I watched the second half of an episode of the Dukes of Hazzard the other day. It was great, by which I mean it was essentially a 30 minute chase scene that was so ridiculous it bordered on sheer genius.
Now, I’ll readily admit that I couldn’t sit down and watch multiple episodes of that show without rolling my eyes at the cheesiness of the whole thing, but in half-hour chunks it’s priceless.
There was a loose plot about a mob syndicate or some nonsense like that, but the plot really didn’t matter. The only point of it was to create opportunities for chase scenes.
This show isn’t about character development, that’s for sure. Here are several things that happened in the last thirty minutes:
The General Lee jumped a creek. Daisy wooed some bad guys, who became so week-kneed that they couldn’t defend themselves when Cooter ran out of the bushes and bonked them on the head with a two-by-four. Uncle Jesse cackled like an insane scientist and cruised around randomly in his beater truck. Rosco crashed his police cruiser into another police cruiser, causing his door to fall off. He also made a bunch of unintelligible noises that sounded something like, “gue, gue, gue.” There was a fantastic chase involving the Dukes, the bad guys, and Boss and Rosco, which went around and around in circles through town, and which made absolutely no sense, but was still utterly fantastic. Also, the bad guys got caught in a net at the end.
How could this all be made better? Easy! It was all accompanied by classic Duke Boys chase music, made up mostly of frenetic banjo, fiddle, and steel guitar.
Seriously, they don’t make shows like that anymore. Here’s a clip I found of the circle chase.
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