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WATCH ALONG: Smokey & The Bandit

🕑 Added 2021-06-17 14:37:13 +0000 UTC

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Keith Jones

Aight, Lester and Earl are Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs of bluegrass music fame. Hank Snow is a Country Music legend from before my time and I have kids older than you. Jerry Reed who played Snowman has a ton of great songs in and outside of this movie. Furthermore, he plays the bad guy coach in Waterboy.

serendib

The motorcycle cop scene ... Bandit wasn't going in the wrong direction. He was out in front running blocker for the rig. His job was to pull the attention of any law dawgs who were monitoring traffic so Cledus could sail through behind him unnoticed. That's why he had to turn around when Cledus got pulled over . And for some Dukes of Hazzard crossover ... the motorcycle cop was the same actor who played Enos on that show.

Kathy Ice

It's interesting that you didn't recognize Jerry Reed's name, but you did recognize his song, East Bound and Down. Jerry did all the original songs for the movie, and played Cletus/Snowman.

Lynnetta

This was so much fun! I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid when all of the jokes went over my head. 😆

T.J. Gengler

I just noticed something in this watch along that I've never spotted before. Even the forklift had a CB antenna.

Thomas Ivie

I'm so glad you liked the movie! This is one of my all time favorites. I even go by BufordT in most of my social media because of this movie plus I live in Buford, GA. Burt Reynolds even used to have a mansion in the next county over. Hal Needham, the director, was a stuntman by trade and this was his first movie as a director. Thank you 1000th Ghost for making this required viewing!

Kenton Kruger

Kind of surprised (pleasantly) how much you liked this. I kind of had you giving it about 3 1/2 stars.

Tyler Foster

I just saw this on YouTube five minutes ago and messaged it to her too.

Jill Peterson

The song you're talking about is a 70s movie, too! CONVOY! They could not use the song in this movie, as the film, CONVOY was already in production when this came out.

Super Dave

Hey Ashleigh, I don't know if you knew this or not but some guy did a reaction to your reaction to Airplane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqr7u1HCBMM&t=4s

serendib

Oh wow. Talk about dated humor. This is gonna be a very Blazing Saddles situation. But I think I can say with some confidence that Burt Reynolds is about to enter the ranks of that older generation of actors who can get it.