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1	* In the third season episode "Lawman Barney", Barney and Andy are trying to get rid of two farmers illegally selling produce on the side of the road. After running scared the entire episode Barney finally talks straight to them and makes them back down, something even Andy had failed to do.
2	--> '''Barney:''' Do you see this badge? It says that I'm sworn to uphold the law. Now that's what I mean to do and you fellas better respect it. Understand? It's just as simple as that.\
3	''(Both men step up into Barney's face and stare him down.)''\
4	'''Barney:''' ...you're both a lot bigger than I am, but this badge represents a lot of people who are a lot bigger than either one of you. Now, are you gonna get movin'?\
5	''(Both men look at each other, then walk off without a word.)''
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7	* In "The Sheriff Without a Gun," a group of bank robbers comes into town pretending to be a film crew and attempt to rob the bank at night. Barney falls for it initially, but when Andy walks in he realizes immediately that they're up to no good, because he spots that the lock has been forced ''at a glance.'' One of the robbers smirks and reminds him that Andy doesn't carry a gun, going to draw his own weapon.
8	-->'''Andy''': Ah, that's right, I don't carry a gun. ''[{{beat}}]'' But my deputies do. ''[cut to Goober and Floyd outside, carrying weapons]''
9	* In "Opie at the Carnival" a pair of crooked carnival barkers cheat Opie out of almost two months worth of allowance by giving him a gun with a crooked sight so that he couldn't win a good prize for Andy's birthday. When Andy finds out, he goes to the carnival and, after some carful observation and practice, adjusts his aim to the crooked sight and proceeds to clean out the two carnies of practically every prize they offer. Then when they try to cut him off he shows them his sheriff's badge, informs them that he's going to be giving their names to every sheriff in the area, and forces them to let Opie try again with an unmodified rifle. Andy and Helen then hide and watch as Opie makes five bull's eyes in a row, winning his father's birthday present.
10	* In "The Manhunt", the second episode, the state police write off Andy & Barney as clueless rednecks. Andy ultimately leads the escaped convict into a trap- upon realizing that the convict's holding a hostage within a home that he's visited, Andy lets slip that his boat is down by the lake, but fails to mention that it has a leak. Cue a very wet convict swimming back to shore and into the hands of the state police.
11	* Barney's finest moment came in the second-season episode "Jailbreak". A payroll robber and his female partner have captured an arrogant state police officer who earlier had dismissed Andy and Barney's help. They find they're hiding in a trailer. Andy goes to call for backup, but Barney gets a better idea- drive the car hitched to the trailer out of the trailer park and right down to the courthouse, allowing him and Andy to arrest the robbers and rescue the state policeman.
12	* Barney's testimony on the stand sticking up for Andy when the latter is on trial for trumped up charges of corruption and incompetence, especially since Barney bragging about himself being more competent than Andy to an attractive investigative reporter posing as a college student is what landed him there in the first place.
13	* In "The County Nurse," when Andy and Barney are trying to get Rafe Hollister to take a tetanus shot, Barney's attempt ends with Rafe firing at him. He comes back with Andy, and Rafe takes another shot at them. Andy (unarmed) just walks straight up to Rafe and takes the rifle out of his hand.
14	* A small one in "Opie and the Spoiled Kid". It's one thing when [[GoodParents Andy]] holds his ground against the titular brat Arnold. But when Arnold lets it slip he'd rather let his father be imprisoned in the county jail than have his bike impounded, Arnold's father's mind is made up: he'd like to take the bike back [[BaitAndSwitch so he can sell it]]. A nice show that the doting father is finally coming to his senses. In a day and age where self-entitled parents take their child's side without fail, it's refreshing to see Arnold's father eat humble pie and recognize he needs to stop indulging his spoiled son.
15	* In "Aunt Bee's Brief Encounter", Aunt Bee hires a friendly handyman passing through town named Mr. Wheeler to do some work around the house, and the two begin courting each other as she finds more jobs for him to do when in truth he [[LazyBum actually passes off most of the work to Andy through casual trickery]]. Andy eventually becomes suspicious and eventually learns that Mr. Wheeler is actually a freeloader who courts older single women like Aunt Bee to his heart's content, posing as a working man until he is satisfied and then leaving without warning. Not content to let Mr. Wheeler continue to take advantage of Aunt Bee, Andy strikes up a casual conversation with him while ''cleaning his rifle'' and brings up the subject of marriage to him, suggesting that Mr. Wheeler would be a fine man to look after and protect Aunt Bee as a good man should, all while brandishing the rifle close to Mr. Wheeler's face. Andy suggests that they discuss a formal proposal over dinner and Mr. Wheeler, [[OhCrap who sees right through the sheriff's thinly-veiled threat]], [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere immediately hops in his truck and drives away practically in a panic]]. Aunt Bee is quite shocked at his sudden departure but just as quickly insists that they all sit down to have a nice dinner together.
16	* In one episode, Barney attempts to learn judo for a fight with a local bully and fails miserably. Instead, his judo instructor disguises himself as Barney, lets himself be ambushed in a dark alley, and effortlessly defeats the bully.
17	* Mild-mannered Howard Sprague gives a stunning TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the townspeople (in the form of a newspaper article) for turning on Andy because he had to make a hard call as a baseball umpire, after all of them had twisted Andy's arm to make him umpire for the game.

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