Shark Week

Silly daddy!  He’s so out of tune.  Shark Week starts 07/22 – not in a couple of weeks.  Where would daddy be if I didn’t keep him in touch of these things?  And I just want to know… in the video – who is going to get the shark?

 

Shark Week

Guess what started Sunday night my friends.  You guessed it – Shark Week!  It started Sunday on the Discovery Channel.  We at the Hotel Thompson look forward to this every single year.  It’s so much fun to see sharks – on television of course.  Now when mom/dad go to the beach, they will think twice about putting their piggies in the ocean.

And never fear, Discovery Channel has promised not to make the mistake they did back in 2013 when they ticked everyone off during Shark Week.  Do you remember what they did?  They showed  “Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives”.  Everyone watched it including us here and then learned that was two hours we couldn’t get back.  The show was about the possibility  that the giant megalodon shark was still alive. After the show, it was revealed that the “scientists” in the show were really actors and the events in the documentary were scripted.  The Discovery Channel got so much backlash for that it wasn’t even funny.  And then can you believed that even after all that bad publicity, the Discovery Channel showed the sequel in 2014, “Megalodon: The New Evidence.”  Of course, by then we were all like, “Really Discovery Channel?”

We *almost* didn’t watch last year because of their stupid melodrama but for some reasons the sharks kept calling our names.

Even Houdini is getting into Shark Week this year.  Mom put his costume on and he was running around the Hotel Thompson.  I kept calling him Shark Bait – it was really funny to watch.

So my friends – will you be watching Shark Week?

 

New Show – Naked and Afraid

Oh dear piggy heavens above.  Yep, you read that right.  A show on television called Naked and Afraid.  I’ve been watching this on my television for a while now.  It’s taken me a while to wrap my little piggy brain around the concept.  Let me explain that to you so you get why I’m amazed.

A man and a woman sign up for this adventure.  Voluntarily might I add – snorts – remember that part.  They go somewhere remote in the world.  It could be Panama, Fiji, a swamp, the beach, a rain forest or wilderness.  They have to survive for 21 days alone.  Together.  Naked.  No water, no food and no clothes.  Did you get that?  Naked.  Two strangers that don’t know each other on their own.

WTP (what the pig?!)  I can understand 21 days of survival in a remote place but naked?  As in no clothes.  Not a stitch of nothing.  For all the world to see.  A complete stranger.  In nature.  With bugs, rain, heat, no food, no water, slithery things like snakes, dirt, and yuck.  Shivers to mergatroid.

This show comes on the Discovery channel.  Have you seen it?  If so, thoughts?  If not, you gotta see this show.  Oh, and let me add there is a small camera crew that follows them around.  Of course they can’t help in any way unless there is an emergency but they see you in your birthday suit too.

So, are you going to sign up?  Snorts.

 

I.am.so.gullible.

Okay, I admit it. With mom’s work schedule and our ‘regular’ per say television shows during the week, we get behind on other shows and activities. I think that is so normal.

Tuesday night, we didn’t have much going for us on television on our ‘regular’ line up so we ventured out to the Animal Planet. It’s a great channel – it has animals on it – how could we ever go wrong?

So after dinner, mom reviews the television guide and we chose a show called “Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives”. We at the Hotel Thompson absolutely LOVE shows like this. They are educational, interesting and by George they are scary! Shivers – think about it. Do we really know everything that is under that vast ocean? I think not.

Mom/dad have been deep sea fishing several times in the past. They’ve often wondered with them being in such a tiny boat – compared to how big the sea is – what is under them. Heck, they have even thought this when they have traveled on cruise ships. The ocean is HUGE and very, very deep. And, scientists are finding new animals all of the time.

So, the title of this show on television last night, “Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives” didn’t sway us to think that it wouldn’t be good. I mean yeah, megalodon sharks were prehistoric, right? Let’s reflect on some of the things we learned from the show last night.

Megalodon means roughly giant tooth. This term is really true when you think about the size of their teeth. A megalodon tooth was 7 inches long. Seven.inches. That’s over a half foot long. Watch out Freddy Kreuger.

A megalodon’s bite is fierce. It’s force when biting is enough to crush the skull of a prehistoric whale. This is compared to like you and I biting a grape – that easily. Shivers to mergatroid.

A megalodon is big. Do you understand that? B.I.G. Like 60 – 100 feet long big.

A megalodon’s closest relative per say is the Great White Shark. Okay, count me out on that family reunion. I’ll pass – enough said. Shivers.

So we invest some time in this great and wonderful show last night. It starts off with four people on a boat in the middle of the ocean in South Africa. They are all happy, taking videos, laughing and having a great time. The guy goes fishing and feels something on the line. It shows him reeling and reeling and reeling in the line…. flash forward 2 hours later. Whatever was on the line breaks off and it is now night time. Then, BAM, something hits the boat but never fear the video is still running. The camera is shaking, the video is jumping, everyone is screaming. It kind of reminded me of that old scary movie, “Blair Witch Project”. Then, something completely destroys the boat and the people disappear.

Days later, miraculously they find the video and are able to adjust the jumpy, screaming footage enough to hear, “Oh no shark”. Alright, I know. This should have given us some clue. When they are able to revive a video camera that was in the water, submerged fully, for who knows how long and then to pick up on, “Oh no shark”. At this point, daddy started laughing. Me and mom was ssshh’ing him to be quiet so we could hear. We were mesmerized to say the least. Daddy tried to talk and we both gave him the all knowing raised eyebrow look of hush. He finally conceded and sat in silence with a smug look on his face.

Me and mom were spellbound. What the heck was this huge shark in the water?! Then they started showing coverage from all over the world and calling some sharks submarines. Okay, just because we’ve never heard of a submarine shark, doesn’t mean anything. I mean, we are not marine biologists so we didn’t know. This show was good.

Okay, maybe not really good. Some of the so called biologists were in some way kind of weird on camera. We just chalked that up to them not being actors – snorts. The last five minutes of the show, this little blurb runs on the screen:

“Though certain events and characters in this film have been dramatized, sightings of ‘submarine’ continue to this day”.

What? Huh? Okay, we knew that megalodon’s didn’t exist but this wasn’t a ‘real’ documentary show. We looked over at daddy sitting so smug on his couch. He finally said, “Can I talk now?” Well yeah, this show bites now please do. That’s when he proceeded to tell us about this show being on the Discovery Channel a couple of weeks ago and people were upset because of the ending. Well, dad, you could have told us this an hour ago! I’m sorry, what channel were we watching? Sci-Fi? Comedy channel? Nope, sweet ole Animal Planet.

Snorts – what’s on the television next? Oh, that’s another blog in itself. We made the mistake of wasting another hour of our lives watching, “Voodoo Sharks”. This show was about the mysterious ‘Rookin’ who is a killer shark in the bayous of Louisiana. And, I kid you not when I tell you the captain of the hunt was… drum roll please… Captain Blimp.

Did I mention we have no lives on Tuesday nights?

 

Shark Week – Snuffy the Seal

Have you seen the commercial for Shark Week for Discovery channel.  You do know the one I’m talking about – with Snuffy the Seal?  Snuffy has been in rehabilitation for an injury and is being released back into the wild and then OH NO!?!

I admit it.  The first time I saw this commercial I didn’t realize that it was for the beginning of Shark Week.  I was in my bedroom watching my television, behaving for a change.  The commercial came on and I was all YAY for the recovery of the cute little seal.  And then BAM!  I made water run down my leg right there on my wee wee pad in my bedroom.  Afterwards, I squealed, ran into the front room and snuggled with mommy shaking.  She didn’t know what happened.  She held me tight and soothed me down.

That’s when it happened again – the commercial came on the television in the front room.  I started shaking again… until mom/dad started talking about Shark Week.  Mommy explained to me it was just a commercial – I had nothing to fear.  But I’m going to tell you – it does take you back.

I’m attaching the video.  BE WARNED.  If you are that strong to watch, what do you think?  Shivers

 

 

Weird or What?

Hello friends.  This is actually me.  I know some of you question as whether or not I’m a pig – I am 🙂  I’m up on the couch for snuggle time with mom getting ready to watch some of our regular television shows. 

I wanted to give you a heads up on a new television show that we have started watching on Tuesday nights.  It’s called Weird or What? and is hosted by William Shatner.  Now, I’m not going to lie.  It did take us a couple of weeks to get caught on to the show and now we are full fledged followers.

Here, it comes on the SyFy channel – we *love* that channel.  Each episode contains two to three stories of the bizarre and unexplained.  It balances out the supernatural vs. scientific theories of the individual cases.  It mainly features strange occurrences like ghosts, aliens, monsters, natural disasters and medical oddities.

I don’t think that this is the first time it has been on television.  I want to say that it premiered in maybe 2010 and only had three seasons on the Discovery Channel?  Someone let me know if I’m wrong. 

If you get a chance and you’re looking for something to watch tonight, bounce over to the SyFy channel and check it out.  Let me know what you think.