What does your reputation precedes you mean? To me, the phrase simply means that you are exactly what other people say about you, as the real you.
Mayberry is the name of a real community in Patrick County, Virginia; located 22 miles northeast of Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina.riffith, however, told Larry King in 2003 that Artie Stander is the person who thought of the name Mayberry; Stander was one of the show's creators and writers. Mayberry is a real community in Patrick County, Virginia, located 22 miles northeast of Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Griffith was also the executive producer of Mayberry, R.F.D. , the first spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, which ran from 1968 to 1971. In 1972, Griffith formed a production company, Andy Griffith Enterprises.The Andy Griffith Show'. Griffith's 1960 guest appearance as a small-town mayor on the sitcom Make Room for Daddy led CBS to give him his own sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show, in which he played the gentle, philosophical small-town Sheriff Andy Taylor.