Jonah, as far as I can make out, Mayberry was a nest of dysfunction. Who knows how many residents were tragically damaged by the severe alcoholic problems of Otis the Town Drunk? Clearly, Floyd the Barber was a tormented closeted homosexual, and let’s not even start talking about Gomer Pyle. Not to mention one of the town’s two police officers was paranoid, hysterical and terrifyingly eager to use his gun. Sure, they made it look like a rustic paradise, but would paradise have a seething underbelly?