The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)

The Battle of Mayberry (1966)

Frances Bavier: Aunt Bee 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.

• Aunt Bee Taylor : Well the idea! Clara's beginning to think she led that charge herself.

• Aunt Bee Taylor : Well how did all these stories get started?

  Clara Edwards : That's here too. "Both sides realized that the true story of the battle would be a sorry tale to tell their womenfolk, so the story of the bloody Battle of Mayberry was conceived and born after the last shot had been fired."

• Aunt Bee Taylor : Oh, everybody's taken so much pride in the part their families played in the battle.

  Clara Edwards : There's not too much pride in 50 settlers and 50 indians sittin' around gettin' gassed.

• Andy Taylor : [reading from the newspaper article]  "The whole fiasco began with the death of Bessie Lawson."

  Aunt Bee Taylor : There, you see, Floyd's great grandmother.

  Andy Taylor : "Bessie was their mean ol' cow that an indian shot by accident."

• Andy Taylor : [reading from the newspaper article]  "Then out from the stockade stepped Lieutenant Edwards."

  Aunt Bee Taylor : Lieutenant Edwards, Clara's ancestor, the Colonel.

  Andy Taylor : "He approached the indians on a wavering course holding a fearsome weapon in his hand."

  Aunt Bee Taylor : The sword!

  Andy Taylor : "A jug of Mayberry's finest corn liquor. One drink led to another and when they were all happy and friendly, they went into the woods to shoot some deer to pay Lawson for ol' Bessie."