Honolulu, HI: In light of social unrest following Duane “Dog” Chapman’s publicized racist slurs in November of 2007, the A&E reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter suspended filming for its fifth season. Finally, at the end of June, the filming that was completed will be aired in a shorter season of the hit reality show.
There is speculation that this will be the final season that follows the normal guidelines of Dog the Bounty Hunter. The show
regularly featured Duane “Dog” Chapman, wife Beth Smith Chapman, sons Leland and Duane Lee, associate Tim Chapman, and daughter Baby Lyssa, as they run the family business of bounty hunting. They would pick up tips via their company Da Kine Bail Bonds, pile into their SUV, and find the fugitive and bring him or her to jail, mostly by force. Coincidentally, that force also forced ratings to go up.
After the blow to Duane’s status in relation to the publicized racial comments, Duane has planned to change the focus of the show after this season, and change the name to Dog The Jehovah’s Witness.
“The idea came to me after seeing a skit on television where a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses were being harassed by the couple whose home they were in front of. I started thinking, ‘Hey, these Christ-loving people don’t deserve to be treated like that.’ So I grabbed up my Bible, dressed the family in white and black, and started quoting scripture to people, Dog-style!”
Dog Style apparently became known as literally “banging down people’s doors” as Chapman and his bunch spread the word by literally smacking people around and jamming pamphlets down people’s throats. At least six people required immediate medical attention during the initial one hour filming.
“Sure, it may be a bit much, but it’s good television, and I’m helping people find Christ in ways other televangelists never thought possible. I’m helping people live in morality, even if it’s eating and breathing through a tube. It’s better then the hurt they’re going to feel when the Devil’s got them drowning in molten lava in the depths of Hell, right?”
When it was mentioned to Duane that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not believe in that definition of Hell, and that they would never allow the blood transfusions that Duane’s new “converts” were getting, Duane flew into a rage which left this reporter only able to dictate this article to his assistant.