Actor and comedian George Lindsey, best known for playing the character Goober Pyle on television, died Sunday in Nashville. He had been ill since suffering a stroke in March.
The character Goober made guest appearances on Gomer Pyle, USMC, was also part of the TV series Mayberry RFD, and was a regular on the variety show Hee Haw for twenty years. Lindsey was 83. Link
He introduced the character of Goober — the quintessential grinning hayseed, equal parts annoying and endearing — on “The Andy Griffith Show,” the long-running situation comedy set in the fictional North Carolina town of Mayberry. When Jim Nabors’s character, the similarly likable but naïve Gomer Pyle, was given his own series in 1964, Mr. Lindsey joined the Griffith show as Goober Pyle, Gomer’s cousin.
The character Goober made guest appearances on Gomer Pyle, USMC, was also part of the TV series Mayberry RFD, and was a regular on the variety show Hee Haw for twenty years. Lindsey was 83. Link
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My favorite Goober episode is when he took a car apart and re-assembled it inside the courthouse.
And I have to agree with MrPumpernickel: Names are definitely one of the hardest things to differentiate in this sort of brain trickery.