What was Gomer Pyle’s catchphrase?

What was Gomer Pyle’s catchphrase?

Like his cousin Goober, Gomer provided comic relief, awestruck by the simplest of things, resulting in the exclamation of his catchphrases, “Shazam!”, “Golly”, “Sur-prise, sur-prise, sur-prise!”, and “shame, shame, shame!”, as appropriate.

What caused Gomer Pyle’s death?

The entertainer, who underwent a liver transplant in 1994 after contracting hepatitis B, died peacefully at his home after his health had declined for the past year, his husband, Stan Cadwallader, told the Associated Press.

What happened to Jim Nabors?

Nabors, who underwent a liver transplant after contracting hepatitis B in 1994, died Thursday at his home in Hawaii, his website announced. “Everybody knows he was a wonderful man. And that’s all we can say about him,” said Stan Cadwallader, who had been Nabors’ partner for 38 years before the couple married in 2013.

Who is Gomer Pyle based on?

According to Everett Greenbaum, The Andy Griffith Show writer who helped create the character of Gomer Pyle, when he sat down to create the rhythm of Gomer’s voice, he had a specific character in mind: Pa Kettle of Ma and Pa Kettle, the comic movie hillbilly duo from the 1940s and ’50s.