Episode Quotes

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.
• Goof (factual errors): Just before Andy gets into the sidecar there's a shot of the three US flags mounted near the center of the handle bars. The flag has had 50 stars since 1960. Each of Barnie's flags have 48 stars on them. This episode aired in 1964 and was presumably filmed in 1963.

Trivia

• 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.
• 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 said that the long description by Mrs. Beggs about her sister Tilly was created to illustrate how women remember details differently to men.