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If you want to be misinformed about animals, this is the show for you!!!


Did I catch him on a bad night, or is he always throwing out these "facts" that have no basis in reality??

First thing I saw was him trying to catch a Gila Monster (in a boat) and you would have thought he was trying to defuse a nuclear weapon with a sledgehammer. "I gotta be careful, or else I'm headed to the MORGUE!!" Well, we can hope, but the fact is that no one has died from a bite from a Gila Monster since 1939... and any deaths before that are questionable.

Next, he caught a fox in a snare, and it was some weird sub-species of fox that makes strange growling noises unlike those ever heard from a fox before. (That, or the noises were dubbed in, to make it less obvious that the fox was in a drug-induced stupor.)

Then it was off to catch Water Moccasins! The first one was in a swimming pool, out of the reach of his tongs. So what does he do? HE JUMPS INTO THE POOL! I didn't say that he eased his way in; no, he took a running leap, made a huge splash... and somehow came up with the snake in his tongs.

Next he caught another moccasin under the deck. He kept talking about how long it was, "at least four feet!", though it was really closer to three. After the capture he complained about the "smell of its venom coming out of its fangs." No, doofus, that smell was from a secretion of a different sort, from a different part of the snake's body.

The he and his partner found two more Moccasins under a pile of wood; he then declared the area "snake free!" Yeah, because that wooded field bordered by a creek that you're standing right next to isn't good snake habitat...

This is the kind of show I would watch purely for the unintentional humor, except that watching idiots pretend to know what they're talking about when it comes to animals really ticks me off.

If you're watching this show in order to educate yourself about animals, especially reptiles: DON'T. And please don't let your kids watch it, unless you're prepared to tell them to forget everything they just saw.

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LMAO! You captured the show perfectly! It's one of the most unintentional funny shows currently on television!

A few of my favorite moments: a VISCOUS peacock was loose in a school playground, so Billy decided to have a stake out in one of those plastic kids houses and jump out when the peacock came close.

Billy giving a 5 minute speech about how deathly allergic his brother/partner is to bees. Then proceeds to send him in
without any protective gear to a bee infestation.

Riding on TOP of a pick up truck trough the woods trying to catch a donkey, so ridiculously over the top!

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