Shark Week 2012

You may recall that a couple summers ago I poked fun at the hype & shenanigans that surrounds Shark Week on Discovery Channel. An entire week devoted to nothing but sharks, sharks, and more sharks. I decided that this year, what with it being the 25th anniversary of Shark Week, I'd do it again, and of course pay homage to the other animals that get short-changed and don't get their own weeks.

 And, of course, I have to stay current with the latest crazy internet meme, so I have to have a McKayla Is Not Impressed version.....

And the neglected animals.....

 

See ya!

 

It's Shark Week, so they tell me.....

I like The Discovery Channel. I often find cool shows to watch on there, and I love to learn about new things. However, it's that time of year when they go overboard on self-indulgence and, so to speak, jump the shark. Much in the same way that History Channel could often be confused with The Hitler Channel until they branched it off to The Military Channel, Discovery has become The Shark Channel....that is, when it's not the Crab Catching Channel or Jobs That Will Kill You Channel.
So yeah, it's Shark Week on Discovery. Not just any old common Shark Week, mind you, but the 23d Anniversary edition of Shark Week. You get like 168 hours of non-stop shark action. Shark bites, shark attacks, flying sharks, sleeping sharks, feeding frenzy sharks, mating sharks, rare sharks, giant sharks, little sharks, sharks that eat people, shark movies, shark facts, shark games, and celebrity guest hosts...but somehow I think other animals are getting short changed...