Season 3 full of Mysteries


Half way through the third season Lou Ann Poovie finally meets Gomer. I've been waiting for Lou Ann since the first season in Black and White. Well Actually...She is as awesome and ditzy as I remember her. And maybe I'm the only one that noticed but Sgt Carter's girlfriend Bunny is around in the beggining of the 3rd season and by the middle of the season she isn't in any episodes and Sgt. Carter and Duke are love struck by Lou Ann Poovie. That Sgt. Carter moves on quickly...Or maybe Bunny just got on his nerves since they are both "Type A" personalities. This season is full of surprises. One surprise that cracked me up is when the Ultra Liberal anti-war Rob Reiner was was inquiring from Gomer about enlisting in the Marines (coincidentally that episode was aired in the pinnacle of the Vietnam War, typical Hollywood Liberal!). But then he stayed true to his liberal roots in the Beatnic episode when he asked Gomer how to get out of the Marines once he got in. However, I must say, that Beatnic episode is a bit shocking as Stg. Carter rips the blouse off the Colonel's daughter and exposes a womans bra on television. That left me a bit shell shocked that a womans bra was shown on TV in the golden age of the 1960's. Did they catch any heat for that?

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Bunny is heard from again in the final season, when they go to Hollywood.
Vince is set to marry a movie star who is using him.
Gomer has Bunny call Vince and it makes him feel a lot better. Cute scene.

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Yeah, it kind of looked like Sgt. Carter and Bunny had an on and off romance. Remember the one where they got in an argument and then Gomer went out with Bunny and Sarge went out with Lou Ann. Then when they were out on the dance floor Lou Ann pretended the heel came off of her shoe and told Sarge that Gomer knew how to fix it. That was so Sarge and Bunny would dance with each other and get back together.

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