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Why is this show popular?


They trap some poor gator and shoot them in the head. Then do the same over again and again. Pretty predictable and boring.

The only time it's interesting is when the cajuns do something stupid like forget the gun or when they're in a tangle with other rustlers. In fact I would like it to get more into the Cajun people's lives outside of the boats they're on. A lot of characters.

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klondike... it's popular because the channel that still has the nerve to call itself HISTORY creates the illusion of it's popularity... by tauting the extrapolated, estimated, easily manipulated Nielsen TV Viewer Numbers... numbers that are not intended to be a measurement of a shows popularity... and based on what number out of the 50,000 Nielsen TV Viewers are watching...

... the number... which may be 10 or 20... is then extrapolated to give the estimated millions and millions of viewers.... most people believe that Nielsen is an accurate accounting of viewers actually glued to their TV set watching the garbage... and the slimeballs at HISTORY then taut this number to give this POS TV show the "illusion" of success....

I think we would all be surprised if the actual number of viewers would be made know... I'm sure it would be no where close to the millions...

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It's popular because it's gritty,raw,and unchained.
You get to see salt of the earth people scraping by.These are the people who helped us win the War of 1812.

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".....These are the people who helped us win the War of 1812."

OMG paw... they had untrained, non-professional scab Actors even then... cool
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.. hey speaking of the "WAR of 1812", since this is the 200th anniversary... one would think that a channel that somehow still has the nerve to call itself HISTORY, would of had some kind of programming to mark it ?

Just a half hour program squeezed between the 137th rerun of YAWN STARS episodes would have been nice... if not that a blurb each day during one of the many commercial breaks... "200 Years ago Today"...

But hey I guess the target audience, and the useless POS channel don't care about that boring spit any more...

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Do you really think that Troy Landry wasn't a gator hunter before this?
Do you honestly think he's just an actor?
These guyys have resumes that you can look up.Heck,hire a private detective if you want to back up your claims.

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..... he's an Actor now, just like every other "star" of these so called "Reality" shows.... killing alligators is just part of the act now.. instead of not knowing how to do anything better... which is just about anything else...

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It's entertaining. And I don't get why people are sympathizing with gators. Y'all are weird. They're savage animals that wouldn't think twice about your well being. You wouldn't sympathize with them if one bit your arm off.

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"It's entertaining. And I don't get why people are sympathizing with gators. Y'all are weird. They're savage animals that wouldn't think twice about your well being. You wouldn't sympathize with them if one bit your arm off."

ali... I'm a city boy... it sounds like you're describing two legged animals, "...They're savage animals that wouldn't think twice about your well being ....." two legged animals are the only ones that present a danger to me..

"It's entertaining... "... sorry but I don't find blowing some ugly old alligator's head off "entertaining"... if anybody does I guess I could say "y'all are wierd" too...

So because alligators, wild hogs,etc are savage animals.. it justifies having a Series on Basic Cable of some scum bags killing them ? And it would be wrong then for a show like, say..

"PUPPY WARS.. a "Reality" series that follows a family of fun-loving inbred pychos as they see who can kill the most cuddly puppies." Put it on the OUTDOOR CHANNEL for those who find it "entertaining"....

It's a rotten show, about rotten people, on an even more rotten channel...



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Then don't watch jagoff. What a twat.

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Just like with nature shows, its the same shiat every time, but still, for many of us its decent pass time.
Also, theres alligator season for a reason, they dont kill them for sport. No one should have any problem with keeping the population in check.



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These are hard working people that love their life. They agreed to share their lives. I'm sure they are being paid. So!
I feel sorry for people like Ltrazordaddio.. He/she must lead a very unhappy sad life. Getting pleasure from attacking and making fun of people you don't even know must be a very dark life indeed...

Listen, if it makes you that upset. DON'T watch it....

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LOL @ thinking they are actors. They make a few thousand bucks per season from the History Channel. They all live the same lives they led before the show.

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I do not know 'why' I am obsessed with watching this show but I am.
I'm a female in my 50s, can't swim, I have never gone hunting and I do not like to fish - but I love this show.
I find myself shouting out loud at the TV quite often: "shoot him, shoot him, shoot that gator!" and "get your hand out of the water!"




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Because we wait for Troy to say: "Choot 'em! Choot 'em!"


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