'Duck Dynasty' Show Canceled In Missouri Due To Low Ticket Sales

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – APRIL 18, 2014, 12:24 PM EDT

The "Duck Dynasty" clan isn't the draw it used to be. Not even in the Bible Belt. Promoters announced last month that members of the Robertson family would appear at a show titled "Faith, Family & Ducks" at an 11,000-seat arena in Springfield, Mo.

For $37, $50 or $58, fans could enjoy live music and hear the bayou millionaires talk about "living the American dream" while staying true to their "family values and modest lifestyle." But according to local media reports, the April 27 event has been canceled due to low ticket sales.

The golden era for the A&E reality series appears to be over. Ratings for last month's season five finale were down almost 30 percent from the previous year. The season opened to disappointing ratings a month after the family's patriarch, Phil Robertson, made racist and homophobic remarks in an interview with GQ.

A&E briefly suspended Robertson before capitulating to conservatives like Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal.

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[HockeyMom]

1. Clearance $2 Duck Dynasty Tshirts

This is in SW Florida. They had stacks of them in all sizes and colors.

[LLD]

15. Shirts that only real rednecks would be caught wearing.

[blueamy66]

21. $1 Duck Dynasty iced tea cups

at WalMart here.

[Beartracks]

24. Poor WalMart. Our local store had a shitload....

... of Duck Dynasty merch in stock when the shit hit the fan.

I'll have to keep an eye out for the bargain bins (out of curiosity), but without specifically looking for it I haven't noticed any obvious DD stuff still around. Quite the opposite of a few months ago. Those fake rednecks were EVERYwhere.
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[blueamy66]

25. I almost bought one.

I am a crazy iced tea drinker and I do like Si....he's just so funny. I wonder how many of his "Si-isms" are really his.

I try not to watch the show, but every now and then...

[pinboy3niner]

2. Duck Dynasty mania is listed as a psychiatric mallardy in DSM-5

[KamaAina]

6. DUzy!!

[Cooley Hurd]

7. rofl!!!!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

17. Quackery!

[Treant]

22. Fortunately, that humor

passed me by. I ducked.

[Grassy Knoll]

26. Nice !!!

[Blue Owl]

38. Most insurance policies won't cover that bill...

n/t

[GeorgeGist]

3. I've seen a Duck Dynasty clearance rack at the local WalMart.

[arcane1]

4. The ticking clock ticks, and having ticked, moves on.

Time's up!

[Politicalboi]

5. I think the reason for this is

Not because of what they said, but how they "really" live. They got caught with their Khakis on.

[immoderate]

10. It could also be their limited repertoire.

Who is to say, but did they have a lot of material?

--imm

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. I can proudly say that I never watched one episode. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

[Frank Cannon]

34. Me neither. I honestly thought it was a Disney Donald Duck spinoff.

Imagine my crushing disappointment when I heard what it was really about.

[Tarheel_Dem]

41. +1

[alp227]

9. Hey right wingers, how's that free market working out for ya now?

Apparently, in a free market, not all "free speech" goes! HA! You just got owned by your own economic ideology!

[Beartracks]

28. Sometimes the invisible hand give a VERY visible finger! LOL n/t

[Cirque du So-What]

11. If they've lost Springfield, MO

they're toast.

[Initech]

12. HA HA!!!!

[Strelnikov_]

13. I'd say $37 a head tickets in Springfield

just to see these yahoo's had a bit to do with it.

[tazkcmo]

35. I agree

I just moved from a small town about an hour south of Springfield. Unemployment rate is above 45% and most of the working folks there are poor, poor and poorer. Those ticket prices are way too expensive for the DD crowd especially after you figure in the cost of gas for a round trip to Springfield in a gas guzzling pick-em-up truck.

[louis-t]

14. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

[tularetom]

16. I wouldn't read anything political into this

A show like DD has a very limited shelf life. There are just so many contrived situations that can be created and once they have all been used, you experience deja vu every time you watch.

And it was so obviously fake, even the target demographic was able to see through it.

The DD boys conned the public out of a few mill, so more power to them. I hope they invested wisely, because the gravy train is about to be derailed.

[Exposethefrauds]

20. as long as the hunting stuff sells they will be fine

if the hunting business is hurt they we will know it was there base seeing through the fraud.

I did not watch the show or hunt, did not really care about it at all except for Phil Robertson's football story which is interesting and I don't even follow football anymore, did in the old days when Bradshaw played and the last game I watched was in 1980 or 81 cant really remember.

Me I am going to kick back and enjoy the schadenfreude

[joeybee12]

18. Heck, if these bigots can't sell tix where they elect anti-Semites as mayors...

Their days are over!

My reference is to a post about an interview with a mayor of some town in Missouri who knew Miller and said he shared his beliefs, but wouldn't elaborate.

[lpbk2713]

19. I still haven't forgotten about Cracker Barrel's flip-flop.

I don't expect to walk through their doors ever again.

They can go pound sand AFAIC. They made a business
decision, now thay can live with it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. they outlasted their 15 minutes of fame

[IDemo]

27. I think they did just fine in Idaho last month, no surprise n/t

[Paladin]

29. Once it was divulged that their "family values" included 14 year-old brides.....

....their downfall was quick, and very gratifying. Good riddance.

[freebrew]

30. Well, due to the red-state syndrome...

We're mostly laid-off, fired, working for less than minimum wage.

The rednecks here in the bible belt probably just can't afford it.

[Lint Head]

31. Wonder if there is any cheap Duck Dynasty toilet paper?

[Initech]

32. ...

[left on green only]

33. I Live In A Red Red Neck Area Of California (Yes, Strange, But Not A Paradox).....

.......and the local feed and grain store here had two huge cardboard boxes filled with the DD logo doggie beds for all them there huntin' retriever dogs to be a sleepin' on when they're not retrieving all those writhing in agony, half dead, drowning, sorry ass ducks that the heroes (I mean "sportsmen&quot shoot down with their 121 gauge, 1/4 mile wide spray, military cannons with laser sights. And it floored me to see that the feed & grain store couldn't even give those padded rags away, such is the pedestal those said heroes see themselves perched upon when compared with the likes of Phil Robertson's fetish for a little chicken.

[tazkcmo]

36. Real rednecks

don't treat the hunting dog as pets and the minority that do don't let them in the house because of ticks and fleas.

[Blue Owl]

37. PUPPET SHOW and duck dynasty

n/t

[Iggo]

39. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of frauds.

Fuck 'em.

[grahamhgreen]

40. Typo - cancelled