 A local construction crew is blasting for an underpass near Mayberry. The rumor is that the mayor wants to bring the highway past his brother s gas station. A farmer brings his goat uptown to experience his weekly shopping trip, and partly because of the blasting making the goat nervous. The goat frees itself from a bench on main street and wanders into a storeroom. The goat eats a half of a case of dynamite. Andy and Barney treat the goat with kid gloves and place him in Otis s cell. The fun starts when Otis lets himself into the locked jail using his own key and kicks the goat out of "his" cell.