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Gold Fever....season 2 -- Three tough Texas boys roll into Hazzard and rig their car so the axle busts. Boss is too blinded by greed to not smell a scam when they put 3 million dollars in gold bars in his bank. Boss signs a contract guaranteeing the safety of the bars but the Texas boys fake a robbery so now Boss is on the hook for 3 million. It's all a scam that Boss fell for. The bars are lead disguised as gold and the the bad guys accept $100,000 instead. The Duke boys expose the scam and everybody except the bad guys end up happy. -- The episode starts out with Jesse in the back of the General with a bad toothache. Unfortunately mobile dentist Homer Willis only has time to give him pain medicine. Waylon says "I could have said getting Jesse to see a dentist is like pulling teeth but I got my pride." -- Boss can never remember H H Harkness's name. I had no trouble since that is the last name of one of my best friends. -- Texas stuff was pretty popular in American back then. A lot of country songs had Texas themes. And then there was the TV show Dallas (after Dukes) and Gilley's, Urban Cowboy, etc. -- Rosco and Enos were in their cars side by side coming straight at the Dukes in a game of chicken. Passenger Luke said " I can't watch". Driver Bo closed his eyes and said "Me neither" -- Waylon "You know, only in Hazzard could a fella have to prove his innocence for a crime that ain't even been committed yet" -- Homer Wills came to the rescue at the end. After that he decided that being a dentist wasn't exciting enough and left town to try to find a place that drag raced RVs. Before he left he fixed Jesse's tooth and did other dental work. Boss paid the bill. -- We start to see the beginning of a trend in the series where the Dukes and Boss team up at the end more often.

I wasn't exactly a nation-wide traveler back then but I have been a Dukes super fan for over 40 years so I've paid pretty close attention. It seemed like the appeal of the Dukes was spread pretty evenly throughout the country. It was also timed pretty well since it came after a small surge of Smokey and the Bandit style movies that were so popular. Things always go in trends in society. Then they fade away and come back again. Since the world has gotten so complicated I can see another Dukes style show succeeding again. Folks are craving simplicity. What surprised me at the time was the popularity of Dukes in Europe although I think it took longer to hit its peak.

I thought about that.

Seeing my name on the start of a Dukes episode. Thanks Hoss! Best present ever!...and thanks Spike! It was a great day....and I am now officially retired too!

Thanks. Feel free to post as many comments you want about any of the ones I have reviewed. In fact, anybody can start their own review thread if they want. If it weren't for the episodes none of us would be here.....says Captain Obvious.

(April 17) Happy birthday Cousin Coy. Yours is pretty easy to remember since it's only two days after mine. I'll catch you around down at the Boar's Nest. It's going to be a 24 hour long party to celebrate.

10-4 good buddy. I got a copy on the HOMER WOLFMAN. You're coming in loud and proud. That radidio of yers is sure packing a whallop tonight. 7s at ya. Catch ya on the flip flop. I'm gone.

A lot of those things Waylon said weren't in the script but they let him use them. I bet that's one of them.

I don't do Facebook but if folks weren't fighting about a virus they'd be fighting about an election or Tom Brady or something else . I do forums for dirt bikes and astronomy and I usually avoid the off-topic stuff. I have gotten pulled into contoversy in the past but it takes away the fun of the good stuff so I try my best to stay away. I'm happier like that.

My wife said it was near white out conditions going to work this morning. Tomorrow afternoon we might end up with enough to have to plow. All of last night's snow was melted before noon today.

You're pretty smart too because you give great advice. Since you've told me to never waste a sip I haven't spilled a drop of my buttermilk.

Nothing slips by Hoss. He has the eyes of an eagle and the brain of an Einstein. I was happy to see these pictures of "The Days of Shine and Roses" since I just posted a review on that episode yesterday.

Days of Shine and Roses....season 2 -- I think I'll start putting the season on here after the episode name. That way if somebody watches an ep in the future and wants to quote me and add comments on this thread it will be easier to find the ep. -- Tempers start to fly between Jesse and Boss at the 32nd annual Ridge Runner's Reunion. After Bo made a comment the next thing you know Boss and Jesse are challenging themselves to a ridge running race and Luke said to Bo "Cousin, you just started World War III." During the race Jesse finds out that Boss's henchmen switched the water in Jesse's trunk for moonshine. To make matters worse, he's heading out of Hazzard County and into a Choctaw County roadblock. -- I absolutely loved the old black and white film of Jesse and Boss. I don't know how they made it but it is one of my favorite scenes in the whole series. Even Bo and Luke wore ties to the reunion. It shows you how much they respected their elders. -- Jesse's Black Tillie vs Boss's Grey Ghost...for car fans back then, seeing a Mustang vs Camaro race was epic....especially for a Mustang owner like me to see Jesse's Mustang win. -- It looks like we have another out of town sheriff named Emmitt. This time it's Choctaw County Sheriff Emmitt "Spike" Loomis. (I live in Erie County Pennsylvania and our sheriff is Sheriff Loomis! Thankfully he's never pulled off any of my car parts) -- When Jesse was practicing and tearing through the Duke's field Waylon said something I can relate to. "Ain't it funny how the most mature man can be turned into a little boy if you give him the right toy." lol That reminded me of a saying I read a few years ago "You're only young once but you can be immature forever." -- I loved the old truck that the bad guys drove when they switched the water into shine. I had a 1963 Ford that looked just like it except it had a wood bed and a lift kit. -- This episode is a blast. What a great way to start what many Dukes fans would call the greatest season of all. The show had hit it's stride in season 2 and at this point was destined to become the greatest TV show in history.

Sorry to hear that Spike. I think I've only ever been to Bob Evans once.

10-4 breaker, you got Jesse Duke here. My 10-20 is out in the corn field gittin' ready fer the spring plowing. It's a little too wet today. Old Maudeen would likely get stuck.

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True, but I've seen every Dukes episode several times. Life doesn't get more exciting than that.

Happy Easter everybody. Since my wife works in an intensive care unit of a hospital and could potentially be a carrier, we are being pretty strict about avoiding people. It will be a really strange Easter without family. I guess I'll have to drown my sorrows by eating extra chocolate.

Thanks Hoss. He was indeed a legend.

Double Sting -- Two guys come into town in an RV and rob the bank with Laurel and Hardy masks on. Before that their partner faked the plague and got the 3 Duke men, the law and Boss quarantined by Doc Petticord. Daisy hopped on top of the RV and before you know it was being held hostage. -- We started out with the General Lee's headlights on running down the highway. Yes, I said headlights! -- When Jesse bailed the boys out after a bar fight he said "I want to thank you boys for making my sunset years so stimulating." -- Hoss recently posted a picture of Doc Petticord walking away with a posted Quarantined sign. It might be in the coronavirus thread....which leads to another Jesse quote "One thing about a crisis, you sure learn what ain't important." -- We get to meet Sheriff Emmitt Hammerhand Ragsdale of Choctaw County. -- And we get to see the most famous jump in Hazzard history. Ragsdale does it right after the Dukes and then Rosco runs him him off the road causing him to flip over. Ragsdale gets out and says to Rosco "Your driving is substandard." Rosco responds "I didn't turn over." -- I couldn't believe how easy it was for the bad guy (plague faker) to steal the General. How could Bo and Luke be so dumb to just not pay attention? He then drove it to the bank robber's hide-out where Daisy was kidnapped. Hey....Cooter was hidden in the General's trunk! They wanted the bad guy to steal it...clever. --- great job by Arte Johnson and Avery Schreiber of playing the bank robbers. And what a fantastic episode to end season one.

My wife was watching an older movie called "She's All That" with Freddie Prinze Jr in it when she called me in the room after hitting the pause button. Halfway through the movie Freddie walks in his girlfriend's house and her brother has a plastic Dukes of Hazzard cup from 1981 on the table. My wife recognized it right away since I have the same one on my dresser so of course I grabbed it and held it up to the screen beside it. It's always so cool when something related to Dukes pops up when you weren't expecting it.

Congratulation! 8 years....what a great accomplishment!

We haven't had any price gouging problems in Pennsylvania. I think we have laws but I'm not sure. At least your gas is cheaper than ours. Last year we had the highest gas tax in the nation. I'm not sure if we still do...probably. Yesterday our governor announced all schools are officially closed for the school year. My grandson is a senior and won't have a graduation. That bothers me more than him....probably since he is my only biological grandchild.