It’s like my grandpa used to say: “The only thing worse than a haunted muscle car is a haunted racist muscle car.”
Multiple problematic aspects aside, this episode (“The Ghost of General Lee,” 10/29/1979) creeped the heck out of me as a kid, even though it was clearly established as a hoax out of the gate. The presentation was so dang spooky that it totally eclipsed the “Bo and Luke pretending to be dead to get revenge on Rosco” angle.
It’s a prime example of the “I can’t believe I was young enough and dopey enough to be enthralled by this trash, but it sure was fun at the time” dichotomy which continues to drive my popcult dumpster diving.
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