The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)

A Medal for Opie (1962)

Don Knotts: Barney Fife

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Quotes 

• [Barney talks about training Opie] 

  Opie Taylor : You mean you're gonna make *me* one big muscle, too?

  Barney Fife : Yeah!

  Andy Taylor : Uh, 'cept in your case, we'll try to stop at the neck.

  Barney Fife : [irritated]  That's very comical, Andy! Only comicalness don't win no medals!

• Barney Fife : [chanting while skipping rope]  My mother, your mother, lived across the way! Every night they have a fight and this is what they say: Ickabacka-soda cracker, ickabacka-foo! Ickabacka-sode cracker, out goes you!

• Barney Fife : Where you goin'?

  Opie Taylor : I'm leavin'! You're a sight!

• Barney Fife : Now, boys, as Sheriff Taylor has said, I will be the official starter and this is the official starting gun. Now, you may not run until the gun is fired! Now, when I pull the trigger, the gun will fire and then you may run, but wait until the gun is fired! I will pull the trigger and you will then hear a shot. That means...

  [Andy cuts him off so that they can start the race] 

• Barney Fife : Last Saturday night I took Juanita to Mount Pilot for a Chinese dinner. I didn't even have enough to leave for a tip.

  Andy Taylor : Is that right?

  Barney Fife : It was embarrassing. The waiter called me somethin' in Chinese. It didn't sound like "sport" neither!