Breaking Mayberry

The Mayberry boys are joined by internet legend Grant from Sex Archie, History Honeys, and Let's Play with Chip and Ironicus for yet another weirdly dark trek into Andy Griffith territory. Marty discovers some famous Mormons, Dan has a solid horror movie pitch, and Andy would rather disqualify the hard work of the town choir rather than have a slightly embarrassing conversation with his best frien...

Marty and Dan come across an episode which fits the basic threshold of decent writing, and it is an oasis for them. Dan meets some Luchadors, Marty has his mind blown by a dry cleaner, and Barney Fife actually does something kind of badass. It's Season 2, Episode 18 - "Jailbreak!" Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky End Music: "Appalachian Coal Mines" by AskAgain: http://freemusicarchive.o...

It's an extremely frustrating and superstitious episode wherein Marty gets into an altercation with his mailman, Dan channels Alex Jones, and in Mayberry, Barney and Floyd drive a man to the brink of suicide but then make it all better with a free TV. It's Season 2, Episode 17 "The Jinx" Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky End Music: "Appalachian Coal Mines" by AskAgain: http://freemusicar...

It's our mid-season decompression episode and we got a special guest who actually knows what they're talking about. Gabe Bullard from The Bitter Southerner joins us to talk bout the history of rural comedy and the lasting effects of the Corncob County era of TV. We're talking Hee Haw, King of the Hill, and the dogwhistle-racist origins of The Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Oh yeah, and there's some Andy...

I mean, the main theme of this episode is pretty much in the title, but if you want to know more, Marty and Dan stumble upon a potential real-life murder-mystery conspiracy, we meet Dr. David Banner, and Barbara Eden gets Mayberry so horny that the mayor fucking dies. It's a double-header of Season 02 Episode 15 and 16 - "Bailey's Bad Boy" and "The Manicurist" Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/slee...

It's a double header as we take on some of the grossest and the dumbest episodes down the pike of Season 2. First, Opie may or may not have burned down a barn, and Dan doesn't know how farms work in S02EP14 - "Keeper of the Flame." Then, we get a special guest star in the next episode - a giant stupid asshole who thinks women are property! hooray! It's "The Farmer Takes A Wife!" Season 2, baby!

IT'S PICKLE TIME! Marty and Dan call in a fermentation expert (Amanda Feifer of http://phickle.com/) to talk pickles to us, as we take on AG Season 2, Episode 11 - The Pickle Story. Learn about the miracles of botulism, listen to us do pickle-chewing ASMR, and find out how Andy Griffith is a shill for the corporate pickling industry. More importantly, buy Amanda's book! Amanda's book, "Ferment You...

This episode explains why job interviews exist, as Barney gets offered a job as sheriff of a neighboring town, and Andy does his damnedest to keep his friend from having a fulfilling career. Marty and Dan stumble on some conspiracies, debate chicken depression, and decide how much Andy Griffith had to do with the Kennedy assassination. It's AG Season 2 Episode 12 "Sheriff Barney" Listen to Sabrina...

Breaking Mayberry is on the YouTubes now. We're a cooking show. It's happening. Keep those Likes coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fU4YuPM7Ns

We're still doing Mayberry, don't worry, but this time around we brought in another show for comparison. Andy and Barney want to join a club, so do Frasier and Niles. Marty and Dan are also joining a club, whether Dan likes it or not. It's AG S02EP10 - "The Clubmen", with bonus Frasier S02Ep18 - "The Club" Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky End Music: "Appalachian Coal Mines" by AskAgain:...

Marty and Dan step up on the stage for the first-ever Breaking Mayberry live show! Support South Street Cinema: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1358085566/south-street-cinema-ii

Allright, this is probably our most immature episode so far, but we had some steam to blow off, and this fruit was low-hanging. This episode is about an old woman who hooks up with travelling drifters, I don't know how else to break it to you, there it is though. Marty and Dan respond about as well as can be expected. Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky End Music: "Appalachian Coal Mines"...

This week, Barney does a sexism, skeet gets shot, and Marty and Dan ponder the sexual escapades of Philadelphia's many Benjamin Franklin impersonators. It's Season 2, Episode 8, "The Perfect Female." Come and see BREAKING MAYBERRY LIVE! https://www.facebook.com/events/311184442830383/ (Part of the Everything is Awesome/HEADstrong Comedy Festival.) Donate to the South Street Cinema Kickstarter: htt...

Okay, so about halfway through the discussion here, we realize that this episode is actually terrible and makes no sense and that's about it from there. It's Season 2, Episode 8 "Crime-Free Mayberry" Come and see BREAKING MAYBERRY LIVE! https://www.facebook.com/events/311184442830383/ (Part of the Everything is Awesome/HEADstrong Comedy Festival.) Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky End Mu...

We meet the most crust-punk of all Andy Griffith characters in this episode, Mad Men is discussed at length, and Marty does a pretty solid Tom Waits impression. It's Season 2, Episode 6, "Opie's Hobo Friend." Come and see BREAKING MAYBERRY LIVE! https://www.facebook.com/events/311184442830383/ (Part of the Everything is Awesome/HEADstrong Comedy Festival.) Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptal...

(NOTE: This is a re-load of episode 13, with a new intro by Marty, here in time for the holidays!) It's Christmas and the Breaking Mayberry crew is celebrating with a special guest, Joe Wade from the hit podcast Christmas Creeps! ( https://christmascreeps.com/) Joe joins us to talk about S01EP11, "The Christmas Story", the only holiday episode in the entire Andy Griffith canon, where an old man tr...

Legal council Ian Roberts returns for our back-to-back legal episodes! Ian explains the history of "the pill" and its availability, Dan learns secrets about J Edgar Hoover, and Barney Fife accidentally gets into some cuckold/swinging shenanigans. This shit is weird, folks. It's Season 2, Episode 5, "Barney on the Rebound!"

Marty and Dan sat down again with their legal expert Ian Roberts to talk about historical financial contracts and the breakdown of the post-Civil war southern economy, all while Andy tries to keep a senile old man from being evicted. Look, there's a lot going on in this episode, okay? It's Season 2, Episode 4, "Mayberry Goes Bankrupt!" SUPPORT BREAKING MAYBERRY ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/...

Come on down to Barney's Secret Hole, a magical place special to Barney. Is it a hole that only Barney knows about, or is it a hole where Barney's secrets are kept? No one knows, I guess. That's why it's a secret hole. Marty and Dan try to survive election night by plowing through episodes 2 and 3 of AG Season 2. First, in "Barney's Replacement", Barney resigns from the Mayberry PD, a move that ma...

Marty and Dan are back for Season 2, and we start with a very special episode about the dangers of bullying, and how Opie is impervious to pain. In S02EP01 "Opie And The Bully", Opie is constantly losing his milk money to a slightly taller child, and Andy provides the best course of action: Lying to his son to put him in physical danger. Marty and Dan take on the Great British Baking Show and the...

It's the Season 1 Finale of Breaking Mayberry, and we're closing out with our first movie episode! Going back a few years before the AG Show premiered, we're taking on 1957's "A Face In The Crowd", starring Andy Griffith as a conman drifter named Lonesome Rhodes. It's the darker side of the Mayberry coin as Marty and Dan talk about the Hollywood blacklist, Andy's cult following, and the difference...

It's an ACTUAL sequel, not one we screamed into existence! When Jim Lindsey, the famous guitar player from episode 2 of our podcast returns to Mayberry, Marty and Dan have a great realization: We absolutely hate Jim Lindsey. Also, the boys have to say good-bye to their true love, Elinor Donahue, as she leaves the Andy Griffith Show never to be mentioned again. Next, Marty and Dan take on Episode 3...

It's the long-awaited sequel to MANHUNT and Marty and Dan are absolutely thrilled. When an escaped criminal comes for Barney, it's a non-stop thrill ride of body-blocks and serious shocks or something like that. Look, this episode rules. Just listen. SUPPORT BREAKING MAYBERRY ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/breakingmayberry Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky End Music: "Appalachian Co...

In this episode, we witness a scientific miracle happening in Mayberry - the miracle of birth, but without that whole pesky part of "women" being involved. Comedy Writer Jordana Lipitz joins us for Season 1, Episode 29 "Quiet Sam." We get some new theories on Barney's days in the war, do our best Spongebob impressions and debate the merits of menstruation tents. Then, Dan and Marty return for Seas...

Marty and Dan come back to the farm for just... just a shocking amount of sexism, even by 1961 standards, holy hell. Season 1, Episode 27, "Ellie Saves A Female" refers to women as "female" in the title and it doesn't get better from there. SUPPORT BREAKING MAYBERRY ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/breakingmayberry Music by Max Ludwig: twitter.com/sleeptalky End Music: "Appalachian Coal Mines"...