I grew up watching a show called The Dukes of Hazzard… which, in its time, was very entertaining. The two super-cool cousins with their awesome car that could virtually fly over rivers… the buffoon cop Roscoe always chasing them… the even bigger buffoon Boss Hogg — the rich guy who ran the town and for some reason had it in for the Duke boys… perhaps some old score to settle with their Uncle Jesse. And of course, Daisy Duke. That was good TV back in the early 80s.
I’m not sure of the status of that show with respect to re-runs… I expect it’s been yanked, not really for the content… but because the real star of the show was a flaming orange 1969 Dodge Charger named The General Lee… with a big confederate flag painted on its roof. As fun as the show was, some things don’t age well. As a kid, I didn’t have a clue about the implications of any of that. Neither did any of my friends, all of whom watched it too.
But today is The Fourth of July — Happy 244ᵗʰ birthday to our neighbour to the south. You know, thinking back, we’ve all had birthday years we’d all like to forget about? I suspect in hindsight, this will certainly be one of those for the U.S.
Hazzard county was in Georgia, and there’s a lot more to worry about down there these days than those two cousins in their speedy car bootlegging moonshine, or their other cousin who made famous those shorts. I wish that were their biggest problem today… but it’s not.
My birthday wish… for Hazzard country, for Georgia and for the whole country… get better soon.
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YEEEEEE HAAAAAAA
Right on again.
Come on Flash…let’s go get them Duke boys!
I do believe “The General” was orange. Not red.
Hey, Horatio, be careful who you’re calling ‘the even bigger buffoon’!!!! That’s my cousin you’re talking about!!!! LOL
Loved that show, flag notwithstanding.
Dukes of Hazzard – the beginning of ~36 years of fighting the myths of gender stereotypes. And still on some level trying to look like Daisy Duke.
Whenever I’m watching CNBC and they mention the Nasdaq ETF, which is QQQ, I say it in the voice of Roscoe P Coltrane.
In the newer remake movie they addressed the flag on the hood and pointed out the bad behind it.
I wonder if the show didn’t age well or if so many of us have become ridiculous? It was a funny, spoofy, harmless show. It gave a glimpse of a society that none of us in Canada could ever imagine but that was a REAL part of history. And it was ENTERTAINMENT. Was Hogan’s Heroes offensive too? M.A.S.H? Sanford and Son? The Jeffersons? Diff’rent Strokes?
My grandparents had that car, but there’s was beige with a brown vinyl roof – no flags:)
Let’s not forget cousins Coy & Vance Duke, without whom Bo & Luke Duke would not have been able to go to Atlanta for a year to race professionally (ie. sit out a season until they dropped their salary demands with the studio). We all need more Coy & Vance in the world!
I think there’s still a General Lee running around Pender Island.
Carmel corn, root beer and Dukes of Hazzard. The foundation of my early teens.
Yes, we all loved that show. Echo your Birthday wish for the country… get better soon!