Better get your fill of Duck Dynasty

[BrotherBart]

I have had my fill of Duck Dynasty and I have never seen the show.

 

[stoveguy2esw]

ive watched a few episodes, just doesnt interest me much at all. as for "reality" shows, i watch cooking shows like Top Chef , chopped, iron chef and the like , but the " KK's, snooky's, "honey boo boo", "real" "housewives" of "where ever" (aka 3 lies for the price of 1) show should be called "fake ex trophy wives of where ever"

i could care less than less about them.

 

[webbie]

I watched it once and the "excitement" was a guy sweating when the A/C broke in the factory....and how slow (this is the south, remember) the HVAC guy was.......

Now that's show biz!

In the future we'll just install video out from our eyeballs or google glasses....not more need for "actors".

 

[webbie]

"real" "housewives" of "where ever" (aka 3 lies for the price of 1) show should be called "fake ex trophy wives of where ever"

i could care less than less about them.

I have more interesting stories right in my family....oops, hope they aren't reading this.....


Let me tempt you.....so, a former (married in) member of our family offed her BF one night with a single shot to the gut.....spent some time in jail and is now a high placed official somewhere, but along the way she also married my childhood best friend, brought vast amounts of "stuff" in by sailboat and car (was caught, too!).....and that's just the tip of the iceberg of that ONE part of the story......she could write a book just on the "Orange is the new Black" angle of being in the MAX female jail....not club fed like the show and book!

Maybe it's time for our family to get millions for a show?

Are y'all really gonna tell me you have normal families and friends? Most outsiders would say ours is extremely normal, but dig down a bit and there are definitely some dramas! In fact, there is just about every drama ever made.....within just a branch or two of the family tree.

 

[tfdchief]

I have more interesting stories right in my family....oops, hope they aren't reading this one........


"Let me tempt you.....so, a former (married in) member of our family offed her BF one night with a single shot to the gut.....spent some time in jail and is now a high placed official somewhere, but along the way she also married my childhood best friend, brought vast amounts of "stuff" in by sailboat and car (was caught, too!).....and that's just the tip of the iceberg of that ONE part of the story......she could write a book just on the "Orange is the new Black" angle of being in the MAX female jail....not club fed like the show and book!

Maybe it's time for our family to get millions for a show?

Are y'all really gonna tell me you have normal families and friends? Most outsiders would say ours is extremely normal, but dig down a bit and there are definitely some dramas! In fact, there is just about every drama ever made.....within just a branch or two of the family tree.

Think you might have hit the nail on the head Webbie. And I will say after reading this entire thread, only in America. And just so you know I really enjoyed this one.......I'm a socialist liberal commie money-grubbing commune-dwelling, new england hippie who came from Philly, so what do I know?"

 

[webbie]

Philly is the original place for all that...."City of Brotherly Love" and "Quakers" are both code words for commies. In Philadelphia, a "conservative" just means a liberal with money and tweed socks and a pipe.....like Thatcher Longstreet or Arlen Spector. A Democrat is a head-busting, hippie beating eye-talian with "traditional values" like Frank Rizzo. We're all mixed up......

Rizzo would have made a great reality show!

 

[tfdchief]

Oh, and I graduated college in. 1970

 

[ironpony]

A&E has reinstated Phil. Money has spoken.............again

 

[ironpony]

Time to shut this one down, Phil has been reinstated.

 

[Paulywalnut]

I like the show. I find it amusing that the boys are actually country club kids. They took a fun idea and went with it.
I just saw today that they are taking Phil back on the show.

 

[BrotherBart]

this is the south, remember

 

[Swedishchef]

I live in Canada. Nobody wants to do a reality show here: it gets too cold. ( think about it... There is not a single one filmed where it is cold other than Highway To hell or whatever that towing reality show is called!).

We should make one though: the Real snowblowers of the North

Phil is back and now A&E are trying to save face....

Andrew

 

[flyingcow]

IMO this was a great way for them to boost ratings and gain exposure. It's that simple.

 

[Delta-T]

no worries BB....Texas ain't "the south"...it's Texas danggummit.

 

[rdust]

I would've been shocked if Phil went anywhere. The show has too much success for A&E to pull it. People have a short memory in this country, the people he offended will move on to the next person who says something dumb and forget Phil.

 

[Huntindog1]

I seen this on a fishing website posted on the main page front center top for everyone to see.

http://pages.townhall.com/campaign/th-phil-robertson/rc/GA

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[Seasoned Oak]

I have had my fill of Duck Dynasty and I have never seen the show.

I agree and i have not seen (nor want to)a single episode. Wood burners usually have more important things to do.

 

[webbie]

Townhall? Next you'll be pasting infowars and then worse! Newsmax! Wow.......the echo chamber at work......

Red Meat for some of ya! I don't take the bait either way.......whether tofu or red meat. All custom made to "anger and rile the base". Someone's coming for ya and they are gonna make you stop having hereto sex........

 

[Huntindog1]

I have no idea who town hall is just saw it on a fishing website and thought man this stuff is serious to some people.

 

[oldspark]

I live in Canada. Nobody wants to do a reality show here: it gets too cold. ( think about it... There is not a single one filmed where it is cold other than Highway To hell or whatever that towing reality show is called!).

There are several.

 

[Swedishchef]

There are several.

I don't know several..and if they exist it because we are too brain frozen to create our own so we copied others from elsewhere
(Ok..so there's world's worst drivers, undercover boss, some singing ones, etc but not many originals...no Honey boo boo yet or moonshiners! haha)

 

[Mrs. Krabappel]

The Michael/dlisted version of the a&express release ": Blah blah blah blah we love MONAY too much to let Duck Dynasty go blah blah blah"

 

[wideurt]

here's the thing, the magazine asked the questions , he answered them, the mag was likely clued in that he would likely respond the way he did to the questions. basic "gotcha" moment. is he wrong? probably so in the context of the toppic these days. as for the comments on race , who knows, if he was out there tending to the same crops alongside these folks, he would see the day to day "at work" side of things not necessarily the "national happenings" of the time. notice he didnt generalize he specified the folks he had day to day contact with (who may very well have been happy go lucky types who were working at the same jobs they had been all along) do we know? no we dont.

FWIW, A&E who apparantly have a strict "morality clause" in their contracts with the members of the casts of these shows may have determined these comments violated that clause and they are within their rights to do what they did. well and good. i have no problem with that. also , if this is their stance then maybe just maybe they should have not aired the program to start with. they have known for some time this was likely going to happen (if they didnt theyre idiots).

where i have issues with this is the diference in treatment the rest of the media has when compared to the way these things come up, the "bashir" issue with palin, the perez hilton incident with carrie prejean. the "well, he shouldnt have said that" and thats all there is. these statements are every bit as revolting but when the views of the offenders is looked at, the harshness of the coverage is literaly as benign as it can be made to look, heck in the prejean case (remember , when asked about marriage in the ms america pagent she said that she beleived a marrage should be between a man and a woman, and she got absolutely hammered for that. even after the hilton comments were"old news' the media still hammered her. and she did absolutely nothing wrong. she didnt make disparaging remarks about gays, she just said she believes in traditional marriage and left it at that.

as for Phil, i do not agree with him, i am supportive of same sex marriage (though im straight and married in the traditional manner) i simply believe its a matter of civil law, not religious tenant. remember , supporting doesnt mean participation, just acceptance that different people have diferent beliefs and these beliefs should not be constrained to "seperate but equal"

 

[begreen]

Times like this make me glad we don't have cable.

 

[fossil]

Never heard of Duck Dynasty until it came up on Hearth.com. We really talk about some stupid things here . Can't remember the last time I turned on my TV. Maybe the Super Bowl, I dunno. Maybe I'll watch the ball drop tomorrow night. Maybe not.