If you want to see a funny video and the Preamble of the Constitution this is the right spot. My teacher played this video and i almost died laughing.Please comment and say what you think of it.
RIP Andy and Don. I was amazed when in an interview Ron Howard said that this bit (and several others) was the result of needing to fill time. Andy & Don would huddle up by themselves & briainstorm for a couple minutes, tell the director how they wanted the scene shot would go for it! Apparently it was always a one take thing & according to Ron everyone on set was always impressed how easily the two came up w/ideas & played off of each other. Sad day for a true icon's passing.
My kid had to memorize the Preamble for school this month. She was struggling to memorize it & got mad...I showed her this. Yeah, Andy & Barney are helping me raise my own....full circle!
I watched that show with my dad back in the 1960s. I watch it now and I'm 70 years old. I think there's a little bit of Barney Fife in all of us that watched and loved that show
I'm 28 and looove this show. I am Barney haha that scene when he talks to the two fellas trying to get them to move their truck, I've lived that situation but without the badge hahaha
What a funny funny man. Barney didn't have to have a foul mouth in order to get laughs. Barney was one of the good guys. Would have loved to have had Barney as a neighbour.
How true ! Well written and well cast series like this one are proof that a program doesn't have to be filled with sex, profanity, violence & vulgarity to be entertaining !
One of the ALL Time classics in television comedy. I've had a close friend for over 40 years, who when we see someone who doesn't quite know what they're doing (but think they do), one of us will start loudly .. "Weeee... the people... " and just fall apart. May they all rest in well deserved peace.
Thats pretty funny. I bet you and your friend would have a great time with my friends and brothers. Being the youngest of six kids I am 58 years old. We all get together very often. Our sole purpose is to make each other laugh, and we do a pretty good job of it. We don't just sit around telling stupid jokes, we talk about every day things and put a funny twist to it. Our Parents were a scream. They had a dry sense of humor that would catch you off guard and keep you laughing for hours. Now all our kids have it. Dad saw two bigfoots one afternoon and I asked him "Dad, shouldn't the plural be bigfeet, bigfi, or sasquatch?" Without cracking a grin he answered "I just called them by their names, Stan and Laura." I was sipping a glass of milk and it shot out of my nose in laughter. I thought I had him, but he owned me. Growing up in our house was a laugh riot. Dinner every night at 6pm was something to look forward to. Neighbors loved us, there was never a shortage of laughter and goodwill. My parents brought the whole neighborhood together with their lighthearted banter.
Here I am going on 66 years young and wouldn't know how to act without my Barney and And Andy!!! Just love this show and I never get tired of watching. Loved Ben Weaver at Christmas time. He was an old crusty man on the outside, but soft hearted on the inside. He just didn't know how to show it sometimes. There are a lot of Ben Weaver's in this world!!!
I just saw this episode of the show a few weeks ago, and I laughed so hard! Don Knotts was hilarious. This is one of my all-time favorite scenes from this show. Thanks for sharing with us! XO
*Did any of you catch the "blooper"? Count how many times Barney's hair goes from being neatly combed, to being mussed up, to being neatly combed, to being mussed up again.*
It truly is one of the best scenes during the long run of "The Andy Griffith Show" ! Don and Andy at their BEST ! Their on screen chemistry was amazing and awesome !
Oh my gosh softshoes, you need to watch more tele! Try the first 1/3 of the Frasier Valentine's Day episode (David Hyde Pierce's solo skit). Or almost anything from the Carol Burnett Show (for example, the board game episode with what later became the Mama's Family spinoff!!!) Or any episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show. Or Lucy. Or Happy Days (the early season). Andy Griffith might have a bit of appeal for sweetness, but the Constitution scene was a cringey bore, like watching 5th graders perform their own skit they wrote themselves and it drags on and on and on and you just want them to finish already.
Without a doubt, this show is one of my favourite memories of my childhood. Although Mayberry is a fictional town, we all like to think we grew up there, in a much simpler time and place, with friends and family like these characters. Andy was a great straight man. He knew his role, especially when it came to sharing a scene with a comedic legend like the great Don Knotts. Don Knotts made the show. It wasn't the same when he left. Originally, they had planned to give the show a run of five seasons, and Knotts was contracted to do a number of movies, before they realized how successful the show would be with Knotts as one of the feature characters. Knotts did not even appear in the first episode. He saw the episode, and called Andy Griffith, saying, "You know what you need? Andy needs a DEPUTY!" Realizing Knotts was right, Andy said, "You call producer Sheldon Leonard, and run that idea by him!" As they say, the rest is history.
Yes, and the show was originally written for Andy to be a funnier character, which you can see in the early episode. Andy realized the show would work better if he played the straight man to Barney and the other characters. After Barney left, the show died as far as I'm concerned, even though the ratings were strong to the end. I find the post Barney shows to be pretty much unwatchable.
Well said and well put, Rick ! I totally agree ! An extremely well written & well cast series ! A shame Don left, but as you pointed out, he didn't think they were gonna come back for a 6th season and he'd signed a lucrative multi-picture deal with Universal, the first (and BEST) of which was "The Ghost & Mr Chicken" and the last of which was the lackluster "How To Frame A Figg", which I saw as a teen with my mom & brother at a local drive in when it was first released ! THANKS for your comment, Rick !! :-)
"The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" one of my favorite Don Knott's film. Grew up watching Andy Griffin in the South. I'm 27 now and I cherish the joy he brought to me.
My understanding of this great awesome clip is that Don Knots made this up on a spur of a moment. Andy stated when Don left the show it was like losing the very soul of the Andy Griffith. It is just so sad to realize that most of actors and actress are dead.
I didn't see your comment before making mine above, but Andy and Don Knotts came up with a lot of these two man bits to fill in a few minutes whenever the show that week was short on time. They are comedy gold.
If you watch the pilot of the Andy Griffith Show and the first few episodes, Andy was more of a comedic character, the backwoods sheriff. He had done that kind of thing with his comedy monologues and in No Time for Sergeants. But he realized that Barney was the natural comedian and the show would work better with Andy as the straight man to Barney and other characters like Floyd and Gomer. There aren't many actors who would have been unselfish enough to do that.
Well said and well put ! In the first season of the classic Andy Griffith sitcom, he's more of a "hayseed" and has a more "countrified" accent. As the show progressed, Andy's character became more realistic without losing it's wonderful "down home" quality.
J dog...Really! Andy was a tyrant on the set...punched a wall during taping one day...recorded ep with a cast on his hand...(cheated on his wife)...never attended Mt. Airy reunions like Goober Gomer Barney and Thelma Lou,( Who lives there now) on the bright side ..;] try snappy lunch, open only till 1:30pm so get there early..(pork chop sandwich)..the bluebird diner has it too but its not as good..streets are mostly one way but traffic is minimal..Wallys(goobers) gas station..yea!...mom n pop motels are clean and friendly..get a haircut at floyds..&the Mayberry 5&dime ..Aunt B's Cantonese Restaurant...buy a "Dillards" cd....goober says hey!!!
sharkbaitj, I remember reading about Andy Griffith punching a wall and doing an episode with a cast, The other stuff I didn't know about, I find it interesting but sad if you think about it, But I'm heading to Mt Airy NC next month and though it's just for the weekend I'm going to try to cover everything that you said to do. Thank you for the information, I'll let you know how it went, Again thank you.
This show is priceless!! I still watch it, every night!!!! A true classic, never get's old...They should have more of these kind of show's on TV now!!! It's all trash on now, and violence... Take them off, you are not showing purity...🥀🥀🥀🥀...2022...
This is such a great video and with the recent passing of Andy Griffith I just had to send it to my Constitutional law college students that are taking the class online. I hope that they enjoyed it as much as I do. Are there any television series today that have such good wholesome humor, great lessons of morality, and characters such as this classic show? I cannot think of any.
This show is actually playing on my TV right now, but I wanted to look up this part, because we saw it a few days ago, and I laughed my guts out. This was an amazing performance--so simple, yet so hilarious!!! This show would've been nothing without Don Knotts as Barney. No one else could've played him. We have the perfect combo of a smart, kind, man with standards and a good heart....and a pompous, dim-witted, prideful, scrawny man. lol! What could be better?? Barney sometimes annoys me to pieces because of the way he is but it's always funny in the end. Really glad I haven't grown up with cable, instead of all these old shows, because I might've missed this. xD
the 5th amendment gives you the right not to incriminate yourself the 6th amendment gives you right to legal counsel etc etc etc But you already know this don't you??
I remember watching reruns of this back in the early 80s and cracked up laughing as a kid. But its still funny to this day. Cleaning family comedy. Rip to the both of them
There is a good reason this show is still on TV and my wife and I still manage to catch 2 to 4 episodes a day. Brilliant timeless stories brilliantly acted out. Just think of all the different characters on that show. Not just Andy and Barney.
Me too... Approx 10 episodes a week. When I watch the show, I literally try to escape the reality of now . Don is my favorite, but I love many other actors throughout the series. What a great series.
This piece has to be the most funniest clip in comedy history, it ought to be put in a vault along with some if those hilarious clips from the Three Stooges
I have The Andy Griffith Show saved to watch as I fall asleep. My daughters called the theme tune "dad's going to bed song". Even to this day I think the years with Barney Fife are the best tv ever made.
Andy said in an interview one time that the producers permitted Don Knotts (Barney) to write and direct several scenes in these Andy Shows. He wrote and directed the Preamble to the Constitution scenes. He did an excellent job!
4th grade teacher made us remember the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. I still remember 33 years later. Thank you Mrs Tucker of Clay Hill Elementary school.
Funny/interesting note about this scene: Firstly, in those days they were lucky to have more than one camera. So when they wanted to show a different angle of a scene they had to shoot it at another time. Notice how, at about the 2:30 mark, Barney's hair begins switching back and forth between neatly combed and messed, depending on which angle the scene is being viewed.
1:32 " we the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general wellfare, and secure the blessings of liberity to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. and thats before watching the video!:) i also had to memorize it and still remember it!
It would have been ABSOLUTELY AMAZING if Barney had stayed with the show longer than he did!!! Just think of how many MORE hilarious memories we COULD have had!!!
So timeless. There twenty Barney’s to every Andy in every force. The purest example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. At least back then, not every cop had a gun.
