‘Jao, no!’

I’m sorry, but am I the only person who finds some of the ads for this show hilarious? I respect the whole thing with rescuing the chimps, but the ads are so over the top it’s crazy. I kind of like the ones that just have music, but the ones with the male voiceover are too much.

Every week, it’s melodrama, tragedy, shock, disaster at the sanctuary. Then you watch the show and something shown in the previews a million times all week is only there for ½ a minute. It’s so cheesy the way they try to blow things up and sensationalize it all, and downright make stuff up. The one that really annoyed me was when Eugene Cusson’s wife was having their baby, the announcer dragged the matter into the previews in the most shameless way to try to get people to watch. Most of the time it’s kind of funny, but it is annoying that they think they have to make it so cheesy to get viewers.

I’ll admit, the first episode I watched was due to the ad where Cusson’s was getting his leg pulled on by Jao. But even then I was kind of laughing at it. Ok, part of it was just my sense of humor (guy getting attacked by the chimp he’s there to care for... amusing), but the scene was really amped up and played alot and it was just damn cheesy. It did make me curious about show, but enough already. It’s not the show that’s making everything look crazy, it’s just the ads.

The latest: It’s the season finale, things are crazy, who knows what’s going on, but it looks like Jao’s attacking again. It will probably turn out that Jao doesn’t do much of anything. But Animal Planet will just keep on running these ads.

“Jao, no!” Oh, no.

PS, I like Xena, she’s a pistal and a little coconut with limbs. If chimp groups weren’t so violent and fascist (and face it, they are), she’d rule that place.

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