I just found out that Don Knotts has passed away. It's not too often a celebrity dies and I take it personally; Johnny Cash was one of those I did. Jerry Orbach too. And now I'll add Don Knotts to that list.

In my humble opinion, Knotts was the creator of the single greatest television character ever created: namely, one crime-fighting extraordinaire, Deputy Barney Fife.

You've got to nip it in the bud. Nip it, nip it, nip it...