Mountain Monsters.

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Anyone see that horrible reality show on Destination America, called Mountain Monsters? If not, Ill give you an update about what it's about:
A group of West Virginia researchers dressed like hillbillies (I'm sure West Virginia is happy these idiots are promoting such a negative stereotype of their state) go hunting for everything from their own version of Bigfoot, to pterodactyls, to an obvious Alien ripoff. The dialogue and acting is nothing short of terrible, and a dead give away that the show is scripted, on top of the fact that one of the team during the forest night hunts will shout, "It's over there!" and they'll all give chase, even though the camera men always - ALWAYS - misses catching the monster of the week on video. All these guys go out into the woods with guns, apparently ready to kill what would doubtlessly be endangered species, if they in fact existed. And these are supposed to be freaked out rednecks acting drunk, and carrying what are supposed to be loaded guns in the dark - you'd think they'd be in more danger of shooting themselves than from being torn apart by monsters. The plan seems to be to chase the cryptid into a contraption their trap builder constructed that day along the lines of Wile E. Coyote's ACME traps and weapons to kill the Road Runner - and with as much lack of success in capturing said monster (you'd think they'd have fired the trap maker by now). Their evidence consists of so called foot prints, hair samples they never get analyzed, urine that burned one of their team members (again, never analyzed) and one or two second videos by so called witnesses of a guy in a monster suit.
Of all the reality shows involving monsters and the paranormal that try to pass themselves off as documentaries, this is the most unashamedly fake. But, I will make an admission here... as much as I think this show is ridiculous and obviously phoney, I watch it when I can. I watch it and other shows like it for the exact same reason why I watch pro-wrestling - not because I think it's real (I obviously don't), but purely for the entertainment factor.
Anyone else watch this golden turd?

Haunted Highway came to my little town to look for the Ozark Howler.They hung meat up near their campsite to try and lure it in,most likely you'll lure in a black bear doing something silly like that.It was pretty comical to watch.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Highway

I used to watch Haunted Highway, and I can most assuredly tell you, it's light years ahead of Mountain Monsters in script and acting. Plus, Haunted Highway had a couple hotties on their show - all Mountain Monsters has are a bunch of mostly bearded, overweight middle aged men. The youngest guy they introduce as their "rookie" (what's a documentary without a rookie, right?) is so fat and stubby legged it's a wonder he can traverse the forest at all looking for monsters.