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Shine on Hazzard Moon.....season 4 All 4 Dukes are in the General Lee on the way home from fishing. All 4 caught their limit of trout on the first day of the season....Waylon said he did too. Cletus started chasing them after they went through a 5 MPH sign. Jesse pointed out that he couldn't even walk that slow. Cletus ended up in the pond and caught his own fish and pointed it like a gun. Boss has a big time buyer named Jasper Fenwick test his moonshine but Jasper said it was terrible and he'd only make a deal if Jesse would make the shine or if Boss could use Jesse's recipe. (Jasper's henchman Eli reminded me of a bigger stronger Bill Clinton). Boss took $202.10 to Jesse and claimed he overpaid on the mortgage. He suggested Jesse put it in a safe place so he put it in a cookie box. The next morning Boss and Rosco lured the Dukes out of the house and Rosco took what he thought was the shine recipe from the box but when he brought it back, Boss knew right away it was horse linament. Boss then hires Rayford Flicker to make it look like the boys stole from the orphanage playground fund. After a chase they go to jail and Boss made a deal with Jesse....their freedom for Jesse making up a batch of moonshine. Boss let's him use his personal still. Since Cletus always ends up in the pond he is reading a book on how to swim while guarding the jail but Cooter tricks him and the boys escape. They catch Rayford and he signs a confession that Boss paid him to frame them. Jasper buys the "shine" and then Boss forces Jesse to load the still and haul it to Chickasaw where Big Ed is waiting after being called. Luke and Jesse were able to dump the evidence in the swamp and Jesse revealed that all he made was some "pretty top grade motuthwash." -- "You know, Bo and Luke went to the fair once and rode one of them big time roller coasters. They fell asleep." -- Bo talking about Cletus "He's alright though" .......Waylon's response "If you can call being Cletus alright." -- Great scene of the General and Sheriff's car jumping in opposite directions. When the scene froze while they were in mid air Waylon said. "Friends, that's America. Kinda purty ain't it?"

The Sound of Music-Hazzard Style....season 4 Cletus is chasing the General Lee out on the dirt roads while Mickey Gilley is giving a daytime concert at the Hazzard Gazebo and singing "Object of My Affection". What Mickey doesn't know is that 2 record pirates, named Heep and Morton have been hired by Boss and are in a nearby van illegally recording the concert. When federal agents try to arrest Heep and Morton they stop the General Lee and force the boys to be a getaway car. This makes the agents think the Duke boys are record pirate accomplices. Eventually the boys and the General get away from the bad guys. Rosco is worried about Boss's scam because he just got into astrology and says the planets aren't lined up for them to succeed. His obssession with astrology lasts all episode. The agents don't know Boss and Rosco are crooked so they report the pirates to them. Bo and Luke don't know Boss is in with the pirates so they report to them as well. After Rosco gets the pirated tape that was in the back of the General he tries to arrest the boys but they get away. Boss and the duo of Heep and Morton spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to double cross each other. One of the agents catches the boys but they get away with a dramatic double jump onto Dixie with Daisy driving. Heep and Morton steal money from Boss and take him hostage in their van and later grab Rosco too. It's the Duke boys to the rescue, fighting off the bad guys and their bulldozers, one of them (driverless) almost crushing the General but then hitting Cletus's car. The agents arrest Heep and Morton and Mickey returns and sings "The Girls all get Prettier at Closing Time". He gives the Dukes a reward that they donate to the orphanage.

scream I'm not into that stuff too much but it's fun around Halloween. I do want to visit the haunted prison in Moundsville WV. It is west of Pittsburgh, right by where WV, Ohio and Pennsylvania come together. The huge native American mound looks fascinating too.

It sure is affecting fantaay teams too. The fantasy team that has the most covid cases is usually losing.

I'm not even going to be doing much trash talking this year. Your Cubs are better than my Pirates so I might as well just admit it and get it over with. The big question is: can the season make it until playoffs? It's not looking good.

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What a fascinating story. It has more twists than a Hazzard County dirt road. Thanks for sharing it JRC99 and it sure is good to hear from you again. And HAPPY BIRYHDAY later this week!

Dukescam Scam.....season 4 On the way to pay the mortgage the 4 Dukes see Emery Potter driving out of town in a hurry. When they got to the bank Rosco was there cashing his check and the next thing you know, bank teller Laverne is screaming inside the vault after discovering it's been burglarized. The Dukes and Rosco catch up with Boss on the road and Rosco arrests him for the burglary and throws him in jail. Boss claims his innocence and blames Emery. Boss claims all his money is tied up in a land deal and Jesse agrees to risking the farm on the bail bond agreement. (Boss softened him up to fall for the scam by reminding him he bailed him out in 1938 and owes him a favor.) Later, Boss is seen leaving town with his bags packed so it's clear he's going to skip bail so the Dukes lose the farm. The Dukes went looking for his hideout but when they find him he gets away and next, they failed to find Emery. Judge Potts is forced to take the farm away from the Dukes since Boss didn't show up for the trial. Minutes later Boss comes back into town and takes Jesse into the vault to prove to him the bank was never burglarized to begin with. When the vault door gets shut everybody realizes Boss and Jesse only have an hour to live before they run out of air. Laverne tells the Dukes that Emery knows the combination so they go after him. After Boss says they only have 39 minutes to live Jesse claims that it is 41 and they laugh that Boss is trying to cheat someone even in his last hour of life. Emery arrives and passes out from stress when starting to open the door but thankfully Luke was paying attention when Emery was repeating the numbers on the way there. When the two old timers got out they agreed to trade the bail bond agreement for the tape that was recorded in the vault where Boss confessed. Jesse and Boss did the Ridge Runner spit handshake to seal the deal.

I finally did it. I went and joined Facebook so I could meet more Dukes fans. Who knows, maybe I can get a few of them to visit the HazzardNet......and maybe even stay longer than a visit.

All I know is that your boys are beating up my poor Pirates. I bet you're enjoying that! Sorry Garrett. I can't read my private messages for some reason. All I get is a blank white page.

Hughie Hogg Strikes Again.....season 4 While driving a motor home into Hazzard, Hughie Hogg, disguised as an old man, runs the Duke boys into a pond in the opening scene. He then shows up at Boss's office and promises to make up for past dirty deeds by showing Boss his plan to help him foreclose on Cooter's garage so he can build Hogg's Happy Hacienda Hoggominiums. Boss agrees and Hughie starts the plan right away by having Cooter thrown in jail for stealing his wallet....while still disguised as an old man. Bo and Luke start working in the garage to help a jailed Cooter make his mortgage payment and when Rosco and Cletus go to arrest them for consorting with a known criminal (Cooter) they get away and Rosco ends up in a pond. Jesse and Daisy then start working in the garage while Bo and Luke sneak into Boss's office and figure out what he's up to. Hughie and his two henchmen set up Jesse and Daisy to make it look like they are selling moonshine at the garage and Boss calls the department of ATF to get an agent from Capitol City to come to Hazzard to arrest Jesse. The Duke boys break into the motor home and finally figure out that it is Hughie, in various disguises, who is behind all this. Later, when Hughie and his men were going to the ATF agent to give him the fake evidence against Jesse, the Duke boys catch up to them and Luke throws a bee's nest into the motor home to flush them out. Bo and Luke then destroy the evidence and Boss kicked Hughie out of Hazzard again. Cooter made his mortgage payment and Buck Owens was forced to sing "Tiger by the Tail" after getting caught in the celebrity speedtrap. -- Miz Tisdale utters that line "That Jesse Duke just sets my motor at fast idle." -- Once again Rosco says "That would have killed ten ordinary men." -- In a nightime scene with Bo and Luke camping out you could see stars. I was wrong when I thought the only time we ever see stars in Hazzard was in the Strange Visitor episode. --When Rosco went into the pond after bragging to Cletus what a good driver he was Cletus said "Guess he meant diving lessons" -- When Hughie said he went to college and majored in criminal law Boss said "Oh, you were studying to be a lawyer?" Hughie responded "No, a criminal".

Planned on getting work done outside all day but it looks like we're in for an all day rain. Oh well, I have plenty to do inside too, including catch another DOH episode. Any of you folks have weekend plans?

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.

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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.