K&F Show #313: The End of RoadKill and Motor Trend Productions; Thanksgiving Movie Review “Tower Heist”
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Roadkill – Finale
As you have heard already the rumors circulating the closing of Motor Trend Productions are all true. Unfortunately the shows housed and produced by Motor Trend are no more. This does include “Roadkill,” its flagship and genre changing show. It’s a bi-product of being owned by a large conglomerate as well as being a niche of a niche of entertainment media. All episodes filmed not yet released will be aired over the winter of 2025/2025 but no further will be created.
We discussed the news of it all and and some point we’ll have Mike Finnegan our friend (and Kibbe and Finnegan show co-founder) on to chat about it. No matter what spin you put on it the reality of Roadkill both creating and changing the automotive space are complexly undeniable. David Frieburger and Mike Finnegan made a team that were the best of the best in automotive tom-foolery entertainment. We loved them too!
David Freiburger has given a good explanation the situation along with what’s next for the full band of Motor Trend characters (visit TheDrive.com for more on that). While none of us know whether Roadkill will ever return on a different platform, it does seem like the sun has set on it and this last piece of legacy automotive media is officially over. In the short term we know that everyone has moved on to YouTube (if they hadn’t already) and we can continue to have them in our lives there!
Thanks, boys. It was magical!
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Thanksgiving Movie Review: “Tower Heist”
K&F Movie Summary: Tower Heist is the automotive Thanksgiving movie classic you didn’t know you were missing until now, especially if you’re Corndog! This movie stars a MASSIVE cadre os actors including Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Casey Afflect, Tea Leoni, Mechael Pena, and Matthew Broderick. This is the tale of a group of not quite as cool as Oceans 11 people that get taken by a Ponzi scheme by Hawkeye from MASH. And then – to get their money back – they steal Steve McQueen’s Ferrari from the top of Trump Tower during the Thanksgiving Parade, all using a handy roof crane. You will laugh, you will squirm, and you will probably be looking up during the Thanksgiving Day Parade from here on out…..so you don’t get squished by a Ferrari made of gold. This movie is a forgotten gem that has everything going for it.
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K&F Show #310: Do It. Do it. Car Movie Review – “Starsky & Hutch”
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Car Movie Review: 2004’s “Starsky & Hutch” Feature Film
K&F Movie Summary: If you combined Old School, Wedding Crashers, Anchorman, and the Hangover with a former Dukes of Hazzard stunt driver, you’d get this; an unbelievably funny remake with great car action, great music, and likely a pure hatred from original fans of the show!
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson play Detectives David Starsky and Ken Hutchison in the 2004 Hollywood remake of Starsky and Hutch. They chase bad-buy-drug-lord Vince Vaughn across fictional Bay City in a hopped up ’76 Gran Torino, painted Dodge Viper red with a beefed up small block Ford under the good. They get in a dance off, are accosted by Will Ferrell into acting like naked dragon riders, shoot a pony and a Karmann Ghia, all just to get to the bottom of the mysterious untraceable cocaine deal that Jason Bateman (Vaughn’s henchman) is making happen.
This movie is full of one liners, good cars, and a version of Huggy Bear played by Snoop Dogg that’ll give you faith in the underworld. But best of all, it ends in a car chase littered with jumps across a golf course and (almost) landed on a yacht.
10 Striped Tomatoes all around!
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K&F Show #309: Politics, Hurricanes, and Musicals: Classic Dukes Review – S3E7 “Baa Baa White Sheep”
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Classic Dukes Re-Review: S3E7 “Baa Baa White Sheep”
K&F Show Summary: Since we are just a few weeks from the 2024 Presidential election I thought we’d focus on the most presidential episode of the Dukes ever. This is the one with Abe Lincoln of the United States of America and Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America. Of course both are the twin brothers Hogg, the good guy dresses in black and the bad guy dresses in white, and both are played by Sorrell Booke, sometimes who is the same character faking being the other character. The same Cadillac plays both roles too, black and white just like the relative suits. And just like we’ve seen before and will see again, Abe Lincoln Hogg is a character that we’ve never seen before and never will again, but I’m here to tell you that this episode is one of the golden age of television. It’s an age when characters were explained away in half a sentence, the Bible was put in a good light but still taken completely wrong and out of context, and high heels are swapped out for sneakers for jiggling running scenes that end in on screen lady mud wresting. This pre-dates the Ronald Regan presidency and reality in plots, and we may be dumber for watching it. But it’s silly, and fun, and childish, and wonderful. 9 Dogs.
Original Review: Episode 46 of K&F
Legit Episode Info
Season 3 – Episode 7 “Baa Baa White Sheep”
Written by William Raynor and Myles Wilder
Directed by Dick Moder
Airdate: 12/5/1980
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K&F Show #308: Pumpkin Spice Corndogs; Dukes Review: S7E17 “Opening Night at the Boar’s Nest'”
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Classic Dukes Re-Review: S7E17
“Opening Night at the Boars’ Nest”
Note: This Dukes review is a rebroadcast from Episode 236 of the Kibbe and Friends Show.
K&F Show Summary: I (Kibbe) was in 5th grade when this episode originally aired. I sadly didn’t understand it all coming to an end at that time as a kid, and now as a near 50 year old adult it seems just as hard but yet totally for different reasons. For the last six and a half years we have made a show about a show, and I for one have loved it! Anyway, enough with the sappiness. This is the final episode of the Dukes, John Schneider finally gets to write and direct something…..my High School Nova reappears one last time….and the General Lee actually gets hurt – from, a jump! The stunts are grossly limited as you’d expect from a cancelled show, but nonetheless the plot must go on. So…here’s the plot: there’s a Hazzard County talent show at the Boar’s Nest and Rosco has a magician’s act that supposedly makes Boss disappear. But when Boss actually gets kidnapped the Dukes must rescue him from two stone cold killers….so that Boss can get back in time to rescue Roscoe’s broken heart.
10 Corndogs!
Original Review: Episode 236 of K&F
Legit Episode Info
Season 7 – Episode 17
Title: “Opening Night at the Boar’s Nest”
Written by John R. Schneider and Si Rose
Directed by John R Schneider
Airdate: 2/8/1985
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K&F Show #306: AI Corndog and the Countdown to MOPARTY 2024 (or Bust); Dukes Review: S1E2 “Daisy’s Song”
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Corndog’s Pick – Dukes Review: S1E2
“Daisy’s Song”
Note: This Dukes episode was originally reviewed by Rob Kibbe and Mike Finnegan in Episode 277 of The MuscleCar Place. It was part of the “DukesCast” segment…and predates the Kibbe and Friends show entirely! This episodes is THE episode with every last detail on the Daisy Roadrunner that Corndog is creating his replica of! His car will be at MOPARTY 2024 for Catherine Bach’s use!
K&F Show Summary: In this second ever episode of the Dukes of Hazzard we learn that Daisy Duke is an aspiring songstress. She spends her own money to have a song published, it is, and it is then recorded professionally but a real country singer.,……all so that we get to watch her show up in a 70’s one piece that is definitely still in fashion. Bo and Luke trick the bad guys into thinking Daisy can be an “AI” impersonator of real singers so they can then sell the now fake records for real money. And it turns out that the bad guys are really run by Boss Hogg, which is honeying up to women and trying to get in cahoots with – effectively – the mob! This may be the weirdest, coolest, and most true-to-it’s creator (Gy Waldron) episode ever…..and it has the full details on the Daisy RoadRunner that our man Corndog is preparing this very second.
10 Corndogs!
Original Review: Episode 277 of The MuscleCar Place
Legit Episode Info
Season 1 – Episode 2 “Daisy’s Song”
Written by Gy Waldron
Directed by Bob Kelljan
Airdate: 2/2/1979
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K&F Show #303: The Olympics Delivers the Package; Dukes Review: S2E14 “The Runaway”
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Classic Dukes Review: S2E14
“The Runaway”
K&F Show Summary:
Another classic Dukes review, and another reminder that in the glory years of the Dukes….all female guest stars ended up in a crop top and cut off shorts at some point. This classic episode documents the tale or a rich girl in love with a poor farm boy, and an egotistical wealthy father that wants to stand between them. Why? Because rich people – are evil – especially in a comic TV series. (As a side note, the evil rich father is played by Alan Alda’s father!) The Dukes help the girl out to marry her farm boy Fred, thanks to the Joe Dirt bridge, and in the process of it all end up killing Daisy’s 74 Road Runner…which by this point’s isn’t actually a ’74 Road Runner at all. It’s replaced by a brand new product placement white Jeep Renegade named Dixie. This is a fantastic episode for stunts, shoddy hiding of car effects, sped up and slowed down car chase footage, and again – unrequited T&A. 9 Corndogs!
Legit Episode Info:
Original KF Review: – Episode 25 of the Kibbe and Friends Show
Season 2 – Episode 14 “The Runaway”
Written by Jim Rogers
Directed by Dick Moder
Airdate: 1/11/1980
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K&F Show #302: Real Heroes, Daisy Road Runners, and a Break from Reality; Dukes Review: S4E2 “Double Dukes”
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Classic Dukes Review: S4E2
“Double Dukes”
In the universe of most important episodes of the most important TV shows of all time, this one is at the top. The Dukes of Hazzard go where many have gone before by using the same actors to play dual roles of themselves…..but this time we get to see the real General Lee vs it’s duplicate while being gloriously directed by Paul Baxley. The plot is terrible, there are editing mistakes a plenty, but General fighting General will leave you ready to fight anyone, anywhere, and anytime! Boss Hogg hires two bad guys – played by one decent actor and one terrible one – to double Bo and Luke, then rob a bank in broad daylight in full of witnesses. The goal – get ride of the Dukes for all. It doesn’t work, we get shots of the General inside that are so great, and multiple jumps worth singing for. I can’t believe we haven’t redone this one already. This is in my Top 10 – maybe Top 5 – of all Dukes of Hazzard Episodes ever. 10 Corndogs!
Legit Episode Info
Original KF Review: – Episode 71 of the Kibbe and Friends Show
Season 4 – Episode 2 “Double Dukes”
Written by Martin Roth
Directed by Paul Baxley
Airdate: 10/16/1981
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K&F Show #301: The Belt Alignment Conundrum; Car Movie Review: Michael Keaton’s “Gung Ho!”
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Car Movie Review: Michael Keaton’s “Gung Ho”
Well, you know it would happen sometime. We finally reviewed the car movie starring Michael Keaton and Long Duck Dong, and it’s glorious! A fictional Japanese Automotive company decided to expand production into the US in the mid 1980’s…..a lot like the actual companies really did. And the Japanese have a wholly different work ethic than do regular old Union US Auto Workers. And that’s true – or was back then. And a well intentioned but perpetually lucky Union Leader talks them into saving an abandoned US automotive plant that was the center of their town. The Japanese agreed, but only if the plant could be run with kaizen; a process of continuous improvement and dedication to work above all else. So….that didn’t work at all. But in the end, to save the plant, and save the town, the Japanese and the Americans work together to make something great….and by that, I mean the effort, not the cars. 8 Corndogs!
K&F Show #300: Anniversary Celebration NHRA Star Clay Millican; Dukes Review: S2E1 “Days of Shine and Roses”
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Classic Dukes Review: S2E1
“Days of Shine and Roses”
When NHRA Top Fuel superstar Clay Millican says, this is the episode of the Dukes I want to review….you say, “how high!” And then you say, “Yessir!” This classic Dukes of Hazzard episode features the finest early era of the Dukes – with Boss and Jesse trying to prove once and for all who is the best moonshine driver. And that means racing a ’68 Camaro against a ’68 Mustang, both loaded with moonshine cargo, through the territory of the evil Sheriff Spike Loomis – and back – without getting caught. Along the way we get classic Hollywood western bar flies, Catherine Bach at her most stunning, Disney Ranch at it’s most classic, and bootlegger turns that’ll rip your leaf spring out. 10 Perfect Corndogs!
Legit Episode Info
Original KF Review: – Episode 10 of the Kibbe and Friends Show
Season 2 – Episode 1 “Days of Shine and Roses”
Written by Bruce Howard
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse
Airdate:9/21/1979
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K&F Show #299: Cup NASCAR Comes to Iowa – Movie Review “Talladega Nights”
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K&F Show Summary:
You knew it would happen some time: “Shake and bake!” “If you ain’t first, you’re last!” “I am a semi professional race car driver and am amateur tattoo artist.” “Don’t snort those Lucky Charms.” If there is one racing movie that is as often (or perhaps more) quoted than Days of Thunder, it’s Talladega Nights! Listen in or our full review of perhaps the dumbest, most magical, most wonderful racing movie ever made that was pitched to – and purchased by – a major motion picture studio with nothing other than the following words: “Will Ferrell as a NASCAR Driver.”
10 Shake-n-Bake Corndogs!
Legit Movie Info
Original KF Review: – Episode 120 of the Kibbe and Friends Show
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