49 Fun Facts About Duck Dynasty

On which cable network did Duck Dynasty air from 2012 to 2017?

A&E launched the show in March 2012 and, late in 2013, suspended Phil over a magazine interview, then took him back after the family said it could not imagine the show without him.

Phil Robertson's catchphrase 'happy, happy, happy' became the title of what in 2013?

His memoir took the phrase from a 1950s childhood lived, he wrote, 'like it was the 1850s', in which the family was 'always happy, happy, happy no matter the circumstances'.

In which Louisiana town is Duck Commander based?

West Monroe is where the Robertson family home doubled as the first Duck Commander factory, with every call assembled, packed and shipped from the house.

Which singer cancelled a 2013 Jimmy Kimmel appearance over the Duck Dynasty cast?

Morrissey called the duck hunters 'animal serial killers' and cancelled, so Kimmel booked the band Churchill instead and mocked the boycott on air.

Willie Robertson of Duck Dynasty sang on which TV competition in 2021?

The Masked Singer hid Willie inside a duck costume as 'Mallard' for its sixth season; he was unmasked in the same episode as designer Bobby Berk.

Which band's song "Sharp Dressed Man" served as Duck Dynasty's theme?

ZZ Top closed the circle in 2017: at Uncle Si's farewell party in the series finale, the band walked on as his backing group and played the theme with him.

Uncle Si of Duck Dynasty narrated a 2013 Christmas special for which animated children's series?

VeggieTales cast him as the storyteller of Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas, where he also turns up on screen as the mall's janitor.

What did Phil and Miss Kay do in Duck Dynasty's fourth-season premiere?

Renewed their wedding vows: the family planned a surprise ceremony on their own land while Si kept the couple busy, and 11.8 million viewers tuned in.

Phil Robertson started ahead of which future NFL quarterback at Louisiana Tech?

Terry Bradshaw was Phil Robertson's backup at Louisiana Tech before Robertson quit football for duck hunting; Bradshaw went on to win four Super Bowls with Pittsburgh.

What was Phil Robertson's job before he founded Duck Commander?

Schoolteacher: with a master's in education he taught and coached for several years, then whittled his first call in 1972 while the family ran fishing nets to keep food on the table.

Phil Robertson carved his early Duck Commander calls from which Louisiana wood?

Cedar from north Louisiana swamps supplied the wood, and Phil handcrafted calls from it for 25 years before the company took off.

Which kind of album did the Robertsons of Duck Dynasty take to number one on Billboard's country chart in 2013?

A Christmas album: Duck the Halls paired the family with George Strait and Luke Bryan and sold 69,000 copies in its first week, enough for fourth place on the Billboard 200.

Which of Phil and Kay's sons is the only adult male in the family without a beard?

Alan joined the show in season four with the mock title of 'Beards and Beauty Wrangler', the family's name for public relations.

Phil Robertson's eldest son left Duck Commander to do what before rejoining the family business?

Become a preacher: he spent years in the pulpit, then came back in 2013 to handle public relations, saying the show would let him 'minister to a lot more people'.

Who ran manufacturing at Duck Commander and tuned the duck calls by hand?

Jase Robertson built and hand-tuned the calls, trying, he said, to reproduce the duck sounds he had heard: 'That's what I do all day long.'

Which title did Willie Robertson hold at Duck Commander throughout Duck Dynasty's original run?

Chief executive: Willie took over a living-room operation by the river and built it into a multimillion-dollar brand, adding Buck Commander for deer hunters in 2006.

What is the name of Willie Robertson's wife, who co-founded the family's production company?

Korie first met Willie in third grade, when he asked her on a moonlit hike; their company, Tread Lively, went on to co-produce the 2025 sequel series.

What does Jep Robertson, the youngest son, do for Duck Commander?

Jep Robertson films and edits the family's Duckmen hunting DVDs; he and his wife Jessica later headlined the 2016 spin-off Jep & Jessica: Growing the Dynasty.

Uncle Si is rarely seen without iced tea in what kind of cup?

Uncle Si drinks his iced tea from a blue Tupperware cup his mother sent him overseas during his Army service; it became his on-screen trademark.

What was Uncle Si's job at Duck Commander?

Making the reeds for the calls was, by Si's own reckoning, an easy job, yet he was forever drifting off task for a story or a nap in the warehouse.

Uncle Si is a veteran of which war?

Vietnam: Si was drafted after dropping out of Louisiana Tech, made the Army his career until 1993, and later told war stories that kept putting the workshop behind schedule.

Which NFL team approached Phil Robertson before he gave up football for duck hunting?

Washington Redskins scouts came calling after his junior year at Louisiana Tech, but he said a flooded wood full of mallards did his heart more good than football.

Sadie Robertson finished as runner-up on which TV competition in 2014?

Dancing with the Stars took Sadie, then 17, to its fall 2014 final with partner Mark Ballas, where only Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince finished ahead of her.

What did Jep and Jessica Robertson reveal on the 2016 premiere of their Duck Dynasty spin-off?

Their newly adopted son, Jules Augustus, nicknamed Gus, made his debut in the first episode of Growing the Dynasty, joining the couple's four older children.

What is the name of Sadie Robertson's podcast?

WHOA That's Good is the podcast Sadie hosts under Live Original, the ministry that grew out of her 2014 bestselling book of the same name.

Mia Robertson, Phil's granddaughter, was born with which medical condition?

Mia Robertson was born with a cleft lip and palate; her parents later founded the Mia Moo Fund to help families facing the same diagnosis.

Rebecca, the family's foster daughter, first came to the Robertsons as an exchange student from where?

Taiwan: Rebecca arrived as an exchange student, stayed for good as one of the family, and later opened a clothing boutique in her adopted home town.

What business does neighbour Mountain Man run when he is not co-hosting his radio show?

Air-conditioning repair is Mountain Man's trade: when a heat wave knocked out the warehouse's unit in season two, Willie hired him, and the crew cooled off at the lake while he took his time over the fix.

Duck Commander's John Godwin, besides building calls and running shipping, holds what specialist title?

Decoy technician is Godwin's main title in hunting season: he works out exactly where the decoys should be placed and readies the gear for the next day's hunt.

Phil Robertson was suspended by the network in December 2013 over remarks in an interview with which magazine?

GQ ran Drew Magary's profile in its January 2014 issue and the network suspended Phil at once, but with no filming scheduled he never missed an episode.

How long did the network's December 2013 suspension of Phil Robertson last?

The suspension lasted nine days: announced on December 18, 2013 and lifted on December 27, with the network promising a public-service campaign promoting tolerance.

Which Louisiana governor guest-starred in the Duck Dynasty season-six episode "Governor's Travels"?

Bobby Jindal came to present Duck Commander with an award and ended up playing warehouse basketball with the crew, months after backing Phil in the 2013 magazine row.

In 2014 Duck Commander was title sponsor of a NASCAR Cup race at which track?

The Duck Commander 500 ran at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth from 2014 to 2016, taking over the spring race previously branded the Samsung 500 and NRA 500.

What is the subtitle of the Duck Dynasty sequel series that premiered in June 2025?

The Revival arrived on June 1, 2025, eight years after the original ended, with the family's own production company on board and the cameras on the next generation.

What diagnosis for Phil Robertson did the family announce in 2024?

Alzheimer's: a son revealed the diagnosis in December 2024, along with a blood disease, saying his father still talked of getting back to work; Phil died on May 25, 2025.

What is the title of the 2023 biopic about Phil and Kay's early relationship?

The Blind, produced by members of the family, dramatizes Phil's drinking years and the faith that saved his marriage, and stops in 1985, long before the TV fame.

What is the name of the podcast Phil Robertson hosted with two of his sons?

Unashamed is where the family broke the news of Phil's final illness in December 2024, with one son saying his father still hoped to return to the microphone.

Roughly how much did Duck Dynasty merchandise sales reach in 2013?

Merchandise brought in about $400 million in 2013; add the advertising and almost $500 million was riding on the show when its star was suspended that December.

Cartoon Network's MAD parodied Duck Dynasty by mashing it up with which cartoon?

DuckTales met the Robertsons in 'McDuck Dynasty', a sketch in which Scrooge McDuck tries to recruit Huey, Dewey and Louie into his duck-call business.

What did Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fear his grandchildren were turning into?

Yuppies was Phil's verdict on a generation raised with modern gadgets, and the show's licensed phone game ran the joke backwards, turning a yuppie into a full-blown redneck.

Roughly how much did Phil Robertson's duck calls bring in during Duck Commander's first year?

About $8,000 was the whole first-year take, and Miss Kay fed the family on it while they ran fishing nets on the side.

How does nearly every episode of Duck Dynasty end?

A family dinner with a prayer closes almost every episode, usually led by Phil, who said he once challenged producers for trimming Jesus's name from the grace.

Before Duck Dynasty, the Robertsons fronted an Outdoor Channel hunting series sponsored by which shotgun maker?

Benelli put its name on Benelli Presents Duck Commander from 2009, and a deer-hunting sister show, Buck Commander, followed a year later.

In 2013, Duck Dynasty topped Yahoo's pop-culture searches for what?

Halloween costumes: the Robertsons out-searched even Walter White that October, and a ready-made Uncle Si outfit was on sale.

Which professional wrestler appeared in the Duck Dynasty season-nine episode "Van He'llsing"?

Kurt Angle, the Olympic gold medallist, was brought in by Willie to toughen up young River, only for Willie and Jep to end up on the mat themselves.

Duck Commander put its name on which college football bowl game in 2014?

Independence Bowl: the Shreveport game took the Duck Commander name for 2014 only, and by the following summer Camping World had replaced it as title sponsor.

Which NASCAR driver guest-starred in the Duck Dynasty season-two episode "Drag Me to Glory"?

Clint Bowyer dropped by the Duck Commander warehouse in 2012, and the crew's excitement over his ride ended in a drag race between him and Willie.

John Luke Robertson became director of which Christian summer camp in Calhoun, Louisiana, in 2019?

Camp Ch-Yo-Ca in Calhoun, Louisiana, is the Christian summer camp where John Luke's parents first met as children; he took over as its director in 2019.

On which streaming service did Duck Family Treasure premiere in 2022?

Fox Nation launched the spin-off in June 2022, sending two Robertson brothers and Uncle Si after buried treasure with metal detectors and history expert Murry Crowe.