[frank ballenger]

RE: why can’t an inmate identify as the warden

In Mayberry, the town drunk Otis Campbell would let himself into the jail cell with the key and sit down to wait for Aunt Bea to bring a wicker basket meal covered with a red checkered cloth. Hot fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn on the cob with butter, string beans and warm apple pie or chocolate cake.

[OKSooner]

Problem was, Mayberry was a fictional town. The guy who played Sheriff Taylor didn't enjoy quite the same reputation as a good ol' boy as Sheriff Taylor his own self, and the woman who played aunt Bea was known frankly as a uh, very difficult person to work with. Hardly the sort who would show kindness to a harmless but lovable drunk, who was also fictional.

At the end of it all, Sheriff Taylor's lovable little son went to Hollywood to produce movies, and was known far and wide, first and foremost as a maniacal atheist, even in real life.