While we're at it, you forgot to give Uncle Si a hilarious nickname.
Tiki Vee wrote:
I'm saying this whole show is meant to trick people into thinking this backwoods family of incest gator rasslers' are in fact a real backwoods family of incest gator rasslers'. They aren't.
1. Stop projecting your incest hang-ups on the Duck Men.
2. You're confusing "backwoods" with "small town".
3. They never claimed to be gator rasslers, although they did have to lure a gator out of Phil's garage in one episode. IIRC, they used raw chicken and there was no rasslin' involved.
Regardless, you've completely missed the point.
The initial point of the show, from A&E's standpoint was
"let's laugh at dumb redneck stereotypes".
Much like Archie Bunker
(let's laugh at dumb blue-collar stereotypes) and Alex P. Keaton
(let's laugh at dumb 80's Reaganite stereotypes), it backfired badly. Millions of people identified with, loved and laughed
with the people they were supposed to be mocking.
Quote:
People love the "downhome folksy aww shucks" charm of these simple folk who done made good...
Here's the thing, they're
not simple.
Sure, Phil grew up dirt poor, living off subsistence farming and hunting. But he was good athlete and earned a football scholarship to Louisiana Tech. He has a Bachelor's degree in Physical Education and a Master's in Education. He invented and patented really, really good duck call, and used that to start a business. He put his kids through college. Willie majored in business administration and used that knowledge to turn Duck Commander into a multi-million dollar company. It's a success story. The show doesn't hide any of this and it's all out in the open.
Same thing with the haircuts, or lack there or. Phil's been rocking the Lynyrd Skynyrd look since the 1970s. His boys came around much more slowly. Every picture you've posted has been shown on the program with along with lots of ball-busting.
They all live in a small town in Louisiana.
They manufacture duck calls and other hunting supplies.
They've become rich by doing so.
They do a lot of hunting, fishing, frog catching and golfing in their spare time.
The rest is just reality show ensuing of hijinks.
I fail to see the issue?
Ya know what. Now I'm pissed off. There are a dozen spin-offs about gigantic-assed Kardashians, 40 reality shows with dwarven women trash talking each other in every city in America, and all varieties of low-grade talent show programs, but you've reserved all your ire for Duck Dynasty?
There are infinite reality shows promoting infinite variations on narcissism, petty vanity, degeneracy, self-absorption, conspicuous consumption, mental illness and vapidity, yet you've singled out a few dudes with beards making duck calls?
What the hell?
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