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Summary[]

A pickpocket is made the guest of honor at a Mayberry celebration.

Plot[]

Mayberry is about to celebrate Founder's day, and Andy, Barney, Floyd, Sam, and Art meet in the courthouse to discuss details. Andy decides it's a shame few outsiders are interested in the festivities. He proposes, with Barney and the gang's enthusiastic approval, that the first visitor to Mayberry on Founders' Day will be their "Guest of Honor" and be given the key to the city and lavished with attention and gifts. The promotion is approved by the Founder's Day Committee, and Barney swears Floyd, Art, and Sam in as deputies to help make sure everything runs according to plan.

Just outside city limits, pickpocket Sheldon Davis has just been released from prison. He is escorted by Pierce County police officers to the county line, and warned against ever entering Pierce county again. He drives through Mayberry, and finds himself named the Founders' Day Guest of Honor. He pretends his name is Thomas A. Moody, and allows himself to be showered with the gifts and attention, but soon puts his thieving skills to use stealing the watches of anyone he shakes hand with.

S2E21 - Where Are All the Watches

Where Are All the Watches?

After realizing his watch is missing, Andy becomes suspicious and makes some phone calls. Learning from other agencies that Davis is a pickpocket and has been run out of almost every county on the eastern seaboard, Andy informs Barney, but swears him to secrecy because of the bad publicity potentially ruining the holiday. The pair decide to keep a sharp eye on Moody/Davis, until they can safely run him out of town after the festivities, to try to keep him from stealing anything further.

While Davis freshens up in his hotel room, Floyd calls Andy away from his stakeout to discuss details of the Founders' Day Pageant. Left alone, Barney decides to confront Davis, and gives a passive-aggressive speech about how people should be able to trust others. Davis seems greatly moved, and Barney feels like he got through to him when he leaves his gold watch on the table and Davis leaves without taking it. He reports to Andy, only for the two of them to realize all Barney's passkeys to the stores and shops are gone. While the rest of the town watches the pageant, they hunt through the empty shops and track down and arrest Davis, whom they catch in the act of cleaning out the local jewelry store. Davis is put behind bars for a lengthier sentence due to how many expensive items he stole. As a parting shot, he swipes Barney's badge, but Andy spots it right away and Barney angrily demands it back.

Notes/Trivia[]

  • In a hilarious speech to the new deputies, Barney gets himself (and them) so fired up with emotion that even mild-mannered Floyd Lawson is screaming at the top of his lungs to Nip it. Don Knotts recalled that he "laughed so hard at Howard McNear's screaming, the entire scene had to be reshot 20 times. You can also see Andy covering his smile and laugh.
  • This is the first of forty episodes where Opie doesn't appear.

Goofs[]

S2E21 - Extra Bullet

Barney's One Bullet?

* In the scene where Barney's gun goes off as he is talking to the newly sworn deputies, you can see the outline of his one special bullet in his shirt pocket. Extra bullet put in the gun for the laugh.

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Quotes[]

  • Barney: "Alright three…Watch it! Now listen men, and listen good. There’s liable to be trouble out there today. We’re liable to have folks among us who are here for more than just a good time if you know what I mean? Now the minute there looks like there’s gonna be trouble, we got to NIP IT! Nip it in the Bud! You got that? Let’s hear it?”
  • Barney: "That's exactly the same idea I had!"

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