9 “Andy, the Matchmaker” someone in town wrote the following limerick on the side of the Mayberry Bank: “There once was a deputy called Fife, Who carried a gun and a knife. Barney is jokingly called Barney the Beast, Barney the Fierce, Crazy Gun Barney and Fearless Fife by his fellow townsfolk. The only time he uses his gun is to start the potato sack races for the annual Mason’s picnic. There’s Andy, and there’s me, and baby makes three.” When a visitor asks why the crime rate in Mayberry is so low, Barney responds, “Well, I guess to sum it up, you could say, there’s three reasons why there’s so little crime in Mayberry. If I ever have to use this baby, I want to teach it to come to papa in a hurry.” Sheriff Andy Taylor once noticed Barney playing with his gun, and asks, “What are you doing?” Barney replies, “Gun-drawing practice, ten minutes every day.
Rule number two: no writing on the walls.” – Deputy Barney Fife Memorize them until you can say them in your sleep. “Now here at the Rock (jail) we have two rules. Barney did keep one bullet in his left shirt breast pocket. One of many nicknames given to Barney Fife (Don Knotts), a bumbling deputy sheriff who lives in the rural town of Mayberry, North Carolina on the sitcom THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW/CBS/1960-68.īecause the town sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) wouldn’t trust Barney with a loaded gun, for fear of accidentally shooting himself or an innocent bystander, Barney was not supposed to carry a loaded gun.