Shark Week is back on Discovery, or the Discover Channel, or whatever they’re calling themselves these days. Which is great, because we need more high-definition, super-slow-motion footage of sharks jumping out of the water.
Last night, things got kicked off with a documentary about the hunt for a huge shark that was blamed for the sinking of a ship off the coast of South Africa. It followed the expedition as they devised and implemented new ways to hunt down the massive shark, thought to be a descendant, or even a living specimen, of the megalodon, which has been extinct for millions of years. It was fairly entertaining.
Then you realized that the whole thing was fake. Discovery kicked off it’s series of factual documentaries about sharks with a mockumentary about an animal that doesn’t exist. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: A whopper of a shark