Never Meanin' No Harm

I've been a Dukes of Hazzard fan since I was thirteen. I was off on summer vacation and my cousin told me about this old show that TNN was running, and, looking up to him as I did, I checked it out. It was unfortunately when the station was running some of the early Coy and Vance episodes (we'll get to that later), but I more or less liked what I saw. It had everything a  teenage boy could want: cool car chases, broad slapstick, and a girl in skimpy shorts. I was hooked.

This is all your fault.

Over the next five years, I ate up everything Dukes related, scouring the nascent Internet for any and all information I could find about the cast, the characters, but especially the car. You know the one, the 1969 Dodge Charger known as the General Lee.

Still my dream car.

I even went through a period of months where I carried a printed out photo of Daisy Duke in my wallet, which, fifteen years out, is super sad and dorky.

It was this photo. I never said I was cool.

 This continued through high school, even leading me to take some classes I never would have normally, like Auto Shop. I was going to own that car one  day, and I needed to know how to work on the thing.

Things cooled for me when, through a series of events, I was told that I could not get a driver's license, and would likely never be able to get one (fourteen years and counting since then).

No soup for you!

Anyhow, I moved on to other things, but the show never truly left my radar. I was super excited to meet Catherine Bach in 2005, and John Schneider in 2009. But I haven't watched the show in a very long time, which leads me to where we are now. Inspired by the great things being done over at Full House Reviewed, I decided to rewatch the show starting from the very beginning to see if it holds up. Hopefully someone will read along as I find out.