Men vs. Wild

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Tripel

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So who else watched Will Ferrell join Bear Grylls for a special edition of Man vs Wild this week? When I first saw the promo, I thought it was a brilliant idea to send a celebrity (a funny one at that) out into the wilderness with Bear. Bear seemed to really enjoy the company.
I'm a pretty big fan of Man vs Wild, and I especially loved this one. Hopefully Discovery does more episodes like it.

“Bear had the idea. He wanted to get me out there,” said the actor. “I remember thinking, ‘This is just crazy enough, I have to do it’.

“Sure enough there were moments out there, where I was like ‘bad decision, I made a totally bad decision,’ but in the end I love that I got to do that. It was pretty wild. No pun intended.”

“I did eat the cornea of a reindeer. Bear cut out this little gelatinous disc from the eyeball and was like, ‘Here, try this!’”
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That was a really funny episode.

I thought it was amazing that Will Ferrell could keep being funny when he was in a really wretchedly cold, difficult scenario.
 
We don't have cable, but saw a preview for that when visiting someone. We wanted to see it soooooooooooooo bad. Bear is awesome, and Will Farrell is hilarious. I hope it'll show up online at some point!
 
I watched it, and laughed the whole time.

Will was hilarious and appeared to be seriously scared in a couple of scenes.

"Just give me the high sign to let me know when I need to start drinking my urine" :lol:

When he cleans things up and improvises he's really funny.

You can watch the whole episode on youtube starting here:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eEpdyPisfc"]Man vs wild with Will Ferrell part 1 of 5[/ame]
 
Some of Ferrell's candid expressions are priceless!

Hah! His eight got hung up. Love it!!

I wonder what the camera man eats?????

Surely he knew that cornice would fail . . . good thing he had Jumars with him. A lot quicker than prussiks.
 
I thoroughly enjoyed that episode!! Ferrell's deadpan comments were great!
"I could be a snowshoe cobbler" :lol:
Bear should definitely have more guests on his show, like Robin Williams or Jack Black...
 
I watched this with Noah my son in a hotel....we loved it, and Noah also loves "Dirty Jobs' on Discovery (I think)..
 
LawrenceU said:
Some of Ferrell's candid expressions are priceless!

Hah! His eight got hung up. Love it!!

I wonder what the camera man eats?????

Surely he knew that cornice would fail . . . good thing he had Jumars with him. A lot quicker than prussiks.
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There has to be at least 3 cameras, I'm thinking.
 
Tripel said:
So who else watched Will Ferrell join Bear Grylls for a special edition of Man vs Wild this week? When I first saw the promo, I thought it was a brilliant idea to send a celebrity (a funny one at that) out into the wilderness with Bear. Bear seemed to really enjoy the company.
I'm a pretty big fan of Man vs Wild, and I especially loved this one. Hopefully Discovery does more episodes like it.

“Bear had the idea. He wanted to get me out there,” said the actor. “I remember thinking, ‘This is just crazy enough, I have to do it’.

“Sure enough there were moments out there, where I was like ‘bad decision, I made a totally bad decision,’ but in the end I love that I got to do that. It was pretty wild. No pun intended.”

“I did eat the cornea of a reindeer. Bear cut out this little gelatinous disc from the eyeball and was like, ‘Here, try this!’”
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I saw it, thought it was a funny episode
 
I caught one of the episodes featuring how they filmed it and Bear travels with a huge company. Director, producers, camera guys, safety guys etc.. and they have local guides as well. pretty cool job.
 
One thing that disappointed me about the show was the Jumars. If I'm not mistaken the type that he had cannot be placed on a rope in the standing part and will not 'coast' like a Gibbs. That means that the cornice fall was a set up. Still it was interesting to watch.
 
LawrenceU said:
One thing that disappointed me about the show was the Jumars. If I'm not mistaken the type that he had cannot be placed on a rope in the standing part and will not 'coast' like a Gibbs. That means that the cornice fall was a set up. Still it was interesting to watch.
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It was totally a set up. They had the camera in just the right spot to catch it.
 
KMK said:
LawrenceU said:
One thing that disappointed me about the show was the Jumars. If I'm not mistaken the type that he had cannot be placed on a rope in the standing part and will not 'coast' like a Gibbs. That means that the cornice fall was a set up. Still it was interesting to watch.
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It was totally a set up. They had the camera in just the right spot to catch it.
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Thanks for the confirmation. I don't know camera angles, but I do know climbing hardware.
 
My wife watched it last night, she had missed the original run.

My daughter was watching while they were giving the big lead-in for "Man vs. Wild" She looked at me and said "Daddy... I think the Wild is gonna win"

I love the mind of a five-year-old. :)
 
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