# Don Knotts: Stud! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949 "2003-05-28T04:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/21 "2003-05-28T18:48:40Z")
I wish I could link to the two photos, but SPY magazine’s “Separated at Birth?” had Don Knotts and Mick Jagger with a close resemblance. ---
**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 28, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/22 "2003-05-28T20:00:30Z")
Knott’s got a huge amount of attention from 60s hippy types for “The Love God”. He was astonished at the adulation heaped upon him from that movie. So, for everybody there is another (group of) somebodies. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/23 "2003-05-28T21:07:04Z")
I didn’t see the A&E show, so somebody please clarify for me: what exactly do we mean by “Don Knotts: Stud”? Because, let’s face it, Don Knotts just getting to second base with any conscious human being could be considered quite the studly accomplishment, considering what he has to work with. So just how much of a pimp daddy was ol’ Barney? Did he actually have groupies? Did women ask to see his “bullet”? Or what? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/24 "2003-05-28T21:16:21Z")
Why do you think Thelma-Lou always had a smile? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/25 "2003-05-29T04:09:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Winston Bongo \* > \*\*I didn’t see the A&E show, so somebody please clarify for me: what exactly do we mean by “Don Knotts: Stud”? Because, let’s face it, Don Knotts just getting to second base with any conscious human being could be considered quite the studly accomplishment, considering what he has to work with. > > So just how much of a pimp daddy was ol’ Barney? Did he actually have groupies? Did women ask to see his “bullet”? Or what? \*\* They showed _lots_ of photos of “The Don” with some pretty hot looking women hugging him. Every person interviewed made a point of saying that he was “a ladies man.” :eek: The really strange thing is that they said that there wasn’t much difference between “The Don’s” on-screen personality and his off-screen one. So what kind of pick-up lines was he using? “Hi! I’m Barney Fife. Wanna f\*ck?” Oh and he’s got two kids. His daughter is at least 40 (she was born _before_ he appeared on _The Andy Griffith Show_) and you’d _never_ know it to look at her. I kept having to remind myself that she was born in the mid-1960’s (thus, making her older [but not by much] than me), and **not** the late 20 year old she appeared to be. Bastard’s got some good DNA, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/26 "2003-05-29T04:57:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*They showed _lots_ of photos of “The Don” with some pretty hot looking women hugging him. Every person interviewed made a point of saying that he was “a ladies man.” :eek: > > The really strange thing is that they said that there wasn’t much difference between “The Don’s” on-screen personality and his off-screen one. So what kind of pick-up lines was he using? “Hi! I’m Barney Fife. Wanna f\*ck?” \*\* Maybe there’s nothing more to it than women liking nice guys who can make them laugh? I don’t agree with **Scumpup** – it’s not the population at large that is so thoroughly fixated on weight and looks, just a distinct subset of people along with our mass media. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/27 "2003-05-29T07:41:14Z")
A few years ago, there was a website that had Thelma Lou Barney, Helen and Andy all sitting on a sofa naked. Remember it? I think it was called “The Lost Episode”. Well, what was significant about the picture was that the person who created it reversed the females so that Helen was with Barn’. 😃 Q ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/28 "2003-05-29T09:41:54Z")
One of the funniest moments for me on _The Andy Griffith Show_ was when Andy and Opie showed up at the station one evening, flipped on the lights, and caught Barney and Thelma Lou necking. The stunned look frozen on Thelma Lou’s face was priceless. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/29 "2003-05-29T11:33:48Z")
Some women would fuck a porcupine if it was on TV or in a band or otherwise rich and/or famous, so I don’t see why Don Knotts wouldn’t be a ladies’ man. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/30 "2003-05-29T11:53:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kaylasdad99 \* > \*\*Also _The last of the Red Hot Lovers_, IIRC. \*\* Nah, that was [Alan Arkin](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068835). ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/31 "2003-05-29T12:16:35Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\* > The really strange thing is that they said that there wasn’t much difference between “The Don’s” on-screen personality and his off-screen one. So what kind of pick-up lines was he using? "Hi! I’m Barney Fife. Wanna f_ck?" \*\* I only saw the last half of that Biography but they seemed to make the point that he wasn’t the same as he was onscreen. One of his wives said that when they met he was totally unlike what she expected. They also said he had difficulty with his variety show because he had to be himself instead of playing a character. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/32 "2003-05-29T12:31:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by raizok \* > \*\*Mr. Furnie ??? > > Gotta admit it would be cool to have a father-in-law that’s just like Don Knotts though. \*\* It was **Mr. Furley**. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949/33 "2003-05-29T16:42:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MGibson \* > \*\*I only saw the last half of that Biography but they seemed to make the point that he wasn’t the same as he was onscreen. One of his wives said that when they met he was totally unlike what she expected. They also said he had difficulty with his variety show because he had to be himself instead of playing a character. > > Marc \*\* You also missed the part about his daughter talking about how he’d be “sick” on the weekend because of his nerves, but the moment Monday rolled around, he’d be perfectly fine. From what they said, his on screen persona was an amplification of his offscreen one. He seemed to be taking the “darker” side of himself, and enlarging it for his onscreen roles. So, I wouldn’t say that he was _totally_ like his onscreen self offscreen, but there was enough of it there to be noticed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-knotts-stud/177949.md?page=1)