People's Choice

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Season 2, Episode 11
Original Air Date: 30 November 1979
Directed by: Allen Baron
Written by: Bruce Howard
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

It's not often that the General loses a race, but when winning could mean starched undershorts, you can see Bo's reasoning for giving Daisy the victory. The loss is quickly forgotten when a blonde lady at the bus stop catches the boys' eye. They quickly establish that she's Thelma Claire (T.C.) Rogers, and she's returned to Hazzard to run for Supervisory Administrator of Hazzard County. Boss cheated her father out of the same job 15 years earlier by stealing the pencils out of the voting booths. Bo and Luke fall over each other to help out and both volunteer as campaign managers. When Boss hears about T.C.'s intentions, he quickly hatches a plan to stop her from registering by sending the registrar, Emery Potter, out of town.

Emery has been engaged to Mabel for 12 years, so Boss decides that it's about time he got married. He even offers to pay for the nuptials if Emery heads straight for Chicamahonny. When T.C. and the boys arrive at the registrar's office, Enos explains that Emery has to sign the application. Emery is persuaded to postpone his wedding in order to uphold his sworn duty. To Boss, T.C.'s successful registration is just a minor setback; he has plenty of other tricks up his sleeve, like not giving her air-time on the radio. With a little help from Cooter, the boys help T.C. to cut into Boss's radio broadcast and interrupt his speech in the square.

Boss fights back by closing the election an hour early and trying to fix the vote by hiring a couple of henchmen to replace the ballot papers. After the Duke Boys recover the ballot box and deliver it safely to Enos, the result comes out as a tie. Then they realize that Emery Potter forgot to vote, so Bo and Luke set off to interrupt his wedding for a second time. With just seconds to spare, Emery makes it back in time to cast his vote for T.C., who promptly quashes Bo and Luke's probation violations. Only then is it revealed that Rosco also forgot to vote.

Trivia

• This episode introduces Hazzard's (Boss's) radio station, WHOGG.
• The Chicamahonny chapel where Emery Potter goes to get married is the same building that appeared next to the crematorium in Money to Burn.
• Pat Klous (T.C. Rogers) appeared in a series called Flying High before Dukes, and 55 episodes of The Love Boat afterwards.

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