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So yesterday, about 5:30 PM, my longtime friend Walt texted me a Dukes question, in the following exchange:

W: Did Boss Hogg ever dress in drag?

ME: Not to my knowledge. But he did once play his own twin brother, Jefferson Davis Hogg, who dressed in black, and was as good and honest as Boss was crooked.

W: I recall that. I have someone else that remembered him in drag. At the least, I have a real Mandela Effect thing going on!

Tonight, I was screwing around on my phone, and decided to randomly do a search for “Boss Hogg in dress” and came across the following forum post at hazzard net.com:

Looks like Roger Duke put as much thought into his handle as I did.

So we had a third person…I had to dig deeper. I next searched for “Boss Hogg in drag,” which, along with not-as-many-as-I-would think drag queens, gave this result:

Bingo, visual confirmation.

What episode? This image only turned up a handful of times in a Google reverse image search, all on pinterest or the like, and the page there offered no help. Surprisingly “Boss and Rosco in a dress” brought it right up, where “Boss in a dress” did nothing.

The episode in question is “Targets: Daisy and Lulu,” the eighth episode of the sixth season, originally aired on Friday, November 18, 1983. Here’s a link to a promo for it

Plus, Dallas and Falcon Crest!

When I told him about my discovery, his response was:

W: Mixed emotions here. Vindicated, but I want a Mandela Effect experience.

ME: Covid breeds strange emotions.'

W: Quite.

Quite, indeed.

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