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[damselfish]

Animal Planet has a show called "Finding Bigfoot" and it is exactly what it sounds like. The latest ad is quite grating:

Beard Guy: "This is the heel of a squatch." *points to undisturbed leaf litter by a stream*
Renee: "I just don't see it."
Cut to Beard Guy in a studio: "I doubt Renee's tracking ability. She missed what was plainly visible to me."

It makes me want to throw things! I don't know what annoys me more: the idea that Beard Guy is earnest in his belief in the hunt for bigfeet, or that he's an actor paid to act like a turdbox on TV for a show about tracking undiscovered gorilla-sized primates in the relatively well-explored forests of the United States. If he's an actor, well it wouldn't surprise me even if it does disappoint me because it's a callous attempt to cash in on the gullibility of TV watchers, but if he really believes it?

Oh, kiddo, part of tracking means ignoring things that aren't there.

ursulav described the possibility of bigfoot's existence thus: "If a giant primate really did exist in the Pacific Northwest, I think someone would have hit one with a car or tried to sell it weed by now." Not only is it spot-on, "Bigfoot Weed Dealers" would make a much better TV show than yet another Ghost Hunters knock-off.

The commercials for it run incessantly during the superior shows that have been pushed to the morning hour, which means I see them maybe three times or so every morning when I put on Big Cat Diary while I have breakfast. It annoys me to no end that anything worth watching on Animal Planet runs during the breakfast hour rather than prime time, or in the morning on the weekends (Wild Kingdom, etc.). I appreciate having something to watch besides the news where the other discovery channels are running infomercials (or religious programs-- srsly, Hour of Power on Discovery), but why is prime TV watching time overrun with unwatchable dreck? This is why I re-instated my WoW account, because there's just nothing on in the evenings worth leaving on in the background, let alone watching. If Animal Planet ran their morning programming at night I'd actually watch!

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[crysiana]

I would watch "Bigfoot Weed Dealers."

[damselfish]

In the interests of full disclosure: so would I.

Do you hear me, Animal Planet!? There's an audience here!

[conuly]

Well, I suppose it's not totally impossible (though it strikes me as somewhat less likely than unicorns), but anything that determined to stay hidden has probably gotten really good at it by now. You're not going to track them down on TV.

[damselfish]

Sasquatch is actually the guy selling you comic books or working IT support. The hairy one that smells kind of funny, but no one says anything because he's a nice enough person. His invisible house in the woods is expensive, he needs the money, and he's got a wife and kids.

It's the only explanation that makes sense.

[foxfirefey]

I think this calls for an enterprising group of college students with a camera, and YouTube.