The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)

The Battle of Mayberry (1966)

Ron Howard: Opie Taylor

Quotes 

• Andy Taylor : Anything happen is school today?

  Opie Taylor : Johnny Paul dropped his bacon and tomato sandwich on the playground.

  Aunt Bee Taylor : Oh, what a shame.

  Opie Taylor : You should've seen it after it got stepped on a few times.

  Andy Taylor : Stepped on? Didn't anybody see it lyin' there?

  Opie Taylor : We all did. We took turns jumpin' on it.

• Clara Edwards : Now that's the sword that my great grandfather, Colonel Edwards carried all through the battle.

  Opie Taylor : What did he do in the battle?

  Clara Edwards : Hasn't anyone told you? He was the commanding officer. And when the other settlers, crazed with hunger and thirst wanted to give up, he led them in a stirring charge that broke the spirit of the indians and brought the final victory.

  Opie Taylor : Wow!

  Clara Edwards : Waving his sword in the air, he yelled at his men, "Onward boys! Do you want to live forever?".

• Floyd Lawson : Well Opie, it was my ancestor, Colonel Caleb Lawson who was in at the very beginning, Ol' Stonewall Lawson. He was the big hero.

  Goober Pyle : What?

  Floyd Lawson : That's right. Those are the facts.

  Goober Pyle : Well it just so happens one of my kinfolk is the hero. Colonel Goober Pyle of the North Carolina 7th cavalry. I never even heard of Colonel Lawson.

  Floyd Lawson : Never heard of him? Read your history, boy. Why he had the biggest herd of cattle in the settlement. The indians drivin' the herd off started the whole thing.

  Opie Taylor : Gee, I didn't know that.

  Goober Pyle : I ain't surprised. Nobody knows that except for Floyd.

  Floyd Lawson : You lookin' for trouble?

  Goober Pyle : Before you write all that down, Ope, it happened to be my ancestor who come roarin' outta the stockade and held them bloodthirsty savages off.

  Floyd Lawson : Opie, you ain't puttin' all that bushwa down?

  Goober Pyle : Don't you call my relatives bushwa!

  Floyd Lawson : All I want is this boy to get the truth.

  Goober Pyle : Then he come to the wrong place.

• Opie Taylor : Even the kids were kind of upset with me. Most of 'em had Colonels in their families too.

• Tom Strongbow : That's right Opie, it was my revered ancestor, Chief Strongbow that led the Cherokee in the defense of their traditional hunting grounds.

  Opie Taylor : Chief Strongbow, gee, was he wounded?

  Tom Strongbow : Oh yeah, many times. Matter of fact, look at this. This is just one of the musket balls that the medicine man took out of him after the battle.

  Opie Taylor : Gee, that was a pretty tough battle I guess.

  Tom Strongbow : It was for the indians. It was 50 braves against 500 settlers.