Summary[]
Barney tries to rehabilitate Otis after he rides a cow, thinking it is a horse. Barney arrests Otis when it happens again, even using handcuffs. Otis leaves town and vows to never return.
Plot[]
When Otis shows up drunker than he has ever been - riding a cow no less - Barney decides that he will take it upon himself to try to reform Mayberry's town drunk. Andy begs him not to, but Barney has recently read an article about psychology and is convinced that he's the man for the job. Soon he is administering tests and asking Otis all kinds of questions but to no avail. When they find him drunk yet again, Barney feels betrayed and actually handcuffs Otis and runs him in.
Insulted, Otis decides that he's going to take his business elsewhere and use a different jail to sleep it off. Andy and Barney go to Floyd's Barbershop to see Floyd and he tells them that Otis asked to be shaved twice over because he was going to Mount Pilot, so they go to try to talk him into returning to Mayberry.
Notes/Trivia[]
- This episode features only the second time in the series where the left courthouse door is shown open. In this circumstance, both doors need to be opened to allow Otis and the cow to make their comedic entrance.
- The cow Otis rides into town on (which he thinks is a horse) was purchased by Otis for $20 from Old Man Davis.
- Floyd´s calendar in his barbershop only has 28 days, making that calendar in February 1965, despite this episode airing on January 18th, 1965.
- This is one of the few episodes that show Barney's boarding room. Up in Barney's Room and possibly If I Had a Quarter Million do so too.
Goofs[]
Otis specifically states in this episode that he’s never been arrested in his life yet in The Case of the Punch in the Nose when going through old records, Andy reads a report to Barney showing Otis’s first arrest being on September 23, 1941, at 2 pm for being drunk at the Mayberry Garden Club Flower Show. And in Ellie for Council, Otis is in jail for throwing a leg of lamb at his wife and accidentally hitting his mother-in-law with it, implying that he has been arrested for assault.
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