Was it ever explained why Bo, Luke, and Daisy live with their uncle? What happened to Ma and Pa Duke?
Basset hound. Flash was actually a skilled attorney in real life. All it took was one look at those big brown eyes and juries caved right in.
Nowadays, they’d be in trouble with the law for driving a car named “General Lee” with a Stars & Bars on the roof and a horn that played “Dixie.” The Political Correctness Police would never stop chasing them!
Now, was Daisy their sister, or their cousin? I thought she was their cousin?
I have to say, I loved watching the E! True Hollywood Story on the show. The actors who played the Duke boys were very funny and-I think-better looking now than they were then.
Wow. I was missing most of this. I just sort of assumed that it was known that they were from a moonshining family, and as such the law had their eye on them from day one.
That and the fact that they kind of do whatever they want, regardless of the law, and then get in to high speed chases. For some reason cops seem to hate that.
LC
Thanks a lot, people. Now I have that theme song in my head.
“Straightenin’ the curves,
Flattenin’ the hills,
Someday the mountain might get 'em but the law never will.”
And now Bo Duke is Superman’s father…
They were all cousins–i.e. Bo and Luke were cousins, not brothers, and Daisy was another cousin and Vance and Coy were yet more cousins. There was even another cousin, Jeb Stuart Duke, who was in only one episode that I know of. Luke did have a brother, but I don’t remember his name. So, apparently Jesse Duke had many siblings, who were all either dead (along with their spouses) or never cared to visit their brother and children/nephews & niece.
As others have mentioned, the car doors were welded shut for strength and safety. What nobody has mentioned is that the “General Lee” was built as a dirt-track race car. That’s also why it was so fast. Amateur dirt-track racing is really big in most of the Deep South, and lots of peple build or buy their own cars to indulge in the sport on weekends.
Probably not. The meaning of the word “cousin” tends to not be so specific in small towns where many extended members of a clan live nearby. Any relatives who are your age and not a brother or a sister get stuck with the “cousin” label.
I still want to know what happened to their parents. Anyone have that info?
You must live in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, not the US Georgia. Here, in TN, in a wet county, I can make a phone call and have a jug of moonshine delivered to me in about an hour. Moonshine is redneck pot, if you will (at least in these parts).
Even with safe and legal booze widely available, some people still prefer moonshine.
Ha! More likely they would be elected to high state office in Georgia. 
I seem to recall something about Luke’s parents dying in a fire–I think it was at the hospital at Luke’s birth, and only he was saved. Later on, his brother (older, or a twin, even?) shows up, having been adopted out after everyone was thought dead. He actually is a NASCAR racer, and Luke almost goes with him to follow his dream of driving on the race-car circuit.
[Jeff Foxworthy]
If…
… you might be a redneck.
[/Jeff Foxworthy]
Dude, don’t even joke about that! I grew up in Ohio, and have found myself exiled here!
Oops-
His much younger WIFE. (Best remarried shortly after the show to a 20 something lady; his grown daughters from his first marriage appeared on the show, incidentally.)
I hope you get a second pair of lenses FREE if they don’t deliver on time.
Don’t think of it as “exiled.” Think of it as “embedded.”