So I was scanning the TV listings for tonight and couldn’t find all that many new episodes from shows that will be airing tonight. It’s a pretty light night for a Sunday due to football. One show actually peaked my interest: Finding Bigfoot. It’s not because I will be watching the show. It’s because I was blown away that this show still exists, or ever existed. That there’s actually an audience big enough to keep this show on for five seasons. Not only that. That Animal Planet actually pays the stars of this show to be on this show and pursue finding Bigfoot.
When I think of Bigfoot I think of Santa Claus. I think of Harry and the Hendersons. I think of the abominable snowman or Lochness monster. I certainly don’t think of reality television and how a real life “Jacque LeFleur” (the guy from Harry and the Hendersons) can make a real living pursuing Sasquatch. I mean I guess you can liken this show to something like The Curse of Oak Island which is rooted in folklore and fiction.
But at least that show has some kind of scientific basis and the Lagina brothers are sort of real scientists. They’re just following boyhood dreams that might have a chance at coming true and we can all related to that. But Finding Bigfoot? How? Seriously, how? Tonight’s episode?
The team returns to the Four Corners of America to find previous witnesses have been plagued by recent activity; a wide search of all four states leads to their most intricate strategy yet in hopes of capturing footage of a bigfoot.
I mean how much of this can go on? I will say this: Ken Scott, Cliff Barackman, Matt Moneymaker (great name) have got to be the luckiest guys on the planet. I guess this says a lot about America that so many people actually tune in to this show to keep it running this long. The funny thing is that I’m not trying to rag on the show. I’m sure it’s fine. I just think it’s hilarious that a show exists that clings to the belief of something existing that clearly does not. Here’s a preview!
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