Heaven's A Little Safer Tonight. (Or, Nipped In The Bud.)

Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died. He was 81.
Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs "The Andy Griffith Show," and another Knotts hit, "Three's Company."

A good man that never did need that bullet he kept in his pocket to keep us in line....we were too busy laughing to commit any mischief. One of the key comedic elements in what may be the funniest and best show ever seen on television...and one of the few that went out on top. Rest in peace, Mr. Knotts.