# An Idea: In Memory Of Don Knotts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280 "2006-05-10T21:38:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/1 "2006-05-10T21:38:13Z")
He was (and is) such a beloved actor, why can’t we pay tribute to him the way we do for _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_ ? My favorite Don Knotts movie is _The Ghost and Mr. Chicken_ , and there are lines in that film I still remember today: "And they used **Bon Ami!**" “The electrician must be a Democrat” and the ever popular “Attaboy, Luther!” So the studio needs to re-release _Ghost_ and send it across the nation so that we, the audience, can yell out those lines along with the actors on the screen. Whatcha’ll think? 😃 Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/2 "2006-05-11T00:17:47Z")
I think your idea should be nipped in the bud… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/3 "2006-05-11T01:05:18Z")
Heretic! Everyone knows that the best Don Knotts movie is “The Love God.” ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/4 "2006-05-11T01:14:17Z")
I personally loved TGaMC and would attnd said showing. Atta Boy **Quasimodem** ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/5 "2006-05-11T02:44:26Z")
Y’all are so **warped**! 😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/6 "2006-05-11T03:12:51Z")
“_Why_ are there so many ostriches??” ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/7 "2006-05-11T05:44:40Z")
**Quasimodem** Interesting idea. Let me clarify that. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/8 "2006-05-11T10:34:47Z")
“I used to change his didies!” ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/9 "2006-05-11T14:26:03Z")
I also liked “The Shakiest Gun in the West”, partially because Barbara Rhoades was so fine… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/10 "2006-05-11T15:06:12Z")
What we need is, a buncha great Andy Griffith shows prominently featuring Barn to be released to theatres. “Here at the rock we got two rules! And the first one is, OBEY ALL THE RULES!” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/11 "2006-05-11T19:52:42Z")
Any mention of Don Knotts brings to mind the famous episode at our house when my father was reading me part of “Red Lobster, White Castle and The Blue Lagoon.” This normally unemotional guy looked like he was going to piss himself; you know when you are so convulsed with laughter you can’t even take the next breath. The line that put us over the edge: “If you see Don Knotts, can Tim Conway be far behind?” The line was repeated somberly on the occasion of Mr. Knotts’ recent death. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/12 "2006-05-12T01:25:49Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Any mention of Don Knotts brings to mind the famous episode at our house when my father was reading me part of “Red Lobster, White Castle and The Blue Lagoon.” This normally unemotional guy looked like he was going to piss himself; you know when you are so convulsed with laughter you can’t even take the next breath. The line that put us over the edge: > > “If you see Don Knotts, can Tim Conway be far behind?” > > The line was repeated somberly on the occasion of Mr. Knotts’ recent death. Thank you for sharing that part of your life with us, **gigi**. After reading what you wrote, I am wondering if the OP was in good taste, and I am concluding that it wasn’t. I just love that self-effacing guy so much. I know that Barney wasn’t just an act, he must have been really that way, and we are the poorer for having lost him. Thank you Quasimodem ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/13 "2006-05-12T12:29:44Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Thank you for sharing that part of your life with us, **gigi**. After reading what you wrote, I am wondering if the OP was in good taste, and I am concluding that it wasn’t. > > I just love that self-effacing guy so much. I know that Barney wasn’t just an act, he must have been really that way, and we are the poorer for having lost him. Please don’t take it that way. If anything, I was being a lot more irreverent than you were, as I have mixed feelings about Mr. Knotts, to put it kindly. Darn this print medium where my intent gets lost!! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/14 "2006-05-16T05:41:08Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Please don’t take it that way. If anything, I was being a lot more irreverent than you were, as I have mixed feelings about Mr. Knotts, to put it kindly. Darn this print medium where my intent gets lost!! Whatever your “mixed feelings” about Don Knotts, I did not take what you wrote in a “bad way”. I just wondered if I had jumped on the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” theme too soon, allowing for the fact that he has not been lost to us for that long a time. Also allowing for the fact that I used to be in radio and sensationalizing **anything** was the rule, and I hated myself during those SNL “copy days” just for the sake of a joke. It was a cheap joke at the expense of a waste of band-width, and I regret having made the OP. That really is not my nature. If it were, I guess I wouldn’t be taking care of sick people, but spending my time on stage spouting sarcasm. But one thing in your reply made me smile: Tim Conway and Don Knotts. If there ever was a genius in casting, that was it! Two “dead-pan” expressions with one suddenly “getting the picture”, too late! As the commercial says: “Priceless”. Attaboy, Don! And thank you all for y’all’s replies. Q ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-in-memory-of-don-knotts/356280/15 "2006-05-16T06:48:31Z")
What? No love for [The Incredible Mr. Limpet?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058230/) Easily my favorite DK movie.