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This guy was funnier than all the jewfelds and kikesteins put together. 
Actor Don Knotts Dies at Age 81
Saturday, February 25, 2006
LOS ANGELES — Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died. He was 81.
Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs "The Andy Griffith Show," and another Knotts hit, "Three's Company."
Unspecified health problems had forced him to cancel an appearance in his native Morgantown in August 2005.
The West Virginia-born actor's half-century career included seven TV series and more than 25 films, but it was the Griffith show that brought him TV immortality and five Emmies.
The show ran from 1960-68, and was in the top 10 of the Nielsen ratings each season, including a No. 1 ranking its final year. It is one of only three series in TV history to bow out at the top: The others are "I Love Lucy" and "Seinfeld." The 249 episodes have appeared frequently in reruns and have spawned a large, active network of fan clubs.
As the bug-eyed deputy to Griffith, Knotts carried in his shirt pocket the one bullet he was allowed after shooting himself in the foot. The constant fumbling, a recurring sight gag, was typical of his self-deprecating humor.
Knotts, whose shy, soft-spoken manner was unlike his high-strung characters, once said he was most proud of the Fife character and doesn't mind being remembered that way.
His favorite episodes, he said, were "The Pickle Story," where Aunt Bea makes pickles no one can eat, and "Barney and the Choir," where no one can stop him from singing.
"I can't sing. It makes me sad that I can't sing or dance well enough to be in a musical, but I'm just not talented in that way," he lamented. "It's one of my weaknesses."
Knotts appeared on six other television shows. In 1979, Knotts replaced Norman Fell on "Three's Company," playing the would-be swinger landlord to John Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt.
Early in his TV career, he was one of the original cast members of "The Steve Allen Show," the comedy-variety show that ran from 1956-61. He was one of a group of memorable comics backing Allen that included Louis Nye, Tom Poston and Bill "Jose Jimenez" Dana.
Knotts' G-rated films were family fun, not box-office blockbusters. In most, he ends up the hero and gets the girl — a girl who can see through his nervousness to the heart of gold.
In the part-animated 1964 film "The Incredible Mr. Limpet," Knotts played a meek clerk who turns into a fish after he is rejected by the Navy.
When it was announced in 1998 that Jim Carrey would star in a "Limpet" remake, Knotts responded: "I'm just flattered that someone of Carrey's caliber is remaking something I did. Now, if someone else did Barney Fife, THAT would be different."
In the 1967 film "The Reluctant Astronaut," co-starring Leslie Nielsen, Knotts' father enrolls his wimpy son — operator of a Kiddieland rocket ride — in NASA's space program. Knotts poses as a famous astronaut to the joy of his parents and hometown but is eventually exposed for what he really is, a janitor so terrified of heights he refuses to ride an airplane.
In the 1969 film "The Love God?," he was a geeky bird-watcher who is duped into becoming publisher of a naughty men's magazine and then becomes a national sex symbol. Eventually, he comes to his senses, leaves the big city and marries the sweet girl next door.
He was among an army of comedians from Buster Keaton to Jonathan Winters to liven up the 1963 megacomedy "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Other films include "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" (1966); "The Shakiest Gun in the West," (1968); and a few Disney films such as "The Apple Dumpling Gang," (1974); "Gus," (1976); and "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo," (1977).
In 1998, he had a key role in the back-to-the-past movie "Pleasantville," playing a folksy television repairman whose supercharged remote control sends a teen boy and his sister into a TV sitcom past.
Knotts began his show biz career even before he graduated from high school, performing as a ventriloquist at local clubs and churches. He majored in speech at West Virginia University, then took off for the big city.
"I went to New York cold. On a $100 bill. Bummed a ride," he recalled in a visit to his hometown of Morgantown, where city officials renamed a street for him in 1998.
Within six months, Knotts had taken a job on a radio Western called "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders," playing a wisecracking, know-it-all handyman. He stayed with it for five years, then came his series TV debut on "The Steve Allen Show."
He married Kay Metz in 1948, the year he graduated from college. The couple had two children before divorcing in 1969. Knotts later married, then divorced Lara Lee Szuchna.
In recent years, he said he had no plans to retire, traveling with theater productions and appearing in print and TV ads for Kodiak pressure treated wood.
The world laughed at Knotts, but it also laughed with him.
He treasured his comedic roles and could point to only one role that wasn't funny, a brief stint on the daytime drama "Search for Tomorrow."
"That's the only serious thing I've done. I don't miss that," Knotts said.
Posted : 25/02/2006 3:51 pm
JEW'S TOOL:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds66.html
[indent]Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry: Commie Rat
by Brad Edmonds
The old Andy Griffith Show, one of the most-watched, best-loved sitcoms ever, is lauded as a slice of small-town, apple-pie Americana, hearkening back to a simpler, better time when men were men, women were virtuous, and children occasionally were well-behaved. At the same time, one might ask: When a television program from any era is praised by the mainstream media, could there be some underlying leftist message? The answer is yes.
The first and most obvious commie message is Andy’s refusal to carry a gun. Heroically, he captures evildoers every time without a pistol. Notice also that Barney, the one who wants to carry a gun, is a buffoon, and whenever he touches his gun it goes off at random. There is no question what sentiment the producers were expressing. Further, on those rare occasions when there’s a truly violent criminal to pursue, Andy reaches into the rifle rack. And you thought Rosie O’Donnell was the first gun-control hypocrite.
Another modern, leftist, anti-everything-traditional message is the complete absence of a nuclear family on the Griffith show. Barney is single and desperate; Andy is widowed and moderately content; Gomer and Goober were single and whatever; Thelma Lou and Helen were single; Bea was a spinster…I can’t remember whether anybody on the show was married with children. The nuclear family was passé even for Mayberry residents of the early 1960’s. Other anti-family messages: A rare married couple portrayed on the show wasn’t happy unless they were having violent domestic disputes; another couple, with the husband played by Jack Nicholson, abandoned their baby at the beginning of an episode.
There are other implausible tweaks. On some old episodes, you’ll see Andy, Barney, Thelma Lou, and Helen having dinner at the local greasy spoon after 10 P.M. This almost never happened in real towns like Mayberry, and in fact is not very popular today in the south outside cities the size of Atlanta. You’ll also see occasional mention of cocktails before dinner – a decidedly citified custom that would have been extraordinary in a small southern town in the 1960’s.
And there are anti-gender role stereotype messages. Whenever a man from the country walks into town to find a wife, he is a buffoon. Earnest T. Bass and a two-episode character played by Alan Hale represented this anachronism. (Alan Hale played the Skipper on Gilligan’s Island; in Mayberry, he came complete with overalls.) Both considered it the man’s job to pursue the woman and to provide for the family later on. No wonder they were portrayed as buffoons. And for their parts, Andy and Barney endured all sorts of abuse at the hands of Helen and Thelma Lou. On many an occasion, Andy and Barn would (completely innocently) step into a pile of the women’s wrath, and spend most of an episode trying to apologize, explain, and beg their way out of it. Of course, the tables were seldom, perhaps never, turned.
There are other messages. The old man who owned the department store was a miser who hated people and cheated his employees. No one ever made a strong moral statement about Otis, the town drunk who had a wife at home but seemed to spend most nights in jail. Helen, the public schoolteacher, knew what was good for children better than their parents did.
There are plenty of superficial old-fashioned small-town quirks in the shows, such as the town band and the townspeople’s exaggerated ignorance of anything cosmopolitan. Occasionally the point was made that children need to learn discipline. But these features always floated on the surface. The underlying messages were that the nuclear family is uncommon and perhaps unnecessary; gender-role stereotypical living is mostly without merit; guns are bad; capitalists are evil; teachers are better than parents; and according to one ridiculous episode, killing a bird (by accident, no less) is about the greatest crime imaginable.
Maybe you thought the old Andy Griffith shows were wholesome and nourishing. Remind yourself that they came from Hollywood, and watch the next rerun a little more critically (if you must watch at all).
August 8, 2001[/indent]
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Posted : 25/02/2006 4:25 pm
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Always loathed that tripe. Opie made good like his tribal cohorts Moe, Shemp and Curly of Los Tres Chiefados The Howard subset of the Tribe
Posted : 25/02/2006 5:36 pm
He married [color="Red"]Kay Metz in 1948, the year he graduated from college. The couple had two children before divorcing in 1969.
I wouldn't be so enthusiastic for your comic hero . Hardly anyone succeeds in jewywood without some sort of kosher connection to the tribe .
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[color="Red"]"sneaky 'GD' Jews are all alike." ......Marge Schott
" I'd rather have a trained monkey working for me than a nigger,"
Posted : 25/02/2006 5:50 pm
I wouldn't be so enthusiastic for your comic hero . Hardly anyone succeeds in jewywood without some sort of kosher connection to the tribe .
Metz is a city in Eastern France, can you prove it is a Jewish surname?
"Since New York City is Jew-Town, 9-11 is simply another fake Holocaust"
Posted : 25/02/2006 5:58 pm
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JEW'S TOOL:
My take on Mayberry was that Andy didn't carry a gun because there was no need to-Mayberry was a White town with no savage beasts murdering and raping, that it was just a quirky little town with a bunch of funny, fucked-up characters. I also interpreted Andy being a single father as him being a proud White man taking responsibility for his son and not putting the kid on the back burner while he was out carousing looking for cop groupies. Same with Aunt Bea, she devoted herself to the family-helping her brother and his son.
Anybody on TV is most likely either a lemming or a jew suck-up to some degree or they wouldn't be on TV, at least for long. I don't know much about Don Knotts off TV but I never saw anything, quotes or interviews, to indicate that he wasn't just a decent White guy. Whether he married a jew or not doesn't take away the fact that he was a funny dude.
Posted : 25/02/2006 6:16 pm
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JEW'S TOOL:
My take on Mayberry was that Andy didn't carry a gun because there was no need to-Mayberry was a White town with no savage beasts murdering and raping, that it was just a quirky little town with a bunch of funny, fucked-up characters. I also interpreted Andy being a single father as him being a proud White man taking responsibility for his son and not putting the kid on the back burner while he was out carousing for cop groupies. Same with Aunt Bea, she devoted herself to the family-helping her brother and his son.
Anybody on TV is most likely either a lemming or a jew suck-up to some degree or they wouldn't be on TV, at least for long. I don't know much about Don Knotts off TV but I never saw anything, quotes or interviews, to indicate that he wasn't just a decent White guy. If he did marry a kikess, that would be a big negative of my perception of him but if people here are going to sling shit, let's see some proof.
Posted : 25/02/2006 6:26 pm
Metz is a city in Eastern France, can you prove it is a Jewish surname?
Nope, I can't prove a thing . It was just a cautionary note . The name is often jewish .
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[color="Red"]"sneaky 'GD' Jews are all alike." ......Marge Schott
" I'd rather have a trained monkey working for me than a nigger,"
Posted : 26/02/2006 12:11 am
Man, give ol' Don Knotts a break.
He was a funny guy. Ain't his fault Hollywood was turned into Hymiewood.
I liked his movies, alway funny and family friendly. And the Andy Griffith show was funny. I still laugh at it, still like to watch it.
One thing about those actors from old Hollywood, they kept their politics to themselves and were not allowed to exploit their audience in order to gain support in their personal causes. That is the problem with Hymiewood these days.
Ron Howard is a joke. I hate him. He smirked, on national TV, that he wasn't drafted to Vietnam cause he was a main player on a Hymiewood show. And if I ever saw him in life, I would be yelling, 'Hey Ron, take off your stupid hat, everyone knows you are bald.':rolleyes:
Form follows function --Louis Sullivan
Posted : 26/02/2006 7:58 am
evilisgood seem to say it all correctly.
I like the show of Maybery and Don's character.I liked all of the characters on that show,but I'm just as sure anyone can dissect any episode and find the subtle diversity cancer even way back then,just like you can find in Gun smoke or the Twilight Zone.
I think the idea to take away from Maybery is that -Maybery-WAS the quintessential ideal of rural small town life;and Maybery showed what that life would have looked like in the 60's as life in America changed.
Basic American values; which were never intended to be shared with any other race than White.
Jewish writers have always know the value of this "typical" white virtues society and have utilized,dramatized and plagiarized it endlessly ;and will certainly probably continue to do so far far into the future.
Thats why there are so many re runs,and re writes of prior ALL White stories,tales,TV performances and movies;because the "talent" today does not have the capacity to preform this any longer;because the originals are dead and almost long forgotten;so they(Jewlywood) "attempt" to reproduce and retro fit ALL White ideals and story lines with nonwhite actors who pretend to act as white characters-and the entire attempt crashes and burns at 10 million dollars a pop;and they call it a blockbuster,give the Niggers,Jews and Spic's awards and call it all success.
Posted : 26/02/2006 8:06 am
I remember one show with a blond bully picking on Opie, and Aunt Bee says "There's no place for bullies in our community!" If that isn't the typical Jewish bully squawk, but now it's "There's no place for "haters" in our community!"
"Go, Nazis, Go!"
Posted : 26/02/2006 9:06 am
Ron Howard is a joke. I hate him. He smirked, on national TV, that he wasn't drafted to Vietnam cause he was a main player on a Hymiewood show. And if I ever saw him in life, I would be yelling, 'Hey Ron, take off your stupid hat, everyone knows you are bald.':rolleyes:
???
According to his bio he was born March 1, 1954. As the official website of the Selective Service System [SSS] documents, a 1972 draft lottery "determined the order in which men born in 1953 were called to report for induction into the military." The SSS also notes that the 1972 "lottery was conducted for men who would have been called in 1973; however, no new draft orders were issued after 1972."
Therefore, the last men drafted were born in 1953. Opie was never even in danger of being drafted.
Posted : 26/02/2006 9:48 am
Ok, so Andy was single... so what? Does everybody have to be married to make everybody happy? WTF? This is the kind of threads that make us look like kooks.
I happen to think Three's Company was the funniest sit com ever. Mr. Furley was the best. The 2 jews were funny but Furley was better, imho.
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Posted : 26/02/2006 10:08 am
Ron Howard is a joke. I hate him. He smirked, on national TV, that he wasn't drafted to Vietnam cause he was a main player on a Hymiewood show. And if I ever saw him in life, I would be yelling, 'Hey Ron, take off your stupid hat, everyone knows you are bald.':rolleyes:
This should make you hate him more, check out the pictures of Howard's natural redhead daughter fucking a nigger. Apparently Howard has no problem with his daughters making inter-racial sex vids.
http://www.celebpicpost.com/galleries/11-10-05/Bryce-Dallas-Howard/index.shtml
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Posted : 26/02/2006 10:19 am
I happen to think Three's Company was the funniest sit com ever. Mr. Furley was the best. The 2 jews were funny but Furley was better, imho.
It was definitely funny...as was "All In The Family."
That's why it worked so well in promoting the gay "lifestyle." Humor works! 
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Posted : 26/02/2006 10:29 am
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