![]() This episode is a satire of the 1953 best selling book, 1954 Tony award-winning play starring Paul Newman, and 1955 movie starring Humphrey Bogart, "The Desperate Hours.” The film was also remade again in 1990.Andy and O'Malley engineer a clever scheme and capture all but the ringleader, Big Maude, whom Barney manages to tango out the door and into the handcuffs. ![]() ![]() While looking for a telephone they are captured by three female escaped convicts.īarney and Floyd are held hostage by a gang of escaped female convicts who have been hiding in O'Malley's cabin outside of town.Īndy, who spots Floyd in town buying groceries (with one of the convicts), thinks they have a little party going on until O'Malley arrives back in town on the bus. After all, he is one of my own kind.Barney and Floyd run out of gas while coming home from a fishing trip. "Parts like that were great." He left showbiz at the age of 14 and would go on to work in music, steel and printing. After he delivered his famous fit on the set, "The whole place stood up and applauded me," he recalled. In 2016, The Mount Airy News caught up with Ronnie Dapo (Arnold Winkler), the retired 64-year-old actor, who reflected on his career and time in Mayberry.Arnold's bike is the same one Opie would get for straight A's.Andy agrees and raises his son's allowance from 25 to 27 cents. The next day, Opie apologizes to his father and asks to do the chores again. Opie is obviously moved by what he has observed as well. Winkler continue his discussion with his son at the "woodshed" behind the courthouse, implying Arnold should be spanked. Because of this, Arnold throws a gigantic tantrum, so Andy suggests Mr. Winkler, horrified by the truth, tells Andy that he will sell the bike as soon as he gets it back. Arnold defiantly tells Andy to lock up his father if it means he will get his bike back, openly admitting when questioned that he cares more about the bike than his father. Winkler in the jail, if he will not take responsibility for his son's actions. Winkler heatedly confronts Andy about impounding the bike and upsetting his son, ignoring Andy's explanation of the situation and demanding Andy be more lenient since Arnold is a child.Īndy confronts Winkler about how he spoils Arnold, and threatens to lock up Mr. Barney then enters with Arnold and his father, Simon Winkler, in tow. Andy replies, 'no work, no allowance,’ so Opie holds his breath and begins to throw tantrums as Arnold suggested. ![]() Opie comes to the courthouse and defiantly rehashes his point about not having to work for allowance, much to his father's chagrin. Arnold storms off, threatening to tell his father. This time, Andy stops Arnold and impounds the bike. Barney sees him and stops him with a warning, but Arnold rides off again on the sidewalk in defiance. Then Arnold rides off back to town and continues to defy the law about riding his bike on the sidewalk. Throwing tantrums is the best way to get whatever he wants. Andy replies that there are no such rules, that each parent raises and rewards his or her child in the manner he or she sees best, and that it is best that Opie earn his allowance by doing chores.īack at home, Opie tells Arnold about the discussion with his father. He asks his father if there are rules about how a father should raise his son. Meanwhile, back at the courthouse, Opie pays his father a visit as he is pondering whether Arnold is right about not working for an allowance. Arnold retorts that he didn't have to work for the bike his parents give him anything he wants, including a money allowance of 75 cents a week, without any work. Opie admires Arnold's brand new expensive bicycle, saying that Arnold must have worked hard to earn money to buy it. The young boy, whose name is Arnold Winkler, rides to the Taylor house, where Opie is doing chores for a weekly 25-cent allowance. Rodenbach, the boy rides by again and runs down Barney, but too quickly for Barney to identify and detain him. Rodenbach is run down by a youngīoy riding a bicycle illegally on the sidewalk in front of the grocery. After Winkler's bike is impounded Opie sees Winkler's ways just don't wash.Īndy and Barney are walking through town when Mrs. Arnold Winkler tries to teach Opie how to manipulate his father by throwing tantrums.
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