You ever seen something, a video, a picture, or even in real life, and simply thought "This happened. This actually fucking happened", and yet you still can't quite believe it happened. Such is the topic of this thread.
It came about when I was browsing the "fetishes you don't get" thread (because if there is one kind of thread which guarantees entertainment, it's a sex thread) and someone, I can't quite remember who and can't be arsed to dig through and find out, mentioned an episode of CSI featuring furries.
Eventually, I got curious as to what the hell a CSI episode would do with such a thing, and searched it up on youtube.
And my god...what I saw.
This happened. This was written. A location was found. Background actors were found. This was shot, edited, and then broadcast on TV all around the world.
THIS. FUCKING. HAPPENED.
AND NOBODY INVOLVED THOUGHT ANYTHING WAS AMISS.
Before I get an inbox full of hate, it's not the presence of furries in a mainstream show that makes this unbelievable, it's the utter failure to comprehend them. Most people have trouble with that, let alone the makers of hit TV shows who are probably even more unfamiliar with it than most. To it's credit, it does try to explain reasons...only the reasons are as silly as "NATIVE AMERICANS DID IT, IT'S INSTINCTIVE" and then even those reasons are snubbed off for laughs. I'm no great expert on furry culture myself, but jesus, was the research on this any more than a ten minute google?
Plus I highly doubt cons are like this, just a bunch of people in fursuits wondering around a large room making animal noises at each other. That's less a con and more like the "Darlek asylum" from the beginning of this series of Dr who.
But it gets worse. There's another video in the related section, and I barely got past the forty second mark on that. It's an interrogation. The suspect has not taken off their suit. Not even the hat. And he/she's also speaking in a strange accent. IN A POLICE INTERVIEW. NOBODY IS THAT IN CHARACTER.
I never thought anything would beat that episode of NCIS with the Second Life chase scene in misunderstanding the internet and it's cultures. Well...I was wrong.
Eventually, I got curious as to what the hell a CSI episode would do with such a thing, and searched it up on youtube.
And my god...what I saw.
This happened. This was written. A location was found. Background actors were found. This was shot, edited, and then broadcast on TV all around the world.
THIS. FUCKING. HAPPENED.
AND NOBODY INVOLVED THOUGHT ANYTHING WAS AMISS.
Before I get an inbox full of hate, it's not the presence of furries in a mainstream show that makes this unbelievable, it's the utter failure to comprehend them. Most people have trouble with that, let alone the makers of hit TV shows who are probably even more unfamiliar with it than most. To it's credit, it does try to explain reasons...only the reasons are as silly as "NATIVE AMERICANS DID IT, IT'S INSTINCTIVE" and then even those reasons are snubbed off for laughs. I'm no great expert on furry culture myself, but jesus, was the research on this any more than a ten minute google?
Plus I highly doubt cons are like this, just a bunch of people in fursuits wondering around a large room making animal noises at each other. That's less a con and more like the "Darlek asylum" from the beginning of this series of Dr who.
But it gets worse. There's another video in the related section, and I barely got past the forty second mark on that. It's an interrogation. The suspect has not taken off their suit. Not even the hat. And he/she's also speaking in a strange accent. IN A POLICE INTERVIEW. NOBODY IS THAT IN CHARACTER.
I never thought anything would beat that episode of NCIS with the Second Life chase scene in misunderstanding the internet and it's cultures. Well...I was wrong.
