COOTER SEZ SKIP TEH DUKES FLICK, MANG

Excellent idea.

We've been watching the old Dukes on CMT most week nights because Rufus has a maniacal obsession with cars and particularly the General Lee. We caught a snippet of it one night and then he asked about it incessantly and now we watch it all the time.

The season started with two faux cuzzins - Bo and Luke stand-ins. Then the real guys came back, supposedly from racing cars. S'pose they were on strike and negotiated a better deal to come back to the show?

I used to watch DoH as a kid and never cared for it much, but I've grown to appreciate its slapstick now. I agree wholeheartedly with Cooter, judging from the half of the movie I saw, that the movie in no way comes close to doing justice to the TV show.

There was no slapstick in the movie, just dumb lines, fist fights and explosions. (Rufus, when he sees fist fights, asks "What are they trying to do to each other?" I tell him it's a silly dance.) Roscoe P. Coltrane, instead of being a lovable goof, is mean and scary in the movie. The Duke boys seem to be unpopular in town. The General Lee is immediately disrespected with graffiti and a dead raccoon and an axe through the windshield. Daisy Duke has no charm. Dude where's my car dude still seems like the dude where's my car dude.

I think this movie was just meant to poke fun at the south and hicks whereas the TV show loved the south and hicks.

you're kidding, right?

Just think about the original Bo and Luke. They were sincere, good-hearted guys. They were also pretty country. They certainly would not be wearing LED ZEPPELIN T-SHIRTS for the love of Merle Haggard. The rockiest they would ever, ever get might be, like Molly Hatchet. But even that's a stretch. It would be more like George Strait type stuff in the General Lee, probably, Dolly Parton. Possibly some real wild bluegrass stuff if they were feelin superfreaky.

Where's the non-love for hicks, hstencil? I don't doubt that it's there, or that you see it. I'd just like you to spell it out.

but then again i never thought jeff foxworthy was all that funny, either.

Isn't/wasn't this show wildly popular in the South? It's airing now on Country Music Television.

I used the word "hicks" because they are treated as such by the movie. You're supposed to yuck yuck in the movie because they like to shoot things in their back yard. I grew up in rural Montana, so I've had my share of getting irked by Northeasterners making fun of hicks, too.

In the TV show, nobody really gets hurt, they're a happy loving family, and it's all good fun. You've got to really suspend disbelief that nobody ever gets killed, but so it is. The "good" side of hickdom is presented in the show -- knowing your neighbors, having people to count on, simple pleasures.

The sort of creepy thing about the TV show is that there is always a pair of outsiders hiding up in an abandoned barn, waiting to rob the local bank or steal the General Lee. It seems to advance fear of city slickers. Boss HOgg is never truly threatening, and the law is sort of a joke, whereas the law in the movie is really scary.

Just a whole different vibe. Northeasterners may have liked Dukes of Hazzard the show to be ironic, but the show itself wasn't ironic. I like it for non-ironic reasons (although there is some irony in my son, who is named after a Union General (Rufus Saxton) loving the General Lee so much).

well... careers go downhill!! and even so, you might as well "say" to him "yeah, you're the number one box office attraction in america and have been for a few years now but in thirty years you'll have a large role in the number one movie in america this week"