Editing The Dukes of Hazzard (section)

===Return of Bo and Luke===
Although Coy and Vance were never popular, viewers were disappointed by their departure episode, "Welcome Back, Bo 'n' Luke", which was for the most part a standard episode, with the return of Bo and Luke and the departure of Coy and Vance tacked onto the beginning (Bo and Luke return from their NASCAR tour just as Coy and Vance leave Hazzard to tend to a sick relative). More than a few viewers commented that they were disappointed by this, and that they would have liked to see both pairs of Duke boys team up to tackle a particularly dastardly plot by Boss Hogg before Coy and Vance's departure, but as it turned out, Coy and Vance had little dialogue and were gone by the first commercial break, never to be seen, heard from or even mentioned again.<ref name=hofstede/>{{rp|249}}

While the return of Bo and Luke was welcomed by ardent and casual viewers alike, and as a result ratings recovered slightly, the show never completely regained its former popularity. One of Wopat and Schneider's disputes even before they left was what they considered to be increasingly weak and formulaic scripts and episode plots.<ref name=hofstede/>{{rp|86}} With Wopat and Schneider's return, the producers agreed to try a wider scope of storylines.<ref name=hofstede/>{{rp|100}} It continued for two more seasons. Many cast members, including Wopat, decried the miniature car effects newly incorporated to depict increasingly absurd ''General Lee'' and patrol car stunts (which had previously been performed with real cars by stunt drivers).<ref>Jake Rossen. [http://mentalfloss.com/article/65519/12-good-ol-facts-about-dukes-hazzard “12 Good Ol’ Facts About The Dukes of Hazzard”], ''[[Mental Floss]]''. January 26, 2019. ''(Retrieved 2020-11-22.)''</ref> The miniature car effects were intended as a budget saving measure (to save the cost of repairing or replacing damaged vehicles) and to help compete visually with [[KITT]] from the [[NBC]] series ''[[Knight Rider (1982 TV series)|Knight Rider]]''.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} By February 1985, ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' ended its run after seven seasons.