The Andy Griffith Show
The Pickle Contest
When Aunt Bee decides to enter into the pickle-making contest at the town fair with the store-bought pickles the boys put in her jars, Andy and Barney know they have to make things right.
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hey
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how are you Miss Johnson
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just fine thank you
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some homemade pickles
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pickles
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well the fact is me and Barney just had a sizable uh yeah and I got to go out on patrol wouldn't do for me to stop anybody with allspice on my breath
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honey
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come on and let's have one of Miss Johnson's pickles no you go ahead
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I'm gonna bring the car around
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Barney
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well
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maybe just a little one
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hey
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these are good do you really think
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I'm just [censored]
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glad you liked them so much
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I do spend an awful lot of time on him
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maybe more than I should
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well you can certainly tell it
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you know when mr. Johnson was alive he just loved them so much
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he always used to say to me
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Clara
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when my time comes and I go to heaven
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just bet they don't put down a pickle that can compare with yours
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that's what he always said
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yeah
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I guess now he has a chance to find out
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and say chances are he is exactly a hundred percent right
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did
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you ever see my scrapbook with all the prizes I won for my pickles oh yeah
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and everything
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the blue ribbons from the fair
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first place
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every year
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for 11 years
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that's quite a record
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whenever I get discouraged or lonely I
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take out my book and look at my ribbons
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I don't know how to explain it but
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it's a great comfort
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to know that there's something I can do
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I suppose I'm just a foolish old lady
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oh well no I wouldn't believe that for a minute
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you probably think I'm just putting on airs
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but
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I do try to make my pickles better every year
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it means so much to me
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Barney we have got us a mess
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how's that
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we have is dead wrong about figuring that contest didn't mean anything
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was small potatoes to some folks can be my
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important to others
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are you talking about mrs. Johnson
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Bonnie that poor soul just lives for that contest and if she got nosed out by a store pickle I'd never forgive myself
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Andy like we said it'd just be a little joke
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not to her it wouldn't
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no change so getting ain't B's old pickles back is he
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they're scattered all the way from Oregon to Nova Scotia
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we got to make this contest fair and square and that means the pickles ain't be enters as got to be the pickles ain't be makes
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the pickle she made they're gone I know it
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we just gonna have to get it to make another batch
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you can't be serious
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you mean you actually
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somehow between now and the contest
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we're going to have to eat up all the store pickles that ain't bees got on hand
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why don't we get rid of them the same way we got rid of the others no no that won't work see she's got see them pickles disappearing and she's got to
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see us liking them so much that she'll want to make another batch
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and I got to tell you now my heart ain't in this
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well it's not so much your heart we need it's your stump
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we got to eat up 8 quarts of pickles
