The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series) Fun Girls (1964) User Reviews

Sweetly hilarious !

[ronnybee2112 · 9/10 · 1 April 2021]

This is a wonderfully sweet and extremely funny episode that only seems to improve upon subsequent viewings.

The writing is good,the direction is good,the actors all play their parts very well. The whole show clicks along so smoothly and is so dog-gone funny that it seems like it is over with way too soon! One of the very best episodes,surely in the top 5 I say. Check it out for a smirk,a smile,a giggle, a chuckle,a good laugh,and several knee-slapping guffaws !🤡🌞

The Fun Girls invade

[mloessel · 8/10 · 10 June 2022]

Let's put two maniacal ladies with Taylor and Fife and add Gomer and his cousin Goober now we have the making of an episode full of comic relief.

First we have Taylor and Fife being invaded by Daphne and Skippy (from Mt Pilot). These ladies are party girls who've taken a liking to Taylor and File. Taylor and Fife had planned to spend a quiet evening at the Sheriff's office doing some inventory. That changed when Fife somehow encounters the ladies on his way back from getting sandwiches at the local diner. When Fife returns to the office he has the girls in tow. They show up with their usual maniacal behavior. Daphne likes Taylor and Skippy is all over Fife. Taylor and Fife seem helpless to their advances and for some reason neither Taylor or Fife tells these ladies that they have girlfriends. I doubt that would've made a difference.

Secondly the work they were planning to do (the inventory) takes a backseat to the boys deciding to take the girls back to Mt Pilot. What they didn't know is Helen and Thelma Lou see them leaving with the girls as they leave the Sheriff's office. The following morning the girls choose to ignore the boys when Fife says, "Hi, when he sees them across the street. Fife walks across the street (Sheriff Taylor is close behind) approaches the girls and they are very agitated when they explain that they saw the boys with the two ladies the previous night. Unfortunately Helen and Thelma Lou are very jealous and may see Daphne and Skippy as rivals thinking the boys prefer them. I like that the boys feel overwhelmed by these fun girls and don't have the presence of mind to give them the heave ho. Because of their jealous nature Helen and Thelma Lou are taken aback when they see Daphne and Skippy w/the boys.

The writers chose not to have the four ladies encounter each other. The closest they get is at the yearly dance when the boys show up with the fun girls and Helen and Thelma Lou are partnered with Gomer and Goober. Eventually the boys team up with Helen and Thelma Lou and the fun girls connect with Gomer and Goober. The boys take the opportunity to explain to Helen and Thelma Lou what happened when the Daphne and Skippy showed up. They accept the Boys explanation.

Finally ... Later at the Sheriff's office Gomer and Goober drop off the fun girls and the boys take them back to Mt Pilot. Although the fun girls only appear a few times in the show's 8 year run Daphne and Skippy (aka. Joyce Jameson and Jean Carson) play these characters with precision. They are flirtatious and argumentative. When we first meet the fun girls we learn that Daphne has a large size boy friend that Taylor tangles with. That scuffle ends with Taylor getting a black eye.

2 things RIDICULOUS!

[skarylarry-93400 · 7/10 · 4 November 2021]

Andy would have shown his badge way before he got punched! No fight would have happened (no black eye)! And, wouldn't he have been arrested? DUH!!!!!!!

Fun Girls

[BFPierce · 10/10 · 29 December 2018]

No matter how many times I see this episode I laugh like it is the first time viewing it. Priceless piece of comedy.

A Classic

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 11 December 2019]

If you remember the night Andy got a black eye, you will remember the two women he and Barney hooked up with. They are such characters, so uninhibited and so crass. Barney runs into them at the diner and they come back to the courthouse. Thelma Lou and Helen become intensely jealous and things go from there. This is probably the first time we meet Gomer's Cousin Goober, played by George Lindsay.

Top 5 TAGS episode

[vitoscotti · 10/10 · 20 May 2022]

"Fun Girls"" Daphne (Jean Carson), and Skippy (Joyce Jameson) have a special place is tv history. Always a treat to watch this episode. Love when Skippy calls Barney Bernie. Then pushing him around like a ragdoll. Also like when the fun girls are introduced to Aunt Bee and Opie. Aunt Bee pulls Opie backwards to get him out of the room yanking him by his collar.

Goober's impressions have brought me a lot of laughter over the years. Shame that Jim Nabors and George Lindsey weren't in more TAGS episodes together.

Great epilogue when dopes Goober and Gomer don't know what to do with the fun girls after the dance.

Goober Arrives...Plus The Mt. Pilot Party Girls!

[AudioFileZ · 9/10 · 9 December 2023]

This episode has some golden nuggets. Goober, what can you say except one of the funniest faces and mannerisms of any character seen on TAGS. Fans loved it and George Lindsey parlayed into a career. Then there's angry Andy. Known to be a level headed fatherly kind figure we get to see his other side courtesy of Barney's antics. And those antics. A simple dinner carry-out run turns into a whole other ball of wax courtesy of those 2 crazy gals from Mt. Pilot we've met once before. Graciously called "Fun Girls" is a bit of classic understatement. Daphne (Jean Carson) just kills with her low smoky voice and classic line: "hi, doll". Skippy (Joyce Jameson) does the same with her exaggerated smile and giggle. Oh yeah, she crushes with never bothering to call Barney by his name instead always calling him Bernie. When Thelma Lou and Helen see Andy and Barney in the squad car sandwiched to the ribs by the "Fun Girls" as they attempt to rid themselves of an unwelcome situation the jealousy is on. Such blunders as this rarely get righted in just under a half-hour, but this is Mayberry and Andy! Though the coda kind of admits to this fact hilariously. A true classic episode.

Not a fan of this idea

[bobforapples-40146 · 6/10 · 14 March 2024]

Joyce Jameson was certainly very beautiful to watch on a show in the 60s. Jeanne Carson was excellent in the escaped lady convict ep of this show. But combining the two of them over and over in the same scenes has a massive problem. The dialogue between the two of them sounds awful contrived. It looks for forced of the show's writers to try to convince us that these two talk this way to each other all the time. Thelma and Helen had what sounded like real dialogue. The fact that they ( T and H) do not understand when they see the fun girls and give especially Andy the great benefit of the doubt maybe very hard for children watching this show also. Joyce Jameson would have been great enough as just one fun girl dividing herself between Andy and Barney ( or trying to).