Like Gilligan’s Island With More Realistic Characters
Posted on | October 21, 2006 at 12:11 pm | 9 Comments
Animal Planet reality show Meerkat Manor began its second season not too long ago. There was only about a month between the first and second seasons, which was strange. I still like the show, which follows the Whiskers family of meerkats in Africa’s Kalahari Desert as they go about their often dangerous daily lives. But I don’t really see how it can go on much longer. It gets pretty repetitive after awhile. I’ve found that one way to make it more enjoyable is to play the
Meerkat Manor Drinking Game
Take one drink whenever:
- Youssarian (mentally-challenged brother of dominant male Zaphod) does something boneheaded which puts other members of the Whiskers family into jeopardy.
- Narrator Sean Astin says the words “precious pups”.
- The Whiskers gang wins a fight with a rival gang.
- Matriarch Flower has another litter of pups.
- Another Whiskers female besides Flower gets pregnant.
- A pregnant Whiskers female is banished from the tribe by Flower.
- Flower lets an exiled female back in the gang.
- A pup tries to eat a millipede.
- A male from another tribe is sniffing around the Whiskers females.
- A babysitter neglects his or her duties (take two drinks if the babysitter is not Youssarian).
- Mozart sucks up to Flower.
- A small splinter group gets put in danger during a foraging expedition.
Take two drinks whenever:
- A pup gets lost during a foraging expedition.
- The Whiskers gang successfully fends off a predator.
- Youssarian successfully mates with a female from another tribe.
- The Whiskers family is caught foraging in another gang’s territory.
- Another gang is caught foraging in the Whiskers’ territory.
- Lazuli male Carlos mates with a Whiskers female.
Take three drinks whenever:
- Another female challenges Flower for leadership of the Whiskers gang, whether through stealth, confrontation, or serendipity.
Take four drinks whenever:
- A meerkat is actually injured or killed by a non-meerkat predator.
Take five drinks whenever:
- One of the Cambridge University researchers, who have been studying this group of meerkats for ten years, suddenly doffs all of his or her clothes and runs around the desert screaming “I AM THE RODENT GOD”.
Latre.
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9 Responses to “Like Gilligan’s Island With More Realistic Characters”
October 21st, 2006 @ 6:50 pm
That’s a REAL show?! It’s been advertised here since we arrived, but a reality show about ferrets struck me as a joke and we never bothered to tune in… I assumed they had some dumb voice-over or subtitles for the scenes where one of them gets voted off, that sort of thing. Like that ‘animated reality show’ on CCentral.
It’s a REAL SHOW?!?
Hmm.
October 21st, 2006 @ 11:32 pm
Ummm, yeah, it’s a real show, but it’s actually a documentary and not like a “real” reality show. So, no, there’s no dubbing or subtitles or voting off, just cute little critters running around eviscerating their enemies and acting human.
October 22nd, 2006 @ 5:28 am
Never mind, it was on tonight and I watched a few minutes – turns out it’s the ads for it that are bizarre jokes. The show itself is more of a jazzed-up nature documentary than a soap-operaesque melodrama! Geez, to see the promos here you’d never guess it.
October 29th, 2006 @ 9:02 pm
Hey Rog – how come it’s your blog with the penis-enlargement spam comments? I just think it’s funny that the URL is “sinepenis” – which is, like, bad Latin for “without penis.” Of course, if your spam filter was working, this comment wouldn’t get through either. Damn.
October 29th, 2006 @ 9:07 pm
Aaargh. I don’t know how those are slipping through. I’m not even getting the notifications on them. Maybe the notifications are getting caught in my ISP’s spam filter.
November 4th, 2006 @ 12:32 pm
Don’t forget to take a drink whenever Sean Astin says the word ‘breakfast’.
November 7th, 2006 @ 1:11 pm
Yeah, how come that’s the only meal those meerkats eat? Well, I guess it is the most important meal of the day.
November 8th, 2006 @ 3:50 am
So, who won the meerkat elections today?
And why aren’t they called “prairie dogs”?
November 8th, 2006 @ 8:29 am
The elections went pretty well – I’m happy. Though the pot legalization and domestic partnership initiatives failed.
How can you even compare prairie dogs and meerkats? Meerkats taste much better.
Things are going very well here lately. I actually feel a blog entry coming on. I know something odd is going on when I get a request from our distributor to send some more Reign of Frogs CDs.