Jack Tripper was supposed to be gay, as far Misters Roper & Furley are concerned. and Don Knotts’s flamboyant dress should’ve told you something: he and Jim Nabors went at it like school kids on the set of Andy Griffith, always making out and who knows what else during those couple years together. Why else do you think they gave Gomer Pyle his own show, to split up him and Don