puppy bowl
Crystal and I ended up watching the Puppy Bowl last night on Animal Planet.
For at least 4 hours, the only thing on Animal Planet was this enclosed pen, mocked up to look like a football field, filled with puppy dogs.
Every few minutes, a chute would open up at the back of the field, and another puppy would come sliding down a ramp and get shot out into the game. Usually, the dog would panic and try scampering back up the ramp. But the ramp was made of metal, and the dog's claws would just clatter depressingly against the slide.
When one of the dogs would poop on the field, a grown man in a referee's outfit would crawl onto the field on hands and knees and announce: "Puppy foul! Fifty yard line!" He'd then wind off a length of paper towel, pick up the poop, and crawl off again.
This was easily one of the most depressing things I've ever seen on TV in my life.
For at least 4 hours, the only thing on Animal Planet was this enclosed pen, mocked up to look like a football field, filled with puppy dogs.
Every few minutes, a chute would open up at the back of the field, and another puppy would come sliding down a ramp and get shot out into the game. Usually, the dog would panic and try scampering back up the ramp. But the ramp was made of metal, and the dog's claws would just clatter depressingly against the slide.
When one of the dogs would poop on the field, a grown man in a referee's outfit would crawl onto the field on hands and knees and announce: "Puppy foul! Fifty yard line!" He'd then wind off a length of paper towel, pick up the poop, and crawl off again.
This was easily one of the most depressing things I've ever seen on TV in my life.