Assignment 1-4-5: Formulas

The show begins with the guys sitting around the work area at the shop, discussing the length of their beards.  They go back and forth as to who has the longest beard.  Willie walks in to the shop to tell them they need to get to work and that he is leaving to go to a sales meeting and that Jase has to sign for a package at 4:00. Of course as soon as Willie leaves the guys are off on their next hunting adventure fixing up the hunting blind. After they fixed up the hunting blind, they realized the keys were hanging in the ignition and the doors where lock. Jase had to be back at the shop to sign for the package at 4:00. He ends up making it back to the shop just in time to sign for the package. The shows ends with the whole family sitting around the table eating dinner and Willie is telling you what lesson had been learned and how they have come closer together because it. 

Every Duck Dynasty show goes through the same series of events and ends in the same manner every time.  The show starts a little different every time but of most of the time it starts out with the guys sitting in the shop area and Willie comes in and gives them a hard time. Then they usually go do something with hunting and fishing that turns out to get all messed up and they end up learning something. Then it ends with them sitting around the table praying to God and as they are panning around the table of everyone praying at dinner you hear Willie’s voice and he starts giving his thoughts on the lesson learned in the show and how it has brought their family closer together. For instance in the March 06, 2013 episode Here Lizard, Lizard they start the show with Willie leaving and the guys accidentally let a large lizard loose and he gets lost in the warehouse. They solve the problem and learn a few lessons along the way. Then they end the show in the same way with pray and thoughts. 

Duck Dynasty does follow a formula in the way the show unfolds. It starts out they are at working, but plan to do some hunting or like thing. While they are hunting they get into a dilemma that they eventually and have.  Then the show ends with pray and thoughts over the lesson learned. It runs in that classic formula a lot of plays, movies or TV shows follow where a group of people sneak out of work/school and go on an adventure, getting into trouble along the way and growing as a person then ending the show on a good note everyone is happy and a little closer. Does real life follow a formula in the way it unfolds? 

References

Robertson, (March 06, 2013). Duck Dynasty. Here, Lizard, Lizard. Retrieved from http://www.aetv.com/duck-dynasty/video/here-lizard-lizard-20754499917?pfilter=ALL%20VIDEOS

Robertson, (March 13, 2013). Duck Dynasty. Hallu-Si-Nations. Retrieved from http://www.aetv.com/duck-dynasty/video/hallu-si-nations-21396035943?pfilter=ALL%20VIDEOS