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Thanks for reviewing all of these cartoons, Roger. I've been having a quick look through them for the first time in years since you started this thread, but I'll have to sit down and watch them in full at some point. I do feel that the cartoon was a slightly missed opportunity. It would have been good if the episodes linked together in an actual round-the-world order, and the storylines could've included a little more about the countries they visited rather than relying on national stereotypes. There's no reason that the story couldn't still be fun with a few facts scattered through the episode. It might have avoided situations like this:

This is the episode where we see Boss ironing his money before putting it in his safe.

Mick Schumacher's multi-year contract with Haas F1 was confirmed today. This could be a big weekend for British driver George Russell who gets to stand in for Lewis Hamilton for Sunday's race. Hamilton tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week, so has to self-isolate. Russell is currently driving one of the slowest cars on the grid and is one of the only drivers not to score a point this year, so it'll be some change stepping into the World Champion's car.

I've used this thread for a lot of tributes in the last year or two, so here's something more cheerful. Last Friday was the annual Irish televisual institution known as "The Late Late Toy Show". "The Late Late Show" is a Friday night talk show, but once a year, about a month before Christmas, they do a special show with kids showing off some current toys. Most of the kids are 6-10 years old, but this year there was a slightly older one singing the song 'Giants' by his favorite singer, Dermot Kennedy. The look on his face when he's surprised by Dermot joining him for a duet is priceless, but he carries on like a real pro. They had to practice social distancing throughout this year's show - is it the same on US shows at the moment?

The ending sounds very similar to "The Rustlers" in season 2 of the regular show when they find Manassas just in time to get to the race.

Well done, Spike. It's good to have you around on HNet.

I watched the start of the race live yesterday and that was quite a shock. We're used to seeing flames from engine fires (as happened to Perez yesterday), but it's a long time since a crash has ended in a fireball. Grosjean looked comfortable in hospital after the race, and is said to have only suffered minor burns. The "halo" safety device above the driver's head probably saved his life. It looks like Michael Schumacher's son Mick may be driving for the Haas F1 team next year.

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I'm hearing it as "Slavonian", but either way I'm guessing that the writers were going for a generic fictional communist state for the bad guys to be from. Like "Urbekistan", that begs the question as to why they were so close to the name of a real place. In 1983, Slovenia was still a Yugoslav republic, and didn't gain independence until 1991, but it would've been on maps!

Welcome to HNet, Dani/CountryXRebel. It sounds like you've come to the right place!

I'm glad they didn't rely on national stereotypes for the Irish episode! It's likely that the leprechaun spelled his name Sean rather than Shaun as it's the usual Irish spelling (I didn't check to see if there were closed captions). As I've posted previously, the police car and police station would have "Garda" on them and not "Police" (it's the shortened form of "An Garda Síochána"). The Irish accents were even worse than 'Wild Mountain Thyme', and it's not like America's short of people with Irish roots! Did you notice that the guard talking to Daisy in the first prison scene had a black mustache and helmet at the start, then a brown mustache and no helmet, then he was back to a black mustache and helmet. BTW. The Gardai don't wear helmets - they're a very British thing!

Besides the holidays at Christmas and Easter, we have these bank holidays in Ireland: Saint Patrick's Day (17 March) First Monday in May First Monday in June First Monday in August Last Monday in October

I see you also copied David's spelling of Thaddeus. I know he wrote his book before the DVDs for the later seasons were released, but if you look at the sign on the Golden Palace Saloon, it's clearly Thadius B Hogg.

Cooter's relative was actually called Jeeter. It's a little hard to hear, but the closed captions and the sign at the blacksmith's both have that spelling.

Here are three videos from a different diecast restorer. This time they're all Dukes vehicles. For some reason he calls Cooter "Skeeter" in the first video, but gets it right after that. First up is Boss' Caddy: Then two Generals: And finally, a couple of patrol cars:

I couldn't completely fix your post, Roger, but at least we can now read your response without clicking expand.

That's for the whole of the the Republic of Ireland which has a population of just under 5 million.

We're down to 250 new cases today, which is much better than the 1284 peak we had just over a month ago, although still a long way from the single digits we had in June. I see that millions of people are traveling around the US for Thanksgiving - I can't see that ending well.

I'm not sure if this is referencing the car or the man, but it made me think of Dukes when I saw this earlier.

Boss' French pronunciation isn't good - it should be more like "wazo". It's an odd mixture of English and French - the proper translation of "the blue bird" would be "l'oiseau bleu", but they insisted on saying the color in English and just keeping the bird part in French. I'm surprised that Jesse didn't notice the stamp when he had to pay the postage due - there's no way that it only cost 10 centimes to send a letter from France to the US in 1983! BTW. French stamps would have "République Française" on them rather than "Repub Franc". Probably just another case of the artists being lazy. Just look at the variations of Jesse's name and address that I found in 'Boss O' Hogg and the Little People'. This is from an old post of mine in the Bloopers thread.

There's certainly a passing resemblance (see below). The Bank of England one pound note was withdrawn from circulation in 1988 in favor of the one pound coin. Scotland, however, has its own money, and the Royal Bank of Scotland still prints one pound notes. I agree about the Scooby Doo feel to the episode. The thing I don't get is why take all the risk of forgery to make the lowest denomination note? BTW, Roger, I took the liberty of adding the episode title to your review.

John Matuszak was in an episode of M*A*S*H that I saw last week. He played a GI with a bad disciplinary record who threatened to beat up one of the officers if he didn't receive the promotion that his father expected him to achieve. Probably his best-known acting role was as Sloth in 'The Goonies'. Sadly, he died of heart failure in 1989 at the age of 38. Did you recognize Billie Jean? Audrey Landers previously played Gail Flatt in 'R.I.P. Henry Flatt'.

As far as I can see, it became the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (part of the USSR) in 1924, and then the independent Republic of Uzbekistan in 1991, so while it may have been the Uzbek SSR when the cartoon was made, there was never a spelling with an R in place of the Z.

I don't understand why the writers invented a country called Urbekistan. If they wanted it to be fictional, why change just one letter of Uzbekistan? Then again, maybe someone misread/mistyped the title and nobody spotted the error.