Daytime Blue Ridge Tv Show Loaded Goat Recipe Room Freshner
Being impossible doesn't matter, it's one of the funniest TAGS episodes
I won't delve into whether or not it's possible, because reviewers discrediting it based on this aspect is ridiculous (it's a TV show where anything can happen). When Hutch decides to bring his pet goat uptown because the blasting on the underpass, which mayor Stoner is having built to bring the highway closer to his brother's filling station, makes him nervous. Hutch ties him to a bench while he runs errands. Jimmy, his goat, gets loose and wanders around town, and, in the process, eats dynamite... Lots of it (because he's always had a healthy appetite). Once he's finally found, Andy and Barney try to keep him from exploding.
There are some hilarious one-liners... Like when Andy asks Otis if he's seen a big Billy goat he responds "Oh no... But I will" (because he just bought some liquor). Barney yelling "There he goes!" when Andy is telling him to just stay calm is hilarious. And the end, when the mayor is giving a tribute to Andy and Barney because he thinks a blast he just heard was the gist going off, with Andy and Barney with him. Huthh calls Barney "the little feller".
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A goat eats dynamite
The Mayor determined to bring progress to Mayberry is involved with having a underpass built nearby. Town people joke that the motivation is more to do with having the freeway run by the mayors brothers filling station more than progress. The result are constant booms from the road crew using dynamite to clear way for the underpass. a local farmer brings his goat to town because the noise is making his goat nervous and he's afraid to leave it home alone. The goat chews through his ropes and wanders around town, eventually finding a stash of dynamite and eating a bunch of it. The show revolves around trying to keep the "loaded" goat from blowing up.
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Totally Without Scientific Credibility
The larger portion of this episode involves a goat who gets into some dynamite being stored. He eats a sizable portion and becomes the "Exploding Goat." All kinds of efforts are used to keep him calm, so he doesn't explode and destroy the sheriff's office and the jail.
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Great writing hampered by implausibility
Does anyone really think that dynamite in a goat's stomach, amid all that digestive liquid, could EVER explode? If you can suspend your disbelief, this was otherwise one of my favorite episodes.
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Not a classic episode
Couple of funny moments when Otis confronts the goat. As when he thinks the goat is uncle Matt. Like "The Pickle Story"where one unfunny subject is beat to death. Even kids watching know dynamite needs a detonator to go off. I don't mind breaches of logic if the end result is funny comedy..
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Funny,entertaining,but ridiculous
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Let's be serious. Jimmy the goat would have been shot dead ASAP if he was really a 'wandering bomb' from eating dynamite. In the name of public safety,any Sheriff would be obligated to do this immediately to protect the citizens. And the baloney about the goat falling over after being shot and exploding? Come on,if the goat chewed up the dynamite and it was soaking in it's stomach,the dynamite would be harmless. Plus,how far is the goat going to fall anyway? Geez. If you can put that aside,and if you have any sense of humor at all,this episode is indeed quite amusing. Barney Fife lighting a Zippo in a dark room and reading the writing on a case of dynamite is truly 'classic Fife' and worth the price of admission all by itself. Despite the weak points,the episode is indeed one of the best,and funniest.
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Bottom of the barrel
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To me this episode as well as The Cow Thief are the silliest episodes of the usually very funny Andy Griffith Show. I know a lot of reviewers think both episodes are great but not to me. My wife especially hated this one. The scene towards the end where Andy and Barney take the goat way out of town so it can explode seems especially cruel and especially unlike Andy and Barney. I usually watch most episodes when they come on but when I see these 2 albatrosses I quickly change the channel.
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