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antwizzle posted:I loved that part! But -- where did he get the hose?! Wow. My mind is blown, maybe he got it in the "trash" from humans that always includes just enough bottles and styrofoam to make a nice raft.
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Does anyone know what the deal is with "Factory Made"? It seems identical to "How It's Made". And there are some other shows that seem like the same idea too. (I get Science HD, which shows these about 50% of the time overnight.) Another interesting comparison is the various moving shows and the various "big things" shows. Usually whatever is a rebranded UK documentary is the best. Impossible Moves and Big, BIgger, Biggest are both great (and clearly have a bigger budget than the average docu.) smackfu fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jan 24, 2010 |
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ChineseConnection posted:Fun fact: when Mike Rowe travels, he does it completely under a fake name. His agent said something to the effect that he has some very dangerous stalkers, so we had to keep his secret identity hush-hush. There's a woman in particular who trolls around to find out where he is then tries to catch him. Poor Mike needs to learn about restraining orders! Restraining orders aren't a magic spell. The person can still physically break into your hotel room and strangle you.
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I caught Motor City Motors tonight after swearing it off weeks ago, and come to find out my opinion of it hasn't changed. Case in point, tonight the brothers split into two teams to built some sort of motorcycle/boat hybrids. One that was basically an intact motorcycle with detachable pontoons that, somehow, worked perfectly on both terrains. The other one was motorcycle parts shoved into a boat shell. On land it moved at something like 10mph and once it hit the water, it instantly choked and sank. 
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Deadliest Catch captian Phil Harris appears to have had a stroke.  http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/deadliestcatch/phil-harris/ quote:Phil Harris suffered a stroke while in port off-loading from the F/V Cornelia Marie. He has been transported to a medical facility and is receiving the best care possible. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and we will make more information available as we know it.
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slartibartfast posted:Anybody know if they were filming anything? It's Opie season now, right?
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God, how many episodes of Overhaulin' is Discovery going to burn through during the daytime before putting on something different? I swear their schedule for the last month has been Cash Cab in the morning, followed by six hours of Overhaulin', followed by Cash Cab reruns in the afternoon.
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TMZ is reporting that Captain Phil has been placed into a medically induced coma. Well, poo poo. 
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Who knew that decades of chainsmoking and hard drinking could have disastrous health effects?! 
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I'd actually be willing to bet his blood being 80% Red Bull is probably more of a factor than one would think. e: you also make it sound like things are beyond repair with the coma. They operated on him and put him into a coma to reduce the swelling around his brain post-op. The idea is the barbiturates they use to induce the coma slow down the blood flow and metabolism of the brain meaning the blood vessels narrow which lessens the pressure which then prevents swelling. Once he gets a little better they'll bring him out of it. All reports are that his surgery went well and he's doing OK(as good as can be expected right now). Don't get spooked by the coma stuff. His fishing days are pretty much done, though, unless he feels like dying. If he had the stroke out at sea and not when they were offloading, he'd likely have been dead on arrival. Crotch Bat fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Feb 2, 2010 |
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So does this mean Murray will be back as temp skipper, or will one of his sons actually start captaining more frequently?
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I thought Murray retired last season, but if the Wizard brought Lenny back for one more I don't see why Murray wouldn't volunteer in a time of crisis.
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According the AP article floating around out there.quote:The Web site reports a family friend, Derek Ray, has flown to St. Paul to take over the role of relief skipper for the rest of the opilio crab season.
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iastudent posted:God, how many episodes of Overhaulin' is Discovery going to burn through during the daytime before putting on something different? I swear their schedule for the last month has been Cash Cab in the morning, followed by six hours of Overhaulin', followed by Cash Cab reruns in the afternoon. This has been the norm for years. It was Deadliest Catch last year, and probably the year before that. They find one show and run it into the ground during the daytime. I pretty much only watch Discovery during prime time now. The Science Channel has slightly better variety over all through out the day.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Does anyone know anything about when Mythbusters is coming back with new episodes? Probably not for a while, because they just had a bunch of new episodes in the fall/December. I'm not quite sure how Deadliest Catch will be without Captain Phil. He and his sons had an interesting relationship play out on the show and not having Dear Ole dad in there is kind of . Here's to a speedy recovery for Phil and hopefully he'll retire to his home and not put his health at risk anymore. Oh, and not drink/smoke/etc anymore either.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Does anyone know anything about when Mythbusters is coming back with new episodes? Mythbusters keeps an extremely odd season schedule, airing basically all year with a month or two break every so often (usually around February and again in July). Last year they didn't air anything from January until April. I'd expect to see it back in a month or two, since I think Discovery just aired the last episode they had "in the can" a few weeks ago.
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WhiteHowler posted:Kari is back and Jessi is gone.
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WhiteHowler posted:Kari is back and Jessi is gone. I wonder if they all high fived and screamed like idiots when Jessi was let go. I like to think they did.
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FlamingLiberal posted:That was fast, but considering they filmed most of the fall's episodes about a year ago, it makes sense. Kari had the kid in June so episodes aired recently were probably filmed late summer to fall. Jessi's probably been gone for months.
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Exactly. Les may be better at doing what they do on a technical level, but Bear is vastly more entertaining.
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I have dragged all this camera equipment all this way, now I shall bitch about that for awhile, then complain about how much this sucks, and eat some grass.
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-Atom- posted:There really shouldn't be a 'Bear vs. Les' though, because both are completely different shows in every way of the word. Yeah, but without ferociously debating two vaguely similar things, there's nothing left to the internet but piracy, porn, and pirated porn.
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Timby posted:TMZ is reporting that Captain Phil has been placed into a medically induced coma. Not that it's a surprise, but drat. At least Sig is ok.
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Howe and Howe Tech would be an interesting show if these two brothers didn't act like children (or, if the producers didn't decide to show them acting like children). The stuff they build looks to be genuinely cool stuff. It's just a complete turn-off to see the infighting and mistakes. If I had a contract with these guys, I might be having second thoughts after watching that show.
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lordblytzkrieg posted:I wonder if they all high fived and screamed like idiots when Jessi was let go. I like to think they did. They probably do that when they open junk mail. I'd take Jessi any day over Kari.
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ToastyPotato posted:This has been the norm for years. It was Deadliest Catch last year, and probably the year before that. They find one show and run it into the ground during the daytime. I pretty much only watch Discovery during prime time now. The Science Channel has slightly better variety over all through out the day. Oh hey, they switched to Verminators today. At least it's something I have a halfway interest in watching. 
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Capn Beeb posted:They probably do that when they open junk mail. I'd take Jessi any day over Kari. I have to agree with Beeb here. The build team is the weakest part of the show, but I'd still take Jessi over Kari. My favorite build-team moment was in one of the latter episodes when Grant has to rig something up and you can see how excited he is, and it's real excitement. There's so much screaming and hi-fives and hamming it up at every explosion that it was nice to see something genuine. (Might have been the bus jump remote control)
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kefkafloyd posted:Howe and Howe Tech would be an interesting show if these two brothers didn't act like children (or, if the producers didn't decide to show them acting like children). They could seriously use a full time designer - or at least someone who could dedicate more time to it than the one brother can. We actually have the same problem where I work - we do so much engineering on the fly that when it comes time to duplicate anything we've built, we're trying to remember exactly how we built it in the first place. On another note, did Motor City Motors get canceled? It didn't record this week because it wasn't in the guide anymore according to my Tivo, although next week's episode still is. I'm sort of surprised they'd cancel it since there were apparently 13 episodes filmed. Seems like they'd at least run them out if they were already done, so the ratings must have been horrible.
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LordOfThePants posted:On another note, did Motor City Motors get canceled? It didn't record this week because it wasn't in the guide anymore according to my Tivo, although next week's episode still is. I'm sort of surprised they'd cancel it since there were apparently 13 episodes filmed. Seems like they'd at least run them out if they were already done, so the ratings must have been horrible.
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Scarecrow411 posted:It was nice to see something genuine. Yep. I wouldn't mind the OH MAN THAT WAS TOTALLY RAD BROOOOOO AHHHHHHH WOOOOOOOOOOOOO if it was actually for something actually worth getting excited about, rather than nearly anything they do. At least Jessi didn't dress like a colorblind toddler. Beeb fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Feb 4, 2010 |
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"Crotch Bat posted:All reports are that his surgery went well and he's doing OK(as good as can be expected right now). Don't get spooked by the coma stuff. His fishing days are pretty much done, though, unless he feels like dying. If he had the stroke out at sea and not when they were offloading, he'd likely have been dead on arrival. I've worked nights for 8 years now 12 hour shifts and I already feel like my body is falling apart. I don't smoke or drink tons of Red Bull either. He's lucky his body still works at all.
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Scarecrow411 posted:I have to agree with Beeb here. The build team is the weakest part of the show, but I'd still take Jessi over Kari. My favorite build-team moment was in one of the latter episodes when Grant has to rig something up and you can see how excited he is, and it's real excitement. There's so much screaming and hi-fives and hamming it up at every explosion that it was nice to see something genuine.
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kefkafloyd posted:Howe and Howe Tech would be an interesting show if these two brothers didn't act like children (or, if the producers didn't decide to show them acting like children). It's like they're trying to make it an American Chopper clone with tanks. It gets more annoying each week.
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I didn't know if Bear could pull off an Urban Survival episode, but I think it worked. He's also clearly insane for climbing some of those places.
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