6.9/10170 votes#1 - Family Funny Business
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/21/2012
Family Funny Business - Willie gets fed up with Phil and Jase's lax attitudes regarding work in the series premiere of this reality show about a Louisiana family who operate a thriving business manufacturing duck-hunting gear.
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7.1/10137 votes#2 - CEO for a Day
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/21/2012
Phil decides to teach his grandkids the value of a hard day's work by building a football field and culminating in a family football game. But Robertson vs. Robertson competition is further sparked between brothers when Willie and Jase make a side bet that Jase can't handle the responsibility of being CEO of a day.
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7.0/10120 votes#3 - High Tech Redneck
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/28/2012
After a big order comes in Willie pushes the Duck Commander team to meet the tight deadline, so Jase and the warehouse guys come up with a plan to build a conveyer belt. Elsewhere, Phil and Si declare war on the beavers whose dams are disrupting the water supply.
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7.3/10134 votes#4 - Frog in One
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/28/2012
Brotherly competition gets the best of Willie when he ditches his kids' career day to go play golf with Jase. Stepping in for Willie, Phil and Si show up at the school and become the teachers' worst nightmare. Later that night, Jase returns to the golf course to hunt the prized bullfrogs he'd seen earlier. Unfortunately for him, country club security is also there.
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6.9/1089 votes#5 - Redneck Logic
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/4/2012
After blowing up one of Phil's dangerously antiquated duck blinds, the Robertson boys hatch a wild plan to build a luxury duck blind in the sky. Meanwhile, Ms. Kay and the Robertson women hold a yard sale and sell some of the boys' most prized possessions, which the boys don't exactly appreciate when they find out.
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6.9/1097 votes#6 - Too Close for Comfort
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/4/2012
Jase feels being COO of Duck Commander entitles him to a new office. But when Willie refuses, Jase hatches a plan to build one anyhow. Willie takes Miss Kay and the grandkids to the petting zoo where Miss Kay decides she needs Willie to buy her goats, just like she had growing up on a farm. But, Willie's patience is put to the test when he returns to the warehouse to find that Jase has made some changes.
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7.3/10102 votes#7 - Leave It to Beavers
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/11/2012
It's duck blind maintenance time again and the boys have discovered the waterline is low. At the levee, they realize this is the work of Phil's bucktoothed arch nemesis...THE BEAVER. Phil enlists the help of the Robertson men to go on a mission to destroy the pesky vermin. Problem is, they keep coming up beaver-less. Ms. Kay decides she wants to open her own restaurant. As a test run she takes over a local restaurant for one night and recruits the family to help. With her experience feeding a huge family, she figures it will be piece of cake.
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6.9/1090 votes#8 - A Big Duck-ing Call
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/11/2012
It's the 40-year anniversary of Duck Commander and this celebration is a redneck Robertson style shindig. To top off the event, Willie decides to construct the world's largest duck call to be revealed at the party. On the home-front, Ms. Kay is tired of the constant upkeep of their house and decides it's high time they spend some of their hard earned money on a brand new home, but house hunting is not Phil's kind of hunting.
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7.2/10105 votes#9 - Sauvignon Beard
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/18/2012
Willie decides to expand the Duck Commander brand into the winemaking industry and buys a vineyard...sight unseen. While the family is off helping at the vineyard, Phil and Si take over babysitting duties for the granddaughters. Who will prevail?
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7.0/1095 votes#10 - Plan Bee
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/25/2012
While out duck hunting, Willie, Jase, and Uncle Si stumble across what redneck's consider nature's most prized succulent treasure--a beehive dripping with wild honey. Knowing the possibilities are endless for this redneck decadence the men decide to capture the hive. Back at the office, its Martin and Godwin to the rescue when Korie and Jessica get themselves in to some trouble while trying to find duck decoys to use in the Duck Commander carnival game at the West Monroe Harvest Fest.
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6.8/1090 votes#11 - Daddy's Got a Gun
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/2/2012
When Willie finds out that his daughter Sadie has a new boyfriend, he wants to get to know him, while instilling some fatherly fear--Robertson style.
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6.6/1073 votes#12 - Fishin' for Business
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/9/2012
To prove once and for all who rules the river AND the boardroom, Willie and Jase revive their childhood rivalry and go head-to-head in a fishing competition with the added challenge of having to sell their catch. They bring their sons, John Luke and Cole, for a little lesson in business...and defeating kin. Three generations of Robertson men battle for victory when Phil and Si tag along offering their sage advice...or annoyance. To expand the women's line at Duck Commander, Korie suggests Miss Kay to launch her own apron line. While she excels in most domestic duties, Miss Kay cannot sew, nor can any of the Robertson women. But that doesn't stop them from trying and failing...repeatedly.
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7.4/1097 votes#13 - Redneck Roadtrip
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/16/2012
Jase volunteers to take the Duck Commander RV out on pick up, but neglects to mention to Willie, he's taking Si, Martin and Jep along for a road trip. Back home, Phil and Willie have to use some redneck logic when Ms. Kay calls them to get rid of a gator she found in the yard.
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6.8/1087 votes#14 - Winner, Winner Turkey Dinner
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/23/2012
Jase and Si embark on a turkey hunt for the annual Robertson men vs. Robertson women cook-off to create a feast of fresh wild game. With Phil's discerning palate as judge, the teams pull out all of the stops with their best country cookin' secrets. Phil decides to visit the Duck Commander office after he hurts his ankle while working on the land. To keep himself occupied, he decides to go work in the office. But it's been a while since Phil has stepped foot in the warehouse and things have changed quite a bit.
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7.0/1081 votes#15 - Willie Stay or Willie Go
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/23/2012
When a big business decision must be made affecting Duck Commander, Willie plans an employee retreat. But trust falls and rope courses are not the type of team building that for this group. Phil steps in with the true Robertson way and gets everyone back to nature. The camping trip gets derailed when Si stumbles upon some giant snapping turtles!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Family Funny Business" is the best rated episode of "Duck Dynasty" season 1. It scored 6.9/10 based on 170 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/21/2012. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "CEO for a Day".