Big Shrimpin'

The History Channel is getting desperate for material.  First, we had IRT (Ice Road Truckers).  How many episodes can we take of semi trucks cracking the ice and fearing falling in the water before the plot gets as tired as a re-run?  Yeah, it's cold.  Yeah, ice can support a tremendous amount of weight.  Yeah, a blizzard can mess you up.  (Yawn and reach for remote)  What else is on?

The History Channel now presents us with (drum roll, please) Big Shrimpin.  No kidding.  The show features cast rejects from the movie Deliverance complete with missing teeth, stained t-shirts, corn cob pipes, and a southern drawl so thick that although technically speaking English subtitles are needed.  They spend their days trolling the gulf dragging their nets for shrimp.  Yup.  That's it.  They get the bad weather episode, the engine trouble episode, and the episode where Litta Fella almost gets eaten by a shark.  Oh, I forgot the episode where Captain Roundhead's son almost had his foot explode like a giant zit from puss and infection after spilling gasoline on it and lighting it on fire and they had to go back to shore to bring him to a hospital.  Tuff guy. 

Then we have Captain Redbone who looks like a growly pirate.  He always has a cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth.