Yuck!

Mr and I watched a show last night that I vowed I wouldn't watch again after the last time I watched it--"Man vs. Wild". We really like to watch shows about nature, educational or otherwise, but this show is just plain gross. The premise is this "survival expert" is dropped into some remote location and he explains to us how to survive should we be in a similar situation.

Last night he was dropped at the Baja peninsula. He proceeded to catch a skunk in a makeshift trap--that was really funny because of course, the thing stunk to high heaven. He killed a rattlesnake and cooked and ate it. Then he thoughtfully kept the skin into which he later peed so he could, even later, after walking across the desert for a while, drink the heretoforementioned pee. Mr and I kept wondering why he didn't just turn around and ask the camera guy for his water jug we're sure he was carrying.

In the process of his trek, he wanted to get some honey from these honeycombs he stumbled upon and got stung around his eyes and they swelled up so much so he could hardly see out of them. Mr and I got a good laugh out of this. Seriously, he couldn't have been that hungry--he'd had the skunk to eat only hours after getting dropped off at the location. Let's not forget that he'd already eaten a beetle and some type of fat worm he'd found in a tree literally minutes after landing.

I guess this post is more of a warning than a recommendation. Don't watch this show unless you want to get severely grossed out. I told Mr last night, that is the last time I'm watching that show...I mean it this time.