Andy and Barney are offered an invitation to join the prestigious Esquire Club, but Barney tries too hard and fails to gain admittance.

Aunt Bee makes a batch of pickles so horrible that only flies like them, but when the guys switch them with store-bought ones, she thinks her pickles are tasty.

Barney's offer from Greendale to become their sheriff leads Andy to allow him to be Mayberry's sheriff for a day to give him a taste of it and discourage him.

An old pal of Andy's is looking for a wife and thinks he's found the perfect one in Thelma Lou, until she tries to make him a city-dwelling house husband.

Opie, accepted as a member of the secret society The Wildcats, is blamed for a fire in the barn where they meet, but it was actually started by its owner.

Rich kid Ronald Bailey is jailed due to blatant disrespect for the law, but as he waits for his influential father to bail him out, Andy talks sense into him.

Shapely Ellen Brown moves into Mayberry hoping to make a living as a manicurist, but she meets unexpected reactions from the wives.

Henry Bennett's presence coincides with disaster, leading Barney to convince the town he's a jinx, but Andy tries to turn the town around.

Barney blunders and a criminal escapes, and Andy and Barney must now recapture the robber and his partner to save their reputation with the state police.

Opie hopes to win a medal in the annual Sheriff's Boys' Day race and gets lessons on racing from Barney, but receives lessons on sportsmanship from Andy.

When the choir discovers Barney's voice is the source of the choir's terrible sound, they realize he can't stay, but haven't got the heart to tell him.