"Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show"
from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, "Mayberry RFD," from 1968 to 1971.
He played the same jovial character — a service station attendant — on
"Hee Haw" from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993.
"America
has grown up with me," Lindsey said in an Associated Press interview in
1985. "Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol'
Goober."
He joined "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1964 when Jim
Nabors, portraying Gomer Pyle, left the program. Goober Pyle, who had
been mentioned on the show as Gomer's cousin, thus replaced him..."
I loved one of his jokes:
"A football coach, holding a football, asks
his quarterback, 'Son, can you pass this?' The player says, 'Coach, I
don't even think I can swallow it.'"
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