Plot[]
After speaking to the local real estate agent, Barney decides that selling houses would be the perfect sideline for him. He starts by targeting some of the families in Mayberry who may want to change houses and soon has a chain of four buyers and sellers lined up. Even Andy has gotten involved. Having recently admonished Opie for trying to sell Howie his bicycle without revealing the problem with the brakes, Andy finds himself being less than honest with the prospective buyer of his house about the leaky roof or the noisy pipes. Opie practices what his father preaches and mentions these things to an interested buyer, much to Andy's annoyance. When Andy visits the house he's interested in buying, he finds that it may not be perfect as well.
Notes/Trivia[]
- The multiple things that are shown to be wrong with the Taylor's House, crack in the kitchen ceiling, pipes under the house, and a leaky roof, have never been heard before and apparently are fixed by the next episode.
- Barney estimates Andy's home is worth $27,500.
- When the sale of Andy's house first falls through (because of Opie pointing out all the things in the home that need to be fixed), Barney relays to Andy that Barney's commission on the sale would have been $3,478 (the total of commissions earned on the sale of all four homes).
- This episode, Goober Takes a Car Apart, The Rehabilitation of Otis, The Lucky Letter, Goober and the Art of Love, Barney Runs for Sheriff and If I Had a Quarter Million were all filmed in 1964, and aired in 1965.
Goofs[]
- Mr Sims calls the Courthouse and Barney again tries to get him to reconsider the Taylor house. But Mr Sims then apparently indicates to Barney he can't talk now. He was the one who called, wasn't he?
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