Plot hole: When Barney and Andy are on the street watching the window painter, Andy looks over and says "I believe that's Briscoe Darlin's truck!" - but when they were driving up to his place the next morning, they both got out of the car and were wondering where their house was they heard music playing. The next scene shows them pulling in - seems that if he was able to recognize the truck in town, he would have been able to recognize the truck and they could have drove around looking until they found it?
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
1 plot hole in season 3 - chronological order
Starring: Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Andy Griffith, Frances Bavier
Continuity mistake: When Opie surprises Andy by telling him that he wants to take piano lessons with Clara, he heads to the piano to play what he already knows, and when Opie plays Chopsticks on the piano he's wearing a different shirt.
Opie's Group - S8-E9
Andy: Clara, sometimes a parent can't see what he should do, and sometimes it takes a person from the outside to show him. And I'd like to thank you.
Clara: Groovy.
Trivia: Jack Dodson, who later played Howard Sprague, was originally cast to play Ed the Insurance man in an earlier episode called "Lost and Found".
Question: Why is it when they were on the show the Darling sons never spoke? Would they be paid more if they did, or was this some sort of joke?
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Answer: It was a joke. They were supposed to be dumb hillbillies.
Both. According to later interviews with both Andy and the Dillards band (the real name of the band that played the parts of the Darling children, of which Charlene (Maggie Peterson - Mancuso was also a member) the reason the Darling boys never had any lines was because they would've had to have been paid if they spoke. In return for appearing without lines or pay, Andy promised to get as much of their music onto the show as possible which, he did. This obviously gave them a lot of exposure.