What kind of dialectic game was Andy playing as he lost his southern accent when the show went to color?
It's plumb curious.
lol - actually, if you compare the things that differ as to that kind of thing between his accent in the pilot episode on the Danny Thomas show, the first episodes of Andy Griffith, and about a year later, you can hear his accent was changing all along.
That sort of thing happens when one is exposed daily to another, majority accent, and so on.
You'll recall "Mayberry" was actually in Los Angeles, or some such.
I'm reminded of someone who went off to the Military who returned pronouncing "Tuesday" with a sharper emphasis on the "two" sound, and so forth (even their taste in music had changed).
It's the Operating Principle or Governing Rule described as being the dynamic at work in the following passage of Scripture, though not necessarily in the negative aspect of it the passage is describing...
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Rom. 5:8
Acts 17:11,12
