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Helen could NOT have taken that photograph!

posted 8 years ago by rob-2423
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In the episode where Andy umpires Opie's baseball game, he rules that Opie was out, thus ending the game with a Mayberry loss. There was a lot of speculation and accusations during the episode, and in the end it was discovered that Helen photographed Opie's slide, and that he was in fact safe. When you watch the episode, not only was she not at the correct angle to have taken the picture, but immediately after the slide, you can clearly see that Helen did not take a picture.

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[–] FlushingCaps 8 years ago

Rob, I haven't seen that episode for years. But as soon as I saw your headline I knew what you were writing about and that you are correct.

I remember years ago seeing that episode and noticing then that Helen would not have been at the right angle to have taken the photograph shown. Just another production flub where they didn't care to take time to set things up to have the actions match the script.

Why don't we just shoot 'em down and be through with it?

[–] hifijohn 8 years ago

and she was using on of those cheap point and shoot cameras, which doesnt have the shutter speed fast enough to catch that type of action.

[–] alanjobe 8 years ago

The thing that always got me about that episode is that Helen and Bee choose to never show the picture to anyone.

But wouldn't the guy at the drug store who developed the picture have seen it when it came out. I mean, the whole town was supposed to be talking about that game, so wouldn't he have blabbed to everyone about Andy being wrong?

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[–] Ar_mp15 8 years ago

No one else saw it. Helen has her own dark room

[–] kds-lcos 8 years ago

wouldn't the guy at the drug store who developed the picture have seen it when it came out.

Not really... the guy at the drug store was probably too busy looking for 60's porn in the towns people pictures.

[–] Tristan_Booth (405) 8 years ago

wouldn't the guy at the drug store who developed the picture have seen it when it came out. I mean, the whole town was supposed to be talking about that game, so wouldn't he have blabbed to everyone about Andy being wrong?

I had thought of that too, but in "A Trip to Mexico" they refer to the photos as having "come back," implying that the guy at the store (Elmo) had sent them out to be developed. So if he wasn't the nosy type, he probably didn't open the envelope.

[–] madman58 8 years ago

i spotted that before too. also,it looks like aunt bea is drinking a bottle of beer.(looks like anyways).

[–] Tristan_Booth (405) 8 years ago

it looks like aunt bea is drinking a bottle of beer.

LOL. Yes, it does. Of course, it's a bottle of pop, but you can't see the label, and the look on her face after she drinks it does make it seem more like it had been alcohol. She kind of shakes her head slightly.