Hillbilly Rampage Or A Feud Is A Feud

Marion, Alabama - As this is AmericaAmerica reviews and not some horrible, soulless place without Andy Griffith like Soviet Russia or EuroDisney, I assume most of us have seen some episode of The Andy Griffith Show at some point in our lives. If you haven’t, well then I pity you. Or envy you – I’m conflicted. Does anyone remember an episode entitled A Feud is a Feud? In this one, a young couple show up at Andy’s late one night wanting to be married. The two are members, respectively, of long feuding mountain families in the area. Long story short, Andy nearly gets his banjo-stroking ass capped performing the ceremony. The episode was obviously meant to parody the famous Hatfield/McCoy feud that claimed the lives of a dozen members of both families between 1800 and 1891. I wish I could say the assholes in this story were just poking fun at that old feud when they clashed violently in front of the Marion City Hall in Marion, Alabama – but I think they were fairly serious. [Read more...]