george_cherucheril
Every Friday night my Dad, sometimes my uncle who lived with us then and my younger sisters tuned in to watch the Dukes. My Mom, a nurse usually worked Friday evenings and missed this show. One word sums up this show and that word is "fun." I loved the action, plots and characters. The writing was excellent and any quality television show begins with excellent writing.The casting was superb and the actors were excellent. I loved Daisy in her short shorts and enjoyed those lovely legs. The Duke boys were free spirits who lived life to the fullest. Who wouldn't get a kick from driving the general lee and performing all those stunts? I would love to tear around the countryside like they did. How could anyone not love wise old Uncle Jesse? I remember Denver Pyle from other TV shows and he is one example of a familiar face we had all seen before. Sorrell Brooks as Boss Hogg was another example. Also, many of the guest stars were actors we knew from other work.Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco were perfect as the bad guys and brought the show to the next level. Enis was interesting because he was a nice guy working for mean bosses. Everyone could understand his attraction to Daisy but the poor guy was not too bright.Finally, Waylon Jennings added a wonderful touch to the song with his catchy theme song and commentaries as the show went out to commercial breaks. All in all this was a superb and memorable show.
elshikh4
It's simple.. and that's the beauty of it. But it got a lot to embody this simplicity and make it beautiful.10 - The one of a kind "Dixie" horn, the too many wirelesses, and the Mona Lisa in the county's bar. Wow, small touches can be effective and classic.9 – "Just two good ole boys, never meaning no harm. Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law. Since the day they was born." great theme song. Well.. Although as a whole it meant no harm. But it says something about challenging the law, beating the system "like two modern day Robin Hoods".. That's fun "Yee-haw".8 - (Deputy Enos Strate) and (Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane) what a historical dumb they were, however one was good, and the other, well.. was less ! (Sonny Shroyer) and (James Best) I'm just asking.. who are they ?? 7 - Two outlaws named (Luke Duke) & (Bo Duke), if you know where they are don't inform anybody, and try to get a ride with them in their incredible car ! I don't know guys named (Tom Wopat) and (John Schneider) if you ask me, I mean maybe I heard the names before..6 - (Uncle Jesse Duke) the top of judiciousness, and (Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg) the top of foolishness. One good adventurous uncle, and one of the kindest, goofiest, most cartoonish evil men in the history of TV. By the way do you know folks named (Denver Pyle), (Sorrell Booke) ?? I heard they're genius ? for what exactly ? 5 - The voice, the tune, the lines, and the whole character of the ever unseen narrator. That was original. Consolidated the personality of the show as modern folk stories by pristine balladeer, and became some marked way to cut nicely to the commercials; what a coup de maitre that was.4 - The Hazzard County : (read : The Hazard County) this is the dreamland where the weather is always fine, the people are all childish, the baddies must go to jail, the cars can fly cleverly in unprecedented ways, and no body ever dies ! 3 - The General Lee. Hands down, the best jumping car ever, sorry Knight Rider but that's the way it's, and if anyone ever complained just remember : the stunt crew here at one of the jumps hit the international record and made a new one of its own.. And that was even done unintentionally ! The only thing that I didn't understand is why its doors were always closed ? 2 - The highly delicious : Daisy Duke ! Ahh.. Daisy indeed ! What a sight, what a smile, what a litheness, what a sweetness. She's merry heaven at every visit I make to the Hazzard County. I bet the people of 1979 were amazed like they never were (the next stop : Baywatch 1989!). She was exactly like the show itself "All-right Sugar". And I just quoted her from one situation. P.S : Did you hear about a girl by the name of (Catherine Bach) ? They're telling me she's super ! 1 - The way all of that harmonizes. It works like a shinny morning, a savory ice cream, or unbroken game of hide and seek. I've never seen such a perfectly saccharine juvenile world like that before or after. It's the most childish TV classic you can ever remember. It speaks fluently to the child in you, and in the presence of Daisy Duke as well as some of the 1980s' fine chicks then it speaks fluently to the adolescent in you also ! Actually the fact that its cast nearly didn't do much away from it, gives you funny feeling as if it was completely an actual fairytale where no actors involve, like a comic-book came to real life ! Yes, sometimes the jumps give you the boredom, sometimes you get sick of the too much sugar, sometimes Daisy is wearing a full pair of jeans ! But this is normal, maybe you've watched more than enough, maybe you don't like sugar (or that sugar), or maybe my dear.. You're becoming a grown-up !!Finally.. A bothering question but a must-ask : name one show in our jinxed nowadays that can compete with (The Dukes of Hazzard)'s amount of funny lines, light atmosphere, unstoppable action, jumping cars, and Daisy Duke's shorts ?! Hmmm.. Yeah, that's a question I can answer.. It's : (The Dukes of Hazzard)'s reruns !
Jimmy Vespa
Yes, I said educational. Whenever somebody in my house switched on The Dukes of Hazzard, I used to leave the room and go and read a book. To quote Mr Cranky, my abiding memory of this show is that I hated it. It used to air on Saturday nights when I was a kid, which meant that the playground and classroom on Monday morning would be echoing with asinine cries of "Yeee-haw!" (that was about as sophisticated as the dialogue in this show ever got) and re-enactments of the car chases (on foot) by all the sugar-rushing kids from the slow learner's class who didn't know any better. Meanwhile my friends and I would be in a corner discussing the Goodies or Russ Abbot's Madhouse, waiting for the bell to ring so the wannabe Bo and Lukes would shuffle off to the special room in the basement and get on with the difficult business of drawing crayon pictures of that stupid car whilst messing their pants. To be absolutely fair though, the FAMILY GUY episode 'To Live and Die In Dixie' did a fantastic job of spoofing this trash, they even got Waylon Jennings to do a spot of narration!
