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Grady Hendrix explores the extras on the DVD release of The Dukes of Hazzard:

[How] can anyone watch The Dukes of Hazzard special features and not be convinced that this is the most important movie of the 21st century? The 30 minutes of deleted scenes make it obvious that, like Orson Welles, director Jay Chandrasekhar had his masterpiece defaced by a spineless studio. What has been left on the cutting-room floor includes Seann William Scott’s cry for environmental responsibility (“Coal produces trace elements of arsenic and mercury. This produces sulfuric acid, which is responsible for the formation of sulfuric aerosol and acid rain.”); an anti-fur message; a push for the legalization of marijuana; and a plea for man-on-man love. In these lost scenes, the Duke boys take every opportunity to tackle each other and fall to the ground, tickling and teasing in their tight blue jeans. Could there have been a Brokeback Mountain if these two kissing cousins hadn’t paved the way with their locker-room antics?