Man vs. Mild
May 30th, 2008 by World Wide EdNope, that’s not a typo. I meant to write Man vs. Mild, not Wild, cause that’s exactly what this show has become to me.
Recently, the show’s host Bear Grylls admitted that the situations presented in the show were sometimes not as intense as they were portrayed, but rather elaborate set ups by the production crew. Often times, Bear and his camera crew would even stay at hotels, while supposedly roughing it in the wild. WHAT THE?
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Before the news, you would see signs of this “set up” when Bear would over exaggerate certain actions like pretending his feet were stuck in the mud more than they actually were, or over-reacting to rain splashing in his face. The funniest thing is when, 5 minutes into the show, he says he’s starving and that he has to hunt for food. He’ll then nibble on a 1 inch worm, (purposely showing the guts explode in his mouth of course), and pretend to be full from it! LOL!
And then, there was the camera crew. If these were really that life threatening, the real hero is the camera person who has to go through what Bear goes through, with one hand and 20 pounds of equipment strapped on! The show should be renamed to CameraMan vs. Wild! Ya feel me?
I can’t diss the show too much though. It does give you good hints on sheer survival, like telling time, starting fires and finding sources of water. For that, I give ‘em props. And, like a train wreck, I can’t resist watching it to see what crazy things he’ll eat next.
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Tags: Bear Grylls, CameraMan vs. Wild, fake, hotel, Man vs. Mild, Man vs. Wild, phony, set up
May 30th, 2008 at 5:47 am
I believe the danger in those shows as much as I believe Hillary Clinton’s crocodile tears!
May 30th, 2008 at 8:59 am
me and my friends have this debate all the time…bear grylls vs survivorman?? id take bear grylls anyday via rear naked choke first round. granted some of the things in the show arent as life threatening as they make it out to be, but at the same time he still does some pretty dangerous stuff (parachuting into the canopy of a forest, climbing up and down waterfalls, scaling 40ft trees, etc…)
with a name like “bear” it already makes him more wild than most of us will ever be. not to mention he drinks turtle blood and his own pee. that could be fake too, but still….even faking to drink your pee is still pretty wild!!!
May 30th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Les Stroud, the SURVIVORMAN is the real deal. Les films and carry his own equipment and survive 7 days by himself…ALL ALONE and no stage events unlike bear.
Survivorman is the show to watch!!!
May 30th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I like Survivorman over Man vs Wild. Survivorman is more realistic but both shows has good survival stuff to know just in case. Bear actually does some dangerous stuff.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Who’s that guy who goes around the world eating weird stuff (brains of weird creatures and such)? THAT you cannot fake. THAT guy is the real. I think he’s nuts to do that, but, man, give ‘em a beer to wash all that down, brotha’ deserves it.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:11 am
* frankie: I believe the danger in those shows as much as I believe Hillary Clinton’s crocodile tears!
* GumbysHorse: Yeah, he does the dangerous stuff (like he’s trained) and I give him all the props for that. I just wish he kept it real all the time, naw-mean? And yeah, that pee thing was disgusting! What was funnier was when he soaked his shirt in it and used it on his head to “cool down.” Haha!
* DaBomb: I watched one or two episodes of Survivorman, but couldn’t get into it. I do agree that he’s more hardcore though because, yeah, he carries his own equipment and is all alone out there. At least that’s what we think.
* M: True dat!
* Chicken Grease: I think you’re talking about Andrew Zimmern from Bizarre Foods. Some of the stuffs he eats… YIKES!
June 4th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
The episode where he peed on his own head (indirectly, of course) was the first I ever saw. I laughed my — off.
Survivorman is awesome. That dude is a straight up masochist:
“Oh yeah, I’m really starting to feel dizzy from not eating for 3 days”.
“In a real survival situation, it’d be best to stay here on the beach, but I’m going to hike into this jungle instead”… a few minutes later, he nearly chops his finger off with a machete.
And then there’s the one in the amazon where he bails on his camp because he’s being stalked by a jaguar.
Now that’s entertainment!
June 5th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
* webnerd#2: LOL! I gotta give it another chance I guess. The one episode I watched, he almost got his finger chomped off from this HUGE bird (I think). Crazy!