Post by autumn on Jul 1, 2020 22:56:14 GMT
Everyone quickly realized how funny Don Knotts could make the Fife character, and to Andy Griffith's credit, decided to kind of switch it to where Andy played his character more straight and Knotts being the funny one.
Yeah, I did notice that Andy seemed far more "goofy" in this episode, and not his traditional straight-man self. It was very peculiar.
To be fair, when Knotts gets really goofy, he goes far too over the edge for my liking (I'm not a fan of slapstick and he verges into that territory while being far too loud). But that was the style back then.