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Ernest T. is back in Mayberry to get his diploma. He is so determined that Andy convinces Helen to allow him to attend class. E.T. is so out of control, she has to slap him across the knuckles to get his attention. Helen's discipline causes Ernest T. to fall in love with Andy's girl. Exasperated, Andy explains to Ernest T. that he loves Helen because she represents his "motha figer." Once that's all sorted out, Andy manufactures a diploma that Ernest T. receives in a touching graduation ceremony.moreless
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Ron Howard
Opie Taylor (1960-1968)
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Don Knotts
Barney Fife (1960-1965)
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Andy Griffith
Sheriff Andy Taylor (1960-1968)
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ADD NOTES- Francis Bavier doesn't appear in this episode. Edit
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ADD QUOTES- (Andy is teaching Ernest T. a little geography) Andy: Now, here, here is a map of the United States. Ernest T.: United States. Andy: That's right. Now the United States is bounded on the north by Canada, on the south by Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the west by, uh, would, uh, you happen to know that? Ernest T.: (thinks) Old Man Kelsey's woods. Andy: No. All the way to the edge – big body of water. Ernest T.: Old Man Kelsey's crick. Andy: Ocean. Ernest T.: Old Man Kelsey's ocean! Andy: Pacific Ocean. Ernest T.: Pacific Ocean. Andy: Very good, very good. Ernest T.: Yeah, I sure know my boundaries good, don't I? Andy: You sure do. Ernest T.: Just as long as they don't change 'em 'fore I take my test. Edit
- (Helen, Andy and Barney are in the courthouse discussing Ernest T.) Andy: I got to tell you the truth: I just don't know what to do. I can't put him in jail – he keeps breakin' out. I can't make him understand he's got to leave Helen alone. I don't know what to do with him. Barney: Well, you won't listen to me – you won't listen to your old dad. All I have to do is give him a couple of karate chops, flip him into a corner and he'd get up and head back for the mountains, never to be seen again. Andy: He'd kill you. (Barney looks annoyed) Andy: Well, the easiest way is to satisfy him. He wants an education – we'll give him an education. We'll fix him up with a diploma and everything. Barney: I still say: five minutes behind the barn! Helen: He'd kill you. Edit
- (Ernest T. annoyed Helen all night; Andy, Barney and Helen are discussing it) Andy: He won't bother you anymore. We got him locked up, now. Barney: That's right. Slapped him in the ol' tin box. That'll cool him off. Helen: I suppose he's a good soul. It's just that he's, well, he's a little strange. Barney: Strange? He's a first-rate, grade-A, number one nut! He should have been in the laughing academy years ago. Andy: He's made a lot of progress since the last time he was in town. Barney: Oh, so he shaved the back of his neck. What's so great about that? Helen: Would you excuse me a minute? I have to take this to the principal. Be right back, Andy. (she leaves) (Andy sighs) Barney: Look, Andy. A sensitive, delicate situation like this has got to be handled a certain way. Now why don't I take him out in back of the jailhouse and kick him around a little bit? Andy: He'd kill you. Edit
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ADD ALLUSIONS- As Ernest T. is receiving his diploma, the background music is an arrangement of "Gaudeamus Igitur", the traditional University student song for over two hundred years. The standard Latin lyrics were written and published in 1781 by Christian Wilhelm Kindleben (1748-1785) to an already well-known melody. Johannes Brahms used the melody prominently in his famous "Academic Festival Overture" in 1881. Edit
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