Opie's Girlfriend

Opie's Girlfriend
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Air Date	September 12, 1966
Cast	Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor Ron Howard as Opie Taylor Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee Taylor Howard McNear as Floyd Lawson George Lindsey as Goober Pyle Aneta Corsaut as Helen Crump John Reilly as Billy Mary Anne Durkin as Cynthia
Director(s)	Lee Philips
Writer(s)	Budd Grossman
Previous	A Singer in Town
Next	The Lodge
Sequential Episode	190

Summary

Opie's friendship with athletically superior girl blossoms when she follows the advice of an older female and adopts the clinging vine approach.

Plot

Opie's friendship with athletically superior girl blossoms when she follows the advice of an older female and adopts the clinging vine approach.

Notes/Trivia

• Opie reminds Andy of the time he was forced to go to a school dance. This is a reference to Look Paw, I'm Dancing.
• Opie is a class president.
• Goober makes friends with a skunk just like Gomer did in Private Ralph Skunk.
• Town layout inconsistencies: Opie and Cynthia go out to play where she does a better cartwheel than Opie in Opie's front yard. They then have a short foot race that only seems to be 2 houses down toward downtown square. At the end of the race, they are standing there by the finish line and Goober calls to them, to come over which suggests they are almost there. They arrive at the filling station, which seems to be on the same side of the street that Andy's house is on. This would suggest that the filling station is only 1 or 2 plots of land east of town square and 1 or 2 plots of land west from Andy's house. In previous episodes, Barney is also seen walking to the filling station from Andy's house for a bottle of pop and arrives on foot coming from the same direction Opie and Cynthia arrive from in this episode. The inconsistency is that the filling station is always seen far outside of town along a long tree-lined dirt road with no other buildings in eyesight from it.
• Helen's niece, Cynthia, had previously been mentioned in the Season 4 episode The Rumor.
• This is another season starter with Opie as the main character.
• The marks the second time Opie has a black eye. The first was Opie and the Bully.

Goofs

• Just after the football incident, Opie runs in through the front door, both eyes are fine. When he gets to his room upstairs, his right eye is very bruised.

Quotes

Aunt Bea to Andy: "Well did you find out anything?"

Andy: "It was Cynthia who hit him."

Aunt Bea: "Cynthia? I don't understand. Why?"

Andy: "She took a pass away from him."

Aunt Bea: "Well it was hardly a reason to....."

Andy: "It was interference!"

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