this show is amazing. bear grylls is a beast. he eats snakes and fish alive. he eats dead zebra carcasses. he jumps in quick sand and gets out just to show how much he owns nature. anyone seen it?

Yeah

My favorite is when he builds a raft that looks like something out of Castaway and floats out to the middle of the ocean. While he is showing ways to cool down he ties himself to the raft and hops into the water. He then immediately gets out of the water and the raft is surrounding by three Tiger sharks for what seems like at least an hour and they are all within feet from him. That had my heart pumping for him.

I also like the one where he just braeks through the frozen ice and shows how to get out of the water. I was worried on that one too that once he struggled and went underwater that he might not have been coming back up.

Im going to have to check this out. So far the greatest show ever was the reality show with Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston

Also another classic part I liked was the desert episode where he pisses on his shirt and then wears it wrapped around his head and over his mouth. GROSS

I made a thread like this when the show first came out. Guess more people are catching on. But yeah, he's definitely a certified bad ***.

I like the show a lot. It's both similar and different than Survivorman, another great show. I just wish they filmed more than a half dozen shows of each. I'm stuck with reruns now, but they are very entertaining. I like Survivorman in that he goes to survive with very little material, makes his fires from scratch or from the little material available to him. I like Man v. Wild in that Bear goes all out, but still brings a flint to make fire.

If I had to choose one to watch exclusively, I would watch Man v. Wild, just based on the fact that he goes all out, ie throwing himself into quicksand, freezing water, jumping into the crevasse, live fish eating, etc.

Good stuff.

"Man vs. Wild" is slightly more "staged" than "Survivorman", but the consensus seems to be that what it sacrifices as far as realism it more than makes up for in entertainment.

I'm hoping there will be a second season, but I'm curious where they'd send Bear. Perhaps a swamp? Something along the lines of the Everglades or Okefenokee would be cool. He hasn't done the Himalayas or Andes yet either, but those might be too similar to the Alps. The Outback could also work. Maybe the Russian tundra or Greenland? The Amazon might be too similar to Costa Rica, but there might be some extra variety there.

This show is amazing. One night on the Discovery Channel they had a marathon of Man vs Wild and Surviverman. I had never seen either before, but I started watching an episode of survivorman and a few hours later I'm pretty sure I had seen every episode of both. They're amazingly addictive.

The guy on Man vs Wild is pretty nuts. I'm not sure how choreographed it is or how rehearsed it is, but it takes serious guts to climb down a waterfall on a vine (for instance). I also think it's pretty amazing when he just starts eating the fish that he catches live. I really hope they make more of these shows, because I'm pretty sure I could watch them back to back for about as long as the Discovery Channel will force feed them to me. Follow it up with some Mythbusters and I'm basically in heaven.

Those fish he eats aren't even real. They're probably like, robots, or something.












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http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/manvswil...transcript.html (page 3)

Anyone catch the episode with Bear in the everglades?
It was awesome and Bear is amazing. First off, I would have pissed my pants and just jumped in a tree and waited if I was in an alligator filled swamp, but Bear was trecking thru it like he was the king. When he crossed the river, I was kind of nervous myself. The turtule part was extremely gross but awesome at the same time. And finally, Bear just jumped right into the quick mud with out hesitaion. I really want to try to escape from that stuff (although I doubt I would be able to)-I want to see if Bear has tought me anything (I would want to spread the surface area and spread my weight and then slowly wriggle my way out).



Has anybody read his book and would you recommend it?

he ate a raw egg, shell and all. eww but he's so ****ing bad. i also loved the part where he climbed that canyon.

That scene was hilarious. Because he ate the first egg raw, then he said he was going to cook the second egg because it may gave him salmonella. Why did he not figure the first one would give him salmonella?-Because he's mother fuc.king Bear Grylls!

I thought I heard Bear say in an interview that he had to sleep in the sheep (like Luke Skywalker on Hoth). Maybe it wasn't this episode because I want to see that.

But this episode (Iceland) was awesome. Bear is so cool. I want to legally change my name to Bear.

i missed it dammit

Well there are about 500 reruns each day until the next new episode.

i know that means i have to get my lazy *** off the computer and onto the couch

Has anybody read Bear's book? I went to go get it today but the bookstore didn't have it so I will order it online.

you like realy envy this guy hun, ever do any camping at all or are you just a I wish i could guy?

Just an "I wish I could guy." I love the show because everything Bear does, I know I would never do, but I love watching it.

Camping is the shiznit! Get some buddies together, forget about chicks and camping it’s just a hassle, a tent and some chairs, booze and food. That’s all you need for a sick week end. Canoe camping was the most hard core I’ve done. 5 days going down a river with only a back pack is pretty sick, cool thing is that anybody can do it.

Oh and I’ve seen the first 4 or 5 Man vs Wild, pure madness! this guy is good. Making fire with nothing but wood looks a lot harder than I thought.

"It tastes like cheese that has been sitting out for three weeks...but worse."

There were a bunch of good one liners from the show tonight:

"And the only thing I can do, is to drink my own pee...and this is something I have never done before and I am expecting it to be pretty horrible."
"What I've got to do here, is really grip just with my thighs and let them take the strain and just balance with my arms. And try and protect my family jewels."
"He could be dangerous, but he could also be my dinner."

I love Bear!

what I loved about this was that it had been like a max of 2 hours since he'd been dropped off.


And then it rained about an hour later.

I also thought he gave up looking for water kind of early, but he said that he was told that if you don't drink within 3 hours you can die so I guess he didn't want to risk going three hours with out liquid.
It was pretty funny how he poured and flooded soon after, and the next day it was bone dry.

Despite drinking urine being pretty disgusting, I still think squeezing the elephant dung for liquid was slightly grosser.

that was sick.

Eating the sheep eyeball was a little much IMO. Thereès a sheep in front of you and you go for the eyeball. Come on now.

The snake he carried around alive was pretty cool, then smak on the side of the cliff, lol, I love Bear.

"These would be good with mayo...lets see how good they are with parrahna."

Man Vs Wild is fake.

Bear Grylls, the star of "Man vs. Wild" on the Discovery Channel, is under fire today for reportedly staying in hotels and having crews build things for him during the filming of his show, which is supposed to document him being dropped into some of the harshest environments in the world and showing viewers how to survive. The Times of London says:

...an adviser to the show has disclosed that at one location where the adventurer claimed to be a “real life Robin-son Crusoe” trapped on “a desert island”, he was actually on an outlying part of the Hawaiian archipelago and spent nights at a motel.
On another occasion in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains where he was filmed biting off the head of a snake for breakfast and struggling for survival “with just a water bottle, a cup and a flint for making fire”, he actually slept some nights with the crew in a lodge fitted with television and internet access. The Pines Resort at Bass Lake is advertised as “a cosy getaway for families” with blueberry pancakes for breakfast.
In one episode Grylls was shown apparently building a Polynesian-style raft using only materials around him, including bamboo, hibiscus twine and palm leaves for a sail.
But according to Mark Weinert, an Oregon-based survival consultant brought in for the job, it was he who led the team that built the raft. It was then dismantled so that Grylls could be shown building it on camera.

HE ... BIT ... THE HEAD ... OFF A SNAKE ... AND ****ING ATE IT. He ate the snake. While it was alive. After he bit off it's ****ing head. Uh, who gives a **** if he stayed in a motel the night before, he's still way more man than I'll ever be. Just like Mariah Carey.

(by the way, Bear was British Special Forces, broke his back at age 22 in a parachuting accident, then climbed Mt. Everest when he was 23. And he named his son Marmaduke. I dare anyone to be cooler than this. More Bear madness here)

Whether or not that's all true, I could care less. Even if it's not so much a reality show that it's portrayed as, he's still a bad ass.

Jeepster-I agree. Bear is probably the coolest dude alive. As for the fake stuff, I'm sure he does a lot of research before, and maybe the Oregon people showed him before he left how to make it. If it is fake (which it doubt), they do a hell of a good time covering it up. And he still drank elephant poop.

Well, even if some of the premise of the show is false, I still find it entertaining and enlightening. No big deal. But Les Stroud is now the survival pimp though.

Question: how is this show filmed? I just saw him floating down a river on a log.. does he just bring a camera with him or does the poor camera guy also have to float down the river filming him? If so, camera guy is even crazier than he is.

QFT

I always preferred Survivorman. That may change though. There's a Survivorman/MvW type show coming out 8-8 on the Military channel, the twist is that not only is the subject trying to survive, he's trying to evade a "special ops team trained to track him." I guess the guy was a British SAS officer that spent eight days cut off in Iraq or something like that.

A camera crew follows him. My impression is that they probably have a lot of gear (climbing equipment, wet suits, etc.).

They do have a lot of equipment (because I remember he once said that they could use their equipment to climb out of a hole quickly, but he had to go more slowly). Bear said on Jimmy Kimmel that the film crew helicopters out at night, and Bear has a hand held camera to tape anything during the nights.

Has anybody been watching this show since all the stuff about it being staged came out? I actually like it better now. Now they're admitting when he's getting help or not staying the night or whatever, and basically doing it as a how to show for if you're lost in the wilderness. I actually disliked the show when it came out because it was so obviously staged but they were trying to make it seem like he was really in these tough situations all by himself. now that they're doing it like a how to show, its pretty cool.


Les Stroud is still the best though.

There was a marathon on tonight, I watched a little.

I read somewhere that they will be airing two hour episodes and they are two hours because they also show how the crew works. That should be interesting.

that would be awesome. I actually like the idea of making it a "how-to" show instead of a "look at all the crazy crap I can do" show. should actually prove to be more helpful and entertaining now that he's actually being honest about whats going on through the whole thing. it doesn't really matter one bit to me if he actually spends the night out in the wilderness, just show me the tips on stuff that you can do while out there and just don't pretend like you're doing stuff that you aren't. I'm perfectly fine with that. After all, we have survivorman for the "holy crap that has to suck but this sure is interesting" factor.

I think its cool if they market it as a how-to, but not totally. Basically, just keep the show the same, but don't deny that he is doing it 100% alone or whatever. Les Stroud has the market covered anyway. Bear Grylls pwns though.

Bear Grylls > Lex Stroud

Bear Grylls(different than) Les Stroud

no

I think if they were in a real survivor setting and had to get somewhere to survive, Grylls would be better. He is in better shape, has military training and has rock climbing, mountaineering etc.

Stroud would be better if he were stuck in an area and waiting for rescue, I think he has better knowledge of building shelter, getting food, starting fires (grylls just uses his flint)

grylls does not just use flint, he has used just about everything. even though grylls may have cheated in his show he is still a beast and would pwn that other boring nerdy guy in any kind of survival match.

grylls would get eaten by a god damn bear or bit buy a freaking black mamba within 30 minutes of trying to survive. he does some of the stupidest things I've ever seen somebody do in a "survival situation." you do not swim down a freezing river to try to get somewhere quicker. you also do not eat a half rotten animal carcass uncooked. I think thats what I dislike about bear; some of the things he does for showmanship are extremely dangerous in a survival situation, and could actually get people in trouble if they are in a survival situation and try it.

those things he does are not dangerous for him. he would not die in 30 minutes, he would do better than that other lame guy in any situation because hes a ****ing beast. bear grylls climbed mount everest a couple years after breaking his back. thats not fake, that real. grylls can swim down a freezing river to get around because that shit is nothing for him. hes seen and gotten through situations that would get that other guy killed in no time. now if youre making the point that him telling other people to do that is bad, then i agree. but a lot of what he says is helpful and true. and i would rather watch him climb up waterfalls and eat snakes alive then watch some guy film himself sitting around in forests, regardless of how helpful either of them are.

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Wait, so in a survival situation, when you are possibly hours from death, you should not eat a half rotten animal carcass or swim to safety?

And why would a bear eat a Bear?




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I have seen 7 or 8 episodes and he has used his flint in every single one.

yes. Don't argue with these guys. They probably still think wwf wrestling is real.