The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)
A Feud Is a Feud (1960)
Arthur Hunnicutt: Jedediah Wakefield
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Quotes
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Andy Taylor : Maybe your reason for feudin' with the Carters just don't seem strong enough to young Josh.
Jedediah Wakefield : No, it ain't that.
Andy Taylor : How do you know it ain't?
Jedediah Wakefield : 'Cause he don't know the reason.
Andy Taylor : He don't? You mean you ain't never told him?
Jedediah Wakefield : Nope.
Andy Taylor : Why? How come?
Jedediah Wakefield : 'Cause *I* don't know the reason.
Andy Taylor : You mean your Pa never did tell you?
Jedediah Wakefield : Nope.
Andy Taylor : Well, why?
Jedediah Wakefield : Well, could be 'cause he didn't know the reason neither.
Andy Taylor : Who was the last Wakefield that *did* know the reason?
Jedediah Wakefield : It must have been his grandpa.
Andy Taylor : Well, then, how come he didn't pass along the reason?
Jedediah Wakefield : Well, it could be by the time his young'un got old enough to join the feudin' that my great grandpa just clear had forgotten.
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Andy Taylor : Now, I looked up the records, the old sheriff's records and hospital records and such as that for the past 87 years and do you know what?
Jedediah Wakefield : What?
Andy Taylor : There ain't never been nary a Wakefield or Carter that was so much as even hit.
Jedediah Wakefield : Well, it ain't because we wasn't tryin'!
Mr. Carter : Dang Wakefields keep movin' around!
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Jedediah Wakefield : Why, us Wakefields been feudin' them Carters for eighty-seven years. You wanna go messin' it up now?
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Andy Taylor : It just seems to me if I was going to take a shot at a fella, it'd pass my mind to ask what for.
Jedediah Wakefield : I'll be danged if I know where you young folks get all them newfangled ideas.
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Andy Taylor : Ready? One... Fellas, you're supposed to walk when I start countin'.
Mr. Carter : Well, a fella's legs gets mighty heavy.
Jedediah Wakefield : Yeah, everybody knows a fella gets our age, the first thing that goes is his legs.
Andy Taylor : Well, it's just a short walk and it's the last time you'll be a-usin' them.