What happens
when you take a family of down home rednecks and plop them in the middle of the
Hamptons of New York in an over 4 million dollar house and add Tom Arnold
popping in occasionally with a comment?
You get the premise of CMT’s show, “My Big Redneck Vacation”. This show follows this lively, beer swigging,
gun toting, rowdy family from their home in Shreveport, LA, to the fancy, wine
drinking, polo playing, and upper class life of the Hamptons.
You first meet
the Clampets (yes, their last name is Clampet) in their homes in the swamps of
Louisiana. You know right away that this
rowdy bunch of rednecks is going to be fun to watch. They pack up everything, including their
off-road vehicles, coolers full of beer, and chickens, and caravan in trucks
and RV’s to their new adventure. It
takes them a couple of days, which was a new experience for most of them never
leaving their home state before.
As they are
driving through the streets in the Hamptons, you can already get a feel of what
these people are in for. They get to the
house and meet up with the renter, who is not sure, what to think of this bunch
of rednecks. After settling in, they
unload all their stuff and check out the place.
The show is a
few episodes in already, and it has been fun to watch this fish-out-of-water
group try to fit in, get their neighbors to loosen up, and have fun. The lady’s take lessons on refinement and the
men get drunk while fishing in the lake behind the house as speed boats rush
by. They even decide to have a BBQ to
meet their neighbors serving them possum, raccoon, and snake with a whole lot
of beer to wash it down. This hardy
bunch wouldn’t even let hurricane Irene chase them out of their home. They just boarded up the windows and
partied. The next day, the yard was a
muddy mess so they just pulled out the off-road vehicles, added homemade sleds
to the back of them, invited the neighbors, and had a mucky time. They topped off the day by washing off the mud
in the pool. I would hate to be their
renters but would love to be their neighbors.
I can’t wait to see what is next.
So come along
and join in every Saturday night on CMT to see what other kinds of mischief the
Clampets get into. (Check your local listings for time.)
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hahaha I miss having cable just for stuff like this. Especially Wife Swap.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they are an amusing bunch to watch.
ReplyDeleteNo way is their last name Clampet! That's just insane. I know some people from Shreveport, LA, so I let out a hardy laugh when I read where the Clampets were from. :)
ReplyDeleteYou talked me into checking this out, but all my family in West Virginia are rednecks, so its likely to be like a family reunion.
ReplyDeleteI saw this name on our TV menu thing but I didn't check into it further. This sounds like a riot. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteOh my gawd. This show is funny! My husband got me out of bed in the middle of the night because he stumbled across it. Now he records the episodes. Great post to spread the word!
ReplyDeleteJustine, I wonder if your friends are watching, lol. The Clampets are sticking to their ways no matter what the people of the Hamptons think.
ReplyDeleteSis, you will feel right at home...tee hee.
Courtney, Tom Arnold was on a talk show plugging this show and I thought it sounded like a great premise for a show; a bunch of rednecks living in the Hamptons. I was right, it has been amusing.
LOL, Annie I also record the show and got not only my hubby watching it but my father-in-law too.
ReplyDeleteLove this show! Love the Clampets! Great fun!
ReplyDeleteDoug was drinking and driving on the way home in the last episode .you can clearly see the wide mouth of his bud light beer can which was in the coozie.Thats a nurse drinking while driving on the LONG road home from NewYork to Lousiana.How Safe is that
ReplyDeletei doesnt matter whether or not he s drinking..... hes a redneck. It's still fun stuff to watch. I wish i was a redneck. :)
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