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4x16 Barney's Sidecar
First Aired: Jan. 27, 1964 on CBS
Summary: Barney gets a motorcycle. |
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Episode Quotes
A Townsman: [Talking about the sidecar] Sheriff, if you fill it up with water you can take a bath on the way.
Barney Fife: If you ride with your mouth open in the wind and put your tongue against the roof of your mouth, its impossible to pronounce a word that begins with the letter 's'.
Andy Taylor: You didn't let anyone see you riding with your mouth open?
Andy Taylor: You didn't let anyone see you riding with your mouth open?
Barney Fife: [Walks in wearing helmet, leather gloves, and a leather jacket] Mounted patrol checking in.
Andy Taylor: How are you Baron Von Richthofen?
Andy Taylor: How are you Baron Von Richthofen?
Mistakes/Goofs
- Goof (errors in geography): When Barney is at Checkpoint Chickie warning truckers, you twice see where he's on a highly-traveled multi-lane thoroughfare. As Barney approaches a truck, the camera pans too far and you can briefly see it's a four-lane road, with a Burgie Beer billboard on the other side of the highway.
Trivia
- Writer James Fritzell said that the long description by Mrs. Beggs about her sister Tilly was created to illustrate how women remember details differently to men.
- The motorcycle wasn't an "RJ 300 Motorcycle". That was made up. The bike was actually a prop based on a WWI Harley.
- The gag in which Barney's motorcycle takes off leaving the sidecar behind was borrowed from The Marx Brothers, who used the same gag in Duck Soup.
- Barney's goggles contain no lenses (a common occurrence in eyewear on film) as to avoid reflections from studio lights.
- Writer James Fritzell didn't like Aunt Bee's line about the war picture in which the Nazis were killed on their motorcycles. He felt it was out of character.
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