- Andy's feelings are hurt when Opie doesn't pick him as the subject of his high-school paper.
- Opie has to write a composition on his most unforgettable character and is having a really hard time coming up with someone. Aunt Bee suggests a most logical choice when she tells Opie to follow his father around and write about him. Andy is quite proud of the fact that Opie has chosen but not very pleased when Opie, generally a good student, gets an F on the essay. Miss Crump gives him a chance to try again and he gets a good mark but when Andy learns that he wrote about someone else, Opie has some explaining to do.—garykmcd
- Ms. Crump (Aneta Corsaut) gives the class an assignment to write a 500+ word essay on their "Most Unforgettable Character". Arnold Bailey (Sheldon Collins) asks if they could write about George Washington and she says she would prefer they write about someone they know personally, who has made an impression on them. Opie (Ron Howard) can't decide who to write about. He discusses it with Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) and she suggests he write about his father, the sheriff of Mayberry. After following Andy (Andy Griffith) around for the day, Opie decides Andy is not very unforgettable. Aunt Bee ends up telling Andy that Opie has picked him as his most unforgettable character. Andy can't help but brag to Goober (George Lindsey) and Howard (Jack Dodson) about being the subject of Opie's essay. Just then Opie rides by and Andy stops him. Andy wants to know if Opie got his "usual A" on the paper. Opie tells him he got an "F". Andy goes to see Ms. Crump to try and find out why Opie got the "F" and she lets him that she is "sure Opie's rewrite will be more interesting". Andy tries to give Opie some interesting stories by stretching the truth on a couple of things. Each time he tries, the real story (which is incredibly forgettable) comes out. Goober and Howard stop Opie and ask him how the composition is coming. Opie tells them he finished it and he got an "A". Andy comes out to see what all the excitement is about and Howard tells him about Opie's "A". Arnold chimes in and says "yeah, he knew more about my dad than I did". Andy is visibly disappointed and says "oh, you wrote about Dr. Bailey". When Arnold says he got an "A" too, Andy says "wow, he must have enough diseases and the like to go around". Arnold says "I didn't write about my dad, Sheriff Taylor, I wrote about you." Opie calls Andy off to the side and says "the reason I couldn't write about you and Arnold couldn't write about his father is, well, if you write what is unforgettable about your own father, it sounds kind of sissy". Andy tells Opie he understands. Aunt Bee later discusses with Andy what Arnold must have written about him and isn't he interested to know. He says he isn't worried about it. Opie and Arnold come in and Andy sends Opie on an errand while he takes Arnold into the kitchen for cookies and milk (and presumably, to try to get a look at the Arnold's paper).
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