Posts with tag Dukes of Hazzard
Posted May 14th 2008 11:04AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Television has often been a benchmark of current popular culture. Whether it's clothes, cars or furniture, people have always looked to TV to help them decide how to look and how to live. Here are ten great examples of how TV characters have "helped" us look our best.
Daisy Duke's Daisy Dukes (The Dukes of Hazzard)
No one knew it at the time, but when Catherine Bach slipped on those ultra-short denims, she was making an impression on more than the teenage boys who were watching. Years later, a brand new and very different generation embraced the Daisy Dukes, much to the delight of those teenage boys who were now old enough to know better.
Continue reading Ten great fashion statements on TV
Posted Nov 26th 2007 12:04PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd
Well, apparently someone expects The Dukes of Hazzard to return to TV. On Everything2.com, someone has written how to write a Dukes of Hazzard episode. The author goes over all the perceived formulas and cliches found in the run of the series.
Admittedly, given the popularity of southern culture, a Dukes of Hazzard return isn't outside the realm of possibility, merely outside the realm of probability. I think it was written more for a laugh than anything. I would give more credence to the post if the author actually wrote one or more of the episodes, but this doesn't appear to be the case.
Continue reading How to write a Dukes of Hazzard episode
Posted May 18th 2007 2:18PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Web, Celebrities
Adam mentioned last week that the person who put it the $10 million winning bid for the General Lee car on eBay didn't pay up. In fact, it now looks like that someone's eBay account was hacked and he wasn't even the one doing the bidding, it was someone else.
But now the car is for sale again on eBay, only this time you have to go through a strict qualification process before you can even bid on the car. No more phonies.
I don't really get this whole story. The car being auctioned, owned by former star John Schneider, wasn't even used on the show! Which is interesting, because they used over 300 different General Lees on the show. It's just an extra one. Sure, it's signed by the cast, but is that really worth $10 million (or even $5 million or $1 million)?
Posted May 10th 2007 2:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Web, Celebrities
Remember when the General Lee (or one of many versions) went up for auction on eBay recently and someone finally won the auction with a bid of $9,900,500?
Well, the person who made that bid, one William Fisher, has disappeared, along with the alleged $9,900,500 he was supposedly going to pay for the 1969 Dodge Charger owned by actor John Schneider (Bo Duke). The car itself was never used on the original series, but it did appear in the TV movie Dukes Go to Hollywood.
Continue reading eBay bidder fails to pay for General Lee
Posted May 5th 2007 6:08PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
The General Lee broke a sales record on eBay this week. Actor John Schneider, who played Bo Duke on
The Dukes of Hazzard, put up his version of the General Lee and it sold for $9,900,500. If the bidder actually pays the money, it'll be the biggest ticket item ever sold on eBay. Schneider says he's stunned, because he only expected $3 million at the most for the car. He says he'll use the extra cash for a vacation and to fund a sequel to a movie he recently made.
As
I mentioned earlier this week, the 1969 Dodge Charger that Schneider put up for sale was not featured in the television show, but it did make an appearance in the movie
Dukes Go To Hollywood. It has signatures from all the original cast members and it actually drives! Schneider has taken it to charity events and even raced it.
What memorabilia would you pay $10 million for?
Posted May 2nd 2007 1:10PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
John Schneider appears to still be a fan of his old claim to fame,
The Dukes of Hazzard, on which he played Bo Duke. He has his own
"Hazzard County Store" on eBay and has put up the mother of all
Dukes memorabilia for auction: It's the General Lee. The real one... well, one of the real ones. There are quite a few out there.
Schneider's ad explains that the 1969 Dodge Charger appeared in the
Dukes movie, not the television show. He has had it for the last ten years. Photos on the advertisement show Schneider brought it to a lot of charity events, but he also has apparently driven it in races! It also has autographs of all the living cast members of
The Dukes of Hazzard. And he says that it recently won a race against the
Starsky & Hutch car and the Batmobile.
The current bid for the car is $2 million, which is a hell of a lot, but at least you get to drive it!
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Posted Apr 4th 2007 6:22PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries
A Christmas Story is right up there with A Charlie Brown Christmas, Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town, and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer as a TV staple every holiday season. TNT even devotes an entire day to showing the movie over and over again.
Bob Clark, the director of the movie, was killed earlier this morning in a car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in California. Also killed in the crash was his 22 year-old son. Their car was hit head-on by a man that police have arrested for drunk driving.
Continue reading A Christmas Story director killed in car crash
Posted Apr 4th 2007 11:02AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, Family Guy, Veronica Mars, Supernatural, How I Met Your Mother, The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Star Trek: The Next Generation, TV Squad Lists
Welcome to TV Squad Lists (formerly 'The Five'), a feature where each blogger has a chance to list his or her own rundown of things in television that stand out from the rest, both good and bad.
Ah, the friendly neighborhood drinking hole. In one way or another, they're there to give you that much needed morning/evening buzz before/after work or school. In what order you visit them is up to you. We've seen our fair share of these booze and caffeine shoppes on TV throughout the years, and here's my pick for the top 18 -- why settle for just ten?
1) Cheers (
Cheers) -- Let's get right down to it and start with the obvious number one choice before we move on. I'm not going to insult you with dragging you on to the end to see what is very obviously the most famous of all TV bars. And since I'm from the area, I have no business
not making this number one.
Continue reading The 18 greatest TV drinkeries
Posted Mar 20th 2007 8:02AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Music and Variety, Celebrities
If you had plans to see Tom Wolpat and John Schneider of the Dukes of Hazzard perform with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, you'll have to wait. The performance, which was supposed to be based on the Dukes of Hazzard, was canceled when several people complained about the series' racist content.
Continue reading Dukes of Hazzard concert stopped over protests
Posted Sep 1st 2006 8:34AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Watercooler Talk
JoBlo, a website that respects
Fight Club as much as I do, has a great list of the Top 10 movies based on television shows. For the most part, I agree with it. Except there is one major oversight: What about The Muppets?
The Muppet Movie didn't make the list and, quite frankly, I'm baffled. I think it should totally replace
The Naked Gun, which weighs in at #4. What-ever. The rest of the list looks good, however. It includes everything from last year's
Serenity to
Wayne's World to
The Untouchables.
I'm going to list his Top 10 after the jump, but I highly recommend you
go on over and read it and then come back and tell me if you think they forgot something. If you say
Dukes of Hazzard or
Starsky & Hutch... so help me... I'll reach through your computer and slap you!
Continue reading Top 10 movies based on TV shows
Posted May 11th 2006 3:28PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Talent, Industry, TV on the Bigscreen, Celebrities
After the release of
Dukes of Hazzard and the big-screen adaptations of
Dallas and
Miami Vice already in the works, perhaps you started thinking to yourself, "They should make
Knight Rider a full-length feature." If so, you should probably start watching some television that isn't pushing 20 years. But still, you're in luck 'cause the Weinsteins have
picked it up for some sweet ex-cop/talking Trans-Am action. Unfortunately for David Hasselhoff fans, this is yet another no-show (he's not included in the upcoming
Baywatch movie either). As long as they bring
Mr. Feeny back to voice KITT, I'll keep my protesting to a minimum.
Posted Mar 17th 2006 9:01PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: News, Celebrities
Well, looks like Luke Duke, otherwise
known to you cityfolk as actor Tom Wopat, has got himself into a heaping hunk of trouble, and there ain't no Bo or
Daisy Duke to help him out of this pig slop.
Turns out Mr. Wopat, who played the dashing Luke Duke on The
Dukes of Hazzard from 1979-1985, faces a charge of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) from the fine police of
Ringwood, New Jersey. Seems that Tom was pulled from his Ford Bronco Wednesday night (the General Lee was in the shop;
too many jumps over the ravine) after hitting some orange traffic cones and nearly slamming into a Ringwood police car.
He was charged with the DWI, and one count of reckless driving, then released into the custody of his
girlfriend.
Uncle Jesse, Luke could sure use some of that southern-fried advice right about
now.
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