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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 CorpsCorp[[Category:TV Series]]]. Every episode has Pyle doing something crazy, mostly enraging his superior, Sergeant Vince Carter (No, Not the Basketball player!) (Frank Sutton).
 
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* [[Artistic License MilitaryMilitar[[Category:TV Series]]]: This is a sitcom, after all, and follows the [[Rule of FunnyFunn[[Category:TV Series]]]. Getting details of military life exactly right are of ... secondary importance.
* [[Breakout CharacterCharacte[[Category:TV Series]]]: Gomer Pyle broke from ''The Andy Griffith Show''.
* [[Cloudcuckoolande[[Category:TV Series]]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Drill Sergeant NastyNast[[Category:TV Series]]]: Notably Subverted by Sgt. Carter, Carter does shout a lot and is angry sometimes but he is kind at heart.
* [[Large HamHa[[Category:TV Series]]]: Carter, Again.
* [[Loud Last NameNam[[Category:TV Series]]]: "PYYYYYLLEEEEE!!"
* [[Peeling PotatoesPotatoe[[Category:TV Series]]]: 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 FiF[[Category:TV Series]]]
* [[Shout-OutOu[[Category:TV Series]]]: So this is where Sgt. Hartmann from ''[[Full Metal JacketJacke[[Category:TV Series]]]'' 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 SuccessorSuccesso[[Category:TV Series]]] - To [[The Phil Silvers Show]], with more antics and less zany schemes
 
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