# Shark Week Jumps... something **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491 "2013-08-06T13:15:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/21 "2013-08-06T18:21:00Z")
Off topic: Can SDMB have a Snark Week? ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/22 "2013-08-06T18:21:28Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > **Megalodonado** , the gripping story of the sharknado that revealed the existence of the previously thought extinct Megalodon when a freak hurricane with multiple tornados began flinging prehistoric sharks the size of city buses at an unsuspecting populace. > > SyFy network, please PM or email me for information on where to send my royalties. So awesome… ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/23 "2013-08-06T18:22:39Z")
> [@simster](#): > > I find it very interesting that the Science Channel shows better science fiction than the Scyfy channel - marathons of Dollhouse, Firefly and Fringe - all GOOD science fiction - and the science programming is generally watchable. True, those are all very good shows. And I like the actual science programming, as well. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/24 "2013-08-06T18:23:12Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > Off topic: Can SDMB have a Snark Week? At the SDMB, **every** week is Snark Week. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Goliath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/25 "2013-08-06T18:49:20Z")
I’d be OK with this if they went whole hog in the direction of 100% bullshit 100% of the time. I would kill to have a television equivalent of the Weekly World News. I want my nature shows interrupted with breaking news updates of “BAT BOY SPOTTED IN HARLEM!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/26 "2013-08-07T08:28:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Let us all hope Discovery learns the errors of its way before it loses all its credibility, and becomes another History channel. I’m afraid that ship has [del]sailed[/del] been eaten by a giant shark. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/27 "2013-08-07T10:42:39Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > **Megalodonado** , the gripping story of the sharknado that revealed the existence of the previously thought extinct Megalodon when a freak hurricane with multiple tornados began flinging prehistoric sharks the size of city buses at an unsuspecting populace. > > SyFy network, please PM or email me for information on where to send my royalties. Oh pravnik, my Fella said the basically the same thing. (Of course, I’ve forced him to watch Megashark vs. Giant Octopus, Sharktopus, Sand Shark, and the Megaladon thing.) I couldn’t bring myself to force him to watch Voodoo Shark. (Which five minutes into, he said, “Oh ok. Now I know how you feel when you have to watch my racing stuff!”) As I told my folks, “Voodoo Shark makes Duck Dynasty look like Shakespeare.” And I really like Duck Dynasty. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/28 "2013-08-07T10:45:15Z")
> [@Rex\_Goliath](#): > > I’d be OK with this if they went whole hog in the direction of 100% bullshit 100% of the time. I would kill to have a television equivalent of the Weekly World News. I want my nature shows interrupted with breaking news updates of “BAT BOY SPOTTED IN HARLEM!!!” I miss Weekly World News so much! People I worked with at a WALMART (which I know everyone loves to hate around here) would say, “I can’t believe you read that!” Me (at the time): This is some of the funniest comedy writing going on in the US right now! \: “Oh Bat Boy, who won’t you meet next? Are they digging up pharoahs for you?” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/29 "2013-08-07T16:07:36Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Shark Weak Actually I did try watching some NatGeo shark shows last night, and this is a good description of their specials. Terrible narrator, crappy, old video, etc. I’ve got better video of sharks from my shark dive in the Bahamas 15 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/30 "2013-08-07T16:10:58Z")
> [@Rex\_Goliath](#): > > I’d be OK with this if they went whole hog in the direction of 100% bullshit 100% of the time. I would kill to have a television equivalent of the Weekly World News. I want my nature shows interrupted with breaking news updates of “BAT BOY SPOTTED IN HARLEM!!!” I would be utterly unprepared for that. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/31 "2013-08-07T18:44:17Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > Oh pravnik, my Fella said the basically the same thing. Sure, a quick spin on Google shows a few other people have had the same idea as well, but I actually fleshed out the story! For example, is the Megalodonado in an alternate reality where the modern existence and non-extinction of the Megalodon is a widely known fact? No, it is not! My story has it all: the joy and wonder of the once in a lifetime scientific discovery of a magnificent prehistoric creature previously thought extinct, exquisitely counterbalanced with the dread of being crushed or eaten by incomprehensibly gigantic flying sharks. _Boom!_ Golden Globe! Royalties please! The _Sharknado_ suits better act fast, though, because if they don’t I’m taking this baby to Spielberg and Universal under the alternate title: **Jurassic Shark**! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/32 "2013-08-07T19:01:10Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > The real question is, was it more or less scientific than Sharknado? You know how History has a bunch of shows that leech onto some pop culture property and claim to tell you the “real story” of the DiVinci Code or the Ark of the Covenant or whatever? Discovery needs to run one of those on Sharknado. Keep it factual and tongue-in-cheek – “We asked scientists if a 30’ shark flung from a tornado could, in fact, swallow an adult male whole in a single gulp…” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/33 "2013-08-07T19:01:35Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > The _Sharknado_ suits better act fast, though, because if they don’t I’m taking this baby to Spielberg and Universal under the alternate title: **Jurassic Shark**! IMDB: [Jurassic Shark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071491/?ref_=sr_1) ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/34 "2013-08-07T19:04:49Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > The _Sharknado_ suits better act fast, though, because if they don’t I’m taking this baby to Spielberg and Universal under the alternate title: **Jurassic Shark**! Yes please. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/35 "2013-08-07T20:10:26Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > IMDB: [Jurassic Shark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071491/?ref_=sr_1) Yeah, but blockbuster movies reuse B movie and old movie titles all the time, [like these](http://www.listal.com/list/same-title-different-movie). We’re talking Megalodoning a sharknado and Spielberging the whole thing. Can’t lose! ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/36 "2013-08-07T20:46:34Z")
Don’t forget the supernatural element. There’s Ghost Shark premiering on the 22nd so you could do a ghost shark - ghost hunters tie in. I’d luv to give those shitheads something to really be scared of. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/37 "2013-08-07T21:10:32Z")
Yeah but…but… They have photos and video and everything!!!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/38 "2013-08-07T23:08:48Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Oh! Ancient Alien sharks!! Excuse me. _Hitler’s_ ancient alien sharks. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/39 "2013-08-07T23:11:28Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Excuse me. > _Hitler’s_ ancient alien sharks. Movie mogul: Eh. It’s not gonna fly unless we can work some zombies or vampires into the plot. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/40 "2013-08-08T01:05:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Excuse me. > _Hitler’s_ ancient alien sharks. **Raiders of the Lost Shark** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491.md?page=3)