Otis Campbell is the fictional "town drunk" in Mayberry on the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.

The lack of crime in Mayberry and the laid-back attitude of the Sheriff's department easily accommodate Otis' drinking habit.

In Season 1 episode “Bringing Up Opie,” Otis is arrested for drunkenness and given the option of paying a $2 fine or spending 24 hours in jail.

Predictably, Otis stumbled in after a night of drinking, and let himself into the same cell, only to find the mattress nailed to the wall (curiously, along with the blanket).

In the Season 2 episode “Aunt Bee the Warden,” Otis serves his jail time at Andy’s home due to both cells being occupied by moonshiners.

This, as Andy says in the epilogue of the episode, is a "serious offense" in a dry county like Mayberry, and Otis has to serve a lengthier sentence than usual.

[1]: 71 In the 1986 television movie Return to Mayberry, it is revealed that Otis is now completely sober and employed as the town's ice-cream man, driving a van.

Smith appeared as town drunk Calver Weems in the Don Knotts comedy The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), playing essentially a second version of Otis.