# Shark Week: It's a bad week to be a seal.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 28, 2013, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-its-a-bad-week-to-be-a-seal/662099 "2013-06-28T09:34:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-its-a-bad-week-to-be-a-seal/662099/1 "2013-06-28T09:34:03Z")

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The new [promo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnDH1va7iC0) for this year’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel has gone viral. It’s definitely an attention grabber.

Spoilered for the squeamish. Don’t click unless you have a sick sense of humor like I do. (It is SFW.)

It’s a fake newscast of a seal which had been injured, rehabilitated, and is being returned to the sea. As it is being lowered into the water, a huge shark lunges up and takes the seal in one bite.

Awesome spot. Shark Week starts August 4th.

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**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-its-a-bad-week-to-be-a-seal/662099/2 "2013-06-28T14:23:48Z")

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I laughed.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-its-a-bad-week-to-be-a-seal/662099/3 "2013-06-28T14:26:31Z")

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There will be much rejoicing in the chateau: Madame Pepperwinkle lives for Shark Week.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-its-a-bad-week-to-be-a-seal/662099/4 "2013-06-28T21:21:56Z")

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I saw this yesterday morning. Note how some guy comes blocks the view of the shark and the seal just ast the leap is made. I thought it was hilarious(since it WAS a fake video!)

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-its-a-bad-week-to-be-a-seal/662099/5 "2013-06-28T23:16:42Z")

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Considering the seal’s name was Snuffy, I figured something [del]bad[/del] hilariously wrong was going to happen.

What’s also needed is a Shark Week special episode of\* Hillbilly Handfishin’\*.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-its-a-bad-week-to-be-a-seal/662099/6 "2013-07-31T02:54:02Z")

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> [@LurkerInNJ](#):
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> I laughed.

We did too.