Also Coy’s and Vance’s. Makes you wonder why Jesse was the only sibling not in the car.
#insidejob
And as mentioned earlier, none of them were siblings. That never made sense to me even as a kid. Why aren’t Bo/Luke/Daisy, Coy/Vance simply two sets of siblings and cousins instead of five separate cousins? Were all ten parents in the same car?
Although, to be fair, the parents dying in a car crash only seems to apply to Bo and Luke, the whereabouts of the rest are simply unknown.
You slide over car hoods and jumped in open car windows didn’t you ? 
So did I. But an old white beat up Chevy Chevette ain’t the General Lee by any stretch of the imagination. And a VW bug is even worse.
It helps if you make the connection that the titular “sons” disappearing from Fred MacMurray’s California household correspond roughly in age to “Bo” and “Luke” (and later “Coy” and “Vance”). One imagines a regular stream of “cousins” being shipped to “Jesse’s farm” in a remote area of the California Inland Empire in the little known Hazzard County south of Indio (hence why mountains can often be seen in the background) after they’ve become too old to sell the high potency biker meth produced by “Uncle” Jesse in high schools across the greater Los Angeles area. “Bub” and “Uncle Charlie” are there to control distribution and keep them in line while the technically competent “aeronautical engineer” Steve Douglas oversaw the entire operation and perfected his process of creating a product with extremely high purity ad clarity which was dubbed “Moonshine” by the customers who couldn’t get enough of it.
The “Duke boys” made regular distribution runs which inept competitor “Boss” Hogg attempted to prevent by appointing as sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane (a not-to-distant cousin of First Mate Gilligan of the eponymous Pacific desert island) whose profound incompetence posed no genuine threat to this operation. The meth product–unseen in the show due to censorship of the day–was transported in the floorboards of the General Lee, while Jesse’s scratch farm served as cover to procure the various precursors and solvents needed to manufacture both the methamphetimines and the copious amount of explosives used by the Duke clan to battle their enemies, while the smell of fertilizer and pig shit covered the odor from manufacture.
And everything Douglas did, he did for his “family”.
Stranger
Weren’t they involved in highway reconstruction as well? (At least until the French revolutionaries catch up with them.)
Well that explains alot.
I used to have to haul water in the back of my dad’s pick up truck, and got a kick out of jumping in through the window because the platform I stood on while filling the tank was at the right level. I also wrecked the same pickup truck (without the water tank) around the same time by trying out the bootlegger’s turn from the show…it didn’t go right and I got in a loooottt of trouble.
I tried sliding over a car hood once and fell off. I’m such a klutz. :o
“Come on, safety pin, pop!”
I, of course, watched it for Flash.
RIP James Best (Roscoe). Dagnabbit, you will be missed.
They made money by being good ol’ boys. Isn’t that how everyone does it?
A General Lee moved in on the small farm at the end of my road last fall. Unfortunately, there’s no sign of a Daisy Duke yet.
Was this in any way connected with “Kate” and “Joe” who ran the Shady Rest Brothel, uhm, Hotel? :dubious:
I just watched the first episode. BTW Daisy, Luke, and Bo are all cousins. So their parents 6 adults would’ve been in the same car accident?? Uncle Jesse clearly states ‘the DUKE family made corn wiskey moonshine for 200 years . . . before there was a Federal government to say otherwise. And they paid taxes on the corn crop.’ Luke says Uncle Jesse will not take any government assistance - I think that means he doesn’t have SS?? BTW several years later due to contract renewal issues Bo & Luke are replaced by 2 more cousins.
Coy and Vance Duke are not to be spoken of.
Cousins Coy and Vance. So we have five people who are the children of five brothers. (I’m charitably assuming none of these Duke children is the child of an unmarried Duke sister.) Plus a sixth living brother, Jesse.
What the hell happened in the Duke family a generation ago that wiped out five brothers and their wives?
Well, they could have gotten into some bad 'shine…
Seriously, if Uncle Jesse is youngest, then his siblings might well have been at life expectancy at the time of the show, so with a few accidents and some other bad luck, he could be the last of his generation.
Can’t think of a good zombie joke, so I will respond to this:
According to Mad Magazine’s parody of the show, Boss Hogg owned the car dealership that supplied new cars for the Hazzard County sheriff’s department. Every time Roscoe or Enos wrecked a car chasing the Dukes, Boss Hogg cashed in.
100% worth the resurrection for this joke.