TV Quote of the Day (‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ As Andy Introduces a Farmer to Modern Medicine)

[Local farmer Rafe Hollister is refusing to take his tetanus shot, so Sheriff Andy accompanies the county nurse to change his mind.]

Andy Taylor [played by Andy Griffith] [showing Rafe different medical tools]: “That's a stethoscope. Know what it does?”

Rafe Hollister [played by Jack Prince]: “No.”

Andy: “Lets you hear your heartbeat. Wanna hear your heartbeat, Rafe?”

Rafe: “What for? I know my heart's beatin'!”

Andy: “Well, yeah...”

Rafe: “I'm alive, ain't I?”

Andy: “Well, yeah...”

Rafe: “Well, then my heart's beatin'!”

Andy: “Well, listen to it beat, Rafe. Here, put these two ends in your ear there. Stick 'em right in there. They won't hurt ya. That's right. Go ahead. Stick 'em right in there. All right? Now, now, listen. Listen.”

[puts the stethoscope eartips on Rafe's ears and the chest-piece to his heart]

Andy: “Huh? How 'bout that? Listen to mine.”

[moves the chest-piece to his own chest]

Andy: “Huh? Whadda ya think of that, Rafe?”

Rafe: “All right. Now we know we're both alive!”—The Andy Griffith Show, Season 2, Episode 24, “The County Nurse,” original air date Mar. 19, 1962, teleplay by Jack Elinson and Charles Stewart, directed by Bob Sweeney