Sunday, March 12, 2006

Don Knotts

Don Knotts, the saucer-eyed, scarecrow-thin comic actor best known for his roles as the high-strung small-town deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s CBS series "The Andy Griffith Show" and the leisure-suit-clad landlord Ralph Furley on ABC's '70s sitcom "Three's Company," has died. He was 81.

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Who could forget Barney and Gomer in the haunted house, in search of Opie's baseball.

In the cobwebbed darkness, the pair hears a ghostly moan.

The exchange is short, but unforgettable.

Barney (with jumpy excitement): "What was that?

Gomer: "I don't know, but it don't sound like no baseball."

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