:crazy: :lol: :happyface In Don Knotts' last guest appearance as Barney Fife, Barney arranges a submit meeting in his hometown, Mayberry. He originally arranged the meeting to take place at a mansion that was owned by a cantankerous old man (Can't remember his name) without even asking the owner's permission. Barney figured that this would be an easy arrangement since he told Andy that when he was a kid long ago, Barney, who was known as "The Scamp", used to play games (Run, Sheep, Run; Red Light, Green Light, etc) and stole apple orchards around the old man's mansion.

Well, after Barney made the arrangments with his chief of detectives by phone, the old man returned to his mansion and was obviously annoyed by Barney's presence. When the old man asked Andy, "Why isn't that scamp (Barney) in school?", Andy replied that Barney doesn't go to school anymore. I laughed when the old man assumed that Barney was a dropout. Didn't he realize in the first place that Barney wasn't a kid anymore and that he graduated, not dropped out, from school a long time ago?

I thought that was quite amusing. What do you think?

Sheriff Andy Taylor

I think the guy was probably "out of it" maybe the beginning of Alzheimer's or something.

Speaking of Alzheimer's ..... I was wondering just exactly what a "SUBMIT MEETING" was?

Anything like a "Summit Meeting" perhaps? :)

I "submit" to you...I'm a tad bit perplexed. But it could just be my Alzheimer's taking control. ;)

:lol: I apologize for my error. This particular episode title of The Andy Griffith Show is "Barney Hosts a Summit Meeting," and I didn't realize that I used the word "submit" instead. Can you imagine Barney submitting (giving up) a meeting of any kind?

I still think it's funny when in that episode, Old Man Higgins wasn't pleased to see Barney "The Scamp" again, and Higgins assumed that Barney was a dropout without realizing that it had been a long time since Barney was a kid. Higgins probably never married because no woman would ever marry a grump like him.

Higgins was the old man I couldn't remember earlier just in case you want to know.

Sheriff Andy Taylor

"1,2,3, red light". I think that was a stupid way for Barney to introduce himself.

.....if you're trying to talk to "Old Man Higgins" and he still thinks you're "The Scamp", and the only way to get him to remember you is by saying "1,2,3, Red Light!"...then that's how you'd do it. Silly for Barney--hilarious for "us".

that one one of my all time fave secnes on tags esp when that old man says oh a dropout he looks like a dropout look at that slack jaw and all that hair

that one one of my all time fave secnes on tags esp when that old man says oh a dropout he looks like a dropout look at that slack jaw and all that hair
Joining this conversation three years late. Where on earth did you two get Higgins from!?! The old man's last name was McCabe and he was played by Paul Fix! This ep was a good one and I saw it on DVD yesterday again and I noticed this posting on it so I stopped in! I'm years late!

I thought the plot on this one as pretty stupid...but Barney made it fun and entertaining.