Classic TV shows are ones that don't seem to get alot of love from today's generation as there more interested in what's new rather then what came before it. As such since it was just about a year ago when I last talked about anything from The Duke Of Hazzard TV series it only made sense that I once again go back to that well to remind you all that this great TV show does really exist and was once a thing that many people loved and so then join me as I review the episode that sees the dukes tackle the issue of piracy in the music industry with the episode in question being called simply just "Daisy's Song" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is after she sends in her one of her songs to a music publishing company Daisy , Bo and Luke find out that the whole thing was scam and set about getting her money only to stumble on something much more bigger then that. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it was just as simple enough that you could very easily follow along with it which is something that is very in keeping with the shows other plots as well but at the same time tho this episodes plot really isn't as good as it really could have been either as it makes the main characters look dumb at quite a few points in the episode which yes they do explain away in a way that makes sense alot of the time but the fact that they still do it is huge knock on the episode and the plot itself really isn't as fully developed as it really could have been either which again is in keeping with the show and the shows other plots as well but is still something that prevents the plot from being a great with this episode having a more interesting subplot as well with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Tom Wopat as Luke Duke , John Schneider as Bo Duke and Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke. Also starring in this episode is Denver Pyle as Uncle Jesse Duke , James Best as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane , Sorrell Booke as Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg , Ben Jones as Cooter Davenport , Sonny Shroyer as Enos Strate , Ronnie Schell as Lester Starr , Ginny Parker as Mabel , Clayton Landey as Max , Terry Browning as Ruby , Candy Bleick as Dodie , Wallace Merck as Jojo , Bill Gribble as Carson , Roy Tatum as FBI Agent 3 , Wallace Wilkinson as FBI Agent 1 , Bob Cleveland as FBI Agent 2 and Waylon Jennings as The Balladeer.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in tis very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty alot better then what it really had any right to be. As this show really wasn't known all that well for having good acting in it this is despite the fact that Denver Pyle was a really good actor and yet in this episode we get a ton of really solid performances from alot of the shows main leads as while yes there are still some stilted performances from the likes of John Schneider for example given that this episode was only the shows second ever episode and so of course the acting in this episode won't be as good as it would be in later episodes or even the two reunion movies for that matter and yet when we do get some really good acting it not only stands out a mile because of how good that it was but it also helps to elevate whatever scene that it's with the best example of this being a scene with Denver Pyle and Catherine Bach where he's just giving her some advice and it's such a heartwarming scene that on paper could sound cheesy and come across as being such but because of the acting from the two of them it comes across as being really genuine with the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be which is something that really does help to lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.
The episode "villain" Lester Starr was easily one of the more entertaining aspects of the episode as he's just so slimly and campy that it does make him fun to see in any of his scenes. However tho and rather rightfully the episode really doesn't spend alot of time developing his character which whilst it is still a bad thing it's also something that's to be expected not only of this show but alot of TV shows as well as there going to be more focused on the heroes rather then they are the guest villains of the episode and that's what Lester Starr is he's a guest villain for this episode and there for while it would have been nice to see him become a more fully rounded character it also wouldn't have been the wisest of things either and yet even tho he's not that fully rounded out as a character he is still a really enjoyable character with it being obvious from his first scene that actor Ronnie Schell really does know exactly what kind of show that he's in and is there for just going to fun with this character and there for plays him like his the main villain in a pantomime which is perfect for this show as this is show that particularly during it's first season wasn't a big hit with critics and even the makers of the show admitted that they were making something terrible but that they were going to make it the right kind of terrible and because of that alot f the actors playing the villains got to really ham it up and just have fun with there roles was the case with the villain in this episode and it's something like that that did make Lester Starr out to be a really fun filled character in his own right.
This was also the episode that introduced that fact that Daisy had dreams of becoming a big star which in this case involved her songwriting. This was a good idea but at the same time tho it's one that very few if none of the other episodes in this show followed up on which is a shame because you really cold have gotten a nice little character arc going for Daisy and yet it just seemed like that the show abandoned it for no reason whatsoever and yet it's because of that subplot that we got some of the best scenes in the episode be it Daisy pretending that she's performing to a large audience when the the dukes go to visit the manager a famous country star or the fact that she out worldly admits to Uncle Jessie that she now doesn't know how to feel about her dreams because of how much trouble that her dreams have caused the family and we could have gotten more beautiful scenes like that if the show kept that aspect of her character intact and it's something that might have even helped the show when it started to slip in ratings during it's fifth season and yet the show didn't keep that aspect of the character intact thus making those scenes in this episode feel pointless as they were just going to reset the status quo at the end of the episode anyways and while yes doing that is something that's done all of the time in sitcoms it's very rarely if ever done in action comedy shows like this one and it is something that while it doesn't hurt the episode in anyway shape or form it is however something that makes you wonder the the makers of this show bothered to include it in this episode if the intention was to always rest the status quo at the end of each episode.
For some reason this episode really wanted to treat Bo and Luke look dumb as when they are tailing Lester who is also being tailed by the FBI. The boys get caught by Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane and during the cause of getting away from him they loose Lester and thus Daisy and yet it takes them talking to Cooter to realise that instead of asking around to see if anyone has seen Lester they could just ask if anyone has seen the FBI's car instead which is something that they knew about as the openly commented on it in the previous scene which made them look even dumb if the makers of the episode wanted them to ask Cooter for help then have them not realise that there being followed by the FBI that way the characters don't get made to look dumb and yet still get to have the characters asking for help and while this show is pretty much known for it's bad writing here it felt really bad as they just made there own main characters look dumb all for the sake of including another side character from the show and that's really it and that's not a good enough to do something like that especially if it comes at the expense of your main characters and while this show never really did take it's characters all that seriously it did somewhat treat it's main characters seriously and that is something that makes it all the more weirder that they would include something like this in this episode and it is something that does harm the episode as a whole.
With the show being more of an action comedy it does make sense to talk about the comedy aspect of this episode. Which to but it bluntly wasn't all that good which is something that does make alot of sense as this show was made with country people in mind and would there for have alot of jokes geared towards them but at the same time tho the jokes do still ned to be good and while this episode does have alot of cute jokes in it there's nothing that's laugh out loud funny even the banter the between The Dukes and Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane which is usually comic gold here just felt awkward and forced which does lead to the impression that this might have been the first episode that was filmed which is something that might account for alot of the awkward jokes in this episode but at the same time tho a bad joke will always be a bad joke and it might just have been that this shows writer and the shows creator GY Waldron might not have been able to come up with anything funny for The Dukes and Roscoe to say to each other in this episode which is fair enough you can't expect a writer even a good one to be funny every single time but what you can do is hope that they give us something that will at the very least raise a smile out of us the audience which is something that does happen in this very episode but at the same time this episode really could have dine with having less cute jokes and more actually funny jokes as those are the jokes that people will remember where as the cute jokes will be forgotten about right a way.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty nine minuets and one second. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show to have in the first place and to this episodes credit it really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time yet even with that in mind this episode really doesn't take as full advantage of it's running time as it really could have done as the plot of the episode isn't as developed as it really should have been and it's guest characters aren't as developed as they really could have been either and while yes the makers of the show openly admitted that they were making a bad show that still doesn't mean that you can't develop your plot and your guest characters as your main character will always get developed over the course of the show and so you don't really have to focus on developing them all that much but what you do have to do is focus on developing your plot so that it feels like the events in the plot are natural and organic and you have to develop your guest characters so that us the audience can either love or hate them and while the episode does have a good villain in Lester Starr even he's not that fully developed as a character with us the audience not really getting the chance to find out anything about him as a character which is fine for a villain like Boss Hogg as he's a main character of the show and so he would get development over the course of the show but for Lester who is only in this episode he should have been developed a little bit more something which the episode very easily could have done given it's running time but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is ana action show that really does mean that I gave to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt tat the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However tho at the same time this episodes action wasn't all that good either as it just boiled down to who can hit who the hardest first and that's really it and while that is something that's to expected in this show it is also something that makes the action in this episode feel a bit boring as the episode only has really one action in it with Bo and Luke tricking and then beating up Lester's henchmen / bodyguard Jojo and that's really it and while it's not unusual for this show to have just the one fight scene in it what is unusual is the fact that they don't have that good of a chase scene with the chase scene in this episode being the FBI chasing The Dukes around a junkyard and that's really it and given just how small that junkyard is there's no way that you could have gotten a good car chase scene from that setting which is a shame as a it did have the potential to be a really fun action scene it just needed a bigger setting so that both of the cars would be able to do more stuff in it and that's really it but as things stand this episode really doesn't have a true standout action scene in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this was a really fun episode at times it was also an episode that could have been alot better then what it was and while the episode does have alot of sweet scenes in it with Daisy's dream of being a writer being followed up on in the season three episode "By-Line, Daisy Duke" it is something that felt like a wasted aspect of the character but it still was something that led to some really sweet scenes in this very episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very review from the official The Dukes Of Hazzard fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.
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