A few minutes ago, I was watching Primetime Live–the grizzly bear segment featuring Timothy Treadwell–and in some of the footage, he was telling the folks back home what would happen if they tried to camp out with the bears the way he did, warning them that they would die. “You would die. You would fucking die.”
He clearly said it, although in the promos they’d shown earlier for the show, that word had been bleeped out or silenced.
It doesn’t bother me, but I’m sure there will be a whole slew of people protesting since this is regular network TV.
I saw it and I’d swear he said “frickin’”. He stuttered at the “F” and then seem to correct himself and switched to “frickin’” instead of the actual F-word. Later there was anothed clip of him complaining about the tourists and poachers and every word was the F-word and it was just a bleepfest.
I had heard all about his story in a recent SDMB thread but I had never seen clips of him before. He seemed really creepy.
Isn’t it always amusing the hoopla there is any time someone says a naughty word, or gasp shows a body part, on US television? Even if you only think they did.
Tragic story. Being mauled by a bear is a horrific way to go. I must say though, given his behavior (kissing bears, frolicking with cubs, etc.), I’m very surprised that he lasted 13 summers with the bears. It’s shocking, really.
Network censors over here have been very heavy handed virtually all our lives, so when the exception occurs, it’s noticable and comments are made. For the record, I fuckin’ missed the show and I really wanted to see that shit. Fuck.
That’s nothing. I was watching Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego the other day and they repeatedly use the term…ugh, I don’t even like to say it…"Blg!um". Over and over again–Blg!um. On a children’s show!
That’s why live TV is so much more fun. Radio too. I once heard a live interview with Siouxsie Sue during a Lalapalooza or some such event, where the DJ (pre-Inifinity Live105 DJ Steve Masters for you SF Bay Area folks) asked her if she’d stick around while they ran some ads. Her vitriolic response: “No! Fuck that!”
Priceless. But I felt bad for Steve…he was pretty flustered.
I fucking swear I heard “fucking” and not “freaking.”
By the way, did you ever get the fucking email reply that I sent to you some weeks ago regarding the shitdamn doohickey that I was trying to give away?