departure of Don Knotts's character Barney Fife, Goober replaced many of the shenanigans formerly attributed to Barney, such as divulging information across town that Andy preferred be kept private, or creating conflict from misunderstandings. Goober is made an emergency deputy several times when minor crime waves erupted in Mayberry. Goober is an old friend of Andy Sawyer, a native of the much larger town of Greenwood who happens to look exactly like Sheriff Andy Taylor and behave similarly to him as well; Goober visits Sawyer in Greenwood during the premiere episode of The New Andy Griffith Show. After the events of Mayberry R.F.D. and The New Andy Griffith Show, Goober relocates to Kornfield County and opens up a gas station of his own, where he spends the next twenty years as a cast member of the country variety revue Hee Haw. By this time, Goober had developed a substantial wit, and when a shyster (played by his brief Andy Griffith Show co-star Jack Burns) would attempt to con Goober out of money, Goober could always goad the shyster into a rematch and win his money back. Goober appeared on 86 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show from 1964 through 1968, one episode each of Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. and The New Andy Griffith Show and then on 54 episodes of Mayberry R.F.D. until its cancellation in 1971. Following that, Lindsey spent roughly 20 years playing the character on Hee Haw from 1972 through 1992. Goober also appeared in the 1978 television pilot episode Goober & The Truckers' Paradise and the 1986 television reunion movie Return to Mayberry alongside his cousin Gomer for only the third time in television history (running the town's G'nG gas station and auto repair shop). The characters also appeared together in one episode of The Andy Griffith Show and one Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. episode. References Fictional characters from North Carolina Fictional mechanics The Andy Griffith Show characters Television characters introduced in 1965