Monday, July 23, 2007

If A Bear Pees on A Raft...

I've gotten into Man vs. Wild lately, for the same reason I get into many shows, because the lead reminds me of a boy I like. Except for Bones, I got into that because of its extreme quality. Or I guess because I like my mom (see previous post). I got into Harry Potter because Harry reminds me of a person I used to like (a grown person), and I watched the Raiders for a whole season because their coach Jon Gruden looked like a boy who touched my boobies once. Now, I'm into Man vs. Wild because cutie Bear Grylls reminds me of certain headbutter with whom I am recently enamored. This boy is frenetic and Bear-like and bear-like, and this is 1 of 3 shows he watches. Plus you know Bear is a headbutter.
Bear is forced to take off his clothes in the name of survival quite often. To avoid hypothermia, to demonstrate the proper way to exit a peat bog, and for fording glacial rivers, for example. He always leaves his boxers on, but they're usually soaked or otherwise made clingy with peat or death mud or something, and are visually permeable. But, I must emphasize, this is in the name of SURVIVAL. There is no place for a namby-pamby in the WILD, which is what he's VERSUS, people.
Recently, though, I was forced to question Bear's trouser-dropping criteria. He was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, on a raft he built out of bamboo and hibiscus bark, and was taking periodic swims to lower his core body temperature. On one of these dips he was stung by a jellyfish and - you guessed it - he had to pee on himself. The wound was on his shoulder, so he actually had to pee into a coconut shell and pour it on himself. Now, I get it, it hurts. And these are somewhat dire circumstances. But Bear is ALWAYS in dire circumstances, and he ALWAYS has time to face camera and deliver a lesson about how to get out of them. So it's hard for me to excuse what he did next as a forgivable lapse. Also, although Bear sometimes pretends to be alone and setting up the camera himself, there is clearly a cameraman there at most times. At the very least he knows a squadron of editorial staff are viewing.
So he peed in the coconut, his member blurred out, natch. Then, while describing to the camera how the acid in the pee neutralizes the jellyfish toxins, he pored in on his shoulder. HIS DICK IS STILL OUT. It is out the whole time! No one is learning about toxins, their eyes are instinctively glued to the fleshy blur in his pants. Or OUT of his pants. It's out for a good minute (REAL good, mm hmm), with both the peeing and the explaining.
I'm going to give Bear the benefit of the doubt that he just forgot it was out. Because, it would be startling to me to think that Bear has slowly abandoned decency while versusing the Wild. Isn't the instinct to cover ones parts just as basic as that to survive? One could even argue that to modern man it is MORE important. Otherwise we wouldn't need to reacquaint ourselves with survival instincts via Discovery Channel, and there would be a show called Man vs. Nakedness.
I guess no one is as scandalized as me, because I couldn't find a clip of this on YouTube, but I did find this clip of Bear drinking his own pee. I think you'll see that he's much daintier about exposing his manparts here than the incident I described. Maybe it was shot earlier in the re-savage-ifying of Bear Grylls. Perhaps in the battle of Man vs. Wild, Wild is WINNING after all.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vIjQHXOJklU

2 comments:

Liz Hands said...

Dear Lady Investigator,
Your investigations, as per usual, like a delicious yet rationed snack, leave me wanting more. I am interested in your take on Naked Vs. Nude.

prancers said...

Nude, to the Investigator, is a color, such as nude hose. Nude's tones are most effectively brought out by a starkly contrasting mustache, a la Stossel. Everything relates to Stossel!