Some Aunt Bea Nostalgia quoted from Everett Greenbaum, a writer on the Andy Griffith Show:
"Now Aunt Bea was different. I just hated her guts. She made it a point, every time we were together socially, of saying 'There's only one thing wrong with the show. The writing is terrible.'
She was nuts and people got fed up with her. Some fans in a Southern town invited her to come and visit. She got along fine for a while. They even helped her buy a house. At the end of six months, no one would talk to her."
Kisseloff, Jeff. The Box, An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961:Viking 1995