Do a lot of people in your state like the Dukes of Hazzard?

[bluestateguy]

Forgive me for asking, but is the Dukes of Hazzard a big thing in Georgia?

I am a Californian, and when I was a kid I never missed them Duke boys every week.

[Cocoa]

1. in Georgia it's considered a documentary

it's on PBS.

[Moochy]

2. rofl

[Mythsaje]

3. The Dukes,

fighting local government corruption and bending the rules every week?

What's not to like?

Okay, the show was hokey, but I was just a youngster back then...what did I know?

[tedoll78]

4. In Louisiana,

it was the one other hour beside church where you knew where you'd be that week.

I was young.. I didn't know any better.

(then again, Sean William Scott is quite gorgeous.. :P)

[Glorfindel]

5. I'm a Georgian, and I LOVED the Dukes...especially Bo *gasp!*

but all the characters were great. I've actually known people like every one of them. Even "Flash," the wonder dog....

:beer:

[Glorfindel]

6. By the way, I think it was filmed in California

Those dusty mountains in the background are nothing like Georgia's lush green countryside.

[mojavekid]

7. It was filmed in my "Back Yard",

at Lake Sherwood, Ca. in the Santa Monica Mountains. We had the run of the place at night stealing the patrol cars and such!

[Glorfindel]

8. Lucky, lucky...

that's the coolest thing I ever heard!

[kevinam]

10. The TV show, or the Movie...

I think the tv show was filmed in Covington, GA. I live in Covington, and they take great pride in it. :)

Kevin.

[bluestateguy]

15. First season was filmed in Covington

Then they moved it to LA. It was a midseason replacement in 1979 and it was not assumed that it would be a hit. If you take careful notice you'll see that the sets look a little different in the first season.

[RubyDuby in GA]

18. My childhood home was about a mile away from the Boar's Nest

You wouldn't be able to pick out any locations now in Covington (where I grew up and still live).

I'll take the Dukes of Hazzard anyday over that other godawful piece of crap filmed in Covington - the TV show In the Heat of the Night. And I don't care what any of you say, Carroll O'Connor was an ass!

[RubyDuby in GA]

19. Amen to that

You can't read the Covington 'Right Wing Rag' News without seeing a picture or hearing about how someone got close enough to ....blah blah blah.

I loved the show while I was growing up and actually saw a couple of episodes that some channel has been playing lately. Loved it then, love it for it's cheese now. :)

[CottonBear]

9. No more or less than anyone else.

Of course, all real Southerners knew that the landscape and sets look absolutely nothing like the Southeastern US. It was so obvious it was filmed in CA using actors with mostly fake accents.

[MsTryska]

16. speakinbg of landscape.....

do y'all know where Deliverance was filmed?

parts of it look like our rivers, but i'm not sure.

[tenshi816]

17. Deliverance was filmed in north Georgia

around Clayton, on the Chatooga River. They also used some of the places around Tallulah Gorge too (it was the Gorge that Jon Voight climed up out of in the movie).

Damn, now I'm homesick again! As awful and redneck as it can be sometimes, it sure is a pretty part of the world, isn't it? For some reason my two boys just love that little store with the viewing platform at Tallulah Gorge.

A few years back, we did a day's walking at Tallulah Gorge State Park and it was a great day out. I like it when my half-English sons get to see the beautiful parts of the state where their mother grew up. The Jane Hurt Yarn Interpretive Center is especially well worth a visit, but the entire place is gorgeous.

[MsTryska]

20. That makes sense...

I've never been to Tallulah Gorge - My favorite spot is Cloudland Canyon.

I'll have to make it to Tallulah one of these days...maybe once the dog days are over and things cool a little bit.

[kevinam]

11. It's International...

My girlfriend grew up in England, and she says she watched it all the time. Fairly shocking, and scary. I bet the Dukes do more for our image than Bush* does.

Kevin.

[RebelOne]

12. I have never cared for it.

Maybe it's because I'm a transplanted Floridian.

[bunkerbuster1]

13. I thought it was retarded. but I lived in another state at the time.

who knows, if I grew up in GA (I live here, now) maybe I'd take some (gag) pride in it.

[tenshi816]

14. I hated it.

They reminded me too much of some of my relatives, except the accents were crap and any girl who went around dressed like Daisy Duke would get a whupping from her mama (although that was then and this is now and for all I know country girls really do go around dressed like that).

I remember once my stepbrother got drunk and decided he wanted a convertible, so he took a chainsaw and cut the top off of his car. That struck me as a particularly "Dukes of Hazzard" thing to do.

[BooScout]

21. I always thought it was embarassing.......

....and painted a totally inaccurate picture of the South. I hated then and now.

My husband on the other hand.......who is British.....loves the stupid thing. :eyes: