Post by Max on Oct 31, 2020 19:30:20 GMT
As a kid during its original showing I loved this show.
What do I think of now looking back? Well it’s the bright orange car that flew through the air and you climbed in the car through the windows. Oh yeah I remember the “yeeehaws”, the drifting of wheels on dusty roads!
Daisy’s legs, shorts, tops, white jeep and Officer Enos all dreamy when she was around.
We remember Cooter at the garage and his battered old tow truck and all the CB radio chatter.
Waylon Jennings narrating the story. The bows and fire arrows blowing up barrels of Uncle Jessie’s moonshine.
Every week there was a different plot to get the Duke boys in jail and breaking out. Sherriff Roscoe P Coltrain and his little fat buddy Boss Hogg were always doing something devious, underhanded and usually either falling into muddy puddles or crashing cars into haystacks or swamps. A bar fight sending tables flying but the baddies usually got their comeuppance and all went back to normal until the next time!
The police speed trap usually caught a celebrity who would then end up having to sing at the Boar’s Nest at the end of the episode to a packed bar, Roy Orbision, Tammi Wynette and Lorretta Lynne spring easily to mind while Daisy serves the beer.
Finally I remember the “good old boys” theme song.
That is what I got from the show as a 10 to 13 year old. Funnily enough it was showing on a TV channel the other month so I watched a couple of episode back to back one afternoon. To be honest the memories were the same, of course the show is over 40 years old now but the show was simple , was less sophisticated than now, direction, production reflected that, but I still laughed at the shenanigans and the antics they were all getting up to.
I say all this first because in recent months, with the tragedy of George Floyd and many others plus the BLM movement, the show has come under scrutiny for its southern setting, the confederate flag on the car roof of the General Lee.
Woke ‘Cancel Culture gang’ are almost trying to retrospectively shame the programme made 40 years earlier! For millions of global viewers the cars name was no more than a name, like the VW Beetle around the same time was called ‘Herbie’. The pattern on the roof was nothing, the car was orange, and the car jumped and was fast.
Taking into account the young age for its target audience, plus 40 years ago was a time long before mental illness; anxiety had started to ruin children’s earlier years.
Dukes Of Hazzard never promoted racism or slavery but it is a show of its time which reflected the rural south, no more than if set in the western states.
Incidentally when they updated the movie only in 2005 the references were still there…but woke culture wasn’t, that's the difference.
What do I think of now looking back? Well it’s the bright orange car that flew through the air and you climbed in the car through the windows. Oh yeah I remember the “yeeehaws”, the drifting of wheels on dusty roads!
Daisy’s legs, shorts, tops, white jeep and Officer Enos all dreamy when she was around.
We remember Cooter at the garage and his battered old tow truck and all the CB radio chatter.
Waylon Jennings narrating the story. The bows and fire arrows blowing up barrels of Uncle Jessie’s moonshine.
Every week there was a different plot to get the Duke boys in jail and breaking out. Sherriff Roscoe P Coltrain and his little fat buddy Boss Hogg were always doing something devious, underhanded and usually either falling into muddy puddles or crashing cars into haystacks or swamps. A bar fight sending tables flying but the baddies usually got their comeuppance and all went back to normal until the next time!
The police speed trap usually caught a celebrity who would then end up having to sing at the Boar’s Nest at the end of the episode to a packed bar, Roy Orbision, Tammi Wynette and Lorretta Lynne spring easily to mind while Daisy serves the beer.
Finally I remember the “good old boys” theme song.
That is what I got from the show as a 10 to 13 year old. Funnily enough it was showing on a TV channel the other month so I watched a couple of episode back to back one afternoon. To be honest the memories were the same, of course the show is over 40 years old now but the show was simple , was less sophisticated than now, direction, production reflected that, but I still laughed at the shenanigans and the antics they were all getting up to.
I say all this first because in recent months, with the tragedy of George Floyd and many others plus the BLM movement, the show has come under scrutiny for its southern setting, the confederate flag on the car roof of the General Lee.
Woke ‘Cancel Culture gang’ are almost trying to retrospectively shame the programme made 40 years earlier! For millions of global viewers the cars name was no more than a name, like the VW Beetle around the same time was called ‘Herbie’. The pattern on the roof was nothing, the car was orange, and the car jumped and was fast.
Taking into account the young age for its target audience, plus 40 years ago was a time long before mental illness; anxiety had started to ruin children’s earlier years.
Dukes Of Hazzard never promoted racism or slavery but it is a show of its time which reflected the rural south, no more than if set in the western states.
Incidentally when they updated the movie only in 2005 the references were still there…but woke culture wasn’t, that's the difference.