sitcoms. >> you do like pickles, don't you? >> oh, sure! who don't? >> andy griffith was a small-town sheriff. didn't have a lot of money, and they were kind of, like, simple. >> i'm going to enter the competition after all. yes, sir, i'm going to enter these pickles. >> these? >> these? >> these? >> these. >> that was like a fantasy of a world and an america in which race and class just kind of didn't exist. >> ms. jennifer, ms. clarivel. >> it was probably the whitest show on television. i mean, there are no black people in mayberry. if they are, they're passing through, and if you blinked, you missed them. >> they're okay, pa, they all flew off okay. guess i did a good job huh, pa? >> you sure did, son. >> the show immediately hit the top 10.