Ben Jones, the actor/congressman/souvenir vendor who played Cooter on the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard says that the upcoming Dukes of Hazzard feature film is a “sleazy insult” that “trashed” the original “family-friendly” show with profanity and sexual innuendo.
So let’s get this straight: A TV show whose two heroes are jobless, retro-confederate cousins who drive around recklessly all day, evading police and shooting dynamite-tipped arrows, pausing usually only to stop at their favorite bar, is “family-friendly.”
Those same people flirting, winking and saying ‘sh*t’ a few times is sleazy.
So declares a man famous for playing a character whose name is slang for female genitalia.
Gotta love them family values.
On to the next thing . . .
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