Summary[]
Plot[]
Arnold has a birthday party which is "stag or drag"....meaning dates. Opie tries for a week to ask Mary Alice Carter, but she avoids him to "water her mother's roses" in hopes that Fred Simpson will ask her.
Opie finally asks and Mary Alice agrees to be his date.....after which Fred asks her. She breaks the date with Opie to go with Fred.
Opie is initially crushed and doesn't plan on going to the party....but Andy encourages him to go ahead and act like it didn't even bother him. He goes and winds up with Mary Alice at the end of the evening.
Trivia/Notes[]
- Suzanne Cupito (Mary Alice) adopted the stage name Morgan Brittany some years later and has been a well-known actress, including a role in Dallas in the 1980s.
- David A. Bailey plays Fred Simpson but TAGS fans first recall seeing David play Opie's friend Trey Bowden.
- Andy tells Aunt Bee that Opie has been "sweet on Mary Alice since the first grade." However, Opie's longtime girlfriend throughout the series was played by Ronda Jeter and known variously as Karen Burgess, Sharon McCall or Sharon Porter. Mary Alice Carter was only mentioned in this single 1967 episode.
- This is another episode that features Opie as the main character and starts the season.
Goofs[]
- When they show Andy and Helen inside the squad car you can see that the front has been removed when the camera pans right.