Thefollowing is a list of episodes of the A&E reality television series Duck Dynasty. The series is set in West Monroe, Louisiana and stars Willie Robertson, CEO of Duck Commander, a duck call company, and his family and co-workers.
Christmas special. Willie plays Santa Claus at the local church, but the event proves disastrous when Si, as his elf helper, brings the wrong presents and scares the kids. Jase and the rest of the guys try hopelessly to put up lights and yard decorations for Miss Kay while she and Phil go hunting for a Christmas tree.
After all their hard work, Willie decides to take the entire Robertson clan on a family vacation to Kalaoa, Hawaii. But Willie's daily itinerary for the trip gets constantly undermined by the family's desire to participate in their own island activities.
The brothers' wives decide to hold a ceremony on the Robertson land for Phil and Miss Kay to renew their vows on their wedding anniversary. They send Si to keep the couple occupied for the day and draft everyone else, including Mountain Man, to make the arrangements. Si's plan to take Phil and Miss Kay on a trip down Memory Lane ends up going down a few wrong turns.
Rebecca comes home for a visit after finishing a fashion internship in Los Angeles, California, but Willie starts wondering how long she plans to stay. She later surprises him with news of her plan to start her own business. After Si contracts what he believes to be bird flu, Phil and Miss Kay let him stay in living room with them while he recovers and end up trying not to let him drive them crazy.
Mia is about to enter the hospital for surgery on her cleft lip and palate, and Jase sets up a family reunion party at her request. Willie and the guys make a mess of setting up decorations and have fun goofing around with a portable wrestling ring. Egged on by Jep, Phil and his brother-in-law Gordon get on each other's nerves as the three go duck hunting. Dozens of Robertson relatives turn out for the party, with a wrestling match featuring Hacksaw Jim Duggan as the main event.
For Willie's birthday, Jase organizes a family trip to Lake D'Arbonne, a favorite hangout of the brothers in their youth. The outing gets off to a rough start, with Jase haggling to rent a boat, no one being able to find the key to the lake house, and Phil recruiting Miss Kay and his granddaughters to catch a raccoon running loose in the house. Jase's attempts to draw Willie into fun activities fall flat until he and Jep spot a man using a water-powered jet pack and set up a chance for Willie to use it as his last and best birthday present.
The upcoming wedding of John Luke and Mary Kate has the entire Robertson clan working to put together the perfect ceremony. As Korie leads Mary Kate and the bridesmaids in search of the perfect dresses for everyone, Willie's ideas about suits and hair grooming put him at odds with the stylist John Luke brings in to outfit him and the groomsmen. The women bring John Luke in to help plan an outdoor ceremony, but his ideas drift toward the reception food; later, he and the groomsmen go skydiving while the women have a celebratory lunch. Willie offers some unorthodox advice to the couple on writing their own vows before the rehearsal and dinner. Friends and relatives pack the Robertson farmhouse lawn for the ceremony, with Willie officiating.
Willie organizes a road trip to take John Luke and Mary Kate to Liberty University for their first semester. Korie, Sadie, Jase, Missy, and Si come along for the ride. During a visit with Willie's friend Colt Ford in Nashville, Tennessee, Si drives the family crazy with his dreams of being a rock star. A housing assignment mix-up leaves John Luke and Mary Kate without a place to stay until their house is ready, so Willie leaves the Duck Commander RV with them. As the family flies home, they stop in Nashville again so Si can indulge his performing fantasy onstage with Colt. To celebrate River's seventh birthday, Jep and Jessica help him film and star in a superhero movie. Phil, Miss Kay, Martin, and Godwin end up being dragged into Jep's grandiose artistic vision, which slowly deteriorates into egotism and utter chaos.
Plans to celebrate Willie and Korie's 25th wedding anniversary keep going off the rails at every turn. Willie gets terrible gift ideas from his brothers, Korie eavesdrops on the rest of the family's party planning, and both of them realize that they have only been married for 24 years. After Jase gets a ticket for illegally parking his truck on the side of the road, Si comes up with a bizarre strategy to help him fight it in court that works even worse than expected.
Willie takes Lil' Will shopping for his first car, but the qualities they want (practical/affordable vs. sporty) and Lil' Will's desire for a motorcycle leave them at an impasse. Parents and kids team up to outmaneuver each other, with Korie helping Willie and John Luke on Lil' Will's side. Jase's idea for a "flying" duck decoy on a zip-line sends the guys to the swamp for a field test, with him doing most of the dirty work, and thoroughly fails to impress Willie.
Willie, Korie, and the guys confront Si about his sudden unusual behavior around the warehouse and learn that he has started pursuing a music career in his off-hours. He plans to retire from Duck Commander and wants a huge going-away party, taking time first to show Jep, Martin, and Godwin the secrets he has hidden around the warehouse - including a fully stocked "nap fort."
Willie, Jase, and Phil want to make one of Si's favorite duck calls from 25 years ago as a gift, but they have to go to Mississippi to have a new mold made for it. A walk around the workshop brings back memories of the company's early years.
The hourlong series finale of A&E's West Monroe-set reality show aired Wednesday night following the network's all-day "Duck" marathon and the prolific Robertson family's afternoon Facebook Live appearance in which they answered fans' questions.
The series about the Robertsons and their Duck Commander duck call and decoy empire was a ratings powerhouse for A&E in its heyday, spawning a line of merchandise, renewing the popularity of woolly facial hair, and making celebrities of patriarch Phil Robertson and his quirky, mostly bearded, clan, including Phil's malapropism-plagued brother Si, who often stole the show.
A December 2013 interview with GQ magazine turned controversial when Phil Robertson made remarks interpreted as anti-gay and racist. The network suspended him indefinitely, the show continued, and, after fan pressure, A&E reinstated him nine days later.
The Advocate reported last year that a review of Louisiana Economic Development records shows that, if the credits were cashed in, the state would owe upward of $14 million in subsidies for the show. As of mid-November, about $464,265 in credits had been issued for the show's first season. It's unclear why the rest has been left unresolved.
The synopsis for the finale episode, (titled "End of an Era") read: "Si decides to retire to pursue a music career and the family organizes a party in his honor. Meanwhile, Willie, Phil and Jase take a road trip to try to recreate an old duck call for Si's retirement gift."
And it's not the end of A&E for all the Robertsons. Phil and Kay Robertson's son Jepp and wife Jessica's spin-off series, "Jepp and Jessica: Growing the Dynasty" premiered its second season in January and new episodes are currently airing at 9 p.m. Wednesdays.
Phil Robertson, patriarch of the Robertson family on the "Duck Dynasty" reality show, offered his opinion on his son's marriage and sex life on the Wednesday night airing of the show on the A&E network.
In the sixth episode of season five, Phil's youngest son, Jep, contacts his father to help him with a home improvement project. Jep tells Phil that he wants to be sure to complete the project correctly in order to please his wife. In return, Jep hopes his wife, Jessica, will give him some "pat-pat."
"A little 'pat-pat,' son?" Phil questions. "I didn't know these little yuppie girls drive that kind of bargain up in here. What's next? A four-car garage, a little pat-pat? Honey, go out there and build me a barn and a little pat-pat. Where does it end?"
Another sub-plot of Wednesday's episode included Willie and Jase getting into a paintball fight, the winner of which would receive their favorite childhood toy, a G.I. Joe action figurine that was recovered when Miss Kay was collecting old toys for the local church toy drive.
After Phil helps Jep and Willie and Jase finish their paintball war, the Robertson family settles down for one of their traditional family meals while Willie deserves his usual closing narrative, tying the themes of the episode together.
"As a family, when you spend as much time together as we do, things can start getting a little predictable," Willie says. "There are times when you know someone so well that you feel like you can anticipate their every move. But sometimes they'll throw you for a loop."
"Like actually finishing an overly ambitious home improvement project or just nailing you in the back with a paintball," he continued. "In the end, little revelations like this keep us on our toes and teach us that no matter how much you think you know someone, there's always room to be surprised. Although in Si's case, I'm not sure I want to be surprised."
The "Duck Dynasty" reality show airs every Wednesday on the A&E network, following the lives of the Robertson family and their duck call business in West Monroe, La. Phil Robertson, an evangelical Christian, has been known to offer his opinion on marriage and relationships before. Robertson, who married his wife, Miss Kay, when the two were in their teens, found himself in hot water by advising men to marry while they are young, around 15 to 16 years of age.
"They got to where they're getting hard to find, mainly because these boys are waiting 'til they get to be about 20 years old before they marry 'em," Robertson said in a video from a Christian retreat in Georgia in 2009. "Look, you wait 'til they get to be 20 years old the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket. You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16. They'll pick your ducks."
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