Hustle?

Definitely Hustle. They only hustled bad guys, but it was all for their own benefit (which is why I hate when people call Leverage a copy of it).

Wikipedia describes Maverick thusly:

He frequently flimflammed adversaries, but only criminals who actually deserved it. Otherwise he was scrupulously honest almost to a fault

From skimming the Dukes of Hazzard wikipedia entry it looks like they are former criminals, but not that they're doing anything ongoingly illegal. (eta: the previous crime being moonshine trafficking)

The Dukes of Hazzard made their living running moonshine for their uncle who made it. The only Hazzard not making a living from moonshine was Daisy who worked in a bar.

edit (should not be that absolute. Long time ago so maybe there were others. But at any rate the brothers and the uncle made their living from moonshine.)

Uh ... no. They were charged for it prior to the pilot, but Uncle Jesse promised not to make it anymore so they weren't jailed, IIRC.

They didn't so much commit crime, as be accused of it by Boss Hogg and the Sheriff every week. Those guys were forever trying to get Bo and Luke to leave Hazzard County, which was against their sentencing deal. And also why they didn't use guns.

Daisy did work in a bar, though.

Huh. Didn't know uncle Tim had it in him [link]

Definitely Hustle. They only hustled bad guys, but it was all for their own benefit (which is why I hate when people call Leverage a copy of it).

Ah, I didn't realize that! (The TWoP thread is called "American Hustle.")

Well, if you're going to talk about "Maverick" you have to bring up "The Rockford Files" because essentially Huggins considered it an update. Also, I would be happy if there were someone discussing the "Rockford Files" somewhere in America at any given moment, but YMMV. Jim was quite the little(reformed) con artist. Of course, they made quite a point initially of saying he'd been wrongly convicted but my fangirl impression is that it was more like *that time* and that he had done other things for which he could have been convicted and was not.

And if I ever need a pseud again, it's so going to be Jimmie Jo Meeker.

Well highly imperfect memory here. But I would swear some of the plots focused around looking for Uncle Jesse's still which actually existed.

Ah exceptions when he comes out of "retirement" for good causes.

Ah, I didn't realize that!

You should check the show out. It's pretty good. But then I found it ran aground in its own justification. There was some "we con but we don't steal" and then by season 2 I swear they were stealing too. They hemmed themselves in.

People who draw too tight comparisons with Leverage weren't paying that much attention. Mission Impossible is a much better Leverage matchup, IMO.

How to remember and deal with people's names.

Do you agree with the assertion:

A person's own name is the single most important word to him/her; it is intimately tied to his/her identity as an individual.

I do, with respect to myself, but I think I may be unduly prejudiced on that front.

And thank you, friggin' "Beezus and Ramona" for making me want to call the creator of Maverick "Henry Huggins" instead of "Roy". That didn't make me feel insane or anything. Except I probably still am, because I have gone on and on about this and nobody cares at all.

What about the A-Team?

On names and Dukes of Hazzard, I was creeped out when I worked at the after school place, and kids there sometimes called me Uncle Jesse, but it wasn't a Hazzard reference -- it was Full House by then.