Barney Fife Drives the Jinx Out of Town?!

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Boy, you insist on flying right in the face of scientific fact, don't you?

[00:00:04]Scientific fact?

[00:00:06]There are atmospheric rays which control bodily motions.

[00:00:10]Now, if a person containing negative or hexing qualities gets between you and them rays, why, he creates a static that jars any successful motion into an unsuccessful motion, and jinxes you.

[00:00:20]And that is a scientific fact.

[00:00:23]And that is also the biggest crock of nothing I ever heard.

[00:00:27]It's guys like you that laughed at Edison, the Wright brothers, Buzz Fluheart.

[00:00:32]Buzz Fluheart?

[00:00:34]The man that discovered the scientific fact I just was telling you.

[00:00:37]Oh, for heaven's sakes, Barney.

[00:00:39]Hello, boys.

[00:00:40]Oh, hi, Aunt Bee. What you got there?

[00:00:41]Tickets for the church social Saturday night, and nobody leaves without buying one.

[00:00:46]They cost 50 cents.

[00:00:47]I'll take one, Aunt Bee.

[00:00:48]What's the door prize this year, Aunt Bee?

[00:00:51]A portable TV.

[00:00:53]Oh! Stepping up in class, huh?

[00:00:55]Remember, last year, it was just a transistor radio.

[00:00:58]Without an earplug.

[00:01:01]Well, the bigger the prize, the more tickets we sell.

[00:01:03]Oh! Say, that's cute.

[00:01:04]"Bigger the prize, more tickets..." Hey, here comes Henry Bennett.

[00:01:09]Quick, everybody.

[00:01:11]Touch this rabbit's foot.

[00:01:12]Touch it. Touch it. Touch it.

[00:01:14]Touch it, Andy.

[00:01:15]Now, Barney... Turn the mirror face down.

[00:01:18]Okay, now, everybody take your right hand, put it over your head, touch your left earlobe.

[00:01:22]Barney.

[00:01:24]Close your eyes and listen to this: Wink 'em, think 'em, 'nonymous rex, protect us all from the man with the hex.

[00:01:32]Wink 'em, think 'em, 'nonymous rex... Hello, Henry.

[00:01:36]Hi, Henry.

[00:01:37]Hello, Sheriff, Aunt Bee.

[00:01:45]What are you fellas doing?

[00:01:48]Uh... I'll tell you what they're doing, Henry.

[00:01:54]Outside of behaving like a bunch of nuts, they're protecting themselves from a jinx.

[00:01:59]They saw you a-coming.

[00:02:00]I know, I know.

[00:02:01]And that's the reason I'm, uh... well, I'm leaving.

[00:02:05]You're what?

[00:02:07]I'm leaving Mayberry.

[00:02:08]I come over to tell you that.

[00:02:10]You can't be serious.

[00:02:12]Oh, yes, I am.

[00:02:14]Ain't no fun living in a town where folks are starting to avoid you.

[00:02:18]Folks that used to be your friends.

[00:02:21]From now on, everything bad that happens in this town is going to be blamed on me.

[00:02:27]And, after what happened at the fishing, I ain't so sure but what they'd be right.

[00:02:33]Well, uh... ( clearing throat ) maybe I'll be seeing you.

[00:02:52]Well, I hope you're all satisfied, with your picking at him and your scientific facts and all.

[00:02:57]Well, Andy, I didn't mean to hurt him.

[00:03:00]Well, you did. You hurt him bad enough that he's leaving town.

[00:03:02]Barney, you know, sometimes you beat everything.

[00:03:04]Golly, Andy, we was only having a little joke.

[00:03:07]Well, your joke went too far.

[00:03:08]So you don't really believe Henry's a jinx, huh, Floyd?

[00:03:11]No.

[00:03:12]How about you fellas?

[00:03:13]How about you, Barney?

[00:03:14]You believe that Henry's got the power to hex somebody?

[00:03:17]Do you, huh? Well... See? None of you believe it, but you got Henry to believe it, and he's leaving town and there's no reason for him to.

[00:03:23]Henry's a good man, and every one of you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.