Who said it: Barney Fife or a different Don Knotts character?

Who spoke these hilarious lines about giraffes, karate and dear sweet Juaneet?

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Don Knotts made Barney Fife one of the funniest characters on television. Of course, great lines provided by the show's writers helped as well. But Don Knotts was also hilarious in his many other roles outside of Mayberry.

Here are ten quotes said by the always amusing Don Knotts. Try to guess if they belong to Barney Fife or a totally different character!

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  1. “Gun-drawing practice, ten minutes every day. If I ever have to use this baby, I want to teach it to come to papa in a hurry.”
  2. “I wish, I wish I were fish.”
  3. “If there's anything that upsets me, it's having people say I'm sensitive.”
  4. “The first thing you do is to get the psychological edge on your adversary by showing supreme confidence.”
  5. “What we do here, Private, is to evaluate your manual dexterity on a timescale in relation to visual digital coordination.”
  6. “Boy, giraffes are selfish.”
  7. “That's, karate... I’ve been studying it by mail for years. My whole body’s a weapon.”
  8. “Two things have always been my downfall - I have always been the most failure of anybody, and I'm too thin.”
  9. “Juanita, Juanita, lovely dear Juaneet. From your head down to your feet. There’s nothing half so sweet.”
  10. [Talking about a broken TV] “I know how I’d feel if mine went out. Almost like losing a friend.”

Who said it: Barney Fife or a different Don Knotts character?

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124 Comments

Dysall 15 days ago
9/10. Missed #7. But Barney did have a book on Karate and did take Judo classes.
John 6 months ago
Barney never even made me chuckle.
I thought his "humor" was just STUPID!
STTOS 6 months ago
You got 9 out of 10 - Did you know the answers or did these Knotts lines have you tied up? Missed #7 but I am not too upset. More than once he said something very similar as Barney Fife. I know some of his and Andy's dialogues have been used in Matlock, and apparently similar lines in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken too. :) I'll take it.
BenSobeleone 6 months ago
#6 that's the episode with the dogs!
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