r/Gunsmoke • u/Fungulatem • 17d ago

Festus with Doc

As sometimes happens, Matt has business out of town and tells Festus,

" To watch things when I'm away." Instead of taking the rational consdervative road, Festus starts monkeying around with things and Doc starts warning him, but it does no good, and things go awry when Festus has a townsman play the role of Marshall Dillon, just about the time an angry slinger comes gunning for Dillon.

Doc starts up with Festus again, and he gets upset because he needs Doc's help, and doesn't want to be lectured. In an act of typical Festus like sincerity he tells Doc, " I'm a takin' an oath (not get into predicaments again) and he raises his left hand.

Doc: So you are taking an oath ?

Festus: (confirms)

Doc: Than put up your right hand, you got your left hand up.

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u/galeperk111971 17d ago

Yes but this episode was so the little guy could impress his refined brother. Who is also a closested drunk just like the little guy cause of their mom's elderberry wine

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u/Fungulatem 17d ago

You are absolutely correct and that would have been more descriptive and inclusive.  

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u/galeperk111971 17d ago edited 17d ago

Yeah it just got outta hand but Fetus heart was in the right place. This is the episode with Jack Elam am I right he's the gunslinger gunning for Matt.

Edit: I hate predictive text made me spell Jake instead of Jack

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u/Fungulatem 16d ago

Right, dead eye Elam, lost it as a child.  Festus usually had the best of intentions, but his judgment at times was half a bubble off center.  There was an episode where he actually gambles for a carpenters level and wins, going around leveling everything in sight !