I'm a dyed-in-the wool fan of the "Andy Griffith Show". And I'm certainly not alone! With 249 episodes to its credit, the show ran for eight full seasons between 1960-1968 and it still airs today —  all over the world. Some of my favorite moments were those quiet Southern evenings when Andy would play his guitar while a gently smiling Aunt Bee knitted in her rocking chair and Opie sat on the porch steps singing along with his dad.

I loved all the residents of Mayberry, but my favorite was the frantic, comically inept and utterly adorable Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife, AKA "Fast Gun Fife" who always cracked me up pistol-handling "skills". The one bullet that Andy made him carry in his pocket somehow always ended up in his gun, which he would then accidentally fire at the most embarrassing times — like in the middle of a gun safety lecture.

And you always knew if Barney went into one of the jail cells, there was a extremely high probability he would lock himself in. He was an alarmist, a dupe, a gossip and as high-strung as they come, but everyone in Mayberry loved him anyway. Even his boss could only shrug and say, "Awwww...Barn!"