Current U.S. Catfish t.v. show "investigates" possible Thai lady catfish

[Jingthing]

If you don't know, the Catfish show is about people presenting themselves dishonestly online romantically. I won't give away the spoiler here, was the Thai lady a catfish or not to the thirsty American man because that's not the point here.

 

In the show, the brilliant detectives at Catfish particularly the Nev person finds a scan of a Thai bank slip showing the number 63 as part of the date. The silly Nev doesn't know about Thai calendar years and his show which must have multi million dollar budgets doesn't bother to research that. So the brilliant Nev concludes that date must mean the birthday of the suspected Thai lady catfish who is presenting herself as young but being born in 1963 is not young. 

 

In the course of this they generally trash Thailand in general for all the usual stereotypical reasons and see lots of Thai text messages which they plead ignorance of understanding when all they had to do was paste them into a translate tool. Not to mention they could have hired a live translator with ease as the show is based in L.A. which has a very largeThai American population. Incredible!

 

Here's a sample of an older episode for people that don't know the show:

 

Edited January 8, 2021 by Jingthing

[CrunchWrapSupreme]

Oh MTV, such definitive memories of my youth. Now reduced to yet another reality show channel. Among TLC, A&E, Tru, Bravo, etc. 300 pound weddings, extreme hookups, pawn shops. Been awhile since I followed any of it. Flip between 'em for another reality show. Hastily thrown together, shock value drama, low production values. Yet they somehow manage to find an audience, the reason they've been so lucrative.

 

Well, not anymore. A day of reckoning is now upon them, with all the carrier disputes between cable, satellite, and broadcasting companies in the US. The broadcasters say they aren't getting paid enough. Carriers lose the channels. They renegotiate and jack up the bills. Then they lose subscribers. All over these piles of junk. Good, let it all die. We need a reset. I just hope my old MTV comes back.