# No Need to Suffer Through the New Dukes of Hazzard Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172 "2005-06-21T06:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/41 "2005-06-22T01:23:04Z")
Am I safe in assuming that no-one’s gonna be asking Jessica anytime soon for her opinions on solving Third World Debt? Look, I love beautiful women. But I much prefer a beautiful INTELLIGENT woman who has such a wonderful, inventive sense of humour that she doesn’t need to objectify herself to be successful. I married one of the latter. But in my earlier years I dated plenty of the former. ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/42 "2005-06-25T05:56:35Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Saw her video the other morning. It opens with her driving up to the camera in the General Lee, opening the door and getting out. > Read that again, I’ll wait. > Clearly, the people responsible for this video never actually watched the show. :rolleyes: My two cents, it’s a major accomplishment that the Dukes 2005 are driving a 1970 Charger and not a brand new edition 2005 Charger in a bit of movie tie-in-advertising-synergy (take a moment, form a mental image of an orange four door sailing over a creek). I just want to see the old Lead Slead '70 Charger flying through the sky. Everything else (including Jessica’s dwarfishly stunted legs) is icing on the cake. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/43 "2005-06-25T07:15:20Z")
Oh, I just saw the preview for the film tonight, and Lynda Carter’s in the film, which I found surprising. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/44 "2005-06-26T03:39:39Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Oh, I just saw the preview for the film tonight, and Lynda Carter’s in the film, which I found surprising. Chandrasekhar had cast her in _Super Troopers_ (as the governor of Vermont), so its not _that_ much of a stretch. According to the _ST_ DVD commentary, they really wanted a 1970s female icon in that role, so they’d planned to ask Carter and when she turned them down, they’d ask the Bionic Woman (Lyndsey Wagner) and when _she_ turned them down, they’d ask the original Charlie’s Angels etc. Carter greatly surprised them when she accepted, saying she _never_ got offered roles like that. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/45 "2005-06-26T03:48:04Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > Great, then Jessica Simpson may end up the next Mamma Cass. . . . who did [not](http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mamacass.htm) die from choking on a ham sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/46 "2005-06-26T03:58:10Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Chandrasekhar had cast her in _Super Troopers_ (as the governor of Vermont), so its not _that_ much of a stretch. > > According to the _ST_ DVD commentary, they really wanted a 1970s female icon in that role, so they’d planned to ask Carter and when she turned them down, they’d ask the Bionic Woman (Lyndsey Wagner) and when _she_ turned them down, they’d ask the original Charlie’s Angels etc. Carter greatly surprised them when she accepted, saying she _never_ got offered roles like that. What I meant is that Lynda’s career pretty much tanked in the late 70s, and she’s had trouble finding work for years now (part of the problem is supposedly that she has/had a drinking problem). She’s also in a new Disney movie [_Sky High_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0405325/). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/47 "2005-06-26T04:01:12Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > What I meant is that Lynda’s career pretty much tanked in the late 70s Hey, not kick out bed eating crackers, man. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/48 "2005-06-26T04:05:50Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Hey, not kick out bed eating crackers, man. Oh, I think she’s freakin’ hot and has held up better than most of the sex symbols of that era. I went to high school with a gal who looked almost exactly like her (smaller boobs). I never got to date her, either. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/49 "2005-06-27T17:29:37Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Are you saying meow? The Schnozberries tastes like Schnozberries! ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/50 "2005-06-27T18:03:55Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > 😕 > > What’s a “butterface”? Just in case anybody else didn’t figure it out from **Big Bad Voodoo Lou** post: From [urbandictionary.com](http://urbandictionary.com): Butterface Chick with a hell of a nice body, but the face is ugly. _She looked real good… but her face (butterface)_ ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/51 "2005-06-27T22:53:46Z")
Thanks **Archergal**. I hadn’t gotten it either. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/52 "2005-06-27T23:03:58Z")
If it hasn’t already been posted, the video can be seen [here](http://collegehumor.com/?movie_id=160573). ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172/53 "2005-07-20T16:40:31Z")
Update: [Original Cooter boycotts the new ‘Hazzard’](http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8573374/). Actor Ben Jones says it’s a mockery because it’s not “family friendly”. Funny, of all the things wrong with this movie, I hadn’t heard _that_ one. Specifically, he says that "to take a classic family show and do that is like taking ‘I Love Lucy’ and making her a crackhead or something.” He says that as if it were a bad thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-need-to-suffer-through-the-new-dukes-of-hazzard-movie/309172.md?page=2)