If you were trapped on Mir. last spring, you might have missed Ellen DeGeneres’s coming out as a lesbian on her eponymous TV show. It got some people all in a lather–especially the religious right, I and most especially Jerry Falwell. The Moral Majority leader moaned on Larry King Live, “I don’t know why we cannot, like 15 years ago, have television contributing to the task of raising good, healthy, and well-adjusted children, rather than destroying that enterprise.”
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Uncle Jesse’s second cousins sell their dirt farm for $250,000 and pull up at the Duke dirt farm in a Rolls-Royce. Through an unlikely series of machinations, a suitcase full of money is mistakenly appropriated and must be chased by many cars that wreck a lot. A garbage truck dumps trash on a police car, Boss Hogg gets spray-painted, Luke and Bo stop the bad guys with explosive tipped arrows, and Catherine “Daisy Duke” Bach fulfills her contractual obligations by wearing nothing but short shorts, CFM heels, and tight V-neck T-shirts.
Catherine Bach, who probably supported the 80s bikini wax industry.
He tells Luke that he, uh, um, could never be, you know, comfortable in “that” lifestyle. Luke replies, “The ‘gay’ lifestyle, Steven, you don’t have to whisper it–they don’t stone us in the village square anymore.” From across the street, Claudia sees Steven meet Luke. Thinking it’s a tryst, she does the healthy thing, getting drunk with Steven’s brother Adam and asking him to sleep with her.
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FACT: On the high end, it cost 50 cents for a barrel of crude oil at that time.
