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Summary[]

Aunt Bee's homemade pickles are terrible. Andy and Barney have an idea of replacing them with store-bought pickles but their plan backfires.

Plot[]

Aunt Bee is a wonderful cook but she just can't seem to make a tasty pickle. She's at it again, though, putting up another batch for the boys, who have never had the heart to tell her they taste terrible.

S2E11 - Swapping the Pickles

Swapping the Pickles

Rather than choke down any more of her "kerosene cucumbers,” Andy, Barney, and Opie substitute good store-bought pickles for her bad homemade ones. Having lost to Clara Johnson in the best pickles contest at the fair eleven years in a row, Bee thinks her latest batch is a winner and decides to enter. Knowing it would be unfair to the other contestants, especially Clara, for store-bought pickles to be entered, the boys must eat every one of the substitutes so Aunt Bee will have to make another batch of her own for the contest.

Notes/Trivia[]

  • This was voted the #1 favorite episode of the entire series.
  • This was Don Knotts's favorite episode.
  • A fly lands on one of Aunt Bee's pickles and dies.
  • Barney tells Andy that Aunt Bee's pickles are scattered from Oregon to Nova Scotia.
  • The music playing while Andy, Barney, and Opie gulp down eight quarts of pickles deserves special notice for how well it fits the scene.
  • If Aunt Bee only moved to Mayberry last year, how could she have entered the pickle contest and lost to Clara 11 years in a row?
  • When Barney and Andy are singing before Aunt Bee brings them lunch, they're singing a song, and Barney is off-key. This could be a prelude to Barney and the Choir. Barney is actually singing in Harmonic Counterpoint to the melody, not off-key.
  • Aunt Bee's entry number in the pickle contest was 11; Clara's was number 4.
  • Ron Howard later confessed that he never liked pickles.

Goofs[]

Music[]

  • The song Andy and Barney are singing when Aunt Bee brings in lunch is "Tell Mother I'll be there". This is the same song Andy and Barney hummed as they looked through files in the opening scene of "Citizen's Arrest".

Quotes[]

Barney: "Shoo fly...It's dead!"

Barney to Aunt Bee: "I think I'll just wait and smoke it..er..eat if after supper".

Barney: "I would have brought my own suitcase, but it's at the cleaners."

Barney: "You actually want her to make another batch of them kerosene cucumbers."

Andy'''': "Well, there's only one thing to do, that's what we should have done in the first place..learn to love 'em."

Andy "What's small potatoes to some folks can be mighty important to others".

(Final Scene)

Barney: You comin' to work today?

Andy: Is it 8 o'clock already?

Barney: You kiddin'? It's three past.

Andy: I can't get started this morning. Just let me drink my coffee. Sit down and have some toast and jelly or something

Barney: Thanks, believe I will! (sits down, gets a piece of toast and opens the jar of marmalade on the table and begins to spoon it on his toast.) Nice day. (Notices a weird smell.) You doing some painting in here?

Andy: No, probably just some glue Opie's using on a model airplane.

Barney: Doesn't smell like glue to me. Smells more like...ammonia.

Andy: You don't reckon that gas stove's leaking?

Barney: (starts to bite into his piece of toast, pulls it back quickly) Found it! (points to marmalade jar, has Andy smell. Quickly puts the lid on.)

Andy: Aunt Bee was working in here yesterday!

(Andy and Barney go to the kitchen cabinet where the "kerosene cucumbers" were previously and now find several jars of "ammonia marmalade")

Barney: Aunt Bee's making marmalade now!

Andy: Well, don't just stand there, go get the suitcase!

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