Back in the 1980s, me and my friends loved Friday night TV shows. They were great.
CBS and ABC would dedicate their Friday night primetime lineup to teens and preteens, albeit without too much originality: for a while, rich white people adopting adorable black kids was inexplicably popular (I was a “Webster” guy more than a “Diff’rent Strokes” guy). After that, stories about cool cars took over. (“Knight Rider” and “Dukes of Hazard” were my favorites.)
I still want a black Trans Am with a little red light that goes back and forth.
But because these shows were geared for kids, the writing got VERY lazy. I think there was an episode of “Dukes” where Bo and Luke Duke were suspected of transporting moonshine: Boss Hogg (the bad guy) was chasing them through hairpin turns, dirt roads, and crazy off-road jumps, and when they finally cornered the Duke boys and opened the trunk… all those moonshine bottles were broken.
“Ain’t no law against transporting broken bottles, Boss Hogg. We gotta let ‘em go.” […]
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