Monsterquest....

I watch this show...I usually dvr it. It's on the History Channel. The premise of the show is to go and quest for real life monsters...you dumbasses.

The show can basically be broken down like this. I give them credit...the stories they typically have are pretty damn interesting, at least for us with a mild interest in cryptozoology. From Bigfoot, prehistoric bears, lake monsters, etc...it's some pretty good stuff.

I watch it for the stories. The first hand accounts are typically interesting, especially if the witness appears to be credible enough (aka, has a job, family, a normal name). But then, the show takes a sorry ass turn...the actual "quest" as in performing a mini expedition to find the creature.

This is the worst part. They bring in experts, scientists, enthusiasts, and the proper tech and vehicle crews for the quest. These quests never turn up anything much of anything conclusive except for the giant squid and giant shark episode (these creatures were already known to exist). Since the evidence the crew gathers is so shitty, it often does harm to the possibility of the creature.

For instance, this week the crew was in search of a Lake Monster in British Columbia. They found a badly decomposed piece of meat at the bottom of the lake. Since it was so unusual and unrecognizable, they brought it to the lab all excited. After a quick DNA test, it was ruled with 100% accuracy that it was salmon. Fuck...and these experts were all excited!

On another more fruitful adventure concerning bigfoot, supposedly a bigfoot ransacked a family's summer cabin. He had allegedly stepped on a plank that had nails and screws facing up (very safe, btw) and left some DNA behind. They took it back to the lab and could not trace the DNA...of course, this doesn't mean anything...as the material could have been damaged, etc.

The show will always disappoint you in the end. I don't know why I continue to watch it. Lame.