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An American action/comedy series running on [[CBS]] from 1979 to 1985
▲{{quote| ''Just the good ole' boys, Never meanin' no harm<br />
▲Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born<br />
▲Straightenin' the curves, Flattenin' the hills<br />
▲Someday the mountain might get 'em, but the law never will<br />
▲Makin' their way the only way they know how<br />
▲That's just a little bit more than the law will allow<br />
▲Just the good ole' boys, Wouldn't change if they could<br />
▲Fightin' the system like a-two modern day Robin Hoods.'' }}
The series is remembered for its wild car chases, campy Southern setting, and [[Catherine Bach]]'s near-criminally short shorts, which subsequently acquired her character's name as a generic term: "daisy dukes".
▲An American action/comedy series running on [[CBS]] from 1979 to 1985. The show followed the adventures of "good ole boys" Luke and Bo Duke, in the fictional [[Deep South|Hazzard County, Georgia]]. On probation for transporting moonshine, the boys spend their time tweaking the nose of corrupt county commissioner "Boss" Hogg, who always has his eye on acquiring the Duke family farm. Hogg retaliates by keeping the incompetent Sheriff Rosco Purvis Coltrane always on the Dukes' trail for violating their probation.
As further evidence of the accelerated erosion of Hollywood's creative abilities, a theatrical [[The Film of the Series|motion picture]] version of the series was made in 2005, with a 2007 made-for-TV prequel. Two made-for-TV [[Reunion Show|reunion movies]] with the original cast were also made, in 1997 and 2000. (What's often forgotten these days is that the original series was itself a loose adaptation of a 1975 theatrical film called ''[
▲The series is remembered for its wild car chases, campy Southern setting, and Catherine Bach's near-criminally short shorts, which subsequently acquired her character's name as a generic term: "daisy dukes".
Besides adding to the desirability of 1968-69 Dodge Chargers the show is also a major contributor to their rarity, having used up over three hundred over the course of the series (reportedly
▲As further evidence of the accelerated erosion of Hollywood's creative abilities, a theatrical [[The Film of the Series|motion picture]] version of the series was made in 2005, with a 2007 made-for-TV prequel. Two made-for-TV [[Reunion Show|reunion movies]] with the original cast were also made, in 1997 and 2000. (What's often forgotten these days is that the original series was itself a loose adaptation of a 1975 theatrical film called ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrunners Moonrunners]'', which featured essentially the same premise and the same characters under different names...or, in the case of Uncle Jesse and Sheriff Rosco Coltrane, the ''same'' names!)
▲Besides adding to the desirability of 1968-69 Dodge Chargers the show is also a major contributor to their rarity, having used up over three hundred over the course of the series (reportedly: 309).
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* [[Absentee Actor]]: James Best and Ben Jones each boycotted parts of
▲* [[Absentee Actor]]: James Best and Ben Jones each boycotted parts of season 2 due to disputes with the producers, while John Schneider and Tom Wopat missed most of season 5 as contract holdouts. Even Catherine Bach and the General Lee (we can count the car as one of the stars in this case!) are absent from one and only one episode each ("To Catch A Duke" and "Mary Kaye's Baby" respectively).
▲** Averted by John and Tom when the whole cast offered to join their boycott of season 5.
* [[Action Adventure Series]]
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Every Hazzard County patrol car eventually ended up as this after chasing the Duke Boys.
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* [[Anti-Villain]]: Enos, [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type IV]] . Never really portrayed as corrupt or evil, and despite his [[Designated Villain]] role (by default by being on the same side as Boss Hogg), becomes quite sympathetic and likable over the course of the show.
** Enos is plagued by a strong sense of duty. He's a deputy, and sworn to uphold the law. Unfortunately for him, Boss Hogg controls the law. At times, one has to wonder if his goofing up isn't at least somewhat intentional as a way of helping the Dukes. Especially considering that he was able to become the head of the Los Angeles SWAT team.
** Enos is never viewed by the Dukes themselves as being one of Boss Hogg's cronies. They realize that he's just doing his job and is simply too honest to be a part of anything crooked that Boss has come up with. Even when he's chasing them, they hold no malice towards him. In fact, they consider him to be probably the most honest man in the County and -- they say it out loud more than once -- the only real law in Hazzard. Whenever they need actual help from the law, it's Enos that they turn to.
** Enos' successor, Cletus, isn't quite so incorruptible
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Daisy. Hit one of her [[Berserk Button
* [[Beauty Contest]]: "Miss Tri-Counties".
* [[Big Bad]]: Boss Hogg.
* [[Big Eater]]: Boss Hogg (and '''''HOW!''''').
* [[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.
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Daisy. Part of what makes her so good at using [[Distracted
* [[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]].
* [[Chase Scene]]: The show's signature was its wild police chases, featuring as many jumps and wrecks as budget would allow.
* [[Chronically Crashed Car]]: A borderline example. The General Lee doesn't count in-universe, but in reality they had to use ''300'' different cars to shoot it. With them having to use a number of 1970 and 1971 Dodge Chargers for the stunt work, because they couldn't get enough of the proper 1969 model.
** The police cars are straight examples.
* [[Clueless Deputy]]: Enos, Cletus.
* [[Commercial Break Cliffhanger]]
** They applied it inconsistently in season 1 before combining it with the now-famous freeze-frame format from
* [[Cool Car]]: The General Lee, a 1969 Dodge Charger stock car with welded doors, a proudly Confederate paint scheme, a horn that plays a bar from "Dixie
** The General was more or less turned into a Southern version of the [[Speed Racer|Mach 5]] in the [[Animated Adaptation]] "The Dukes".
* [[Corrupt Hick]]: Boss Hogg and ...
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* [[Crossover]]: Boss and Enos make a guest appearance in an episode of ''[[Alice]]''.
* [[Cryptid Episode]]: In one episode, [[The Greys]] are hiding in Hazzard County.
▲* [[Decided By One Vote]]
* [[Deep South]]: The show features an exaggerated depiction of the Deep South, filled to the brim with Civil War-obsessed moonshiners and yokels.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Daisy's specialty.
* [[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.
* [[
* [[Dramatic Curtain Toss]]: In the film.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Well, yeah.
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** Another example of this: when a rich asshole from Savannah with a stick the size of Texas up his ass tried to wrest custody of his grandson from the child's mother simply because she happened to grow up in backwater Hazzard, Boss was as pissed off as the Dukes.
** If the love of money is the root of all evil, Boss Hogg is more evil than Satan. But he is quite firm on his stance that he doesn't want anyone to be killed by his schemes. He has turned against some of his former associates when they tried to kill the Dukes. What he does, he does for greed. Not for evil.
** One episode spells it out plainly, where the Balladeer intones that while Boss is totally crooked he will NOT tolerate violence and will not get involved in any scheme where someone could get hurt. Boss is greedy for money, but will not have anyone physically hurt to get it.
** When Bo and Luke are mistaken for dead and Rosco thinks he's responsible, he takes it harder than anyone else, including Daisy and Jesse. He says that more than a few times, he's let them go on purpose and that mostly, he was just in it for the thrill of the car chase.
** James Best has described his portrayal of Rosco's mentality as "A big kid who likes car chases".
* [[Evil Minions]]: Boss Hogg has the entire Sheriff's office under his command. Of course, this consists of two men, both pretty incompetent. And Enos definitely isn't evil or corrupt. He's always in the dark about Boss' schemes
* [[Evil Twin]]: Inverted in Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg's good twin Abraham Lincoln Hogg, who drives a ''black'' Cadillac and [http://digilander.libero.it/italiandoh/picgallery/others/abelinchogg.jpg dresses] in [[Dark Is Not Evil|black]].
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: Also a [[Real Song Theme Tune]], performed by [[Waylon Jennings]].
▲* [[Farmers Daughter]]: Daisy Duke.
▲* [[Fat Sweaty Southerner in A White Suit]]: Boss Hogg.
* [[The Film of the Series]]
* [[Fixing the Game]]: The Duke boys once rig the roulette wheel of a traveling casino.
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** The entire show became this once it became popular with children. See [[Lighter and Softer]].
* [[Fruit Cart]]
* [[The Funday Pawpet Show]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcDG0P-17c MST3ked an episode of] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm1gr22xKKg "The Dukes"].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The name Cooter.
** In proper southern, "Cooter" means "turtle". I don't know what you're talking about.
*** Elsewhere, "cooter" is a slang term for "vagina
*** [[Don't Explain the
* [[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]]:
* [[Homage]]: Owes just as much to ''[[Smokey and
* [[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
** Except that Sheriff Little was probably the only officer of the
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Enos is considered by the Dukes, and pretty much all of Hazzard, to be the only 'real' law enforcement in Hazzard County. Despite his inherent innocence, Enos is very serious about being a good deputy and when the chips are down he can be counted on. He's good enough to have distinguished himself on the LAPD and was able to take down Frank Scanlon, a professional hitman, unarmed. And, if someone should ever threaten Daisy that will definitely hit his [[Berserk Button]] (
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: The 1998 film, ''[[Species]] 2'' has a non-video game example referencing this show. A clone being experimented on escapes from a government research laboratory, stealing a military humvee in the process. When asked how she learned how to drive, one of the scientists working on her explains that her favorite show is ''The Dukes of Hazzard
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco.
* [[Jiggle Show]]
* [[Jurisdiction Friction]]
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The first season of the show had a decidedly more adult tone, with references to sex, booze, etc. and more serious corruption from Boss and Rosco. When it was discovered that the show was becoming popular with children, the producers toned that stuff down and [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] the show and its characters into something more broadly comedic and harmless.
** The whole show can be seen as a Lighter And Softer version of the film ''Moonrunners''
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: With the exception of Daisy, most of the main characters wore the same outfits day in and day out, except for when the story called for something else:
** Bo wore a yellow button-down long-sleeved shirt (cuffs rolled up) over a blue T-shirt and jeans.
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** Boss Hogg was rarely seen without his white continental suit and cowboy hat.
** 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.
* [[Locked in
* [[Man in White]]: Boss Hogg.
* [[A Man Is Always Eager]]: Part of the reason Daisy is so good at using [[Distracted
* [[Meaningful Name]]: ''Jefferson Davis'' Hogg and his good twin, ''Abraham Lincoln'' Hogg.
** Let's not forget that Enos Strate (straight) was about the only non-crooked member of the police force.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Later in the series, the Sheriff's Office gets a K-9 unit which consists entirely of [[Ironic Name|Flash]], a Basset Hound whose main purpose is for Rosco to be a googly-eyed, sweet talking daddy to.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Bo and Luke, on ''both'' sides of the [[Fourth Wall]].
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Daisy. And a truly iconic example too - due to her, denim hot pants have been immortalized as "daisy dukes" even among people who've never watched the show.
* [[Mukokuseki]]: Parodied in [[The Movie]].
* [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]]: The show features two hunky guys as its main characters as well as a half-naked hot chick. The [[Deep South]] setting is constructed to appeals to Northerners and Southerners alike. The characters are all unapologetic about their way of life, including Confederate sympathies and illegal moonshining, but everything is taken to such cartoonish levels that Northerners can laugh at the silly rednecks. And once they realized that even kids were getting attracted to the car chase scenes, they worked themselves just a little softer to keep parents from complaining.
* [[Narrator]]: The "Balladeer" [[Waylon Jennings]].
* [[Nephewism]]
* [[Non-Fatal Explosions]]: The Dukes are always blowing things up, but, being the good guys, never hurt anyone.
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* [[Not a Scratch
* [[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
** Much rarer, but it has
** Even rarer, with Uncle Jesse ... although there have been instances where he was
* [[Permanent Elected Official]]: Boss Hogg.
* [[
▲* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: "Enos Strate to the Top"
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Cletus and (especially) Enos.
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'''Enos''': "What I do on my lunch hour is my own business. The rest of the day, my soul belongs to the law."
* [[Put
** Cletus also disappears without a trace in
** 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.
* [[Quip to Black]]: The narrator would regularly do this on an action sequence freeze-frame. (The Dukes jump a chicken house: "Looks like the boys have flown the coop." Cue [[Sting (music)|dramatic steel-guitar lick]].)
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Theme from the ''Dukes of Hazzard'' (Good Ol' Boys)" by [[Waylon Jennings]].
* [[Ret
* [[Reunion Show]]: Two reunion movies were made with the original cast.
* [[Robin Hood]]: Thematic elements, underlined by the Duke Boys' use of dynamite-laden hunting arrows as one of their preferred weapons.
** As shown above, it's even lampshaded in the theme song.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Sheriff Little.
* [[The Sheriff]]: Rosco P. Coltrane.
** Also Sheriff Little, of neighboring Chickasaw County.
** And for a while, Sheriff Grady Byrd.
* [[She's Got Legs]] Daisy. Part of her talent with using [[Distracted
* [[Sleazy Politician]]: Boss Hogg.
* [[Slo
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Boss Hogg regularly smokes cigars; he is the only character (aside from several extras in first-season episodes, and the rare
* [[Special Guest]]: Usually a country-music star who got caught in Boss's "celebrity speed trap" and dragooned into giving a free concert at the Boar's Nest in lieu of jail time.
** While [[Waylon Jennings]] appeared in one episode ("Welcome, Waylon Jennings" - he narrated as well), he did not get caught in the trap.
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* [[Stripperiffic]]: Daisy Duke, at least halfway.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Coy and Vance (for Bo and Luke), Cletus (for Enos), and occasionally B.B. (for Cooter).
* [[Sweet Home Alabama]]: While this version of the Deep South is replete with
* [[Take That]]: The movie, to almost every aspect of the show. Universally considered a slap in the face to fans of the show and the living actors.
** Ben Jones (
* [[
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Enos, in his spinoff show and the reunion movies. He's the head of the LA SWAT team.
** He threw [[The Dragon]] though the window in the first reunion movie.
** Implied somewhat in the series if [[The Power of Love|Daisy]] [[Berserk Button|was in trouble]].
* [[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.
▲* [[Wearing a Flag On Your Head]]
* [[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."
* [[Who Wears Short Shorts?]]: Daisy wears short Shorts. And even today, cut-off shorts are still called "daisy dukes
** 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
** 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). Ironically enough, cheeky shorts (daisy dukes that ''intentionally'' show off some cheek) are just as popular, if not moreso than the original full-booty version, so that wouldn't have been a problem whatsoever in any modern version.
* [[Written
▲* [[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.
** They tried. Resisting had been mentioned, but usually by the time they got to that point, the Dukes already had their ammo against Boss and Roscoe, so it tended to be forgotten.
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