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The Andy Griffith Show Season 5 Episode 16

Barney Fife, Realtor

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AIRED: 1/4/65

A classic. Andy lectures Opie about the importance of informing a potential buyer of the true condition of the item being sold. Meanwhile, Barney decides to dabble in the real estate field, and conjures up a deal where several families are selling their house and buying another house in town. When the Simms's consider buying Andy's house, Opie pipes up about problems that the Taylor house has, which angers Barney, who ends up losing ALL the commission money he WAS going to make from everyone selling their house.moreless

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Real Estate Mogul Barney?

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By lstaltari, Sep 18, 2005

One of the best episodes of the series. It's a very well thought out script with a good moral behind it. The episode moral is of course, to tell the truth when you are trying to do business, and it's interesting to see Andy do the "word" dance when trying to sell his house to prospective buyers. In the end Andy also gets a lesson in honesty--and that's always good to see. Barney as a real estate agent is HYSTERICAL. It's nice to see the more domestic side of the show--with Andy and Aunt Bee dealing with pipes and roofs etc. This is the Andy Griffith Show at its very best!moreless
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Ron Howard	Opie Taylor (1960-1968)
Don Knotts	Barney Fife (1960-1965)
Andy Griffith	Sheriff Andy Taylor (1960-1968)
Frances Bavier	Aunt Bee Taylor (1960-1968)

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Dabbs Greer	Harry Sims	Guest Star
Harlan Warde	Mr. Williams	Guest Star
Amzie Strickland	Lila Sims	Recurring Role
Dennis Rush	Howie Pruitt	Recurring Role

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- Barney says to Andy in this episode that his real estate commissions (which are 5% of the sale price) total $3,478.00 for the three homes he is selling, which means that they are selling for a combined amount of $69,560. Based on these three homes, we can conclude that the average price for a home in Mayberry is roughly $23,000. In 1965, the median price of homes nationally was almost exactly $20,000.
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- Opie: (to Andy) You mean, the kids should be honest and the grown-ups don't have to be?
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- This marks the fourth and last appearance on The Andy Griffith Show by Dabbs Greer.
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