> And yeah, the opening credits show them both
>taking aim at something and then letting fly--then
>there's a cut to the exploding outhouse. The
>implication is, of course, that they somehow blew
>up the outhouse with their arrows, but how that
>happened is still a mystery to me.

Here's a new interesting bit of info. I bought the Dukes Season 1 boxed set recently, and watched the first episode. It's amazing how much the show changed. It was slightly more realistic originally, and the Dukes were portrayed much more as outlaws rather than Robin Hood types (Roscoe and Boss Hogg are still corrupt, but the Dukes aren't as goody-goody as they came to be later in the series--the first episode has them messing with Roscoe and Boss' scheme mostly just out of spite, not out of any sense of doing right. It's only later in the episode that they figure out a way to "do good" while at the same time messing with "the system"). Cooter really *was* crazy originally, and the show was originally shot on location in Georgia rather than the Warner backlot, so there were more locations they could shoot at other than the standard five of the later shows (Duke farm, Boar's Nest, Sheriff's office, Hazzard downtown, and the "backroads"). They also played more to stereotypes of southern "good old boys" originally. Two lines that stick out as lines that never would have been in the show later in its run are Bo telling Luke (while talking about the local orphanage) "One or two of those kids in there are probably yours!" and this exchange between Bo and Daisy at the Boar's Nest:

Bo: "If you weren't my cousin, I'd marry you."
Daisy: "That's never stopped anybody in this family before!"

But the one difference that I noticed right away was the opening credits. They were almost identical to the ones in the later season that CMT is currently airing, EXCEPT for the exploding outhouse part. That was missing. Instead, the boys take aim, shoot, and hit car tires instead. Seemed weird.

-- Dave