asleep, and then everyone gathering outside the church to talk and watch the kids run around and play and get their Sunday clothes dirty. Then you walk home, where a huge dinner is still slow cooking in the oven, the fragrance hitting your nose as you turn down your street. Everyone gets together in the afternoon to eat and talk and laugh, then you sit on the front porch in the late afternoon talking about fishing and telling old jokes your grandpa used to tell when you were kids. After a while some take a walk, go wading in the creek or make homemade ice-cream, while others fall asleep in the afternoon sun. In the evening, you have a snack while someone sings in the cooler night air, and when you finally head up to bed you feel so relaxed and calm after that wonderful "take it easy" day that you just know the week ahead is going to be wonderful.
I'm sorry, but to me, it sounds so much more amusing than everyone running this way and that all week, just to turn around and do it all again the whole weekend. There's never enough time anymore to do everything we need to get done.
I guess the innocence, the corny jokes and the moral lessons are just a few reasons why I watch it. When I sit down to an episode or five, (hehehe), I just absolutely love the mini vacation it gives my mind. I have 5 kids, and there isn't one who isn't into modern music, computers, video games and the stress of an overload of homework. But I also don't have one that can pass through our living room and not stop to watch a minute or two of Andy and Barney's shananigans. And 9 times out of 10, if they watch a couple minutes, they watch til' the end. It's great!!!
If you haven't tried it yet, I suggest you do!!!