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I finally got hold of 'The Dukes' cartoon series on DVD and I didn't think it should be excluded from this thread. I appreciate that cartoons have different rules to live-action so I've let some things slide, but these I couldn't. First are the seats/seatbelts in The General. About half of the time no one is wearing a seatbelt, as shown in the first picture. In the second picture the front seat occupants have conventional over-the-shoulder seatbelts, although the belts disappear behind their backs - not much use in an accident!. In the third picture Vance's seatbelt is across his left shoulder. The fourth picture shows all three occupants wearing seatbelts although the front seats have mysteriously disappeared. By the fifth picture it's only those in the front with belts again, but the belts are now attached to the roof. Finally the last picture shows the top of seatbelts attched to the top of the A-pillars by the windshield. I guess they added the belts because of the target audience (in the live-action show The General hardly ever seems to have seatbelts), but they could've at least been consistent. Both the pictures below show views in rear-view mirrors. In the one on the left they forgot to reverse the image. During a river crossing (I think from 'The Dukes in Urbekistan') we get a close-up of The General's rear. The license plate clearly shows "CHN 920" instead of "CNH 320". It's correct in other shots that I've checked. Incidentally, with all the countries in the world to choose from, why did they have to make up Urbekistan?. Were they worried that the people of Uzbekistan would take offence?. Likewise, in 'The Dukes in Switzerland' the secret police are from Slavonia which sounds suspiciously like the European country Slovenia (although it was still part of Yugoslavia when the cartoon was made). If anything, the secret police sound more like the Stasi that operated in East Germany until reunification in 1990. The final one here may not be a blooper, but I bet no one at Hanna-Barbera considered it. In 'Dukes in Scotland' the story revolves around a money counterfeiting operation, but they are counterfeiting Bank of England (English/Welsh) bank notes. Scotland has it's own bank notes that are issued by retail banks, not central banks and don't have the Queen's head on them. I accept that they could've been making English/Welsh notes because they are easier to dispose of (Scottish notes can be refused in England and Wales and are not accepted by banks and exchange bureaus outside of the United Kingdom). I also wonder why they would bother counterfeiting the lowest denomination note. Most forgers go for £20 notes. The £50 note had entered circulation in 1981, but even today they are scrutinized a lot more than other notes due to their higher value.

The punishment does seem unduly harsh. F1 is a much more technical sport so the teams are always pushing the legal limits, but I don't remember a similar situation. Last year some of the teams complained that Red Bull's front wing was flexing too much, but it passed all the tests. Another contentious point last year was blown diffusers (they channel exhaust gases under the back of the car for more downforce). Some teams had them, some didn't, so the FIA (the governing body) banned them for one race before allowing them to the end of the season - they are banned this year as far as I know (new season starts this weekend). The last penalty I remember for an illegal part was given to Jenson Button (and his team-mate) for running an illegal fuel tank in a race in 2005. They got disqualified from that race and banned for another two races. As I said, that was in a race - teams often test parts in practice but take them off before a race. I hope this punishment gets overturned or at least reduced.

General Lee had better watch out - Rosco and Enos are in hot pursuit .

I'll come clean; my inspiration for this was nothing more than a typo that I made earlier. As I went to correct it I thought "why not?".

Seeing as we're currently doing "Crazy" songs on Musical Chairs, and I've already posted Patsy Cline and Seal:

Not my usual, but as Raj from 'The Big Bang Theory' would say, "She's curvy and she's owns it. I like that."

This video by Philippe Decouflé was nominated in several categories at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.

How about an epic ?? This is the full-length original version from 1965.

Apologies to Stewie Griffin ("Just wait until they have to suffer through Jesus Jones." - Road to Europe), but this was the only other song I could think of with "International" in the title: International Bright Young Thing - Jesus Jones

Nice job TomBo. I can see Carlos's point of view, but I can also see the improvement to safety in terms of increased visibility. Some sort of LED conversion can actually be necessary when people bring American cars to the UK. I speak as someone who's read about it rather than done it. The UK had different laws regarding lights, especially the rears. All rear turn signals must flash amber, and must not adversely affect any other light (brake light, parking light). There are also rules about driving lights, rear fog lights, back up lights and side repeaters for turn signals depending on the age of the vehicle. I found the following demo on the website of a company that advertises in the American car magazine that I read. It shows how their conversion would look on a 1968 Shelby Mustang, and also has a feature called SmartSwap that allows the lights to revert to US style operation. AMCAR: 1968 Shelby GT350 S/C

I also have a few Hayseed Dixie CDs - they always make me smile when they come on my MP3 player. Here's one of theirs that fits this thread:

Here's some original U2: Bad - U2 (From Live Aid) Capt, I have an EP by another Irish group called 'The Joshua Trio'. Believe it or not they did U2 covers. The EP only has three tracks and the only one I could find on YouTube is (the other two are 'Where The Streets Have No Name' and 'Bad'). I like fun covers - see what you think.

MaryAnne posted a similar grab to the one below a few months ago in the Trivia thread. Coincidentally I had grabbed this one a few weeks earlier but had filed it as "unknown". The top one is from 'Arrest Jesse Duke', the lower one shows the same sign as it appeared in 'Enos Strate to the Top'. I tried Googling the location as it's the only scene from Dukes that I can think of that clearly has 'Lake Sherwood' named in it. Obviously it had to be near the lake, but where?. When I got no luck with my searching I decided it must have disappeared as part of the redevelopment of the area and that I may never find it. Then, earlier this week TheDukesOfHazzardfan01 posted a link to 'The Dukes of Hazzard: E! True Hollywood Story' on YouTube. The map below is pieced together from a couple of grabs I took from that video - sorry for the bad quality but, as I said, I took the grabs from a YouTube video that looks like it may be a VHS transfer. The map gives the route from WB's studios in Burbank (you can just about make out Alamera, Riverside and Olive as the bottom right) to a filming location near "Sherwood Lake". The directions in the bottom left say something like: 'Dukes of Hazzard' Ventura Fwy west to Westlake Blvd. offramp, turn left stay on Westlake @ Carlisle Rd turn right. First gate on right past Lake Rec. Area entrance on right. Turn in and proceed to parking area. As soon as I saw 'Lake Rec. Area' I went back to the "unknown" grabs. As far as I can tell, Carlisle Road's first gate on the right puts us near the present-day location of Sherwood Lake Golf Club. The black and white map below shows the area as it was in 1980, and clearly shows Park Road running from Carlisle Road up to the south of the lake. The colored map below shows how much this area has changed in the last 30 years, and that Park Road has been considerably re-routed at the southern end. I think that the "Recreational Area" sign was at the junction of Carlisle and Park. To try to confirm the location I've included these last pictures. The top one is taken from inside Enos's car just as he's about to hit Hughie in the other patrol car. Like the first picture in this post it is also from 'Arrest Jesse Duke', so we know it's right by the sign. The lower picture is from 'The Ghost of General Lee', which we know is near the golf club (see this recent post). Both pictures appear to show the same white-topped poles on the right, and the telephone pole has the same markings on it (most of the others down this road had four evenly-spaced markings like the one on the right of the upper picture). If you look at the Google Street View you'll also see that there's some kind of utility box on the right of the road, in a similar position to the one on the far right of the lower top picture. The leaning tree in the middle of the Street View may also be the one above The General in the same picture.

Great track MaryAnne. Now a bit of fun from the late '80s: International Rescue - Fuzzbox The video is a sort of Thunderbirds/Barbarella crossover with comedian Ade Edmundson (Young Ones etc.) as the bad guy.

I'm going a bit off-topic here with a sign inspired by Dukes rather than from Dukes. Y'all may be familiar with the Second World War propaganda posters produced by the British government in 1939 with the purpose of raising morale in the event of invasion: They have been reproduced and parodied on everything from mugs to phone covers since being rediscovered in a second-hand book store in England in 2000. It wasn't until this week when I saw and a question on HNet about the theme song from the Reunion! movie that I had this idea for a crossover:

I agree with BL. I think Enos's car is shown in 'Enos's Last Chance', so it must be Rosco.

Probably just as well, you'd only end up building something like these :

I can't resist another track from the '80s. This is a live performance from the British show 'Top of the Pops'. Nearly 30 years after it was released, their album 'The Hurting' is still one of my favorites.

His name is just given as Carl in the credits - I can't remember if he ever had a surname.

Thanks for the link. I knew most of the stories from other sources, but I don't think I've ever see this documentary. I certainly didn't know that cameraman Rodney Mitchell tragically lost his life in 1980. That must've hit everyone hard. There doesn't seem to be any other mention of Rodney on HNet and his IMDb page only credits his work on Dukes. I did find that his son Lance Mitchell has followed in his father's footsteps and become a cinematographer. You can see his profile here and his IMDb page here.

All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Now I've listened to this I'll have to watch 'Withnail & I' again .