Breaking Mayberry

Marty and Dan leave the '60s for the bizarre 2010s. We meet the Glee Club, the weirdest, meanest, most annoying group of people ever to make your grandparents uncomfortable. It's all pop tunes and Obama-era optimism here in the Gleekend, and it makes us sick! It's Glee Season 1, Episode 3 "Acafellas" If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on  Bluesky , visit our  Patreon  or email...

Ol Barn's back in town, bay-bee and he is as infuriating as ever! We finally get #justiceforthelmalou and the Manhunt franchise ends with an inevitable wet thud. At least Warren's almost gone, though. Season 6, episodes 17 and 18 "The Return of Barney Fife" and "The Legend of Barney Fife"

Okay so you know how just like... the general concept of "art" is mostly considered good, like a good thing that most people enjoy. Well, that's wrong, and Andy Griffith is gonna tell you why. It's Season 6. Episode 14 "Otis the Artist" If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on  Bluesky , visit our  Patreon  or email us at breakingmayberry@gmail.com.

Content Note: This episode discusses media's portrayal of sexual assault for laughs Well, when you do enough AG double-headers, there's gonna be ones like these. We start with an episode that is absolutely nothing, and then move to a deeply upsetting one, one of the weirdest and grossest things put to TV. Also, Dan might get whacked for getting a haircut. AG Season 6, Episode 14 "The Church Organ"...

In an episode that's dedicated to talking dogs, we focus on a famous talking cat.  It's AG Season 6, Episode 12 "Man's Best Friend" and Episode 13 "Aunt Bee Takes the Job" If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on Bluesky , visit our  Patreon  or email us at breakingmayberry@gmail.com.

Okay a lot of weird stuff happened to Marty before and during this episode and we're going to talk about it a lot. But you'll be thanking us because it's a lot better than talking about Andy Griffith Show season 6 episodes 10 and 11, "Aunt Bee on TV" and "The Cannon." If you like this, leave a rating and review or visit our  Patreon  or email us at breakingmayberry@gmail.com.

It's an extra-long BREAKING MAYBERRY ALL-STARS featuring three of our favorite returning guests to talk about the three-no-wait-four-part Andy Griffith Epic - "The Hollywood Arc". Yes, for the first (only?) time in the show's run, the Taylors are leaving North Carolina, and this causes everyone to lose their damn minds. We brought in backup for this one, and our returning guests are bewildered and...

Dan and Marty take a little break from the doldrums of Mayberry with the classic(?) action movie TimeCop, starring our favorite cokehead gymnast Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dan remembers a repressed shame, we talk JCVDs terrible acting, and we fantasize about using time travel very irresponsibly. 

We go back to the 80s-restaurant-of-debatable-quality of "It's A Living" with Max Ludwig. This time around we explore a few episodes with Andy Griffith ties, including one where a group of grown adult women dress as children's fairy-tale characters in a way that's not at all creepy! Also Marty absorbs so much content it breaks him. It's "It's a Living" Season 3, Episode 14 "The Doctor Danny Show"...

Filmmaker and author David Dylan Thomas stops by the Mayberry studios to talk about 2024's I Saw The TV Glow, a movie that's about the horrors and freedoms of nostalgia but also about trans/queer stuff and also maybe about a short-lived McDonald's Ad Campaign. Support Dave's Kickstarter for "White Meat: Appetizer": https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daviddylanthomas/white-meat-appetizer Listen t...

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone... Barney Fife is gone and in his place arises a great evil, so terrible that not even the Andy Griffith Show can tolerate it for very long. Warren Ferguson has arrived, despair all ye mortals. It's Andy Griffith Show Season 6, episode 5 "The Bazaar" and 6 "A Warning From Warren" If you like this, leave a rating and rev...

Like Billy Pilgrim, Dan has become unstuck in time. That's why he keeps saying how tired he is after mentioning perfectly normal amounts of time to be awake. We say good-bye to the weirdest recurring characters, right as we were starting to like them. We also say "hello" to Aunt Bea's new boyfriend, and then we say goodbye just as fast. It's a very bittersweet turn of events on Season 6, Episode 3...

We're back in Mayberry for season 6 and the vibes are OFF for reals. Everyone's really tense and awkward and somehow Goober is the highlight. It's a really low point friends. But on the other hand, Marty gets to use a joke he's been holding onto for a while. It's Season 6, Episode 1 "Opie's Job" and Episode 2 "Andy's Rival" If you like this, leave a rating and review or visit our  Patreon  or emai...

Blood Knife Editor and co-host of Podside Picnic , Kurt Schiller drops by to talk about all things mystery with a pair of Poirots! We discuss the ins and outs of a great detective fiction, including bumbling cops and pedantic wealthy people. Plus, what if Jigsaw ran a casual chain restaurant? It's Agatha Christie's "Poirot", Series 1, episode 5 "Triangle at Rhodes" and Series9, Episode 3, "After t...

The boys start a new tradition, watching the Thanksgiving episodes of the beloved war dramedy MASH... what's that you say? There aren't any Thanksgiving episodes of MASH? ... The boys start a new tradition, painfully burrowing their way through a Thanksgiving episode of the much-hated and forgotten spinoff AfterMASH, featuring the worst possible choices all around. Dig in!

The failed Backdoor Pilot from the Six Million Dollar Man asks, what if there was like, a computer in your brain, man? The answer is, it would suck! But also some other weird stuff would be like, way better than that. Look there's a bunch of weird stuff in this episode, check it out. Subscribe to the  Breaking Mayberry Substack  for articles and ramblings! If you like this, leave a rating and revi...

Look we didn't want to do this one but circumstances forced our hand. We're talking about the Ron Howard-directed Hillbilly Elegy, a movie that Ron Howard is too stupid to understand is political. We all know that JD Vance's memoir is bullshit but would it surprise you to know it's also mean-spirited and it sucks ass? It wouldn't, because you listen to this show, but listen to us talk about it any...

Marty and Dan go back to Hazard County to revisit the Duke boys and their new, laid-back friend, Jude Emery. We get a narrator of our very own, name as many country singers as possible, and learn too much information about Marty's car. Special thanks to Grant. You'll see why. Subscribe to the  Breaking Mayberry Substack  for articles and ramblings! If you like this, leave a rating and review or vi...

The day has finally come - we're talkin' Doo. We discuss the weird place of Scooby Doo in popular culture, horniness, 80's rock band dynamics, horniness again, Jack Kirby, and the weird current state of the series. Marty gets really mad.  You can find 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo on Tubi. Don't worry about the other one. 

We've got Grant from Chip & Ironicus, Six Feats Under, and WSKRS, here to tell us about a show his father loves but can't remember the name of. We're covering The Amazing Race, CBS' not-quite-a-juggernaut world-crossing reality competition.   Learn about the wonders of flag twirling and airport logistics! Thrill at men who hate their wives! Watch as two teams of cops get absolutely owned! It's...

BACKDOOR LOVERS is back with another failed spinoff pilot! This time it's FORCE SEVEN, a tale of ninjas, Teamsters, and racist puppets that spins off of... hmmm... hold on, I've got it somewhere... oh well, who cares what show this is spinning off of? FORCE SEVEN certainly doesn't! It's its own thing, baby! We're doing episodes of "It's A Living" from Seasons 1, 2, and 3, all of which are basicall...

Parental Control is back with a new season of mom-and-dad shows. Dan's brother Max stops by to discuss a sitcom that only Mom Ludwig remembers, with a theme song out of Sondheim and one of the most bizarre plots we've ever seen on TV. We're doing episodes of "It's A Living" from Seasons 1, 2, and 3, all of which are basically different shows! Subscribe to the  Breaking Mayberry Substack  for artic...

We're back to Backdoor Lovers, the series about failed spinoff attempts! This time around, it's early-00's witch-core hit Charmed , a show that does not care if it gets a spinoff or not. We meet a whole new version of Dan, learn that the ocean is really small, and learn absolutely nothing about mermaid culture. Breaking Mayberry is back, baby! Subscribe to the Breaking Mayberry Substack for articl...

Hey look we brought someone on that actually knows anything about The Andy Griffith Show, it only took us six years or so. Evan Dalton Smith, author of " Looking for Andy Griffith " out in May from UNC Press, joins the boys for a wide-ranging discussion of all things AG and the culture around it. Also about Paul Giamatti, America's finest character actor. We cover Season 5, Episodes 31 and 32 - "O...

It's our big send-off to Don Knotts (bigger than what the Andy Griffith show did anyway) and we "celebrate" by counting down Barney Fife's biggest crimes against humanity. Then we cover more of Don Knotts' film career, including "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" and "The Reluctant Astronaut", a film which is in high contention for "most unfortunate release date timing." If you like this, leave a rating...