The Dukes of Hazzard: Difference between revisions

* [[Binocular Shot]]

* [[The Bus Came Back]]: Enos returned to Hazzard at the start of season 5, while Bo and Luke did so later that season.

* [[California Doubling]]: Apart from the first few episodes, which were shot on location in Georgia.

* [[Car Skiing]]: Done regularly on the show. One time a film crew was in town and happened to see them doing it, and hired them to [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?|do it on film]].

** To be fair though, Shroyer has always looked much younger than he actually is.

** John Schneider was 18 when he was hired to play Bo, whose character is said to be in his mid-20s when the series began. (Indeed, the casting directors were looking for a mid-20s man, and Schneider has recalled in interviews where he lied about his age (and background) to audition for the part.)

* [[Deep South]]: The show features an exaggerated depiction of the Deep South, filled to the brim with Civil War-obsessed moonshiners and yokels.

* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: In the pilot, one of the Duke boys explains that they don't carry any firearms because they're on probation. Later mentioned by the narrator early in the actual series. Fortunately, they have [[Technical Pacifist|dynamite arrows]].

** Jesse and Daisy are exempt from this. Daisy in particular is good with guns, having put 6 bullets from a revolver though the same hole during her testing to become a deputy.

** Boss Hogg, despite his dishonesty, hates violence and won't go in for violent schemes where someone could get hurt.

* [[The Dragon]]: Sheriff Rosco

* [[Dramatic Curtain Toss]]: In the film.

** Meanwhile, Denver Pyle (Uncle Jesse) was from Colorado and Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg) was from Buffalo, New York.

* [[Farmers Daughter]]: Daisy Duke.

* [[The Film of the Series]]

* [[Fixing the Game]]: The Duke boys once rig the roulette wheel of a traveling casino.

** In proper southern, "Cooter" means "turtle". I don't know what you're talking about.

*** Elsewhere, "cooter" is a slang term for "vagina."

* [[Harmless Villain]]: Boss and Rosco, for the most part.

* [[Hollywood CB]]: Textbook example, every time someone picked up a radio transmitter, just the right people were on the right frequency.

** Though it's not too much of a stretch to assume the Duke family and their friends agreed to a regular frequency, or that the Hazzard County Sheriff's Department used particular frequencies as standard policy.

* [[Hollywood Police Driving Academy]] (former [[Trope Namer]], "Rosco P Coltrane Academy Of Police Driving")

* [[Humans Are White]]: An egregious non-SF example. The show takes place in a part of the USA where practically every other person is African-American. But you wouldn't know it from watching the show, which features all of one Black character (Sheriff Little). This probably qualifies as [[Politically-Correct History|Politically Incorrect History]].

** Except that Sheriff Little was probably the only officer of the Law the Dukes respected. He was honorable, if strict, and an all-too-rare non-stereotypical Black on TV.

** The sheriff's department – Rosco, Enos and Cletus – were almost always seen in their sheriff's uniforms, even in social, off-duty situations. (More than once, Rosco was seen with a beer in his hand ... while wearing his sheriff's uniform!) And even when out of uniform, Rosco was rarely without his black cowboy hat.

* [[Local Hangout]]: The Boar's Nest

* [[Man in White]]: Boss Hogg

* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Sorrell Booke and James Best, in contrast to their [[Affably Evil]] characters Boss Hogg and Rosco P. Coltrane. Both were well-respected by their castmates and genuinely loved children ... so much that during the height of their popularity -- from the peak of the original CBS run to the late 1980s, when the show was one of the top syndicated hits -- Best and Booke were available to appear at children's birthday parties, where they would appear in-character as Boss and Rosco (and do several of their comedy bits and pretend that they were going after the Duke boys).

* [[Meaningful Name]]: ''Jefferson Davis'' Hogg and his good twin, ''Abraham Lincoln'' Hogg.

* [[Non-Fatal Explosions]]: The Dukes are always blowing things up, but, being the good guys, never hurt anyone.

{{quote| '''Jesse Duke''': "The Dukes revenge on property, not people."}}

* [[Not So Stoic]]: The rare instances when Boss Hogg -- or a bit more commonly, Rosco -- when a loved one close to them was in genuine trouble by a particularly dastardly villian. This use of the trope reminded fans that, despite their outright lack of ethics, beneath it all Boss Hogg and Rosco did have morals and were decent people who were truly concerned about the safety of everyone, even their sworn enemies the Duke family.

** Much rarer, but it has happend, when Bo and/or Luke cried when someone was in grave danger. The most blatant example was in "Too Many Roscoes" ... when Rosco was thought to have driven his car into a lake and didn't re-emerge (he had actually gotten out of his police car safely, but was kidnapped by a gang of bank robbers).

{{quote| '''Daisy''': After Enos warns the Dukes that he'll have to try to help capture Bo and Luke. "Why'd you stop by to warn them?"<br />

'''Enos''': "What I do on my lunch hour is my own business. The rest of the day, my soul belongs to the law." }}

** Cletus also disappears without a trace in season 5, although he later shows up for the reunion specials.

** Rosco also left "to be re-trained" for a while. He was replaced by some [[Monster of the Week|Sheriffs of the Week]], until they settled on Grady Bird, played coincidentally enough by the original Other Darrin (Dick Sargent), to replace him during the rest of his absence. He eventually returned.

** Also Sheriff Little, of neighboring Chickasaw County.

** And for a while, Sheriff Grady Byrd.

* [[Sleazy Politician]]: Boss Hogg

* [[Slo-Mo Big Air]]

* [[Vehicular Sabotage]]: Happens quite often on ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'', occasionally even to The General Lee.

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Uncle Jesse and J.D. Hogg were best friends (and fellow moonshine-runners) in their youth.

* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: "Luke Duke"? Come on. (Anyone ever mention that on the show?)

** Not in the show, but in his mostly positive review of the series, [[TV Guide]]'s Robert McKenzie ended with the statement "You don't expect much wisdom from a boy named Luke Duke."

** In the TV version, she wears flesh-colored tights underneath due to TV censorship rules; in the film adaptation, where she could freely show her legs, she does just that. (Of course, she wouldn't have worn tights if the TV version was made today, since today bare legs would usually get away with a TV-14 rating, which happens to be commonplace on TV shows broadcast today, particularly in [[Prime Time]].)

** The tights were not so much about the bare legs as much as not wanting any accidental cheek or "camel toe" to show (Catherine Bach has noted that the shorts were so tiny and snug that she had to "go commando" to be able to squeeze into them.

* [[Written in Absence]]: Both in Season 2. Sonny Shroyer (Enos) was missing for two episodes due to appendicitis (they gave Enos appendicitis as well) while James Best (Rosco) left for a while due to a contract dispute (so they shipped Rosco off to the academy for re-certification). Also, John Schneider was absent for an episode because he was filming a TV movie (this was before the great merchandising dispute in season five) so Bo spent a weekend with the Marine Corps.

* [[Wrongful Accusation Insurance]]: All those car chases, and the Duke Boys are never arrested for resisting arrest. Of course, by the end of the episode they usually have evidence of some sort of wrong-doing that could nail Boss Hogg, so perhaps a more literal example of this trope.