Gomer heads home with $1,600 to buy a gas station with his cousin Goober. Worried about pickpockets and con artists, Sergeant Carter goes with him.Gomer heads home with $1,600 to buy a gas station with his cousin Goober. Worried about pickpockets and con artists, Sergeant Carter goes with him.Gomer heads home with $1,600 to buy a gas station with his cousin Goober. Worried about pickpockets and con artists, Sergeant Carter goes with him.
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- TriviaBill's Diner is the Wally's Gas Station set from The Andy Griffith Show (1960) redressed.
- GoofsSince Gomer only has a seven day leave, it seems unlikely that he would take a bus from southern California to North Carolina, as a bus trip of that length would take at least 3 days there and three days back, so that at most he would only have around a day or so to take care of his business buying the gas station.
- Quotes
Gomer Pyle: Why did you do that Seargent?
Sgt. Carter: I didn't like his looks, he looked to suspicious.
Gomer Pyle: Well he didn't look suspicious to me.
Sgt. Carter: Well naturally, no one does to you, Frankenstein could sit down beside you and you'd invite him home for dinner.
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An Innocent Among the Artful-Dodgers
Another clever entry from Season 5. When Gomer announces he's on the verge of leaving the Marines to fulfill his dream of buying a gas-station back home in Mayberry, going into partnership with cousin Goober, Carter persuades the vacillating Pyle to go ahead with it, seeing this as another "perfect" opportunity to get rid of the perennial thorn-in-his-side-Marine. Carter realizes how gullible Pyle is, though, a soft-touch sucker for hard-luck stories & easy-prey for con-men, so he ends up accompanying Pyle on the bus-journey part-way. A number of mishaps involve the homeward-bound Marine's wallet-- with Carter, despite his claims to the contrary, proving a less-than-ideal guardian of his charge's life-savings. The usual good-lines & situations are featured throughout, though I won't reveal its enjoyable ending. A fine episode with but one reservation--Sgt. Carter's continual loud-bellowing is rather exhausting. Of course, this is a character-trait displayed in almost every episode but, for some reason, on this occasion, it rather wore me out. Frank Sutton always was excellent in the role, nonetheless, in expressing his frustrations over having Pyle in his unit. Although the plot has Gomer withdrawing his life-savings from the bank in cash, carrying it in his wallet on the bus, all the way to N.C., maybe a little-unrealistic, it may've been more-common in the 60's, I don't know. Seems he could've withdrawn at the Mayberry-end--but then banks weren't as nationalized in those days, I guess, though I imagine possible. Probably was necessary in order for this particular-plot to succeed. These last-season episodes, which I haven't seen in many years, operate on all-cylinders, each one strongly-clever & amusing!
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