Last night, I was the victim of an unprovoked assault on my senses. Mainly my eyes and ears suffered, but after the attack, I found that I’d lost my appetite, too. The perp in this case was Bear Grylls, and the weapon was a commercial for his extreme wilderness reality series, Man Vs. Wild.
I’ve seen some nasty things in horror movies over the years, but I kid you not, the Wes Cravens of the world have nothing on Discovery Channel’s ad department. The most horrific moment arrives at the 17-second marker, when Grylls bites the head off the nice little froggie (pictured just before his demise, at left). Of course, my morbid sense of duty forces me to share the experience with all of you. Watch the video by clicking here — that is, if you don’t mind fasting for the next 24 hours.
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Can not STAND this show and its manufactured sense of danger. It’s hard to take his iminent demise seriously when a) there’s a cameraman right along with him, and b) he often avoids easier paths to demonstrate how to survive the impassable ones, making him look more like an idiot than a survivor.
“Here I’m going to avoid this garden path and instead hurl myself over this treacherous waterfall to show you how to survive if you’re ever stupid enough to hurl yourself over a waterfall.”
OMG, I saw this too and screamed and through the remote to cover my eyes. Then since the remote was across the room, I wasn’t fast enough to turn the channel before another clip of this dude eating the caurcus of a zebra. Very disturbing.
Y’all know this show is fake right?
Bear, how could you???? I hope Kermit haunts you in your dreams for that!
I think this show is great I watch it all the time. The whole point is for him to show you how to survive in the wild in various danger situations. If he took the easiest paths then there would be no show. He is very well trained to do what he does. You can actully learn a lot from the show as with Survivor Man also on the Discovery Channel
I watch this show all the time, if my girlfriend is over I always have to warn her. “if Bear runs into any sort of animal, worms, fish, zebras, etc….turn your head cause he is going to eat it raw”.
This helps her enjoy the show much more.
I know people say the show is fake, and there was a report earlier in the year about it. The way I look at it is that he is getting himself in dangerous situations to show you how to survive them. He never says he is going to go out and survive in the wild (like Les Stroud of survivorman), just demonstrate things you may need to know.
Surviormanis a different show, he challanges himself to survive, and thus does not do the dangerous stuff.
OMG, WHY would you do that?
My husband loves this show. I used to watch it all the time with him, but this season proved to be too much for my gentle eyes to take. The commercial for the episode in which he crawled all the way inside of a dead camel was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. (excuse the pun)
Crikey! That was sexy!
Yeah he totally pulled a Han Solo Tauntaun act with the camel. It was pretty gross, but I still like the show. It’s entertaining and you do actually learn a few things here and there.
This guys is a loser. He actually sleeps in hotels when the camera is turned off. And he is never in any danger at any time. So, there’s no need for him to abuse and attack animals. We get it: If you are ever lost in the wild, eat things. You don’t need to show us, you loser.
Discovery Channel has nasty commercials. They had a series about tribal taboos or some such and in the commercials were freaky looking tattoos, piercings, just yuck. The show if fine with me I have no issue with that, but the commercials are on between like 5-8 on shows that kids are watching. The first time my son saw it, he was genuinely freaked out. Thank God for TiVo, flip the tuner, come back in 30 seconds.
I was unfortunate enough to watch this show right before leaving to go to Disneyworld. And I saw him bite into a raw, slimey, still-gasping fish (causing it’s guts to spill out). I’d never seen the show, didn’t know he’d do something so gross. Needless to say, it ruined a good many dinner at Disneyworld when thoughts of that scene would flash across my mind as the waiter put my food before me.
I really dislike this show. Not so much for the gross factor (which is up there) — but for how manufactures it is (as C.A. Bridges pointed out). It just makes me want to roll my eyes.
Yuck. Ewww. and does PETA know about this? Methinks they won’t be pleased.
People, get over it. The stuff Bear eats and does is no worse than half the garbage that’s shown on tv today. Um, hello…”Fear Factor” anyone? Sheesh. And as for him “showing” rather than just “telling” – that’s the point of the show. They’re not going to let him get into real danger, hello, they want him to live so they have a show. But I appreciate that he does push himself by doing things (admittedly they may be stupid things) like jumping into glacial water and the like. He’s certainly not a pansy and for those naysayers complaining about his hotel stays…who are you to deny him a comfy bed at night? They never say he spends the night outside in the new shows. Everything’s been edited now for those who were too stupid to realize it’s a TV SHOW and therefore things were staged for dramatics. Next you’ll be complaining that you can’t believe “The Hills” is staged!
Why not cook that frog? The legs would be good eating. Why would he eat the head? Are there special vitamins in the frog’s brain? And doesn’t Mr. Man understand that frogs can give you salmonella poisoning? Hopefully the show has a “don’t try this at home” disclaimer…
One thing that still grosses me out ever since I saw on one of the episodes: Bear picks up a handful of Elephant poop and drains the juices into his mouth. Its in this ad, but not explain at all. You’ll have to watch it to see the whole thing.
I think it states in his contract that he must do something absolutely disgusting in every episode of the show and explain that it’s the only way to survive. RIP, Kermit.
What an idiot! The poor frog–there was no reason for that! I hope he gets a mouthful of disease for doing that to a defenseless amphibian–what a LOSER!!
Ok, honestly, what was the point was the point of that? I don’t like the show anyway because it’s so staged, but this is just ridiculous and cruel…It’s not like this guy really needed to do that except to add shock value…blah!
We saw that too! My perhaps overly sensitive animal loving 7 year old was watching “How It’s Made” with her daddy and then this freak eats a frog. She cried for five minutes. I love Discovery Channel, but they really need to monitor their commercials better during “family viewing time”.
i find it interesting that everyone is up in arms over him eating a frog, but no one seemed to care when he ate a scorpion or any of the bugs he finds in trees. is it because people think frogs are cute and they have memories of the muppets? if you’re going to get indigant over him eating a frog, at least be consistent and get mad when he eats, well, any living thing he finds in the wild. otherwise, you’re a bunch of hypocrites. no, seriously.
You must have missed the episode where he CLIMBED INSIDE OF A DEAD CAMEL!
There is just no reason in the world for these animals to be treated so cruely. This man is a sadistic nut who deserves to have his own head bitten off. It’s not like he’s going to starve…he’s only on a television show. I have one word for you buddy…KARMA
Boo Hoo. He ate a poor little froggie! Are you complaining about that while you eat steak, pork, fish or chicken? Did you have your house sprayed for bugs? Then you killed something! How about you Holly rollers. Doesn’t the Bible say that everything except creatures with cloven hoofs are okay to eat? Take a look at yourselfs. A real honest look. Then change that! Instead of complaining about a guy eating a frog! While you’re at it, watch some re-runs of Jackie Gleason or something if you can’t handle real life. Oh; never mind. He did wear a dead raccoon on his head, didn’t he?!
If these survival skill tactics are frustrating you animal lovers, who are just stuck in your own little world… people actually have to do these critical things to survive, called eating and creating shelter. If you get mad at any type of “animal eating”, why dont you get angry at more pointless shows such as fear factor, where animals are ate by idiots trying to win money. There is still no harm in what they are doing either, look at what he wrote below me about the bible, that puts you nuts to shame.
Heaven forbid any of you ever find yourself on your own in some hostile environment, and were so busy feeling sorry for the critters that you forgot what was edible from what was not – in desparate circumstances, you may have to choose between your life or that of some creature nearby.
And, if any of you eat eggs or drink milk from any other creature besides your own mother’s teat, you may need a reality check of your own – I’m pretty sure the pig and chicken from which you got your bacon and eggs this morning weren’t asked if they minded ending up on your breakfast menu.
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I’m vegetarian and this really doesnt bother me. Meat eating people do worse things than that every day. I think him eating a frog is like ten times better then mass killing cows, pigs, and chicken who may end up getting wasted anyway
His books are outstanding, especially the one on his North Atlantic sail. His one on climbing Everest at 23 is also very good.