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 Finding Bigfoot What is it?: A show about four people trying to find Bigfoot, the legendary giant cryptid. The show is in the late stages of its third season, and has enjoyed strong ratings. The format of the show is generally the same each episode: - You're introduced to the region the team explores, with a short background on the area's history with Bigfoot. - The team will review pictures or video that brought them to the area in the first place, and will generally do their best to test its validity. - One of the team members will go on a solo exploration of the area, to get a feeling for the terrain. - The rest of the team visits the nearest town for a Town Hall meeting, to get stories from locals about their encounters. - The locals' experiences are mapped out, and the team tries to find if Bigfoot sightings have anything in common, location-wise. - The group sets out to re-enact the significant meetings from a few townspeople, and again, validate or debunk the sighting. - The solo explorer rejoins the team, who take their cameras out at night to see if they can capture a Bigfoot on camera. This late-night hunt is punctuated with a gimmicky experiment, usually thought up by Bobo. When is it on?: 10pm on Sunday Nights, EST What channel is it?: Animal Planet Who the hell are these people?: The team is called The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, and they have lots of fanclubs and internet reporters and all that jazz.  Matt Moneymaker: Matt is the founder of the BFRO. Let's see: I'm pretty sure his last name is fake. He's kind of a jerk to Bobo sometimes. And he walks around with two ski poles. In fact, he's pretty goddamn cocky for someone who pokes around in streams and piles of bear poop. https://twitter.com/MattMoneymaker1  James "Bobo" Fay: Bobo is the big goofy tubby guy with the Sasquatch trucker hats, and some missing teeth. He used to be a real life lumberjack, and appears to have a heart of gold. He's basically a giant ten-year old kid, but the show has also (unfortunately) decided that his value lies in being comic relief. Newer episodes use clownish music when he's onscreen. It's a shame - he seems fairly knowledgeable about the outdoors, and is always the first person to gladhand the locals they meet. https://twitter.com/squatcher  Cliff Barackman: Cliff is a pretty normal-seeming level-headed guy, who mentions that he plays jazz guitar now and then. He doesn't seem to have any strong scientific background besides just being a fan of Bigfoot. https://twitter.com/CliffBarackman http://cliffbarackman.com/  Ranae Holland: Ranae is the only actual real scientist in the group - a biologist. She is a skeptic, and doesn't believe that Bigfoot exists, although she entertains the possibility. She almost always shoots down photos and videos, but will grudgingly admit there are many sounds and prints she can't debunk. She's also pretty hot, but don't get your hopes up - she's not into the fellas. Ah well. https://twitter.com/skeptiscientist  Bigfoot: He (she?) goes by many names: Sasquatch, Yeti, Skunk Ape, and on and on. He ranges in height from 6-10 feet tall, smells like burning garbage, and is surprisingly nimble. He feasts on deer, fish, and other timid prey. He also throws rocks at people when he wants them to go away. To communicate, he howls/screams and uses logs to make knocking noises. Each individual that claims to see a Bigfoot also notes how muscular they are - but the BFRO team has yet to find their forest gym. All jokes aside, some of the episodes have some pretty neat sounds and thermal heat video captures. It's very much in the vein of shows like Ghost Hunters, and is really good at teasing you. Furthermore, they use some pretty fun methods to try and find Bigfoot - thermal imaging, game cameras, helicopters, ATVs, and all kinds of live bait (including Girl Scouts!). If you're new to the show, Animal Planet replays episodes all the time, and often has marathons. In fact, many repeats are done in the style of "Further Evidence", which provides a lot of pop-up notes and BFRO member commentary. Reminder: The show isn't meant to be taken seriously.
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| # ? May 19, 2013 05:05 |
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Oh, tonight's episode: "The Finding Bigfoot team journeys to the Kerinci region on the island of Sumatra in search of Indonesia's elusive Orang Pendek, venturing into the unfamiliar jungle in hopes of proving this mythical creature is in fact real." 
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 00:54 |
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 Heads up: An all-day Finding Bigfoot marathon is starting right now on Animal Planet!
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 14:00 |
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I hope they find bigfoot
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 19:01 |
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These people make so much of a racket that any self-respecting Bigfoot is laughing at them from a mile away.
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 19:07 |
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Khazar-khum posted:These people make so much of a racket that any self-respecting Bigfoot is laughing at them from a mile away. Also, Bigfoot isn't real, so they'll never find one.
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 New episode tonight at 10pm EST: "Virgin Sasquatch: The team returns to Oregon to investigate a record amount of bigfoot tracks originally cast and documented by Cliff. As they zero in on a recent hotspot, the team deploys a dangerous technique to increase their odds of capturing this elusive creature."
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Oh cool, a dedicated thread. This has been one of my favorite shows to enjoy ironically, because I love seeing all the mental gymnastics these maniacs perform in order to convince themselves that every experience they have is evidence of bigfoot. They basically throw Occam's Razor into the garbage. "Oh, you heard wood knocks? That means bigfoots are here and communicating. You DIDN'T hear wood knocks? The means bigfoots are here and being extra-stealthy because that's what they do because we said so. Your recordings of "bigfoot sounds" sound exactly like coyotes? It's obviously a bigfoot imitating coyotes." etc. "Based on KNOWN BIGFOOT BIOLOGY" and "obvious spiral fracture" have become sort of inside jokes among some of my friends. I made a couple of posts about this show in the Discovery Channel Megathread but nobody seemed to care, so I hope this thread takes off. Hazo posted:Is anybody still watching Finding Bigfoot? It keeps getting progressively funnier with each episode as we delve further into what kinds of absolutely crazy poo poo these guys sincerely believe.
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| # ? May 19, 2013 05:05 |
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Hazo posted:Oh cool, a dedicated thread. This has been one of my favorite shows to enjoy ironically, because I love seeing all the mental gymnastics these maniacs perform in order to convince themselves that every experience they have is evidence of bigfoot. They basically throw Occam's Razor into the garbage. "Oh, you heard wood knocks? That means bigfoots are here and communicating. You DIDN'T hear wood knocks? The means bigfoots are here and being extra-stealthy because that's what they do because we said so. Your recordings of "bigfoot sounds" sound exactly like coyotes? It's obviously a bigfoot imitating coyotes." etc. "Based on KNOWN BIGFOOT BIOLOGY" and "obvious spiral fracture" have become sort of inside jokes among some of my friends. This show is worth it for nuggets like Bobo: "Maybe the bigfoots kidnapped some coyote pups, and use them for hunting." Ranae: "..."
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