RogerDuke

ghost (like Charlie Brown with a dozen holes for eyes "I got a little carried away with the scissors")

I just got back from the dirt track. It was nice to see the local hot rods running around the oval on Friday night. It's the first time I've been to the races all summer. I'm off quarantine and the health department told me I have no restrictions. I went kayaking today too.

I'm optimistic too. I'm not a doctor but I've seen some on TV.

Cletus Falls in Love.....season 4 Cletus catches the Dukes after a hot pursuit and Daisy turns on the charm to keep him from writing a ticket that would cause Bo to lose his driver's license. After Cletus agrees, Daisy kisses him and tells him she loves him. She just meant "love" to be friendly but Cletus misinterpets it to mean she loves him romantically and starts to do things like giving her flowers. In the meantime, Boss finds out that the state probation supervisor from Capitol City wants to investigate him so he decides to arrest the Duke boys to impress him. He alters a check signed by Bo to make it look like $1,100 instead of $11. After being thrown in jail the Dukes escape and Boss fires Cletus because he was careless and let it happen. Boss replaced Cletus with an off-duty Big Ed Little. Ed catches the Duke boys when they are trying to get the altered check and it's back in jail they go.....until morning when Cooter used his wrecker to pull the barred window off. After being chased by Big Ed, the Dukes catch up with Boss and Rosco who were on their way to Capitol City with the altered check. Everybody stopped and Rosco looked in the back seat and saw that Flash has opened his lunchbox that had the check inside and Flash had eaten it. Daisy explained to Cletus that she didn't love him in the way he thought she did and he got his job back after the Dukes threatened to sue Boss for false arrest if he didnt rehire him. In the end, Cletus had a big smile on his face because he was heading out on a date with a new love interest, Laverne, who was seen earlier in the episode looking at him with adoring eyes.

Try sticking a Dukes episode in the hour before you go to bed. It will take your mind off the real world. Hazzard County is the only world that makes sense anymore.

Halloween

Goodbye, General Lee......season 4 Boss wants to win the first annual Drag 'n Fly Derby so he can use the victory to endorse his products so he buys a turbocharged car and hires two disbarred NASCAR drivers. While working under the General Lee, Luke gets knocked out by the drive shaft falling down and ends up unconscious in a hospital. While he is there Boss brings in a professor hypnotist who trains Luke to want to sell the General Lee next time it breaks down. That night Rosco sabotaged the General and Cletus caught the Duke boys when their engine failed them. Luke suggested selling it but Bo argued with him and later they almost got in a physical fight but Jesse stopped it. Bo lost an archery contest that determined if they should get rid of the General so they went to Hobie Harkins used car lot and traded it for a yellow car, similar to the one Daisy had that got run off a cliff. Luke then got the idea to paint the car like the General but that never happened. Boss bought the General from Hobie and told Rosco to push it off the cliff at Rainbow Canyon but Cooter saved it without Rosco knowing. At an old still sight Jesse snapped his fingers and that snapped Luke out of his hypnotic state and he didn't remember what had happened with the General. Boss sent his 2 drivers to the gravel put to blow up the General but Luke risked his life and stopped them. Bo and Luke hopped in the General and made it to the Derby by the 4:00 deadline and won. Rosco let it slip out that Boss had Luke hypnotized so that explained everything. -- After Rosco's car jump at the end he said "That would have killed 10 ordinary men." Back in the 80s I used that line every time I got hurt. -- Boss to Hobie on phone " Are you drunk?" Hobie's response "Well, of course." -- Once again Rosco thinks Boss is doing him a favor by adding a third 50% on to the other two....."50% of 50% OF 50%" -- I'm not real crazy about this episode. It's like "Dr Jekyll and Mr Duke." I just don't like seeing Luke being mean. -- Hey Hoss, Cooter had a sign painter stuck to his windshield. His name was Homer....no last name given.

quarters (what kind of coin did they put in the games over there Hoss?)

Did you think about making an offer that was so low that you could still afford to fix those things? Of course if you are getting financing the bank might not go for that idea. Keep at it. Good things come to those who wait.

Now we found out our niece has it too. We suspect a lot of family members did but they have all recovered from their cold-like symptoms so it looks like things are improving. My wife goes back to work tomorrow and I'm officially off quarantine tomorrow too but I'm still avoiding anybody else for another week just to be safe. Besides, I'm retired now and don't have to go anywhere. While things are improving for my family I feel the pain of other families that are just getting started. Keep us updated MM on your test.

Thanks Burl. It sure is nice to have a new person in Hazzard. Tell us more about your love of the show. Favorite character, episode, scene, season or anything like that. Been a fan long? Do you have any of the series DVDs? Met any of the stars? Are you a Mel Tillis fan?

That's awesome Hoss. Before we know it you're going to be driving around in a car with doors that are welded shut and throwing away your cell phone for a CB. Speaking of CBs, I fired up one of my old walkie talkies. It looks like the big walkie talkies you often saw on Dukes. Unfortunately there is nobody on anymore. I did hear some distant chatter on channel 19 and some on ch6. It's sad. CBs used to be so much fun. Neither of the folks on the distant chatter could hear me. I think it was that real far away stuff we used to call "skip" because somehow the signal was skipping off certain atmospheric conditions.

Trouble at Cooter's....season 4 Bo and Luke start the episode in the General Lee running down a dirt road singing "Take it Easy" but soon life isn't so easy. A thief named Russ Mitchell, driving a van with Mississippi plates and loaded with stolen fur coats, bumps into Cooter's truck and later, a mink coat falls out the back and is picked up by Bo and Luke on the road. The boys were going to give Rosco the coat but he comes to the farm with Cletus to arrest them. Russ takes the furs to Boss to sell and Boss stores them beside Cooter's garage in Rhuebottom's old hardware store that he foreclosed on to use as a "warehouse for stolen merchandise". Russ's girlfriend and accomplice Bonnie shows up and Russ schemes to steal the furs back from Boss and sell them to someone else. Boss is planning on selling them to Harvey Dunsmore from Atlanta and Harvey shows up and starts negotiating with Boss for the 20 coats, minus one. Bonnie befriends Cooter with a picnic lunch in order to distract him so Russ can bust through the wall in the garage to get into Rhuebottom's. Cotter is really falling for her and even gives her his sterling silver tire pressure gauge. Russ and Bonnie end up with the furs but the Dukes catch them but Bonnie pulls a gun on them and they tie up the Dukes and get away with the furs. The boys get lose and everybody takes off after the thieves and they eventually get them. Cooter is pretty mad and punches out Russ and confronts Bonnie. Boss had to give up the furs to the Atlanta police.

Sounds exciting. Are you going to go get a closer look today? Keep us updated.

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We were coming home from the hospital in Erie last night (actually 4:00 in the morning). It's about a 40 minute drive. There's a classic country station (Willie 95.1) way south of Erie that doesn't come in there but as you drive south it starts to come in. I thought about it when I was 15 minutes from home so turned it on. The second I turned the radio on the next song was getting started....The theme to Dukes of Hazzard!.....I couldn't believe it. I listened to it and turned the radio off after it was over to keep it in my head. It was a much needed miracle since I needed a pick me up after a rough sleepless night.

Hang in there Spike. If you pop a Dukes episode in things are guaranteed to improve.

That's good news Hoss. They ran a few tests and couldn't find anything wrong with my wife. They also said it's not covid related. That seems like a pretty weird coincidence. Nothing like this has ever happened to her in her life and it just happens to occur as she is recovering from covid?! Sounds like too much of a coincidence but I suppose it is possible. She is home and has no more pain. Maybe our family doctor will have some ideas. She is calling him this afternoon.

We both had really great days today but at midnight my wife started having severe abdominal pains and we had to call an ambulance. That was her first ambulance ride in her life. I'm just sitting here waiting for a call. It could be gall bladder, blocked intestine, covid related or none of the above. I'm still under quarantine so I doubt they'll let me pick her up if they release her.

10 Million Dollar Sheriff......part 1 and 2.....season 4 Rosco's Great Uncle Hosiah left him 10 million dollars in his will, even though Rosco had never heard of him. Then one thing Rosco had always wanted is to put the Duke boys in jail for a long time, so for $100,000 he hires a "detective" named Jason Steele from Atlanta to set the Dukes up. Rosco also bought a Rolls Royce Sheriff car and a fancy rhinestone sheriff uniform and a rhinestone outfit for Flash. The first thing Steele did was try to lure the Dukes across the county line into the jurisdiction of Big Ed Little but that plan failed. Boss was so jealous of Rosco that he challenged him to a card game where they bet everything they owned. When Boss's attempt to cheat didn't work because Flash ate his Ace, Boss lost everything and was penniless and eventually accepted a deputy job. Steele's next plan was to plant a pistol in the General Lee but that didn't work either after Bo threw it in quicksand. Jesse went into the swamp looking for Steele but fell and hit his head and he ended up in a coma in the hospital. The doctor didn't know if he'd live or not and Boss and Rosco felt horrible about it. Rosco starts to have second thoughts but Steele threatens his life if he backs out of the deal telling him he'll give him the "deepest grave in the South". The boys finally meet Steele in town at high noon and Luke stops Bo from punching him because he knows Steele will have him arrested. Next, while in the Boar's Nest, Steele switches the General with a fake one and when the boys take it, has them arrested for grand theft auto. When the Dukes escape from jail Steele and his henchman catch them and throw them in their van, bound for jail in Atlanta. Then the lawyer who told Rosco about the 10 million shows up and tells Rosco about the decimal point problem....it's only 10 dollars. Since Rosco had changed his mind about the Duke boys he is happy and catches up with Steele to tell him he can't pay him. While that is going on Jesse woke up in the hospital when Daisy was there. Steele is pretty mad at Rosco and takes him hostage, wanting $100,000 ransom from Boss. But, it's Bo and Luke to the rescue, catching Steele and his henchman, who are arrested for kidnapping. The closing scene shows Jesse walking out of the hospital.

How did I miss Homer Willis? Oh well....I can see how I missed Homer Hotchkiss even though I know somebody with that last name and remember that character. Regarding Bib and Homer, Jesse wasn't surprised they we're helping Boss and said that those two guys are into everything.

This is a cool coincidence. In my episode review thread, the next episode just happens to be 10 Million Dollar Sheriff and I was planning on watching it tomorrow for Rosco's birthday.....and then I saw this post from last year where I mentioned the Rolls. Happy birthday Sunday Sheriff!

Sadie Hogg Day.....season 4 April 1 is April Fool's Day in other places but it's Sadie Hogg Day in Hazzard where the woman run the place for a day. After Boss found out that the Chief Banking Examiner is coming to Hazzard to inspect the county funds ledger, he panics since he has taken the 142, 679 dollars out of the funds to bankroll his personal projects so he dreams up a plan to frame Daisy. During the drawing to see who has what job, Lulu gets the county comissioner job. Aunt Clara Coltrane gets the sheriff position and Emma Tisdale draws the deputy spot. Boss sneaks Daisy's name in as county treasurer so he can set her up. She was happy since she had to clean sewers last year. He pressures Daisy to sign a paper making her responsible for the money (that doesn't exist because he stole it) because he knows the bank examiner is on the way. Before you know it the bank is being robbed by 2 guys hired by Boss and all they took was the county funds....which was 2 bags full of papers made to look like money. Boss throws Daisy in jail but Jesse breaks her out by flirting with Deputy Emma Tidale. Before the bank examiner gets there Boss sends Rosco to the Boar's Nest to get the fake ledger but he gets it mixed up with the real ledger. In the end, everybody ends up near the incinerator at the Hazzard Junkyard after plenty of crashes and jumps around all the junk. Rosco threw the wrong ledger in the incinerator and the examiner learned about Boss's dirty dealings. To keep out of jail Boss had to pay back all the money out of his own wallet. -- Jesse ended up taking Emma to the hoe-down even though "He doesn't even know how to dance." -- I loved Emma driving the police car in hot pursuit. At one point she thought they were going through a tunnel since her hat fell over her eyes. -- When Jesse was flirting with Emma, Bo said to Luke "Now I know where you and me got it."

Thanks Hoss. I'll tell my wife. She's a big fan of Fleetwood Mac.

My wife is practically fully recovered but I've taken a turn for the worse. Last night I started to develop chest congestion and it got bad fast. My cough is only moderate but my chest is real heavy....just hoping to stay out of the hospital at this rate. I hope it doesn't get worse. This is day 7 and I only had mild chest congestion the first 2 days so I thought I had dodged that bullet but Covid is a real trickster. Chest congestion is the most dangerous part of this thing so the big challenge is here.