In “Barney Gets His Man,” Barney says, “Bread and butter.” Is that line supposed to stand alone, or did they edit out something?
That scene is intact. Barney’s “bread and butter” line was written as a free-standing line — though one that’s dripping with the irony that Barney is actually quite scared about encountering escaped criminal Eddie Brooke. Barney’s obviously trying to convince himself that it’s just a routine situation, or “bread and butter.” We also received this related note: I’m sorry to disagree with your reply in the August Bullet regarding Barney’s saying “bread and butter” in the “Barney Gets His Man” episode. This was a common expression when two people walking together walked on the opposite sides of an object. I think the scene gets such a laugh because, in spite of Barney’s being so scared, he still thinks of saying “bread and butter” when he and Andy go around something. Well, as Barney said in that same episode when Andy asked him why he wasn’t saying anything, “l swallowed my gum.” And boy we sure did on this one. We received a record number of letters (somewhere around 20; we quit counti
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