After that, Knotts's roles were sporadic, including a cameo appearance in the film "Big Bully" (1996) as the principal of the high school. In 1998, Knotts played a small but pivotal role as a mysterious TV repairman in "Pleasantville". That year, his home town of Morgantown, West Virginia, changed the name of the street formerly known as "South University Avenue" (U.S. Route 119) to "Don Knotts Boulevard" on "Don Knotts Day." Also that day, in honor of Knotts's role as Barney Fife, he was named an honorary deputy sheriff with the Monongalia County Sheriff's Department.