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Return of the Ridge Raiders....season 2 -- This one starts out with a bang when the Ridge Raiders blew up one of Boss's mines because they were mad that Boss is taking money intended for the senior citizens center to use for his Play Pen because he wanted to compete with Hugh Hefner. Jesse has been trying to stop his old buddies because he wants to stop Boss the legal way but they blow up Boss's still next. Recreational equipment intended for the senior center comes into town but the Ridge Raiders hijack the semi because they know Boss is going to use the equipment for his Play Pen. Acting Sheriff Buster Moon arrests Jesse for the hijacking and the Ridge Raiders and Duke boys get together and bust him loose. The boys have a newspaper reporter help them out a little and Boss is forced to give back the equipment. --The last time I watched this it was fine but today the last few minutes were messed up. I guess it's not just 2 eps on this disc that have a problem now. -- The Ridge Raiders made it look like it was 2020, running around with red handkerchiefs over their faces. --I really love this episode. As I get older myself I can relate to those Ridge Raiders.

I think the announcers jinxed Jimmie Johnson. He was in first place and then they announced how it's been forever since he's won anything and then he tapped a lapped car and wrecked. Chase Elliott is barely staying in the top 10. They said that NASCAR hasn't tried to do 4 races in 11 days since the early 70s! King Richard won all 4.

Poor Ricky Stenhouse. His race didn't last long. I watched a little of the pre race stuff and there were people showing up and hanging around just because they wanted to hear the cars....now that's true fans! I predict record TV viewership here. Everybody is so starved for a live sporting event. Even people who have never watched a NASCAR race are watching this.....lap 18 as I type this....gotta go watch Chase Elliott win this thing.

Hmmm, interesting. Any guess what kind of plant it was? I love touch-me-not seeds shooting off but that doesn't happen until late summer.

You think they'd still do it even after this long?

Jude Emery...season 2 -- This episode and RIP Henry Flatt are the only two defective episodes in my 7 year collection. As I recall Henry Flatt is pretty bad so somebody else can write up a review. My Jude Emery started when Cooter was working under Jude's truck so I missed the beginning. --Texas Ranger Jude Emery shows up in Hazzard to catch Snake Harmon and his gang. He finds them with Bo and Luke's help but the gang overpowers them. Daisy busts in with that hot red car we've been talking about here lately. Jesse and Cooter were hidden in it ( just like Jude was hiding in the General) and the Hazzard law was not far behind and eventually Snake and his gang are in custody on their way back to Texas. --Grady Byrd is in this one again, no Rosco. -- This is the one where Daisy says "You're some cowboy Jude" without her mouth moving. -- When Snake said "Hey Jude" you couldn't help but think of the song. -- There were a couple pretty tense scenes in this one....with a rattlesnake and a poison cactus. -- Enos mentioned that Daisy is a Methodist. There was another episode where it was mentioned that the Dukes were Methodist and I'm pretty sure those are the only mentions.

That's why we call him Hossome!

West Virginia ......( Morgantown)

Thanks Spike

Great quote from Loretta. Thanks for posting it Hoss. You always provide us with many awesome bits of information......which makes you awesome!

Find Loretta Lynn....season 2 Rosco sets up a detour that forces Loretta Lynn's RV to stop at the Boar's Nest on the way to the state fair. When leaving, a trio of kidnappers take Loretta and her manager Leona in the RV. Boss and Rosco think Bo and Luke had something to do with it. The polite kidnappers want 1136.15, the amount that Platter Records tricked them out of. Loretta had nothing to do with Platter but they just figured since she was from Nasville that was close enough. Leona escapes and Bo and Luke find her and take her back to the farm. Then the boys find a trail of Loretta pictures that she threw out the RV window and locate her at the stockyards. The kidnappers tried to get away but Luke jumped on the General's hood and tied it to the back of the RV while moving and the boys saved her. Loretta didnt't press charges and even sang Y'all Come at the Boar's Nest.....best song in 7 years of Dukes.....everybody but Rosco joined in at some point. -- Loretta is my all-time favorite female country singer so this is one of my favorite episodes. I just love Southern accents! -- Daisy's yellow Road Runner is back. Bo scuffs it driving through a hay pile and hitting something on the other side. -- When Squirt called and told Rosco to not call the police it took Rosco a second to realize the he was the police.....lol -- After chasing Jesse and Daisy, who was disguised as Loretta, Daisy said "Does this mean you don't want my autograph Rosco?" Enos had that famous big grin "I do Daisy!" Now that's a boy in love!

I might have missed it but I think that's the only place he was called cousin.....which made me suspect it was a blooper.

Good point but of course Enos was certainly not a sexist although Boss did call himself a "male chauvinist hog"....or "Hogg" if you will. The fact remains that men and women are different even though today we are not always permitted to say it. Some cities have literally lowered the bar to get women to be cops. A city near me lowered the fence in the test for officers because women couldn't jump over it. If I was in a wheelchair and someone assaulted me I shouldn't be labeled a sexist by asking for a male officer who has the ability to jump over a fence to catch him.

Officer Daisy Duke.....season 2 -- Boss fires Daisy from the Boar's Nest after Luke pressures him into giving her a raise. Sheriff Grady Byrd posts a "new directive from Washington" about hiring a female deputy and Enos gets the idea that Daisy should apply. The 3 younger Dukes don't like the idea but Jesse reminds them that Dukes aren't against law and order just Boss and Rosco's version of it. While that's going on a male and female bank robbing duo shows up in town and Grady catches them. Daisy passes all the tests and becomes a deputy but Bo and Luke want to protect her and listen to the police on the radio and get ahead of her, fixing the problems before she gets there. When she finds out she is furious she slams a door at the farm and the camera scene literally shakes. But then she gets tricked and the prisoners escape so Grady fired her. She took off after them anyways but got taken hostage after Enos got hurt. Bo and Luke saved her by stopping the plane at Morgan's Airfield with dynamite arrows. Daisy donated the $10,000 reward. -- They made it seem like Grady was a permanent replacement. In fact, he even had a spot in the opening song. -- Daisy even gave Boss a parking ticket. He tried to bribe her with a ten dollar bill and when she refused he tore it up, thinking it was the ticket! -- At one point Boss called him "Cousin Grady?" Was that a blooper? -- Waylon said "When it comes to fancy driving Cale Yarborough could take a few tips from that girl" (bank robber). I was thinking that he used that line a few episodes ago.

Thanks for posting this Spike. I read it twice and it's very interesting. I'd love to own a door from a General Lee.

WOW! I thought she had a familiar look! Thanks Hoss!

wallet.....(I love it when Jane grabs the wallet in the opening song)

Treasure of Hazzard....season 2 -- Rosco is away for more training so Lester "Orders is orders" Crabb is in this one. An attractive female professor shows up with proof that a union army paybox from 1862 is buried in Hazzard but a nasty older couple shows up too with plans to steal it. They even go so far as ruiining a bridge in the opening scene. Lester told the professor that the Dukes are the only descendants of Hazzard's original settlers so she goes there and Jesse figured out where the paybox might be. The Dukes take her into a swamp to find a map marker where they meet Jeb McCobb, his twin grandaughters and a bunch of gators. They eventually find the paybox but the nasty couple take it at gunpoint. After getting it back the professor agrees with Boss that he can have the money but she's keeping anything else that is in it. She ends up getting a signed letter from Abraham Lincoln and Boss ends with a couple stacks of worthless Confederate money. -- In reality those Confederate bills are worth a lot for their historical value. Waylon explains that things were mixed up in Hazzard even back then. Why would the union pay its army in Confederate money? -- Boss and Lester tore up the Boar's Nest floor because the Dukes tricked them into believing the treasure was buried there by using a fake map. It was also funny when Lester was not paying attention and throwing dirt on Boss and in his car. -- I loved it when Jesse read in the Duke Bible about Caleb Duke coming to Hazzard in the mid 1700s. We learn more about that in season 7. -- When the professor fell in the water and Bo jumped in and wrestled a gator to save her she got back in the boat and said she'd never been so scared in her life. Luke responded " I don't blame you. After that cute little critter in the water it must have been plum frightening to run into Bo here."

95% of the stuff that's on TV today is garbage so we're kinda forced to go back to the older days.

cave

Just an hour left of Uncle Jesse's 100th birthday. He really does feel like family. I was thinking of him all day. Good night Jesse.

Follow That Still.....season 2 -- To open the show ATF Agent Buchanan is about to arrest Hard Luck Jones for a still but the boys use their dynamite arrows to blow it up. "What evidence?" asks Hard Luck! Right away we can tell this is going to be a great episode. Hard Luck tells Jesse he won't do it again....sort of....he amen'ed it. Waylon says "Now how ya gonna say no to Uncle Jesse?" Boss brings in a 30 year old APC (armored personnel carrier) as a war memorial but is really planning on using it for contraband cigarettes. Hard Luck steals it to use for a mobile still. Rosco thinks Luke stole it since he was talking about having one in the Marines. The boys find it but Hard Luck isn't there and Rosco shows up. They get away but the APC breaks down on Duke property. Hard Luck finds it, then Jesse. Luke, Daisy and LB drive around in bulldozers to mimic APC tracks to throw off the law. Bo gets the APC running again and Daisy and Luke jump in on the fly. Thanks to Daisy's sharpshootong....who knew she could fire a big APC gun?....the day is saved.....after the Boar's Nest gets a little scuffed. Agent Buchanan gets Hard Luck a job at a legal distillery which "wasn't much fun but everybody has to grow up sometime" - Waylon --One of my favorite episodes....top 10...maybe top 5. I loved it when Jesse and Hard Luck were talking inside the APC. They made the shine for each others weddings. -- Being a Marine myself I liked hearing about Luke being one too. Hard Luck said the Marines are a lot like moonshiners....the few, the proud....and neither of them don't stay in one place too long. --A couple classic scenes....Rosco falling into a big mud puddle on a bicycle and his car getting crushed by the APC. And a classic Rosco line "Freeze Tank!" -- Boss eating raw liver. It's been a few eps since we've seen that. --Hard Luck said his shine is "smoother than honey with twice the sting of a bee" -- Great episode on this special day. May 11, 2020.....100 years since Denver Pyle was born.

Thanks Hoss but the next post was really the tribute. My internet has been shutting off so I didn't want to type too much and lose it all.

I don't usually think of the actor I mentioned in my last post. I usually think of Jesse Duke, lifelong farmer who still lives in Hazzard County and still has nephews who are driving him crazy. I like to imagine I live just down the road and go to the farm to help and after a hard day's work eat supper and sit around on the porch before sunset with Jesse while the boys are chasing women and Daisy is working at the Boar's Nest. Despite the fact that Jesse is different than me he has still been a great mentor for over 40 years. I am now Denver's age in season 2 and every day strive to be take the good parts of who he was and mirror them. Sure he could be a little rough at times but deep inside was a man who did his best to follow the Good Book, was always loyal to family and community and loved the land. It was always funny to hear him say "I ain't your Uncle Jesse" and I always wanted to hear him tell me "I am your Uncle Jesse". Even though I never met him and I'll never hear those words I know I would have gotten along great with him if we would have been neighbors and in my mind we are neighbors. Visiting Uncle Jesse is what I do in my mind when things get tough. He just has a way of making everything better. I love you Jesse. And I love you Denver. This 'ol world has been a better place the last 100 years because of you.

100 years ago today in Bethune Colorado, Ben and Maude Pyle had a little bundle of joy and named him Denver Dell Pyle. He did a lot of acting before he became known as Uncle Jesse Duke. He was Briscoe Darling on Andy Griffith, Mad Jack on Grizzly Adams, he was on the Doris Day show and a ton of other stuff. He really loved the oil industry and did a lot of investing in it. By the time Dukes hit its peak he had actually made more money in the oil industry than in his over 3 decades of acting. He said he wanted to continue acting to fund his oil investments and simply because it was so much fun. He had two boys with his wife Marilee who he married in 1955 and divorced in 1970....David in 1956 and Tony in 1957. He later married Tippie Johnston in 1983 while Dukes was still being filmed and they were still together when he died on Christmas Day in 1997 at 77 years old. He is buried in Forreston Texas.