MOST AWESOME SHOW ON TV: Man vs. WILD

I was impressed the other day when he drank his urine.

I don't know if it's the best -- but I am freaking addicted to it. I haven't planned my schedule around watching a show since "Saved by the Bell" started to suck. Now every Friday I have to see the new episodes. I have more respect for Les Stroud, but I want to be Bear Grylls.

TV is the US is just awesome. I think I am going to cut back my mileage, kick back in the evenings and check out this stuff. I know it will help my overuse injuries!

jhancuff wrote:

I don't know if it's the best -- but I am freaking addicted to it. I haven't planned my schedule around watching a show since "Saved by the Bell" started to suck. Now every Friday I have to see the new episodes. I have more respect for Les Stroud, but I want to be Bear Grylls.

Gryll's show is cheesy, but he'd eat that Sissy Stroud for breakfast. Drop both of those guys at Pickle Meadows and Stroud would be calling for his mommy while Grylls would be whistin' Dixie as he collected Stroud's frozen tears to use for hydration.

I recently saw an episode where he cut the stinger off a scorpion and ate the rest live. WTF? Drop me in the same situations as this guy and I'll curl into the fetal position until the vultures are picking my bones.

pfffffffg wrote:

Gryll's show is cheesy, but he'd eat that Sissy Stroud for breakfast. Drop both of those guys at Pickle Meadows and Stroud would be calling for his mommy while Grylls would be whistin' Dixie as he collected Stroud's frozen tears to use for hydration.

HAHAHA! That is a top quality response there

any guy who gets his jollies off of drinking his own urine has issues.

I love the show...but why would anyone want to be Grylls?

Agreed - saw the show for the first time On Demand last night; the one where he is in the Everglades. He is unbelievably badass - highlights included getting out of a sink hole, eating live frogs, and cooking a huge turtle over an open fire, then devouring it. High quality entertainment.

I came across the show right as season 1 was starting via tv-links and fell in love. I'm glad that it's becoming a hit. I am calling the next big show as being the Derren Brown one when it hits the US. Top quality entertainment as well.

I would drink my own urine long before I would squeeze and drink the water out of fresh pile of elephant dung on the African plains.

I hardly watch any TV. I don't own a TV. But I've made a point of spending the past few Friday evenings in front of my friends TV enjoying Bear Grylls rediculousness. It's so cheesy on one level and so bad@$$ on another. He's my new hero.

When he was drinking urine, I asked myself: "why doesn't just ask the cameraman for a drink?" The whole idea that he is fighting for his survival when there's a cameraman watching is just too ridiculous for me.

Interesting take on the whole reality television phenomena that a friend tipped me on to. It takes a little while to get going since the guy only lets go of one little bit a day but it makes you think.

A good Man vs. Wild drinking game: Everytime the host survivalist says, "I have never ...." He says it at least once per episode. OK, so that mean's you wouldn't get much of a buzz. But cripes, whether he declares "I have never seen terrain this unforgiving" or "My urine has never tasted so delicious" I have (almost) never been so annoyed at a catch phrase.

I think thats what makes his show better than survivor man. bear could get help from the cameramen, but doesnt because he is trying to show us how to survive. i find survivorman boring because he keeps having to go back and forth to set up his camera all the time. Plus i think he really only knows half of what Bear does.

i too think man vs wild is better. Bear does have a cameraman, but at the same time he goes out of his way to to extremely dangerous things to show you what you can do to survive. I remember him jumping into a crevace that must have been 200 feet deep with a rope and something heavy on the end to show you how to survive on a glacier. if his rope wouldn't have caught on the snow he would have died!

he's insane.

I'll have to actually agree with Peeps on this one, Man vs. Wild is a blast.

I consider myself an outdoorsman. (I backpack for a week once a year) and have no contact with the outside world and I think Stroud is much better. Its much truer to what it would be like to actually survive in the wild and he is an outdoors man. grylls is more of a military man trying to make a buck and impress you. Then factor in that what Stroud is doing is actually much more dangerous than what grylls does because he has no one to help him for an extended period of time if he does get hurt. Id say its 100 times more likely stroud suffers a serious health setback than grylls and thats why grylls can take those chances. Part of surviving in the woods is loneliness that youd experience. That would be harder than drinking piss I honestly believe that.

grylls broke his back before he started all this man vs. wild thing...i forget exactly how but i know he fell from something. i wouldn't say he's just a military man trying to impress people (if he just broke his back and didn't love the outdoors, i doubt he'd risk injuring himself again just to impress people). you can just tell he loves this outdoors stuff. he probably doesn't get paid too much, and probably not near enough for the suffering he takes. we all know its probably set up and that they do some research before each show, but its still fun to watch and it actually teaches you alot.