Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: While Boss listens to some soothing music on the radio to distract himself from his empty stomach, commercials air bordering on Food Porn. It continues even as Boss stomps on the radio to shut it off.
Comically Missing the Point: Rosco, in jail on orders of Sheriff Little, calls his deputy Enos a "Benjamin Arnold."
Boss: That's Benedict.
Rosco: Oh yeah. A Benjamin Benedict!
Dangerous Clifftop Road: Uncle Jesse and Daisy are forced to drive the laundry truck Benson had driven (in his escape from prison) to throw the authorities off his and Benson's trail.
Diet Episode: In a subplot Lulu puts Boss Hogg on a severe diet in order to pass his physical. Much Hilarity Ensues as he tries to sneak high calorie meals.
Dog Food Diet: Boss snaps and tries to eat one of Flash's dog biscuits because he's so hungry. "I'll take anything! It's food, ain't it?"
Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: Sheriff Little, as he gives Daisy and Jesse the third degree, sits backwards on a chair in front of them to assert his dominance.
Every Car Is a Pinto: When a police helicopter shoots out the tire of the stolen laundry truck it careens over the edge of a cliff and explodes on impact. Apparently Daisy and Jesse (the only two in the truck at the time) escape unharmed even though we don't see anyone jumping out of the truck.
Food as Bribe: Lulu promises Boss a big meal if he helps the Dukes out of their latest predicament. At the end of the episode we see Boss as he's finishing the meal.
Friend to Bugs: Brad Hixx, one of the escaped prisoners, has a pet cricket named Herman.
Hollywood Fire: The Dukes driving through a forest fire — albeit at gunpoint
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Benson's partner, Hixx, who was just a few weeks from being eligible for parole. Although clearly unhinged from spending years in prison, possibly for playing the lesser role in an armed robbery, there are also signs that he didn't really want to escape prison, much less with the clearly dominant, psychopathic Benson.
Jurisdiction Friction: The Governor appoints Sheriff Little of Chickasaw County in charge of capturing the two escaped convicts because the prison they escaped from is in Chickasaw County. Rosco bristles having to take orders from Little.
Malicious Misnaming: When Sheriff Little insists on leading a raid on the Duke farm instead of Rosco.
Little: Hold on there, Colbrain.
Rosco: The name is Coultrane. There ain't no "brain" in it.
Little: You can sure say that again.
Neck Lift: Sheriff Little lifts Rosco with one hand around his neck during an argument.
For a given definition of "friend." One of the escaped convicts served under Sergeant Luke Duke in the Marines. Luke even sent him to the brig. The two convicts hide out at the Duke farm.
At one point Benson forces Luke to drive him into town to buy some ammo. They run into a roadblock and Benson tells Luke to introduce him as an old friend from the Marines instead of trying to find a way around it, which would look suspicious. Benson calls himself "Parker" and acts like a good ol' boy in front of Enos.
Out of the Inferno: One of the most dramatic scenes in the series' history has viewers wondering if the Dukes — along with Benson and Hixx — will make it out of a raging forest fire ... alive.
Pop the Tires: A police helicopter shoots at the laundry truck, now being driven (under coercion) by Daisy and Jesse, and shoots out a tire, sending the truck careening over a cliff.
Pragmatic Villainy: In the final act Benson wants to kill Luke along with Bo and a random stranger whose car they're in the middle of stealing, but Hixx talks him into just stealing the car and escaping. Hixx isn't a murderer, he just wanted out of prison.
Two convicts escape from a nearby prison by stealing a laundry truck and driving it through the security fence, kickstarting the plot.
When Sheriff Little locks up Jesse and Daisy on suspicion of assisting the escaped prisoners, and Rosco and Boss Hogg for impeding his investigation, Boss's wife Lulu and Cooter sneak into the jail and Lulu opens the jail cells with a handy key.
However Little quickly catches them in the act and sends them back to jail including Lulu and Cooter. Later the whole group talk Enos into letting them go free since he's sworn to protect the innocent, and they're all innocent.
Revenge: An ex-Marine and one time subordinate of Luke's comes to Hazzard, resentful over having to serve under a tough, discipline-minded sergeant. It is implied Benson was discharged for bad conduct, thanks in part to Luke, before turning to a life of crime.
Undercrank: Boss hastily trying to hide a glutton's breakfast before Lulu catches him, under couches, in the drawers ... anywhere he can think of. When Lulu leaves the room with Rosco, who had just dropped by, Boss loads his briefcase just as hastily. Fast-motion photography and sped-up music provide the comic effect.
You Watch Too Much X: When Benson tells Luke to drive into a forest fire in order to escape a pursuing police helicopter.
