not<\/em> want to see this man in a hot tub.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJase, who is fine with crawling through swamps and catching live frogs to eat is suddenly squeamish at the idea of Godwin buying a used hot tub. He continues to predict doom, telling Godwin he will get hepatitis from the tub and get his hair stuck in the drain. Godwin reminds him that he doesn\u2019t have any hair.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Phil brings three of Willie\u2019s kids\u2014\u2018Lil Will, John Luke, and Bella\u2014over to harvest mayhaws, a fruit that grows wild on the Robertson property. As usual, this is an opportunity for Phil to try to pass on his backwoods wisdom to his \u201cfresh off the subdivision\u201d grandkids. As Phil says, \u201cMy grandkids are suffering from a personality crisis. That means they don\u2019t have one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Major Themes: <\/strong>Friends helping friends, intergenerational wisdom.<\/p>\nPhil is kind of like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>, trying to pass on traditions to the next generation that he fears are dying out. The scenes of mayhaw harvest, and then Phil teaching the kids about patience as they wait for the mayhaw jelly to cook, are quite touching. Phil tells them that in life, \u201cTwo things require patience: people, and mayhaw jelly.\u201d As the kids\u2019 smiles reveal when they taste the jelly, both are worth the time you spend.<\/p>\nThis scene reminds me of picking apples on my grandparents\u2019 property in Virginia when I was a kid. We had to gather up buckets and buckets of little green apples off the ground to go into my grandmother\u2019s pies and canned applesauce. The apples had a slightly sweet rotten smell and had clusters of bees on them. Some of my cousins took the opportunity to start apple fights.<\/p>\n
When spouses have joined the family via marriage, the joke among my cousins is that they have to log some hours picking apples before they can truly be kin. (My grandparents have passed on and the property has been sold, so I\u2019m not sure how this would happen.)<\/p>\n
I hate to admit it, but Phil is right. These kinds of experiences build character, patience, and form bonds between family. As he says to the kids, \u201cIt\u2019s a mayhaw-pickin, going back to your roots.\u201d Roots are important in an increasingly fragmented world.<\/p>\n
Is this for real?<\/strong> \u2018Lil Will makes an appearance in this episode. He\u2019s the adopted younger teenage son of Willie and Korrie, and is rarely on shown on the program. It\u2019s a good question in a family-based reality show what kind of effect it has on family members that may not want to participate. There\u2019s such a blurring of family life and the \u201ccharacters\u201d the show portrays that it must be a disorienting for kids who are just trying to figure out their identities. Maybe sociologists and psychologists should do studies of the effects on children that have grown up on reality TV.<\/p>\nThe Christian Angle:\u00a0<\/strong> The blessing over the family dinner at the end includes Phil thanking God for the \u201cmayhaw jelly that you raised up out of the wild.\u201d As he says to the kids while they\u2019re making the jelly, \u201cThe woods provide, never doubt it.\u201d There\u2019s a hunter\u2019s spirituality to the show, that the fullness of God is best experienced in living close to the land. The woods and Providence have a certain mystical equality. In addition to providing nutrition, the food that the land\/Providence brings forth forms a ritual glue that binds the family together. It seems Phil has the most appreciation for this orientation to God, land, and family. Followed by his oldest son, Jase, who sometimes refers to the woods as \u201cGod\u2019s grocery store.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Wrap-Up: <\/strong>Si reveals his nickname on the high school football team was \u201cKiller-Cat Robertson.\u201d What more needs to be said. <\/strong>Duck Dynasty<\/em> is on every Wednesday at 10pm Eastern, 9pm Central on A&E.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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