# Shark Week Jumps... something

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/41 "2013-08-08T13:59:53Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> 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…”

Wouldn’t that be a job for the “Mythbusters” crew?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-week-jumps-something/665491/42 "2013-08-08T18:42:49Z")

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An incredibly stupid move by Discovery. I did tune in for this, but I stopped paying attention pretty early on because it seemed so speculative. Eventually I got busy making dinner and happened to look at the screen just as that disclaimer flashed through. I’ve never seen a TV disclaimer go by that fast, and I picked up just enough of it to figure out that the rest of the show wasn’t speculative, it was fake. I haven’t watched any of their other Shark Week stuff since then.

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