Today we toast Don Knotts, who died on this day in 2006. I have to admit that he made me laugh as a child and he still does. Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Comedy between 1961 and 1968. Barney Fife was one of a kind.
And you have to love Andy who is always so patient with him. He was the perfect foil.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Most of Don’s movies were not great, but I have to admit a certain affection for The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964). I wonder what the twins would make of it? We may have to check it out.
Truly Hollywood could never make a movie like that today. “I wish, I wish, I wish I were a fish…”
Enjoy your Tuesday. I think I’ll work on memorizing the preamble to the Constitution.
[…] I like it. [At the DAR meeting, when we recited the preamble to the U.S. constitution, I thought of Barney Fife.] Also, the OM accompanied me when I took my car to the carwash. Usually he does this for me, but I […]
dual personalities 
Should introduce them to Mr Limpet or would you like to?!
I have the DVD, so…;)
Don Knotts truly was one of a kind!
We need more people like Don Knotts!
[…] I like it. [At the DAR meeting, when we recited the preamble to the U.S. constitution, I thought of Barney Fife.] Also, the OM accompanied me when I took my car to the carwash. Usually he does this for me, but I […]