Characters from the 1960s sitcom “The Andy Griffith Show” live forever with streaming services and YouTube, and one such character is “Aunt Bee”, who is the aunt of the main character Sheriff Andy Taylor, andy is a single Mom to his son Opie, so Aunt Bee fills the work of housekeeper and matriarch to the household.
- She is renowned for his cooking skills.
Aunt Bee goes through quite a transformation in the series 6th year when the episodes were first filmed in color and cigarette ads were recently banned from TV. His fashions become less dowdy, and he makes better choices in the men who choose to seek his affections. During the black and colorless seasons, his suitors include an itinerant handyman, a traveling medicine guy who sells the teetotalling Bee an alcohol-based “elixir”, a chain-smoking dry cleaner, and a rough and tumble mountain man. The color episodes have his keeping company with a retired Congressman, a visiting pastor, and a visiting mentor and mentor. My theory is that this transformation is due to a central a/c and heating method being installed into the Taylors house. The summers in NC can get quite warm and I’m sure that Aunt Bee was weary after cooking up his famous fried chicken or baking his award-winning pear pie for Andy and Opie. The Heating plus Air Conditioning method would have cooled things off in the dining room and may have eased his other household chores as well. With less dust and cigarette smoke to clean, he had time for a complete makeover. The city mechanic,Gomer Pyle, left to join the Marines, his substitutement “Goober” could have been recast as a qualified Heating plus Air Conditioning corporation to service the Taylor’s current Heating plus Air Conditioning unit in a recurring role. Perhaps he would have become another suitor of Aunt Bee.