Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Catherine Bach, CBS, Daisy Duke, General Lee, Good Times, The Dukes of Hazzard, Viacom
"Daisey Duke"
No, Mo’Kelly never cared for the show The Dukes of Hazzard…a confederate flag-draped car was galavanting around the South on CBS (Mo’Kelly’s least favorite network) was never all that enticing. To adequately explain the disdain for the show, one has to put it in its proper historical context.
The car was named the “General Lee”…after the CONFEDERATE general Robert E. Lee.
That’s almost…almost like naming a car Adolf Hitler and placing a swastika on its roof.
The show debuted in 1979, also which happened to be the last season of Good Times the “landmark” Black sitcom featuring an African-American family of five in the Cabrini-Green projects who barely had a pot to piss in or a window in which to throw it out.
CBS went from Good Times…to The Dukes of Hazzard. Yes, ethnic diversity and progress at their best. And even in 2009 you can’t find a Black TV show anywhere NEAR the network or any of its Viacom relatives. And the network has the dirty nerve to wonder why it fares so poorly among African-Americans. Note, The Dukes of Hazzard hung around until 1985 and even had a bad movie remake made in recent years.
But Mo’Kelly digresses.
To this day, people are amazed when Mo’Kelly has to “explain” why he was never a Dukes of Hazzard fan.
General Lee toy
Idiots.
Anyhow. One (check that…the ONLY) “pleasing” aspect to the show was Catherine Bach, “Daisy Duke”…and namesake of the eventual jean short shorts craze that would follow her decades later. The character name became an eventual pop culture icon…ironically in hip-hop culture specifically.
See below…
With all that as a precursor…found this recently posted picture of “Daisy
Catherine Bach '09
Duke” (Catherine Bach) in 2009.
Let’s just say her “Daisy Duke” days are over… Yes, time waits for no one…but this fall from grace was anything but a short drop.
A moment of silence for Cathering Bach.
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Daisy will be missed…
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She don’t look that bad. Look at how Valerie Bertinelli recently lost the weight. On the other hand, how come most of the tv black moms are super fat? …Good Times, What’s Happening, Gimme a Break, Jeffersons, to name a few. Isn’t this stereotyping the image of the lazy welfare queen with long fake nails eating cheese puffs?
Comment by Chuck 04.17.2009 @ 5:05 PMTwo things…Valerie is 7 years younger than Catherine…which makes a difference. And yes, we can have a full dialogue on the “Aunt Jemima” characters that have paraded through TV over the past 30 years.
I’ll give you some more insight. On both Good Times and The Jeffersons, the wife (i.e. Louise and Florida) were more than 20 years OLDER than their “husbands” in real life. Why? Who knows.
Comment by mrmokelly 04.17.2009 @ 5:49 PMCatherine Bach looks a mess! I don’t why somebody is trying to defend her. Trust me, if that was Bernadette Stanis(superfine Thelma of Good Times) it would have been all over the place and she would be clowned. Yes, Mo is correct both Esther Rolle and Isabel Sanford were 20 years OLDER than their TV husbands. I believe the networks were comfortable with and perpetuated The “Aunt Jemima” character because they believed she would be more palatable to the “Masses” Stereotyping-101
Comment by Ray Hendrix 04.20.2009 @ 4:58 AM