The Dukes - A Dickens of a Christmas

I don't think I have ever watched this cartoon before now.

I haven't really watched a lot of Dukes of Hazzard in my life, but we were living in a monoculture, so it was just inescapable for a time.

100%.

I'm like you, Mike.

The Dukes of Hazzard, let's call that the...

the mothership show.

Sure.

Yes.

That one I was aware of and I watched like I watched, but I wasn't like a loyalist by any stretch.

Right.

I was aware that there was a cartoon of the Dukes, but I've never seen an episode until now, until you dragged me kicking and screaming into watching this.

Yeah.

I was also aware of the TV show, and I did see it occasionally, but it wasn't part of my routine.

If I happened to be home, I think it was on Fridays, maybe, I might have caught it, but I didn't care very much.

And then later, there was the whole Coy and Vance debacle, and...

I was glad I wasn't part of that.

I didn't realize until we started talking about doing an episode on this cartoon that the first season of this cartoon was Coy and Vance, not Bo and Luke.

Yeah, that was in the middle of all of this.

We'll kind of get into that in a bit.

Yeah.

I think I found out about this episode on a big list of Christmas Carol adaptations and I put it on my to do list.

And then I couldn't find the thing anywhere till very recently.

I decided, OK, let's watch it.

What I do know about the Duke Saturday morning cartoon was that normally it was almost like wacky races where they're racing around the world for some prize money that will keep the family farm afloat.

This was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that ran on Saturday mornings, overlapping the original show's fifth and sixth season.