What do I think of Duck Dynasty?

Duck Dynasty

Mom, you have to watch this TV show called, Duck Dynasty!

Why? I asked. “Because I think you would like it, replied my son.”

His suggestion peaked my curiosity, so my husband and I ordered the first disk of the first season of Duck Dynasty from Netflix. We watched all six episodes in one night. My husband, Jim calls this, “A Marathon Night.” With no commercials, we watched several episodes in a little over two hours.

So what’s Duck Dynasty about?

 

You can pretty much narrow the show down to this: The life of an extended Louisiana family of redneck millionaires. They are the Robertson family and are all a part of a Duck Call Company that the Father on the show, Phil, started many years ago. One of Phil’s sons, Willie, is the CEO of the company, Duck Commander. Willie takes decisions for the business much more seriously than his siblings and his crazy eccentric, Uncle Si. Their ideas and shenanigans are much different from the CEO, Willie.

This is where the shows storyline usually takes off.

Uncle Si and Willie’s brothers repeatedly find excuses to escape from their work at the duck call warehouse so they can play. This usually means heading towards swamps, forests, bayou’s and fields. Their “play” includes catching huge frogs, shooting ducks, harnessing the honey in bee hives, blowing up beaver dams that stop the water to their property, catching big fish, shooting snakes, squirrels and so much more. They hunt for two reasons. For food or to stop danger, like the snakes.

There is often competition between the men as to who can catch and hunt the most, or build the best of things.

I love the way Phil, the Father on the show, looks so forward to bringing his wife, Ms. Kay of almost 50 years the treasures of his hunting endeavors. He repeatedly boasts of her delicious cooking skills and affirms to his grand sons the priceless gift of finding a woman who can cook and especially one who loves to cook.

There is a no-nonsense approach to teaching the grandchildren, both boys and girls about living off the land. The children watch by example, without mercy, how to skin and cut up the animals and fish they will soon be eating for supper.

Even though this show is a reality show, I have yet to find 100% reality in it. But, compared to some of the crude and immoral reality shows out in today’s world, I find Duck Dynasty an entertaining look into a conservative, faith filled extended families life. They aint perfect, but watching them play their roles as men, women and children with southern old-time cultural values is fun to watch.

Willie, the main star usually shares a positive message at the end of the show which relates to the episodes theme. Something we can glean from if we choose.

My son was right. I do like the show. Maybe it’s because I live away from the city like the Robertson family and like most of them, I have an appreciation for the simpler things in life. I enjoy nature and honest hard work with some play thrown in every so often.

Here in Pine, you will find a few bearded mountain men here and there and when I spy one, I always name them “Jasper” in my mind.

Even though we live in a rural town, we do enjoy some of the niceties of the big city like electricity and water, but then again, it’s unpredictable as to sudden cut offs or outages. Especially the electricity. We have a generator when that happens so we adapt to our surroundings and it offers us a chance to learn patience.

Frog peeking out of birdhouse

We don’t eat frog legs here, even though we do have frogs in our pond that sing to us at nausea-um certain times of the year. Deer and Elk roam free and we enjoy seeing them in our yards along with Blue birds, Javalina and other wild mountain animals, insects and critters.

My husband and I don’t hunt our local wild animals for food. Instead we mosey on down the mountain about 100 miles to hunt for food in the city jungle… at Sams Club.

 

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