![]() ![]() Only twice was Otis arrested for something other than drunkenness. Otis reveals he had already sold his car. When Otis emerges from a party drunk, Andy and Barney intervene and trick Otis into believing he died while driving drunk. In the Season 4 episode, "Hot Rod Otis", Otis buys a car which concerns Barney who stakes Otis out for a possible DUI. Opie, then 7, responds "You mean when he's had a snootful?" Near the end of the episode, Opie is allowed to conditionally return if Otis is not there. In the Season 1 episode, "Bringing Up Opie," Aunt Bee is concerned with Opie's frequent trips to visit Andy at the jail because of the nature of Andy's work. Ralph and his wife Verlaine visit Mayberry on their way to Memphis. In episode "Deputy Otis," the season 2 finale, it is revealed that Otis has a brother named Ralph ( Stanley Adams), who is the town drunk in another community. He humbly gives the award to the town stating that he cannot take credit for "just being born." Also in this episode viewers are introduced to Otis' wife, Rita. Otis, however, appears sober, clean-shaven and in a suit. The Women's Historical Society want to award Otis an honorary plaque, which causes Barney and the mayor to worry about Otis' condition at the upcoming ceremony and, they pressure Andy to find a substitute. During that time Otis became agitated with Barney's dictatorial style and Barney was especially concerned about having the town drunk made a deputy.Īn episode in Season 1 reveals Otis is the descendant of local Revolutionary War hero, Nathan Tibbs. In the episode "Deputy Otis", Otis was temporarily deputized when it was learned that his family thought he worked in the sheriff's office because of his use of their stationery. On the Danny Thomas Show episode that was the pilot for The Andy Griffith Show, Andy had deputized another town drunk, Will Hoople, so that Will could arrest himself every time he got drunk. Believing the peculiarity to be a result of his intoxication, he exclaimed, "First time I ever fell off a bed onto the wall." : 117 Otis attempted to climb into the bed anyway, and naturally fell on the floor. Predictably, Otis stumbled in after a night of drinking, and let himself into the same cell, only to find the mattress nailed to the wall (curiously, along with the blanket). Once, Sheriff Taylor locked a dynamite-laden goat in a padded jail cell to prevent an explosion. ![]() (a Tuesday) but was released because it was "his first offense." : 37Ī common joke on the show was to have Otis see something bizarre or unexpected while he was inebriated that was actually present, but which he would assume to be a drunken hallucination. In the episode "The Case of the Punch in the Nose", it is revealed that Otis was first arrested for drunkenness on September 23, 1941, at 2 p.m. Otis often lets himself in jail on the same day that a dignitary or a superior of Sheriff Andy Taylor is arriving at the courthouse, much to the chagrin of the sheriff or Deputy Barney Fife ( Don Knotts). On one occasion Otis brings a suit to the jail on Friday before his binge so that he can change into the suit for church on Sunday without going home first. ![]() The lack of crime in Mayberry and the laid-back attitude of the Sheriff's department easily accommodate Otis' drinking habit. He has a key to the front door of the courthouse and the cell keys are hung on a nail near the cells (presumably, to accommodate Otis). : 72 After a binge, Otis will usually lock himself in the town jail until he is sober. Otis works as a glue dipper in a furniture factory Monday through Friday and drinks all weekend. Otis was played by Hal Smith and made frequent appearances on the show from 1960 to 1967 but stopped appearing toward the end of the series because of concerns raised by the sponsors over the portrayal of excessive drinking. Otis Campbell is the fictional " town drunk" in Mayberry on the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. ![]()
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