The Dukes of Hazzard: Difference between revisions

** 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 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]].

* [[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.

* [[Homage]]: Owes just as much to ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'' as it does to ''Moonrunners''.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Nephewism]]

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

** 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.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Theme from the ''Dukes of Hazzard'' (Good Ol' Boys)" by [[Waylon Jennings]].

* [[Ret-Gone]] and [[Unperson]]: Combined for Coy and Vance, the Season 5 replacements for Bo and Luke (when John Schneider and Tom Wopat walked after a dispute with the producers). Prior to the fall 1982 season opener, there was ''never'' any indication that Coy and Vance existed ... and when Bo and Luke returned, there was never any mention (or so much as an acknowledgment) of them afterward.

* [[Sweet Home Alabama]]: While this version of the Deep South is replete with caricatured characters, the heroes are proud Southerners and their values and way of life are portrayed positively.

* [[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.

* [[Tights Under Shorts]]: A very notorious, if subtle, example with Daisy Duke in the TV incarnation due to issues with the network censors.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Enos, in his spinoff show and the reunion movies. He's the head of the LA SWAT team.

* [[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).