Starring Andy Griffith...
With Ronny Howard.
Also starring Don knotts.
I want you to realize this world is moving too fast!
We've got jet planes flying coast to coast
in four hours,
spaceships spinning the earth every hour.
Well, you take my word for it,
this world is moving too fast.
You are absolutely right.
Floyd! Watch the scissor!
Oh, I'm sorry.
I don't know, mayor.
Seems to me if you're going somewhere,
you ought to get there as quick as you can.
There's a lot of good sense in that too, Andy.
Floyd, please, watch the scissor!
Well, how can a man appreciate it
if he gets to where he's going too fast?
Now, folks crossing the country in a covered wagon,
that was really something.
But if they get there in four hours,
how can they appreciate it?
Well, they may not appreciate it, mayor,
but their clothes sure don't get as wrinkled.
Oh...
Well, Andy's got a point there.
Floyd! Are you giving me a haircut
or trying to make the Mark of Zorro?
I agree with the mayor.
People are in too much of a hurry nowadays.
What happened to the fine art of sitting?
Just sitting and staring.
Oh, that's the finest thing in the world,
sit on the porch in the moonlight night,
stare at the sky.
That's what probably folks'll do when they get to the moon.
They'll sit on the porch up there and stare down here.
Then why the big rush to the moon?
Maybe they're looking for a different porch.
A different porch!
You are a card, you know?
Floyd, for god's sake,
for crying out loud, be careful!
Well, I'm sorry... You're finished, anyway.
Thank the... just a second.
"Looking for a different porch."
Oh...
Floyd! Do you have to dust me like that?
I'm not a diseased crop!
I'm giving your money's worth.
All right, next.
Okay. Ah, not too short, Floyd. Ah.
Looks like the Nashville bus is comin' through.
Yep, and right on time, too.
Hey, will you look what's getting off that bus!
Ring-a-ding-ding.
That is what I call a female.
Me, too.
Yes. That's a female, all right.
Right, Andy?
Yep. That's definitely not a boy.
Times like this
I wouldn't mind being a young bachelor.
She's got it, all right.
Barney, you're a bachelor.
You think you could handle a gal like that?
You kidding?
You think you're talking to a country boy?
Shucks, I know just what I'd do with a gal like that.
Wha
what would you do?
Well, I'd be inclined to treat a girl like that
a little bit rough.
They expect it.
You know, let 'em know right off who's boss.
Rough 'em up a little bit.
Well, you may get your chance.
She's headed this way.
Huh?
She's coming right in here.
Hi there.
I'm looking
for the proprietor.
A
Uh, uh, uh, yes, ma'am, i-i-i am the proprietor.
Floyd Lawson, proprietor... That's he.
Uh, that's me.
I better get back to city hall.
And I...
Uh, I better check and see
if there's been any crime waves or anything.
Uh, well, good-bye, Floyd.
Oh, they don't seem friendly.
Oh, but, ma'am, uh, uh, uh...
Isn't that right, Andy?
Oh, they-they're friendly, ma'am.
They're friendly as can be.
They're just shy.
Oh, well, I'm glad
because that's the one thing I'm looking for
is a friendly place.
Where the people are friendly?
I guess you're wondering
what I'm doing here in mayberry.
I worked in this big-city barber shop
and this barber, Pierre, was forever after me to marry him
and I kept saying, "I need time to think."
You know how a girl needs time to think?
Only he didn't think I needed so much time to think
but I did, and we had this fight,
and I just had to go away.
Well, you can see why I had to do that.
Uh, to think.
And besides, I was getting awful tired
of the big city because, you know
it's getting so a girl can't walk down the street anymore
without being whistled at.
Do you know why men do that?
Oh, I wouldn't have any idea.
Would you, Floyd?
Oh, no, no, no. I-I wouldn't know at all.
And another thing, the big city isn't a very friendly place.
The people and all, they're not friendly.
So, I just decided I'd get on a bus
and the first friendly-lookin' town I came to
I'd get off and stay there a while and think things over
and do you know this bus that I was on
it passed a sign that said
"welcome to mayberry, the friendly town"
and that seemed friendly, so here I am.
Oh, well, we're, uh, we're glad
that you think we're friendly.
Well, you're probably wondering why I came in here.
My chosen profession happens to be I'm a manicurist...
I do nails... and that's what I was doing in that barber shop
where Pierre wants to marry me
only he doesn't think I need time to think it over
but I do because a girl needs time to think over that.
I thought since I was going to be in mayberry a while
I'd be needing a job
so that's why I came in here to your barber shop
to ask for a job.
A manicurist?
Here
that's my chosen profession... I do nails.
Well, uh, uh, yes, of course, uh, but...
Well, uh, ma'am, I-I don't believe
that there'd be much call for a fingernail doin'
here in-in mayberry.
Yeah. I never heard of anybod in mayberry
having a manicure.
No. That's right, ma'am.
There just wouldn't be enough work for you.
I mean, well, uh... I couldn't pay, or...
Oh, well, that's the good part.
You don't have to pay anything.
I work strictly on commission.
Well, that's the way we work in my chosen profession.
Now, I'll just work over here at this table by the window
where I'll be out of your way, and this chair will be for me
and this will be for my customers.
Uh, what customers?
There won't be any customers.
You wait and see.
There'll be all kinds of 'em
and anyway, as you say, "what have you got to lose?"
I didn't say that.
Oh, well, you will.
Now, I better get over to the hotel and get settled
and I'll be back later for my things
and thanks ever so much for giving me this opportunity.
That's all right, b-but...
That sign was right.
Mayberry is a friendly town
and that's what I was looking for is a friendly town.
Oh... oh, by the way, my name is Ellen brown.
Andy! This is ridiculous.
What are you going to do about it?
What am I going to do about it?
Well, Floyd, now manicurin' don't exactly
come under the headin' of a bona fide crime.
But this is revolutionary!
My customers won't take to a drastic thing like this.
A manicurist. Oh, oh...
Now, now, now, Floyd, don't have a spell.
It's just a passin' thing.
Yeah?
Sure. It won't take her long to find out
there's no work for her.
I'll give her 24 hours.
But while she's here
she sure is pretty to look at, ain't she?
Yeah? Kinda like a calendar come to life.
Oh, she is. Oh.
What you fellas lookin' at?
Oh...
Hi, gang. What's going on?
Look, look...
Look over here.
Wh...? It's that girl from the bus.
Is she working in here?
Well, come on in, boys.
What are you standing out there for?
Come on.
Uh, hmm, mm...
There.
How do, gentlemen?
Anybody care for a manicure?
How 'bout you, sir?
Uh, no, thank you, i-i-i wouldn't care for one.
Manicure for you, sir?
No, ma'am, no, thanks.
No, thank you.
How about you, officer?
Me?
Would you like a manicure?
Uh... no. No, thanks.
I, uh... I never, uh, never went in, uh
for that, uh, kind of thing.
I heard you went rabbit hunting sunday, mayor.
Yeah.
How'd you do?
Shot three.
Missed you out there, Sam.
Where were ya?
Fishin'.
Do any good?
Caught a half-dozen trout.
What did you do sunday, Barney?
Stayed home.
How'd you do?
Caught three.
Not bad.
How's everything in the hardware business, Sam?
Slowest week I've had in three years.
That's nice.
Thinkin' of runnin' a sale
to boost business.
Oh, yeah?
What are you going to put on sale?
Legs.
That's always a good household item.
Sure none of you gentlemen would like a manicure?
Now is the time.
I find I have an openin'.
Well, no, I...
No, I...
Howdy, fellas.
Gone already, huh?
I told you that little ol' girl wouldn't last 24 hours.
Imagine her thinking anybody in mayberry
would let a girl cut their fingernails
and paint 'em and all.
Ain't that a laugh?
Why, I'd no more think...
Uh, howdy.
You know what I think?
I think this isn't a very friendly town after all
and I think you've got a nerve puttin' up a sign
sayin' that it is.
Well, ma'am, I didn't know...
Excuse me
but I distinctly heard you say
I wouldn't last more than 24 hours here.
Just to make sure you're not wrong
I'll get my things together
and I'll just get back on that bus, and...
And I'll just keep on travelin'
till I find a town that is friendly.
Nice goin', sheriff.
Goodbye, Mr. Lawson. And thank you.
Sorry it didn't turn out well. I'm real sorry.
Oh, well, that's all right. I just thought that...
Where you going?
I'm going to wait
for the bus, if you don't mind.
Well, uh, that don't seem like very good business
to leave when you got a... a customer.
I don't see a customer.
Me.
Floyd, if your manicurist
has got a open appointment
why, I'd like to get me a manicure.
Huh? You mean you would...?
Well, just a minute, then, Andy.
Get your things.
Oh, yeah.
Gee whiz.
It's good of you to do this, Andy.
You're a real prince of a fellow, that's what you are.
A real prince.
Uh, manicurist?
Yeah.
Ah...
A real prince.
Well... oh, manicurist?
Front and center.
Ah...
Uh, they're... they're a mess, ain't they?
I generally cut 'em myself.
My aunt bee's got a good-sized pair
o' dressmaking scissors that I use...
Or I might just use her poultry shears.
Sometimes I just set out in the backyard
and clip 'em with the hedge clipper.
Don't get 'em down too far.
I want... I want to leave
a little bit for scratchin'.
A real prince.
Andy, what's she doin' to you?
She's just givin' me a manicure
like any cultured gentleman ought to get.
Okay?
Yeah.
You're next.
What?
Just be glad you're a cultured gentleman.
Sit down.
But, Andy...
You'll enjoy it.
As my deputy, I want you to look nice
right down to the fingernails.
Now, Andy, I...
That's a order.
Well...
There you are, miss.
Why, thank you.
And may I say
I have never had a finer manicure.
There you are, Floyd.
Thank you.
Sheriff?
Hmm?
And I really do mean thank you.
Well, yes'm.
See y'all later.
Andy? Um... Uh, Andy...? Andy!
Um... uh...
What?
Well, let me have your hand.
I won't hurt you.
Honest.
What's the matter?
It makes my skin crawl.
I'll be real careful.
Well, be extra careful with that one.
That's my trigger finger.
You damage that, and I might as well quit the business.
All right. I'll only do nine.
Not frightened anymore?
Nah. Feels kinda good.
Do this one.
Howdy, fellas. What's up?
Andy, look. How 'bout that?
Do you believe it when you see it?
It's just deputy Fife gettin' a manicure.
What about it?
"Just"?
Well, ain't everybody gettin' 'em?
I know I got mine.
You
well, sure. Lookit there.
You ever see fingers come out so even?
Can't bite 'em down that good.
Yeah, but nobody ever had a manicure before in mayberry.
Oh, well, that's 'cause
they didn't know what they was missin'.
You know what the best part is, don't you?
No. No.
Havin' a purty girl like Ellen
hold your hand the whole time.
She, uh... she sure is a looker, all right.
There's no doubt about that.
Oh, she is, and she wears the purtie perfume.
Oh, it's just a pleasure
to sit there beside of her and breathe.
Why don't you go in and wait your turn?
Oh, I don't know.
I... I'm not so sure
how the little woman would take it if I...
Oh, you, uh... scared of your wife, are you, mayor?
Oh, no. Of course not.
She breathes heavy and he jumps a mile.
That's not true.
If I wanted to get a manicure, I'd do it.
Why don't ya?
Yeah. Why don't ya?
Why don't you? Why don't you?
Maybe I will. Maybe I will, too.
All right, let's both go. Okay with me.
Me, too. You go first.
I'll put you down for 5:00.
Fine, thank you.
You may have to work overtime.
My, this is a friendly town after all.
There you are. Next.
Next. Next.
Mornin', Floyd.
How's everything?
Awful, just awful.
What's the matter?
Well, it started last night...
Call after call canceling the appointments
and then more this morning.
Well, she is going to think this is an unfriendly town now.
Who can blame her?
You mean they're canceling manicure appointments?
Yes, right and left.
I'll bet you there won't be
one single appointment kept today.
Well, what happened?
Wives. They don't like the idea
of their husbands havin' their hands held
by a pretty young thing like miss Ellen.
Something we should've thought of, ain't it?
Oh, I don't know what to tell her now.
Things were goin' along so well and everything.
This is just where we started.
This is going to destroy her fai in this town, Andy.
Uh...
Say, Andy...
Hmm?
You're awful good with words.
How 'bout you tell her?
No. Now, Floyd, I can't do...
Oh, there you are, Floyd.
They told me you were here.
I've got to get back to my shop.
Something's come up.
I have to talk to you.
Just talk to Andy.
Uh, Floyd, uh...
Ellen, won't you, uh...
Won't you, uh, sit down?
Well... thank you.
But I did want to talk to Floyd
because something very important has come up.
When I first came to mayberry
I wanted time to think
and I thought this would be
a friendly town in which to do that, and...
I-I-It is a friendly town, miss Ellen.
You've got to believe that
but, uh, there's somethin' that, uh, that I want you
to... to, uh, understand.
There is?
Yes, there is.
Now, uh, I... I don't know whether you...
Whether you know this or not, but, uh...
Well, uh... nature's been good to you.
I mean real, real, real good.
I can't remember when I've seen nature spend
so much time on any one person.
And, well, what I'm, uh, tryin' to tell you
is that bein' as pretty as you are
and as unattached as you are, well, uh...
You can be a pretty worrisome thing
to other, married women.
I can?
Yes, you can. You can.
The fact is, uh
some of the married women here in mayberry
are afraid that you're gonna
steal their husbands away from 'em.
Oh, well, that's silly.
I'd never do a thing like that.
I know you wouldn't
but it sure would help matters a lot
if you was to be married yourself.
And then, see, the wives here
wouldn't feel so uncomfortable
about you holdin' their husbands' hands.
You get what I'm drivin' at?
Why, sheriff Taylor
that is the sweetest proposal I have ever heard.
What was that last thing you said?
I said that is the sweetest proposal I have ever heard.
Ellen, I... I...
You're askin' me to marry you.
Ellen, I, uh... I...
Imagine me the wife of a sheriff.
Ellen, I... I...
It's a good thing you didn't tell me
all this yesterday
or I might really have been confused.
But I cannot accept your proposal of marriage
because I called Pierre and told him
to come and get me
as I have thought it over
and I have agreed to become his wife.
Well, that's what I wanted to tell Floyd...
That I can't work in his shop anymore
because Pierre's comin' to get me on the afternoon bus
but it was terribly sweet of you to ask me.
Why, that's the most flatterin' thing
that's ever happened to me
and even though I'm married to Pierre
I'll always have fond memories of you.
Well, I better get back to the hotel and get packed.
Good-bye, and thanks again.
Oh, hi, Barney.
Hi. Hi...
Bye, Barney.
Ain't we lucky to be livin'
in such a friendly town?
Wasn't anything Floyd could do,
what with Ellen leaving and all.
Yeah, but it wasn't fair,
getting a fella used to having a manicure
and then cutting it off like that.
Become an addict, did you?
Oh, no, it's not that I can't...
Andy, look!
Good ol' Floyd, he's got another one!
I'll be dogged.
Where's the manicurist? The sign said...
She'll be right out.
Uh, manicurist?
Well, you had to bow to popular demand, didn't you, Floyd?
If John q. Public wants it, give it to him.
Manicurist! Customers.
Remember, I'm first, now.
This time I don't want any trouble with jealous wives.
But... but what does Emma Watson know about manicures?
Why, look, she's never had any experience in her life!
Oh, stop blathering and give me your hand.