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"Jennifer: I'm sorry, Clarabelle; I keep forgetting. It's just that the odor of witch hazel atones me."
"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 Morrison: Let's go in!"
"Clarabelle Morrison: Oh, look; there's the Sheriff. Good."
"[The people laugh again as Aunt Bee and Opie exit the courthouse.]"
"Aunt Bee: Oh, don't joke, honey! He's liable to send you up to state prison!"
"Opie: Are you going to fingerprint me, Barney?"
"Aunt Bee: Oh, overlook, nothing! He was too busy yelling, "There will be no favoritism in Barney Fife's administration!""
"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..."
"[The people laugh.]"
"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..."
"Barney: Now that's unlawful assemblage in my book!"
"Aunt Bee: I was standing in front of the courthouse chatting with a group of ladies."
"Otis: Thanks, Andy."
"Andy: I'm afraid I'm going to have to dismiss him, Barney. You can go, Otis."
"Otis: I can't tell! I wasn't wearing my glasses!"
"Andy: Well, were you drunk when Deputy Fife arrested you?"
"Otis: Well, now; maybe I didn't see that there line because I wasn't wearing my specs. Drunk or sober, I can't tell nothin' much without my glasses."
"Barney: Just about! [chuckles]"
"Andy: What'd you do? Drop a net over the whole town?"
"Mayor Pike: Oh, it's an outrage, Sheriff! That's what it is! An outrage!"
"Andy: I know you did, and I appreciate that, but maybe you tried just a bit too hard."
"Barney: Yeah; I guess you're right. I was just trying to show you how much you could trust me."
"Andy: Listen to me, Barney. Listen to me just a minute. Now it's true you had them all dead to rights by the book. But now if you went strictly by the book, why I don't reckon we'd have anything in this country but about 180 million jailbirds."
"Barney: I had them, Andy! I had them all dead to rights! You can check the manual! Every one of them was as guilty as sin!"
"Andy: It must've been kept more this here day than all the other days put together!"
"Barney: Yeah, like I promised you, Sheriff. Law and order kept in Mayberry this here day!"
"Andy: Well, no wonder it's quiet in town; the whole population's in here!"
"Barney: Right!"
"Andy: We don't know where they are."
"Of course you smell gas. What do you think this car runs on, coal?"
"Jay walking is rampant!"
"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."
""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]."
""You look good enough to take to Chinatown!" (referring to Aunt Bee) in Season 5, Episode 5"
""But don't the trees sound nice and full?" Andy referring to the birds Opie has just let go. In 'Opie:The Birdman'."
""You beat everything Barney, you know that?" Andy to Barney Season 3 Episode 6"
""Call the man!" - Andy Taylor, after the freezer went out at home and Aunt Bee needed a place to keep her meat."
"NAUGHTY DEPUTY! (after Andy drops Barney's charges of arresting her for jaywalking)"
"Emma Brand: To think I voted for you last election; never even considered nobody else! BAD, BAD SHERIFF! (upon her frustration of Andy refusing to help her get her pills)"
"Brisco Darling (referring to Ernest T. Bass) -- "We thought about killin' him... didn't want to go that far.""
"Ernest T. Bass: It's me, it's me. It's Ernest T.!!"
"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!"
""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."
"Otis: [speaking of how his mouth feels] Shooby, shooby, shooby."
""Judy Judy Judy" -- Goober does his "Cary Grant" impression."
""Go-o-lly!" -- Gomer Pyle"
""Sha-zay-um!" -- Gomer Pyle (southern for "Shazam!")"
"You're a boob, Gomer!" -- Barney Fife, in "Citizen's Arrest"