K&F Show #380: General Lee vs. The Slammer! // Dukes Review S2E8 “Hazzard Connection”
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Welcome back to Hazzard County! This week we’re reviewing The Dukes of Hazzard Season 2, Episode 8, “Hazzard Connection,” and this one is exactly why I love Season 2. Real driving, hard hits, wonderfully sloppy production details, and a plot where stolen racing engines are apparently the criminal currency of choice. What more could you want?
Bo and Luke need to make some money, so they take jobs hauling wrecked cars for demolition derby operator Augie Detweiler. Unfortunately, those cars are carrying stolen racing engines. Boss and Rosco are already watching the operation, and the Duke boys have landed themselves right in the middle of it. Clearing their names means getting closer to Augie—and risking the General Lee against his supposedly unbeatable derby car, the Slammer!
Then there’s Tom Wopat climbing around a moving semi-trailer. That’s actually him out there! Luke also backs the Slammer off the moving trailer, years before Knight Rider made that sort of thing a regular attraction. We couldn’t help making the connection, especially with Jack Gill’s involvement in both shows.
Daisy’s Plymouth takes a genuinely painful hit from Rosco’s patrol car, a Camaro makes a fantastic jump, and Bo and Luke drive a Mustang into a pond after its brakes fail. Naturally, they drive it home afterward. Apparently, pond water fixes brakes in Hazzard County!
Corndog brings the details we love: cars reused from earlier episodes, familiar California filming locations, painted-over ’68 Charger side markers, and a General Lee with an unfinished blue interior. There’s also a cigarette pack sitting right on the dashboard during the stakeout. And when Luke is supposed to be driving the Slammer, one close-up puts him inside the General instead. Perfectly imperfect.
Before the review, we catch up on my Volkswagen tinkering, Corndog’s preparations for Cruisin’ the Coast, Cody Young’s work with Avenge Industries, and what makes a great automotive television show. Bernie brings the weather and news, we play October Automotive Celebrity Birthday Trivia, and Holley’s Dominator carburetor gives us a fitting lead-in to all those stolen race engines.
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