# Sharknado 5 \[Spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968 "2017-08-07T02:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/1 "2017-08-07T02:29:58Z")
I can’t be the only one watching all these weird ass shark movies on Syfy this week in leading up to Sharknado 5 tonight. Also I have done nothing all day but watch the Sharknado movies today. I saw the first one when it aired and never bothered with any of the others until today and each one is better than the last one. They just keep ramping it up. Sharknado 5 starts in half an hour and I was surprised there wasn’t a thread on it, or I missed it when searching. I’m really excited for it. Anybody else? What did you think of 1-4? I liked The Hoff going into space and then landing himself on the moon in like 5 minutes and 90210 Boy landing back to Earth from space inside of a shark at the end of 3. Now that’s classy right there. And having Striker, from Airplane, be the pilot of the airplane in 2. And the Star Wars opener be the opener for 4. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/2 "2017-08-07T02:33:52Z")
DUDE! Spoilers! I foresee myself watching them at some point because I’m sure I hate myself that much, but not really anytime soon. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/3 "2017-08-07T02:38:15Z")
My bad. I’ll get the title changed. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/4 "2017-08-07T02:46:25Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > My bad. I’ll get the title changed. I was mostly kidding. No big deal. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/5 "2017-08-07T02:48:54Z")
[Moderating] Not that I’m really sure it’s possible to spoil a Sharknado movie, but I’ve edited the title anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/6 "2017-08-07T03:15:38Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I was mostly kidding. No big deal. No biggie. Couldn’t hurt. > [@Chronos](#): > > [Moderating] > > Not that I’m really sure it’s possible to spoil a Sharknado movie, but I’ve edited the title anyway. Thank you Sir. This one is Indiana Jones themed, nice. And that little shark just squealed like someone kicked a puppy. This is gonna be hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/7 "2017-08-07T03:42:17Z")
Holy carp, Superbowl shark was part of the opening credits. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WmcWZ2Bzoho/maxresdefault.jpg "Katy Perry Left Shark") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmcWZ2Bzoho) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/8 "2017-08-07T04:31:25Z")
Fabio Pope is not the Pope we deserve but the Pope we need. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/9 "2017-08-07T05:07:20Z")
Wow, what a ride. The ups. The downs. I laughed. I cried. I stubbed my pinkie toe on the coffee table leg when I tried to hustle into the kitchen to get more salsa. It hurts, but I’m ok. I’m a real man. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/10 "2017-08-07T05:26:52Z")
That’s your pinkie toe’s way of telling you to get a DVR, dude. Respect the pinkie toe. Follow its commands. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/11 "2017-08-07T15:41:02Z")
From someone who loved 1-4, that one was sad. Fun but sad. The people didn’t make nearly the stars the sharknados did in the earlier ones. I almost wish for 6 they do a Dallas thing and pretend 5 was only a dream. Who was the actress/personality who played the “Q”-like lab-lady who handed Little Gil the shark-fin helmet? The face and rack ring a bell but I can’t put a name on her. And I didn’t catch the name of the character either. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/12 "2017-08-07T16:40:24Z")
I Tivo’d #5 and haven’t watched it yet. I did see 1 through 4, and my favorite scenes were as follows: #2: ZZ Top were extras in a panicked subway crowd scene. 😛 #4: The guy who ran the station was always followed by two very attractive, scantily clad women, who walked as if they were models on a catwalk. 😃 Several days ago, my local newspaper did a story about the guy who plays Fin, and he said he almost didn’t do the first “Sharknado” because the script was so bad 😉 and he feared it would ruin his career, but he did it anyway because he needed the money. Little did he know it would be a long-running comedy series! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/13 "2017-08-07T17:35:18Z")
I watched parts of it - I agree with the idea that the series has been campy fun but it’s run its course. This was sad in many ways. The best part was the guest stars. It took me a while to recognize Greg Louganis and Margaret Cho. Olivia Newton-John and her especially her daughter looked cringingly awful. Dolph Ludgren was wooden as ever. The best was Tony Hawk, by far. Pope Fabio was a “meh”. Tara Reid looks like she was mistakenly issued spackle instead of makeup, and her scream is one of the most annoying sounds I’ve ever heard. All the other main “actors” are showing the requisite earnestness of a camp parody, but it’s not enjoyable anymore. The cheesy special effects are just embarrassing, with little extra money they could make it less distracting and still be suitable for the story. Oh, the ONJ song titles were amusing as well. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/14 "2017-08-07T19:07:40Z")
I think this movie holds the record for most bad plastic surgery victims assembled in one place. The woman that professed her love to the PM looked like she was wearing some weird fright mask. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/15 "2017-08-07T19:11:55Z")
Let’s hope it gets better reviews than Spinal Tap’s album _Shark Sandwich_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ec4jGEgzkJs/hqdefault.jpg "spinal tap album review scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec4jGEgzkJs) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/16 "2017-08-07T19:57:13Z")
Wait, is Tara Reid a robot? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/17 "2017-08-07T21:08:54Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Wait, is Tara Reid a robot? Tara Reid or her character? Either way, the answer is she’s a cyborg, not a robot. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharknado-5-spoilers/792968/18 "2017-08-08T00:50:02Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > The woman that professed her love to the PM looked like she was wearing some weird fright mask. That may be the one I’m trying to identify; blonde? Way too much collagen in the lips?