In which the Dukes are actually not in the wrong at all! That’s refreshing…
After nearly three real-world minutes of Enos chasing the Dukes around, we open at the Hazzard bank, where Boss Hogg is counting out one million dollars in bills that have become too tattered so he can send them to be burned and exchanged with fresh bills by the Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve.
Boss then tells Rosco his plan, which is to have the armored car driven by his cousin, Cletus, to burn up in an accident while transporting the money, and that the money bag will be filled with old phone books instead of money. Again, he’s doing this out in the middle of the bank floor, instead of his office.
So, Cletus pulls off to the side of some back road and explodes the truck. Bo and Luke happen to be in the area and turn around to go see what’s up. They come upon Cletus, who claims that the truck just blew up, and that he was thrown clear of the blast. Bo and Luke believe him, even though he doesn’t have a scratch or scorch mark on him. He feebly protests as they put the fire out and retrieve the remains of the phone books. After Boss yells at Cletus, he resolves to frame the Dukes for the theft and collect the insurance money.
At the farm, the Dukes are in a tight spot, money-wise (aren’t they always?), and Bo says he and Luke will get some if they win the Hazzard Derby, but they need $5 to enter. Jesse goes to check the rainy day fund, and finds that it’s full of money! Daisy calls them all into her room, where there’s a ton of money just spread out on her bed. Did somebody (probably Bo) acquire a mysterious severed hand and make a wish with it?
So, they’re all celebrating when Rosco and Enos pull up, telling them that someone hijacked the armored truck, and making it super obvious that he planted the money. He goes to pour himself some coffee, and, surprise surprise, it’s full of money! Rosco arrests the boys, while I wonder how he got into the house and planted the money. Surely someone must have been home, and it’s only been a few hours since the truck incident.
A scuffle ensues, and the boys get away, despite Enos Hulking out and smashing his way through their back door in pursuit.
The boys make their way over to Cooter’s, where he’s painting a hearse for Boss, as he apparently runs moonshine in hearses up to Nashville. This is a brilliant move, as who’s gonna pull over a hearse? Nobody, that’s who. They hide when Rosco arrives, asking Cooter to hang up one of these sweet wanted posters of Bo and Luke.
The boys overhear Boss telling Rosco (via the CB radio) to meet him at “the place,” and decide to follow him, borrowing Cooter’s truck to do so, as the General Lee is too conspicuous. This may be true, but Cooter’s gotta be pretty well known. Wouldn’t Rosco wonder why Cooter was following him and get suspicious?
Anyway, they follow Rosco to the Hazzard County Coffin Works. For a rural backwater, Hazzard seems to have just about everything: a bank, an armored car company, and a coffin works. What’s next, a regional outpost of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
They see Boss meet Rosco and take a money bag filled with something inside, and sneak in after them, climbing up to the roof, Batman-style!
They peek in a hole in the roof, where Boss reveals that he’s going to bury the ratty million dollars in a coffin under the name Don McDougall, to collect an additional insurance premium, and then dig it up when everything blows over. I bet the Federal Reserve would log the serial numbers of the bills, so when he spent the money, he'd get busted, but it’s just a TV show, I should really just relax. Anyway, Bo and Luke take off.
Back at the farm, Jesse yells at them for coming back there, as that’s the first place the cops and federal agents will look. Luke explains that he has a plan, and tells Jesse to have any federal agents that might come calling meet Bo and Luke in the town square, where they’ll get their money back.
Bo and Luke go to the Coffin Works in a hearse, while Daisy, driving the General Lee and wearing a helmet that says “Bo Duke” on it, distracts Rosco and Co. into chasing her, thinking it’s Bo.
While they’re chasing her, Bo and Luke tell the guard they’re new guys, here to make a run to Atlanta. He believes them until he checks his paperwork, and there IS no run to Atlanta today! The boys respond by locking the poor guy into a coffin and grabbing the money.
They get to the meeting place with the bonding agents, only to find that they grabbed a coffin full of moonshine instead of the money! Uh oh!
The agents are suspicious, especially when the boys speed off, so they follow, eventually leading them back to the coffin works, where Boss is getting ready to bury the coffin full of money. He conducts the fake eulogy for McDougall, slipping sly references to the coffin being full of money. The coroner pipes up and says this person’s named McDonald, and that McDougall is being cremated right that instant.
Boss freaks out and runs inside to try and stop it. The bond agents, having recently arrived, follow Bo and Luke in after Boss. Bo shows them the money in the coffin, and while Boss is trying to explain, the money gets burned up.
After nearly three real-world minutes of Enos chasing the Dukes around, we open at the Hazzard bank, where Boss Hogg is counting out one million dollars in bills that have become too tattered so he can send them to be burned and exchanged with fresh bills by the Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve.
At the farm, the Dukes are in a tight spot, money-wise (aren’t they always?), and Bo says he and Luke will get some if they win the Hazzard Derby, but they need $5 to enter. Jesse goes to check the rainy day fund, and finds that it’s full of money! Daisy calls them all into her room, where there’s a ton of money just spread out on her bed. Did somebody (probably Bo) acquire a mysterious severed hand and make a wish with it?
The boys make their way over to Cooter’s, where he’s painting a hearse for Boss, as he apparently runs moonshine in hearses up to Nashville. This is a brilliant move, as who’s gonna pull over a hearse? Nobody, that’s who. They hide when Rosco arrives, asking Cooter to hang up one of these sweet wanted posters of Bo and Luke.
Anyway, they follow Rosco to the Hazzard County Coffin Works. For a rural backwater, Hazzard seems to have just about everything: a bank, an armored car company, and a coffin works. What’s next, a regional outpost of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
Back at the farm, Jesse yells at them for coming back there, as that’s the first place the cops and federal agents will look. Luke explains that he has a plan, and tells Jesse to have any federal agents that might come calling meet Bo and Luke in the town square, where they’ll get their money back.
Bo and Luke go to the Coffin Works in a hearse, while Daisy, driving the General Lee and wearing a helmet that says “Bo Duke” on it, distracts Rosco and Co. into chasing her, thinking it’s Bo.
While they’re chasing her, Bo and Luke tell the guard they’re new guys, here to make a run to Atlanta. He believes them until he checks his paperwork, and there IS no run to Atlanta today! The boys respond by locking the poor guy into a coffin and grabbing the money.
They get to the meeting place with the bonding agents, only to find that they grabbed a coffin full of moonshine instead of the money! Uh oh!
The agents are suspicious, especially when the boys speed off, so they follow, eventually leading them back to the coffin works, where Boss is getting ready to bury the coffin full of money. He conducts the fake eulogy for McDougall, slipping sly references to the coffin being full of money. The coroner pipes up and says this person’s named McDonald, and that McDougall is being cremated right that instant.
Boss freaks out and runs inside to try and stop it. The bond agents, having recently arrived, follow Bo and Luke in after Boss. Bo shows them the money in the coffin, and while Boss is trying to explain, the money gets burned up.
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