Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
He created an iconic early tv character. RIP.
Sha-damn.
“Keep the latch-string out and the dogs tied up; I’m comin’ home!”
Guest star on The Muppet Show
Thank God I’m A Country Boy.
Gone With The Wind-The usual chaos ensues.
I used to love Gomer Pyle, USMC as a kid. Oh, that poor Sgt. Carter. Such consternation!
You never heard a bad word about Jim Nabors. He seemed like a nice guy and had a lovely singing voice. RIP.
Well Gol-Lee!!! Jim’s died. Well Andy what in tarnation are we going to do?
I liked him in short doses. A five minute scene in the Griffith show was lots of fun.
I never could watch many episodes of Gomer Pyle. Thirty solid minutes of his hillbilly shtick got irritating.
I loved his singing and watched his variety show.
RIP
I thought he died years ago. I heard they found him bobbing up and down on the… Never mind.
Like Gatopescado, I watched Gomer Pyle, USMC as a kid. I remember how surprised I was when ‘Gomer’ sang Oh, My Papa.
IIRC, Jim Nabors also was on the 1st episode of every Carol Burnett Show season.
I too liked him better in small doses. His iconic show was not really any good overall.
LOL, that’s the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the thread title…
Are you as ashamed as I am?
Seriously, Jim Nabors was a positive force in the world. He’ll be missed.
Shazam! :eek:
I guess there’ll be lots of human interest stories in the paper tomorrow, along the lines of “Tough Marine Finally Reunited with (ahem) ‘Father-Figure’ Sergeant.”
RIP, Gom!*
EDIT: Oops! It wasn’t until after I typed this that I remembered what “gom” means in Russian. :dubious:
My greatest familiarity with him was his singing of “Back Home Again in Indiana” every year before the Indy 500. I’ve never wanted to live in Indiana, but for some reason I liked him singing that song every year, and I’ve missed it since he gave it up a few years ago.
They pulled him out of nowhere to appear on the Andy Griffith show and he became a star. He had some kind of comedy act before as pretty much himself, the guy who talked like Gomer and sang like an opera star. Like many others my enduring memory of him is from the Andy Griffith show – “Citizen’s arrest! Citizen’s arrest!”
From Gomer to goner.
Damn. I grew up watching him on Andy Griffith and Gomer Pyle, and was amazed at the singing voice he displayed on the variety shows. I really liked the album he did of Man of la Mancha (with opera star Marilyn Horne as Aldonza/Dulcinea and Jack Gilford as Sancho. There was a perfectly voice-cast combination. I would’ve loved to have seen that show.) the last thing I recal seeing him in was the movie of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, for which he and Charles Durning were arguably the most appropriately cast members.
Is Goober still around? 
One Carol Burnett skit that he starred in that stands out in my mind is when he played Gah Lee Gee in “Yung Fool”, a send-up of Kung Fu.
Jim was great in it, but Harvey Korman was superb as his sadistic teacher monk, “The fool is wiser than the man who sleeps in cole slaw.”
Or something like that. I only remember the line being about someone sleeping in cole slaw.
Other parts of it were like:
Jim: Goody, goody, goody Master, fill mah empty brain with knowledge.
Harvey: (rolling eyes) That would take for-evah!
George Lindsey died May 6, 2012.
What would Full Metal Jacket have been like without him?