
“He made squiggly drawings and he said the guys make duck calls and they light things on fire.” “Oh my God! I thought, ‘How much have you been watching this show with me?” said Amy Stewart, who was half-horrified, and half-amused. When his mother picked him up, he was holding his handmade “Duck Dynasty” book. On Friday, the 4-year-old’s pre-school teacher assigned him a book-making project on any topic.

Then there’s little James Stewart, who lives in Clayton, Ohio. “You can tell they’re not materialistic.” “They’re really funny and down-to-earth,” said Jordan, a college student. Sisters Taylor Tracy, 15, and Jordan Tracy, 19, who live in Clayton, N.C., tune in every week because they appreciate the Roberston’s “Christian and clean values.” About 4.9 million viewers are 34 and younger. No matter what differences they have, they still love each other and still try to teach respect and appreciation for family and overall morals of what it is to be a good person and contribute to society.”Įven the youngest Americans are in on the duck craze. Even though they can be crazy and funny, they are extremely hard-working and they worked their tail off to get to where they are now. The Robertsons are not doing crazy, crazy stuff. “But it’s amazing to see the cross-section of people who loves this show because I think it reaches to the very core of humanity. “It would be understandable that he would like something like this-it’s right up his alley,” she said. Instantly, Uncle Si had her laughing so hard she was near tears, despite the fact that she thought the show was designed for people like her father-a blue-collar, retired military man who lives in the Midwest and rides a Harley. Taylor’s 62-year-old father was “over the moon” when she told him, and together they started watching episodes of the show during her visit home. Duck Commander specializes in top-of-the-line duck calls and decoys made from salvaged swamp wood and employs half their neighborhood. A college football star who turned down an NFL offer because it interfered with duck season, Phil Robertson built Duck Commander, the mom-and-pop business that his son, Willie, later helped turn into a million-dollar operation with his business degree. Those episodes, of course, will play off the Robertson family of West Monroe, Louisiana, who still live in the backwoods of bayou country despite the wealth they've amassed from their duck-sporting empire. We have some fun episodes coming down the pike.

“But do I think we’ve found the ceiling yet? I don’t know but I don’t think so. “I’m a superstitious man so I don’t make predictions,” said David McKillop, A&E’s general manager and executive vice president.

Has "Duck" reached its peak audience? There's no way to know, but the network's executives aren't betting against it. They don’t like a lot of mud on their butts,” and Uncle Si explaining the many uses of the word “Hey.” By its third season finale, an average 8.4 million people were tuning in to hear Phil saying things like, “Ducks are like women. The A&E Network, as Duck Commander patriarch Phil Robertson would say, is “Happy, happy, happy.” The show premiered in March 2012 and finished its first cycle with an average 1.3 million viewers, according to data provided by Nielsen.
