Days of Shine and Roses - S2-E1
Other mistake: When the General does a jump during their shortcut, it goes through a tree, and lands mostly on the left side of the car, but the next shot, it's still going.
Days of Shine and Roses - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Rosco gets out of the car with the Detour sign, the arrow points to the right, the way Boss went. When he sets the sign up, it points left. Then after Luke grabs it and sets it out ahead of Jessie, it points back to the right.
Days of Shine and Roses - S2-E1
Revealing mistake: When watching the film in the beginning, one of the cops pursuing Jessie and Boss rolls over. As he does so, you can see the roll bars in the car, which accounts for the car not crushing.
Days of Shine and Roses - S2-E1
Revealing mistake: When "Spike" goes to pull the front fender of the car off, you can see the square outline of the spot meant for the spike.
Days of Shine and Roses - S2-E1
Revealing mistake: As Sheriff "Spike" Loomis goes to put the railroad spike into the car's door, there is a square outline of the spot set up for him to put the spike.
Return of the Ridge Raiders - S2-E20
Continuity mistake: The boys are driving along an open dirt road, being chased by the Sheriff. As they meet a blue car, they wave, and you notice that there are no bushes anywhere to be seen. When the blue car meets the cop cars, there are suddenly bushes on either side of the road, poorly disguising ramps used to flip the cop cars.
Continuity mistake: When Lester hits the tree in the Sheriff's car, the grille comes off in the crash. A few moments later, he goes to back up to get back in the chase, and you see the grille is back in place, and minor damage to the hood. (00:38:25)
Continuity mistake: After Daisy stops at the tree after Lester and Boss crash, she's facing away from the road. The bad guys and the General go by the spot and are well past Daisy on the right side of the Jeep. After they are past, the camera does a close up on Daisy, and her looking and yelling to the camera "Go get them Bo!" She's not looking in the right direction.
Visible crew/equipment: After the Cooter/Enos crash, the camera goes to Daisy. As she drives, the camera is behind and above the front seats. The shadow of the camera rig is very visible in the shot.
Continuity mistake: When Cooter turns around to go after the bad guys, Enos comes from the side road, sliding a one-eighty. The back end of his car stops against the tow truck, but when the camera goes to a close up on Enos, there is no truck behind him, only trees.
Continuity mistake: As Cooter hears the call for help, he's on a winding country road. When he goes to turn around, he's on a two lane blacktop in the hills.
Continuity mistake: After the tires are shot out on the General, Jessie reaches in to get the CB microphone, and draws back after getting it. In the close up, he draws his arms back again.
Visible crew/equipment: As the General Lee goes past the camera position to pass a sign marked "Colonial City", you see the shadow of the camera and crew along with the shadow of the tree behind the camera.
Visible crew/equipment: When Daisy is being chased by Lester, the camera goes into a wide shot when they are on a long curve. As Daisy passes a last bush, you see the shadow of the camera and crewman.
Continuity mistake: When the guy is looking for the map, he knocks a vase out of the cupboard, and it breaks. After Lester trips up, the lights come on, and there is no broken glass anywhere.
Continuity mistake: After the boat with Jessie, Bo, Luke, and the girl get stuck, you see Jessie standing to get the boat unstuck. A second later, you see that he's sitting, then another second and he's standing.
Audio problem: When Bo and Luke come up behind the visitor in the blue car, Bo honks the horn and waves. When he does, only the last part of "Dixie" plays when the camera is on him. Then the camera cuts to her, and only the last three notes play about two or three seconds later.
Continuity mistake: When Roscoe comes out of the courthouse he runs into the potted tree, he grabs it, and starts to fall over to his right. In the wide shot, he falls over to the left and down the steps with the tree.
Continuity mistake: When the boys have Emory Potter in the car from his wedding in Lake Chickamahoney, they go off the paved road cross-country. As they go, you see they are on a dirt road. The hit a hump of dirt (almost a convenient ramp) and they go flying. As they do, the area suddenly goes from wide open country to a paved road with a wooden fence, and power poles lining it.
Continuity mistake: When in town, the boys see Enos coming out of the courthouse. They go to get out to get Granny Annie, you see Bo in the driver's side. After they see Roscoe and take off, they do the "skiing" (driving on two wheels) thing. When the General Lee sets back down on all fours, you see a blue shirt in the driver's window, suggesting that Luke is driving.
Answer: Various reasons, but mainly to drive the Dukes out of Hazzard County because the family have been foiling his schemes since his and Uncle Jesse's bootlegging days.
Captain Defenestrator