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"Barney: Now that's unlawful assemblage in my book!"
"Andy: Well..."
"Barney: I asked them to move along, but Aunt Bee kept right on talking! So I asked her again, and she said, "Stop interrupting!" Then another lady opened her umbrella; now that's inciting a riot!"
"Andy: Well, now, Barney, you could have overlooked it, seeing as how the women always do congregate in front of the courthouse down here, and seeing as how it was Aunt Bee..."
"Aunt Bee: Oh, overlook, nothing! He was too busy yelling, "There will be no favoritism in Barney Fife's administration!""
"Opie: Are you going to fingerprint me, Barney?"
"Aunt Bee: Oh, don't joke, honey! He's liable to send you up to state prison!"
"[The people laugh again as Aunt Bee and Opie exit the courthouse.]"
"Clarabelle Morrison: Oh, look; there's the Sheriff. Good."
"Jennifer Morrison: Let's go in!"
"Clarabelle: Jennifer! You will be the death of me yet! How many times must I tell you? A lady never goes into a barber shop!"
"Jennifer: I'm sorry, Clarabelle; I keep forgetting. It's just that the odor of witch hazel atones me."
"Clarabelle: Jennifer, you have got to control yourself!"
"Jennifer: But we've got to tell the Sheriff what we know."
"Clarabelle: Well, we will. We'll wait outside for him."
"Barney: "Let's you and me dance.""
"Maude (escaped convict): "What made you change your mind?""
"Barney: "You're beginning to get to me.""
"Maude: "You're a treasure!" (laughs)"
"Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor"
"Ronny Howard as Opie Taylor"
"Don Knotts as Barney Fife"
"Elinor Donahue as Ellie Walker"
"Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee"
"Hal Smith as Otis Campbell"
"[The people laugh.]"
""Call the man!" - Andy Taylor, after the freezer went out at home and Aunt Bee needed a place to keep her meat."
""You beat everything Barney, you know that?" Andy to Barney Season 3 Episode 6"
""But don't the trees sound nice and full?" Andy referring to the birds Opie has just let go. In 'Opie:The Birdman'."
""You look good enough to take to Chinatown!" (referring to Aunt Bee) in Season 5, Episode 5"
""Well, you and Aunt Bee is havin' fried chicken. And, I'm having crow..." [in answer to Opie's questions what's for dinner after Andy realized he was terribly in the wrong about something he thought Opie did]."
"Here at THE ROCK, we have two basic rules. The first rule is: OBEY ALL RULES. Secondly: Do not write on the walls, as takes a lot of work...to erase writing...OFF of walls. Now as we tell all men when these doors shut behind them, you are starting a new life. If you are wise, you'll begin rehabilitation."
"Jay walking is rampant!"
"Of course you smell gas. What do you think this car runs on, coal?"
"Deputy Barney Fife: Nip it! Nip it in the bud!"
""You got to spend a quid and some bobs to get anything good these days." Barney talking with Andy and Malcom Merriwether in 'The Return of Malcom Merriwether'."
""Well, where there's smoke there's firewater." Barney to Andy in 'Aunt Bee's Medicine Man.'"
""Maybe this will explain why Aunt Bee's feeling so good." Barney to Andy in 'Aunt Bee's Medicine Man.'"
""Sure Mike, sure." Barney drunkenly says to Andy after Otis spikes the spring water in 'Barney and the Governor.'"
"Citizen's arr-ay-est!, citizen's arr-ay-est!, citizen's arr-ay-est!" -- Said by Gomer Pyle (actor Jim Nabors) to Barney Fife (actor Don Knotts) in the episode aptly titled "Citizen's Arrest."
"You're a boob, Gomer!" -- Barney Fife, in "Citizen's Arrest"
""Sha-zay-um!" -- Gomer Pyle (southern for "Shazam!")"
""Go-o-lly!" -- Gomer Pyle"
""Judy Judy Judy" -- Goober does his "Cary Grant" impression."
"Otis: [speaking of how his mouth feels] Shooby, shooby, shooby."
""Where's my plaque? Give me my plaque." -- Barney describing how Otis is going to arrive at the mayor's office to receive an award."
"Well, now, maybe I didn't see that there line because I wasn't wearing my specs. Drunk or sober, I can't tell much without my glasses!"
"Ernest T. Bass: It's me, it's me. It's Ernest T.!!"
"Bob Denver - Gilligan"
"Dawn Wells - Mary Ann Summers"