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"Dueling Banjos" is an instrumental
composition that was made famous in a scene
from the 1972 movie Deliverance. The scene
depicts Billy Redden playing the piece
opposite actor Ronny Cox on guitar. Redden
plays "Lonnie" a mentally retarded, inbred,
extremely gifted banjo player.
The piece was arranged and performed for the
movie by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell and
was on the movie's soundtrack album. The
piece was originally composed by Arthur
"Guitar Boogie" Smith and Don Reno as Feuding
Banjos in 1955.
References in popular culture
The composition is a mainstay of the band
Hayseed Dixie. It is on their fifth album, A
Hot Piece of Grass, and is performed as the
closing song at the majority of their live
performance.
The band's main banjo player is Don Wayne
Reno, son of one of the work's co-composers
Don Reno.
In The King of Queens 2001 episode "Whine
Country", it is used when Arthur and Spence
are camped in a forest. Two people are
watching them, and one observes that Spence
has 'a pretty mouth'.
In the 2007 series finale "China Syndrome",
Arthur Spooner wants the harpist at his
wedding ceremony to play the piece.
In The Simpsons episode "Boy Scoutz N' The
Hood", where Bart becomes a Junior Camper
after drinking a squishy-induced sugar high
beverage from Apu, they reference Deliverance
("Dueling Banjos" playing while a shadowy
figure giggles and watches the raft not
carrying Bart, Homer, Rod and Ned Flanders on
it while it floats downstream).
In the Irish sitcom Father Ted episode "Good
Luck, Father Ted", two of Craggy Island's
locals parody the "Dueling Banjos" sequence
from the movie Deliverance.
In the Family Guy episode "The Perfect
Castaway", Peter Griffin engages Michael
Moore in a flatulence contest in the style of
"Dueling Banjos".
"Dueling Xylophones" by the comedian Bill
Bailey
"Dueling Tubas" by Martin Mull
"Dueling Brandos" performed by John Belushi
and Peter Boyle on Saturday Night Live.
In the computer game The Curse of Monkey
Island, Guybrush Threepwood challenges a
pirate barber into a banjo duel at Plunder
Island.
Robin Williams does a short called "Dueling
Planets" on his Reality, What a Concept
album.
A skit called "Dueling Carsons/Foxworthys" is
used on ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats.
Radio-host Ed Schultz uses "Dueling Banjos"
as part of a recording involving Condoleezza
Rice and Colin Powell over Iraq.
In Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My
Vacation, Babs and Buster Bunny meet a small
colony of country opossum. Buster has a banjo
duel with one of them using his tongue, while
the opossum's family tries to eat Babs.
In the Married with Children episode "The
Camping Show", Al Bundy and Steve Rhoades are
replaying the banjo scene ("Dueling Banjos")
of that film, in which Ed O'Neill was
incorrectly rumored to have had a small
cameo.
In the opening scene of the Home Improvement
episode "Back In The Saddle Shoes Again", Tim
and Al have a contest on Tool Time to
determine whose drywall banjo has the better
compound in it. As "Dueling Banjos" plays in
the background, they each start to use their
banjos on a sheet of drywall (at first
alternating between the parts, but later
turning into a frenzy before fading to the
opening credits).
In The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. 2
part episode "High Treason", Pete Hutter and
Sheriff Aaron Viva pass the time in their
cell acting out the famous "Dueling Banjos"
song from the film Deliverance.
In the Futurama episode "The Deep South", the
gang finds the old city of Atlanta. After the
Colonel introduces them, Bender sings the
first line of the tune.
In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
episode "Harvey's Civvy", Judge Mentok the
Mindtaker and newfound rival Shado the Brain
Thief begin an impromptu challenge of mind
powers to a tune similar to "Dueling Banjos",
before retiring to a bar in the middle of a
trial.
In the The Beverly Hillbillies film, the
extended members of the Clampett family play
"Dueling Banjos" in an airplane.
In the NCIS episode "Suspicion", Tony and
McGee sing the opening part of "Dueling
Banjos" to explain to Ziva what Boondocks
are.
In the anime Cowboy Bebop there is a in-show
program called Big Shot that the bounty
hunters of the Bebop use as reference to
catch all their bounties. In the start of the
opening tune of Big Shot, the tune sounds
very familiar to the ending banjo segment of
"Dueling Banjos". And if one has a close
enough listening ear, it seems as if the
entire banjo part of the song is playing in
the background.
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