Duck Dynasty: Popular Beliefs, Myths, and Icons

The theories that apply to my culture topic Duck Dynasty would be all three: Popular Beliefs, Myths and Icons. Faith comes to mind when I think of theories and the A&E show Duck Dynasty together. Every episode that is played always ends with the whole Roberston family sitting at the same table saying a prayer. Throughout each of the episodes, Phil, the dad talks about his faith and you see him in clips reading his bible. I personally think that it’s great that a show stays positive and shows their faith especially with the way society is right now. I remember watching an interview Phil had with a lady named Laura and it was regarding his book Happy, Happy, Happy he said the three most important things in his life were Faith, Family, and Ducks and in that order. He talked about Faith has got him where he is today and how it keeps his family together.  Another theory that comes to mind is guns, as guns in society now mean school, Movie Theater, mall shootings and mostly negative publicity. In Duck Dynasty, the guns show a way of living as the Robertsons’ typically kill everything they eat whether it is frogs, ducks, dove, squirrel, you name it and they kill it. They don’t view guns as dangerous and they use them in a proper manner, it’s nice to see that when society is so against guns at this moment in time. I chose Icons because the Robertsons have became Icons to the world with their show and their beliefs, they have been ranked to the top of the charts for popularity and yet they still don’t let fame get to them as they stick strong to their faith in each episode.

 The insights that I gain from applying these theories to my popular culture topic Duck Dynasty is to stay true to yourself. Phil really shows a great example of this as he is shown reading the bible in many episodes and he teaches his grand children faith and how to work for a living. There was an episode where his older grandchildren were playing on their phones inside and saying they were bored so Phil decided to make them work like the did in the old days. He had his grandchildren move hay and clean up in the yard and he told them that they didn’t have phones back then and wasn’t able to sit around and play games, he thought them the meaning of hard work to keep a house running.