The Andy Griffith Show

As a kid, I'd watch this and think, wow, white people are crazy. Because you never saw merry black people. Therefore, you thought white people lived different than we did. Like, these things always struck me as being completely insane or this double standard where in movies, you know, during the Hays Code era, they would be twin-beds. But it's also this thing too, because also, roughly the same image. Remember that time when if you saw a white person and a black person in something, it was adult entertainment? They'd just be talking. There's nothing remotely sexual between them. A real black person, you kind of go, whoa