OT: James Best aka Rosco P. Coltrane has passed away.
For many thirty and forty somethings the Dukes of Hazzard was appointment television. Luke, Duke, Uncle Jesse and Daisy vs Rosco and Boss Hogg. Classic kid tv shows(although it didn't start out that way). Oh and the 69' Charger.
Rosco passed away yesterday.
Godspeed, Mr Best. Thank you for providing so many laughs to so many little brats. May you catch them Duke boys in heaven.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/07/entertainment/james-best-obit-dukes-hazzard-feat/
I thought his name was Roscoe Picotrane. Also, a little later in life my Parents bought a Bassett Hound puppy and I campaigned for his name to be Flash (my sister won, and he was named Crawford) That is all I have to share. RIP Mr. Best
everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.
Goodnight funny man.
Coo-coo-coo-hoo-hoo
May you find your place at rest amongst great lawmen of the South to include:
Sheriff Buford T Justice
The Bear (from BJ and The Bear)
I'm a gonna leave work today and just for grins in Ol' Rosco's honor, take the Old Miller Road back home instead of the interstate. Sure it's dirt, poorly marked, has trees within 2 feet of the driving surface, and the bridge hasn't been fixed in 15 years. Let's see if the Ford Focus can finally make that jump.
"Just a Good Ol' Boy... never meanin' no harm... someday the Mountain might get 'em but the Law never will"
Sheriff J.W. Pepper of the Louisiana State Poulice.
For you youngins, that was the Sheriff in the James Bond movies, "Live and Let Die." and "The man with the Golden Gun."
Wasn't "the Bear" the chimpanzee?
I watched for Daisy
EDIT: I mean the car. i watched for the car... (just in case my wife reads this)
car?
RIP James Best, but like others I also watched for Daisy Duke/Catherine Bach. I still remember in middle school I had a pinup poster of her next to my iconic Farrah Fawcett poster and Lydia Cornell ("Too Close for Comfort") poster (http://ilarge.listal.com/image/6740362/968full-lydia-cornell.jpg)!
Aside from Daisy I was partial to Erin Gray of Buck Rodgers (cool show for a boy that age!) and Silver Spoons.
It is amazing in a generation and a half how easy it is to get to "nekkid girls". Back then Catherine Bach and JCPenny catalog (bra section) was the best thing you had if you didnt have a dad or older brother who had access to a Playboy. Granted Daisy Duke was not naked but with those shorts - it was as close as possible for normal TV.
Kids these days... have it so easy.
You mentioned all the stars except the one with the most unfortunate nickname in primetime TV history, Cooter.
CONGRESSMAN Ben "Cooter" Jones to you, sir.
"Congressman Cooter". Only in America.
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that EDSBS doesn't have a front page memorium up by now. I mean Jeebus, Dukes of Hazard I'm pretty sure formed the ethical basis for 95% of their reader base (and bag men).
There was a Dukes commercial last night during the basketball game and I was telling my wife I couldn't believe he was a part of it. Him and Boss Hogg made 1PM on Channel 50 in Detroit must see TV during my summer vacations.
Am I the only one who thinks Roscoe P Coltrane lives on in the form of one Bill Raftery?
Hot Pursuit Boss!! ...... and Enos you dipstick..... ... are a couple of my favorite Rosco quotes. Gonna miss the Sheriff. RIP Rosco
Was my favorite. Mr. Best was also in two or three Twilight Zone episodes including "The Grave."
R.I.P. Mr. James Best.
Funny thing here too was they tried to tell us this was a small town in Georgia but the scenery is pure California.
and for decades they tried to tell us Korea was Cali too...
Stuff 'em and cuff 'em James
Thanks for the memories and good times! My brother and I were locked on this show every Friday night. We get up and go bike riding the next day, jumping homemade ramps made out of old wood doors and hard plastic coca cola bottle crates, jumping curbs, skidding in the driveway, tearing down dirt hills and acting all Dukes of Hazard. We'd do ChiPs too, by the way.
Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto of Squad 51 were called over to another Emergency! at the BayWolves household:
You know, that Boss Hogg character was played by an accomplished Shakespearean actor named Sorrell Booke with an undergrad from Columbia and an MFA from Yale.
Thus endeth my knowledge of odd Dukes of Hazzard trivia.
Roscoe P. Coltrane has to be my favorite bad-guy-you-secretly-rooted-for of all time.
Right there with, like, every character John Travolta played in the 90's.
Whatever happened to Rosco P. Coldchain? The rapper that was with Pharell about 10 years ago? Pusha T is still doing his thing. Is he in jail or something?
This was before most areas had cable TV and before ESPN. All we had in the 70s were sitcoms and the occasional Michigan football game that was broadcast on Saturday Afternoon.