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Fun Trivia: A : Andy Griffith Show: Characters

Special Sub-Topic: The Legendary Barney Fife


Barney is always looking for a crime to solve and someone to lock up. To help raise Barney's confidence, Andy and the drug store clerk, Ellie, fake a robbery for Barney to work on. How much money was supposedly taken form the cash register?

    24 dollars. Ellie asks Andy, "Isn't that sort of a cheap crime?" Andy responds that with it being Barneys first crime, that he better start at the bottom and work his way up.

There is an episode in season 5 in which Fred Plumber, Mr. Foley's new sweeper, threatens Barney for giving him a ticket for littering. Fred tells Barney he will beat him to a pulp if he sees him without what?
    uniform. The episode is "Barney's Uniform", which is explanatory to the question.

Barney and Goober go to a police auction where Barney buys a fortune telling kit. After trying it out on Opie, where Opie's first 2 wishes come true, he decides to try it on himself. What does Barney wish for?
    New fingerprint set. After Opie's wishes for a jack knife and a B in arithmetic come true, he tries the kit on himself. One night after work, Barney, Goober, and Floyd go into the back room of the courthouse where Barney receives one wish from the count. Barney says he doesn't want to make it to difficult and then wishes for a new fingerprint set.

In the episode "High Noon in Mayberry", Barney believes that Andy needs protection after receiving a letter from a man Andy shot years ago in a filling station robbery. What two people do Barney get to help give Andy 24 hour protection?
    Gomer and Otis. We find this out in one scene where Barney has both Gomer and Otis in the courthouse where he makes them both temporary deputies. Otis is reluctant, but Gomer thinks it'll be fun.

In the episode "The Jinx", Barney tries to take precautions against Henry Bennett, whom Barney believes is the town jinx. While reading a book, he finds that rubbing this color hair will help ward off bad luck. What color hair is it?
    Red. While reading a book, Barney finds that rubbing the head of a red haired man will help ward off back luck, but if a red haired man can not be found, that a boy will do. He then looks at Opie and says, "Well, nobody has more red hair than that carrot top of yours."

Andy and Barney are cousins.
    t. While they are most of the time referred to as friends, the very first episode confirms this. Barney tells Andy that he wants Andy to know that he picked the right man to be his deputy, and he ends the speech by saying "and I want to thank you, cousin Andy." In which case, Andy responds "Your welcome, cousin Barney."

In the fourth season, Barney buys a motorcycle for the Mayberry Sheriff's Office. After riding on it for awhile, what letter of the alphabet does Barney tell Andy is impossible to pronounce on it, with your mouth open and your tongue on the roof of your mouth?
    s. After Barney tells Andy that you can't pronounce the letter s, Andy replies "You didn't let anyone see you riding that thing with your mouth open, did ya?"

In the episode "Barney and Thelma Lou, Phfftt", Gomer takes Thelma Lou to Mt. Pilot for a dentist appointment. Gomer repeats something to Thelma Lou that gets her upset at Barney. What did Gomer repeat to her?
    that Barney had her in his hip pocket. Andy picks at Barney by saying that it might be a bad idea to send his girl off on a long trip with such a handsome man, Gomer. Barney replies by telling both Andy and Gomer that he's not worried about losing Thelma Lou, and that he's got that girl in his hip pocket. Gomer repeats this and Thelma Lou get furious.

Fill in the blanks for this quote from "Barney Fife, Relator." "Andy, I'll put the ____________ family in your place, and I'll put you in the ____________ house."
    Sims, Williams. After Barney becomes a relator, he decides to try and shuffle the town around and make a big commission check. Therefore, he tries to convince Andy to move to the Williams house and then he'll put the Sims in Andy's old house.

Aunt Bee loves to cook, and most of the time she does a good job. However, her homemade pickles are the worst. Andy and Barney decide to switch them out with store bought pickles. How does Barney intend to dispose of the old, homemade pickles?
    give them to out-of-towners. Both Andy and Barney don't want to hurt Aunt Bee's feelings. So, Barney decides to give them to drivers heading out of town with out of town tags, so they get spread all over the united states and Aunt Bee never find out about it.


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