Goober Pyle is a fictional character in the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and its sequel series Mayberry RFD.

Lindsey was hired to fill the void when Gomer was spun off to join the United States Marine Corps.

Howard Sprague attributed the vast intellectual disparity between the brothers to Mendel's theory of recessive genes.

He was generally dressed in a work shirt, breast pocket filled with pencils, pens, and tire gauges.

His dark blue Dickies work pants were hoisted high and cinched with a wide belt, giving him an Empire waistline.

Work boots and a customized beanie hat or whoopee cap (similar to that of the comic character Jughead Jones) completed his episode-to-episode wardrobe.

Very occasionally, Goober would dress up for the rare formal occasion in a suit described as "an unsophisticated double-vested, brown pinstripe number with white socks"[5][6] that was passed to him from his cousin Gomer.

George Lindsey, who was 81 going on 82 that December, and rarely traveled, asked Jim Clark to appear in his place, telling the crowd, "He told me to say Goober says, 'Hey!'"

Clark said Lindsey wore the suit while playing Goober on many Andy Griffith Show/ "RFD" episodes as well as on Hee Haw.

His girlfriend in two sixth season color episodes was Flora Malherbe, but his initial love interest was Lydia Crosswaith, who was originally from Greensboro, North Carolina.

and The New Andy Griffith Show, Goober relocates to Kornfield County and opens up a gas station of his own, where he spends the next twenty years as a cast member of the country variety revue Hee Haw.