Summary[]
When Thelma Lou's attractive cousin, Karen, comes to town, Thelma and Barney scheme to get her and Andy together.
Plot[]
Barney and Thelma Lou decide to play matchmaker for Andy
Andy is Out Shot
and her visiting cousin Karen Moore. They don't have much trouble as Andy and Karen soon hit it off. In fact, they have a lot in common including shooting, music, and singing. Barney puts his foot in it as usual when he tells Thelma Lou that Andy has checked Karen out and makes it sound like she's a commodity to be purchased. Thinking that Andy is as crude as Barney makes him out to be, she decides to teach him a lesson at the annual skeet shooting competition. Karen is a champion skeet shooter, a fact that Andy nor Barney know about. Karen ends up winning the competition; putting Andy in his place.
Notes/Trivia[]
- Karen and Andy competed against each other in a shooting contest and Karen won. Gail Davis, the actress who played Karen, previously starred as the title character in Annie Oakley (1954), who was, among other things, a skilled shooter.
- This was the last acting credit for Gail Davis.
- Most of the wooded scenes in the series were shot in and around the Franklin Canyon Reservoir, an easy access for the Desilu production company. However, the rock formations behind Andy and Karen in the crow shooting scene suggest they shot the scene further north up at the Sage Ranch Park, or Iverson Movie Ranch in the Simi Valley hill country.
- Gail Davis, who plays Karen Moore, was actually an expert trick shot artist off-screen, which she displays during the skeet shooting competition in this episode
Goofs[]
Music[]
- Andy sings Sourwood Mountain.
Quotes[]
Andy Taylor: (to Karen) "Do you think we should get married before or after the coffee?"
Barney Fife: "Well, what happened after you had the coffee?"
Andy Taylor: "We got married."
Barney Fife: "Oh, good! I knew you two...YOU GOT MARRIED?!"
Barney Fife: <to Andy> "You're real funny. You should go on the radio for an all-night disc jockey! At least then I could turn you off!"
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