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Gomer in the Chinese restaurant

posted 15 years ago by gargantuaboy
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Just watched the episode where Gomer throws a dinner party in a Chinese Restaurant that is really a front for gambling. This may very well be the best Gomer Pyle episode. There isn't a scene that isn't funny. Everyone is great here. James Hong as Mr. Wong the owner, is wonderful. Just a damn good episode. Great sitcom writing that you just don't see anymore. The best line in the episode is where Gomer demands lunch and one of the guys working the Blackjack table in the kitchen says: "Maybe we send out for Chinese!"

[–] jgs1935 15 years ago

Great episode, and probably among the most amusing overall. Now to recap:

~~ Gomer frequents a Chinese eatery that's actually a gambling front.

~~ Aunt Bee goes to work in a print shop that's actually a front for a U.S. currency conterfeiting operation.

~~ Floyd Lawson takes on a new partner who uses Floyd's Barber Shop as a bookmaking/horse betting front.

~~ Barney Fife rooms with a family that uses his detective bureau status for inside info as they rob various Mt. Pilot grocery stores.

I'm sure someone will add to what I've missed, but the Mayberry natives seem to walk into a lot of criminal set-ups....!

[–] ridgerunner72160-609-362419 13 years ago

And don't forget the episode where Gomer and later Sgt. Carter are sent to liquor stores to get a bottle of cooking sherry and unknowingly give the cashier a message that it's a holdup and to put all the money in the bag. That was one of the black and white episodes. Must have been from the first season.

[–] sbrady53 9 years ago

~~ Gomer aids a fledgling restaurant that's actually a front for a bank robbery.

[–] ridgerunner72160-609-362419 14 years ago

I remember one of the funniest lines in that episode was when he was on a sidewalk in what was obviously the Chinese district of Los Angeles or San Diego and he asks this Chinese guy "Where's a good Chinese restaurant?". And the Chinese guy tells him "I wouldn't know. I get heartburn from that stuff."

[–] sbrady53 9 years ago

'60s sitcoms thought it was hilarious to depict Chinese characters as overly Americanized. Remember Keye Luke on Andy Griffith with his jazzy lingo, man?

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