reminds me of a Simpsons with Free Willy.


Simpson's Plot- Willy is an orca and while he tries to be free by jumping out of his enclosure, he doesn't make it and crushes the boy who tried to help him.

Love Shark Week!

LOL

Was easy to figure out with your intro.

I'd have trouble with it otherwise, that's just me.

Witty advertisement for Shark Week.

You only have to hear the woman's voice to know it's staged.

Effective advertising for Shark Week, I guess, but it just rubbed me the wrong way.

My only reaction was a gasp of despair.

it hasn't gotten any better in the 1,842,633 times it's been broadcast since.

I detest TV but the SO watches a lot of Discovery Channel, and that ad has been aired to death; even if I had liked it the first time, I'd still be sick to death of it by now.

unless directed at the most vulnerable, such as children or animals. Abhorrence, when confronted with such humor, seems to be a visceral reaction I've experienced from a very early age.

I understand how nature works, animals eat other animals etc., but I don't think it's a funny thing to watch.

I hate that commercial and have to wonder why anyone would find it funny.

I laughed sooo hard the first time I saw it. Does that make me a bad person?

I think its totally hilarious and I laugh at it every time, even when I am alone watching it.

But then, I also think earwigs are funny, what with the big, fake pinchers on their tails.

Are we going to start protesting pixels now?

. . . . it RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!11!!!!11! Series!!!!

And it is based on a true story that occurred off the Farallon Islands.

my morbid curiosity compels me. What happened off the Farallon Islands?

It's a great book.
The author went to live with the guys on the Farallon Islands who study marine life.
There are tons of great whites there because of the large seal population. They even knew some of the sharks and named them.
The program has since been cancelled, but was operational for a while.

One day, they saw thru their telescope, a boat pull up full of people.
They watched in horror as the people on the boat let loose a seal they had nursed back to health into the ocean.
It was immediately eaten.

Just a word here, most of the seals do get away...

Nature is ruthless. Red in tooth and claw. People need to chill.

Funny stuff

This is obviously a flashier dramatization of it, but I recall an incident a few years back where pretty much the same thing happened. A seal was released after having been nursed back to health, and just as it was swimming back out into the water, was killed by a shark. The crowd gasped and you could tell there was this flash of anger and confusion that moved through the crowd... but there was no one to be angry at. I mean, that's nature for you.

Hilarious!

And clearly not real. Anyone "outraged" really needs to relax.

Put me down for "incredibly tasteless" due to the mawkish affection towards the fictional seal (whose name I took to be a nose reference) and... Well, if you halfway sympathize with rescued animals, especially cute ones, it's a rather disgusting shock material.

And if Anyone else says "it's nature", I'm going to ask them their objections to being eaten by a bear.