I just finished a fanfic for The Andy Griffith Show.
Tell me more about it! I love Mayberry. It's just so wholesome.
Not in my fanfics, lol!  My Mayberry takes place in an alternative universe.  A lot more crime going on.
So, not the Mt. Airy, NC town it was actually based off of. Tell me more about it.
Well, Barney does a lot to undermine Andy.  He is really trying to become Sherriff.  The humor is more sarcastic than the lighthearted stuff from the show.  Otis isn't a drunk, he is a pot head.  Aunt Bea drinks too much.  Opie is a juvinile deliquent.  And Thelma Lou is sneaking around with Andy.
Aunt Bea is a drinker, huh? I read somewhere one time she hit someone with an umbrella for cussing. Quite the change.
Yeah, well fan fiction kind of does that.  Some people love my stuff, others hate it!
Telle me more about it! I love Mayberry. It's so wholesome.
My next story is about Andy and Helen getting married, but Thelma Lou barges in drunk and objects.  Her and Aunt Bea get into a fist fight and end up falling into the chocolate fountain.
That sounds great. Aunt Bea didn't get along with Andy, so maybe you could use that too
On the show they got along, but in my fic she resents being single and a caretaker for Andy and Opie.