Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle (played by the comedian Jim Nabors) was the bumbling gas station attendant with a few sketches on The Andy Griffith Show. However, Gomer became so popular, he was eventually put right in his own spin-off.

Here, Pyle is drafted into the [[Semper Fi|U.S. Marine Corp]. Every episode has Pyle doing something crazy, mostly enraging his superior, Sergeant Vince Carter (No, Not the Basketball player!) (Frank Sutton).


 * [[Artistic License Militar]: This is a sitcom, after all, and follows the [[Rule of Funn]. Getting details of military life exactly right are of ... secondary importance.
 * [[Breakout Characte]: Gomer Pyle broke from The Andy Griffith Show.
 * [[Cloudcuckoolande]
 * [[Drill Sergeant Nast]: Notably Subverted by Sgt. Carter, Carter does shout a lot and is angry sometimes but he is kind at heart.
 * [[Large Ha]: Carter, Again.
 * [[Loud Last Nam]: "PYYYYYLLEEEEE!!"
 * [[Peeling Potatoe]: Weeks of K.P. were the very first punishment inflicted by Sergeant Carter on the laid-back Pyle, all the way back in the pilot episode.
 * Which is totally lost on Pyle: "Goollee, Sarge, you're right! This IS fun!"
 * [[Semper F]
 * [[Shout-Ou]: So this is where Sgt. Hartmann from [[Full Metal Jacke] got the idea to call Pvt. Lawrence "Gomer Pyle". It helps that both Pyle and Lawrence are idiotic and bumbling when it comes in serious situations.
 * While Lawrence was nothing but a complete screw-up, Pyle did manage on several occasions to come up with innovative solutions (usually grounded in his back-country upbringing) to a problem he, Carter, or the unit as a whole faced.
 * Spiritual Successo] - To [[The Phil Silvers Show, with more antics and less zany schemes

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