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Don Knotts admitted that he preferred ''The Andy Griffith Show'' to ''Three's Company''
Knotts would take Barney Fife over anyone, any day.
Just like you prefer some jobs over others when you look back on your career, actors, too, have their favorite roles, films, and television series that they've worked on. Don Knotts, whose comedy career spans across generations, was talented enough to have his fair share of favorites.
Just like everyone in the world had their favorite Don Knotts role, so did Knotts himself know which characters he liked better than others.
Here's a hint: It's not that shocking.
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An article in the Bristol Herald Courier covered a talk Knotts gave at the East Tennessee State University. In addition to revisiting a few scenes from his previous roles and entertaining the audience with a bit of sketch comedy, Knotts was also gracious enough to answer a few questions from audience members about his career.
One of these questions was about whether he liked playing the role of Ralph Furley of Three's Company, a character Knotts popularized in the late seventies into the early eighties.
Knotts confessed, "Not as much as I liked doing Andy." He reasoned, "The new show was just too fast for me."
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The actor also spoke highly of the series when discussing his favorite scene as Barney Fife. He said, "It was the scene when Barney was going out the door with a suitcase full of pickles, trying to explain what he was doing." It was a scene that wasn't necessarily intended to be comedic but, like most scenes on The Andy Griffith Show, ended with thunderous laughter.
He continued, "We didn't expect it to be anything, but it became a very funny scene."
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he could pick his teeth on TAGS and get the canned laugh track
and on 3s he was muted
case closed - reply if you like and disagree
I even think if Boris Karloff had the same laugh track treatment than Knotts had - he would be a comedic genuis
I do agree Joyce Dewitt was always the most attractive of all the female roommates. I always found it quite odd Janet was supposed to be the "plain" looking one who guys never noticed and struggled to get dates, while it was always the blonde roommate guys were tripping over each other to get to. Janet was, in my opinion, more attractive than Chrissy, Cindy or Terry. I suppose in that regard, you could say Joyce Dewitt was actually miscast in her role.
