The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)

Andy and Barney in the Big City (1962)

Don Knotts: Barney Fife

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Quotes 

• Hotel Clerk : [presenting room keys]  Here you are, Mr. Taylor and Mr. Fife. Excuse me: "Doctor" Fife.

  Andy Taylor : "Doctor" Fife?

  Hotel Clerk : [reading registration card]  "Bernard Fife, M.D."

  Andy Taylor : M.D.?

  Barney Fife : That's the way I always sign. Bernard Fife, M.D.

  Barney Fife : [pressured under Andy's gaze]  "Mayberry Deputy".

• [Andy signals the maître d' to interpret the French menu] 

  Barney Fife : Don't do that, Andy. You'll embarrass me. He'll think you're just a plain hick.

  Andy Taylor : Well, Barney, there's worse things than bein' a plain hick. Like bein' a hungry one!

• [Barney picks up Andy's suitcase] 

  Andy Taylor : Uh, careful. There's a bottle in there.

  Barney Fife : You thought of everything, didn't ya?

• Aunt Bee Taylor : Oh, no! Wait a moment! We almost forgot!

  [exits to the kitchen] 

  Barney Fife : What'd she forget?

  Andy Taylor : Well, I'll bet you a quarter she forgot a brown paper sack full of sandwiches. I never been on a trip in my life I didn't have to carry a brown paper sack full of sandwiches.

  [Aunt Bee re-enters the room] 

  Andy Taylor : [as if he doesn't already know]  What'd you forget, Aunt Bee?

  Aunt Bee Taylor : [matter-of-factly]  Oh, just a brown paper sack full of sandwiches.

• Andy Taylor : Now, Barn, outside of that meetin' we got with the commissioner, we're - we're really off-duty, you know?

  Barney Fife : Off-duty? Huh. Now, when is a lawman *really* off-duty?

• [Opie's lost a tooth overnight] 

  Barney Fife : Let's hear you say, "She sells seashells down by the seashore."

  Opie Taylor : She... she sells seashells... down by the... seashore!

  Barney Fife : [chuckles]  Hey, that's pretty good!

  Opie Taylor : If you think that's somethin', you outta hear me sing a song!