'Duck Dynasty' review: It'll quack you up

The boys have an idea! Before heading out to blast the sky with buckshot, they decide they must first "rough it" by camping out, although they have varying ideas about what "camping" involves. Si, Phil's younger brother, figures his nephews Willie and Jase will do fine in the woods because they could "survive a zombie apocalypse: Not much to eat and they don't have much brains." In the second part of tonight's two-parter, Willie and his wife, Korie, prepare for a 20th anniversary high school reunion.

"Duck" came out of nowhere -- a lone goose, just to mix metaphors, that plopped out of the sky right into A&E's unsuspecting lap. The show is huge, ridiculously, preposterously huge, and the question "why" is a fair one. Good ol' boy swamp rats who made big bucks from duck whistles, then launch TV's looniest surprise success of the moment?

In fact, the Robertson clan has what any decent reality show family should have and what the Osbournes once had: A sense of humor about themselves and a sense of where the camera is pointing. They are so TV savvy, so glib, so effortlessly funny at the exact right moment that you may wonder how much of this reality show is "real" and how much is canned.

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It's probably a mix, but it almost doesn't matter. The Robertsons -- Jace and Si, in particular -- have in abundance what many professional actors don't: A born-to-the-camera charm that is just about effortless. Based on tonight's first two episodes, the "Duck" dudes are about to get even bigger.