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Don Knotts Dead
me | 2/25/2006 | Puppage

Posted on 02/25/2006 2:32:14 PM PST by Puppage

Just heard on Fox News. Don Knotts dead at 81


TOPICS: Announcements; Culture/Society; US: Connecticut; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: barneyfife; donknotts; lescalhoun; mayberry; mrferley; mrlimpett; nipitinthebud; obituary; theghostandmrchicken; threescompany
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To: Humbug

When I was in the Air Force overseas, TAG used to be a highlight on AFRTS for a lot of us.


261 posted on 02/25/2006 5:42:16 PM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: demkicker

One of the most bittersweet TV moments was their high school reunion. And Thelma Lou walking in, with her husband. It just wasn't right that Barney and Thelma Lou didn't marry.


262 posted on 02/25/2006 5:42:54 PM PST by small voice in the wilderness (...what do you mean "Candy isn't married to Alan..?...)
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To: monkapotamus

I used to love "Three's Company" episodes when he always thought Jack Tripper was gay because Jack was doing certain situations or talking in the kitchen or something....hilarous!


263 posted on 02/25/2006 5:43:02 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're Americans, we can do anything)
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To: operation clinton cleanup
He was one of the best in the 'Old School' of television and comedy...so few of them left now.
264 posted on 02/25/2006 5:44:34 PM PST by T Lady (The Mainstream Media: Public Enemy #1)
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To: Puppage

Damn! And just when he was about to film "The JImmy Carter" story!


265 posted on 02/25/2006 5:44:56 PM PST by Brofholdonow
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To: small voice in the wilderness
One of the most bittersweet TV moments was their high school reunion. And Thelma Lou walking in, with her husband. It just wasn't right that Barney and Thelma Lou didn't marry.

They finally did in the movie.

The producers later on said they made a mistake when they put that part in. I am glad they fixed it in the end with the movie.

266 posted on 02/25/2006 5:45:01 PM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: Puppage; NautiNurse; raccoonradio; doug from upland
Aww, I loved Don Knotts.

Rest in peace, "Barney"... thanks for all the laughs...

267 posted on 02/25/2006 5:48:17 PM PST by nutmeg (NEVER trust democRATs with our national security)
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To: Puppage

God rest his soul. He was so good at what he did.


268 posted on 02/25/2006 5:48:40 PM PST by tiki
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To: Keith in Iowa
Thanks!

Barney arguing with (someone, I don't remember) and Andy walks in.
Barney: "Ange. How do you fight fire?"
Andy (with that bemused look on his face, messing with Barney's blood pressure): "With a water hose??"
Barney (giving Andy that wide-eyed look): "NO! With fire! You fight fire with fire!"

269 posted on 02/25/2006 5:48:49 PM PST by small voice in the wilderness (...what do you mean "Candy isn't married to Alan..?...)
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To: small voice in the wilderness

Yep, sometimes reunions of beloved tv shows are best left on the cutting room floor. They're particularly hard on gals like me who prefer the "happily ever after" endings.


270 posted on 02/25/2006 5:48:53 PM PST by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are familiar bedfellows)
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To: Puppage

RIP Barney.


your antics were a nice memory from my formative years

God bless you sir!


271 posted on 02/25/2006 5:52:16 PM PST by wardaddy ("hillbilly car wash owner outta control")
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To: Puppage

I'm sure the first thing he'll hear in Heaven is
"Welcome home Barney, here, how would you like a pickle?"

RIP Barney, God Bless


272 posted on 02/25/2006 5:54:20 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: raccoonradio

Rest in peace, Don Knotts.

I believe Don Knots was also one of the stars in Steve Allen's, man on the street skit. He, Louie Nye and Tom Poston.


273 posted on 02/25/2006 5:55:11 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Let's make government a liberal free zone.)
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To: Phsstpok
It is amazing how well those actors have remained over the years. Don Knotts was probably the best, because of Barney Fife. I was 12 in 1950 and lived in a town like Mayberry. All of the people reminded me of home. (sigh)
Thank you, Mr. Knotts
274 posted on 02/25/2006 5:56:56 PM PST by oldtimer2 (Yes I am the center of the universe. (msm attitude))
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To: Puppage

Thanks for the memories, the laughs and your talent Don. You were a true master of your craft.

RIP Deputy Fife.


275 posted on 02/25/2006 5:59:16 PM PST by prairiebreeze (I support the troops and the mission.)
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To: Puppage

on Ernest T Bass
"He's a NUT Andy he's a NUT I tell ya"


276 posted on 02/25/2006 6:05:41 PM PST by WKB
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To: rcocean
"I used Karate, made my whole body a weapon".

I remember that! ROFLMAO!

277 posted on 02/25/2006 6:07:18 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: Puppage

Thanks for posting this. How sad. Don Knotts (lol, I saw a poster refer the other evening to "Don Knox") was a one-of-a-kind.

I'll bet there are cave-dwellers somewhere in the far reaches of the planet Earth who know who Barney Fife is! He lives on.

I get my nightly dose of Barn and Ange in the wee hours, but miss it in times like these - the Olympics pre-empting.

"Nip it ... nip it in the bud" - was what my dad said about my first serious boyfriend relationship at 15. BF would go around imitating Barney saying it.

"Nita ... jua-ah-ah-neeta ... ask thy soul if we should part ..." (singing it over the phone until Andy comes in from rounds - then "all business" to Juanita at the diner).

Ha ha, Barney as the bride in Ernest T's wedding to the Darling girl ... so funny!

And when he dressed up again as a woman, a la the Greater Tuna guys, to catch yet another thief ... and as he walked out onto the street in his get-up and wig, Opie just walks by and says "Hi, Barn" and keeps walking.

I do remember him on Steve Allen, too, as the nervous man on the street, along with the others. "Who, me? Nervous?" And Gordon Hathaway's "Hi ho, Steverino!"

The Mayberry Reunion movie was on not long ago and whoever said it's best to leave classics alone was right! While I was *glad* that Andy and Helen had married and were old-timers now, and that Barney and Thelma Lou were still together, and that Opie was having a baby - (grandpa Opie now) - it did sort of give me a jolt to "realize" that the Mayberry of old really doesn't exist anymore - as if it ever did, except on a TV show!

In the reruns I watch every night, they have been in one of the B/W seasons when Barney wasn't there. I missed how or why he left - he's only come back once - and Andy went to see him once in Mount Pilot at his detective job. It is definitely not as good with Barney gone.

Ooh, for a while they had that double-talking guy that used to be a partner in Burns & Schreiber. "Huh? Yeah. Huh? Yeah. Huh? Yeah. Enough already!" That was in the later color episodes, though. He was terrible.

I love seeing who some of the guest actors are. One of Andy's paramours was Ruta Lee and then he also had a date with Annie Oakley - Gail ... last name is escaping me. She out-shot him at the skeet tourney, after he kind of said some disparaging things about women and guns. Andy did have his "male chauvinist pig" side - but he also knew it in that episode and apologized.

(Which made it easier much later, in a color season, to have Aunt Bee get her pilot's license!)

Oh, so many memories - but Barney lives on, and so does Don!


278 posted on 02/25/2006 6:08:27 PM PST by Rte66
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To: small voice in the wilderness

Ouch! I'm glad I haven't "re-seen" that one this time around. I didn't remember it.


279 posted on 02/25/2006 6:12:26 PM PST by Rte66
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One of a kind ... RIP Mr. Knotts. Thank you for entertaining us all those years.


280 posted on 02/25/2006 6:15:40 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Washington Media: controversy, crap, and confusion" Sen. Alan Simpson)
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