Brought to you by Tums: PETA has asked the Discovery Channel not to air its special, “Eaten Alive,” in which a man reportedly enters the belly of an anaconda in a snake-proof suit. Spoiler alert: Both man and beast survive the stunt. But even if the snake survived, PETA says, it suffered.
If Discovery must air “Eaten Alive,” PETA says, it asked that its air date be moved from Dec. 7 to Thanksgiving, so turkey-stuffed viewers can at least feel some empathy for the snake.
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Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: ABC’s “Castle” has jumped the shark with mystery novelist Richard Castle crossing over into an alternate dimension.
Actually, the phrase “jump the shark” has jumped the shark and will know be known as “being eaten alive by an anaconda.”
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1975, the ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 sank during a storm on Lake Superior.
The only survivor was Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot, who stuck around long enough to hear the cook say, “Fellas, it’s been good to know ya,” and then took one of the lifeboats.
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