Shark Yourself
Threatening your job since 1987: Shark Week is back
- Top off the week with a shark hat!
- A perfect accessory to your Shark Week drinking game
- Suddenly become Jaws with the Discovery Channel's shark shirt for about $40.Photo via Discovery Channel
- For the rest of the summer, swimming becomes fraught with a sense of danger
Every year since I was born, the nation has been gripped in a week-long annual celebration. Not of me, sillies, but of Shark Week.
The Discovery Channel's single-minded celebration of all-things sharky has been going strong since 1987, taking over lives for a full week each summer as land-dwellers sit glued to their TV screens. In 2000 when the Discovery Channel distributed 3-D glasses for one episode, it made for the most epic sleepover in semi-recent memory. When high def happened, I stopped leaving the house.
Craig Ferguson has guested on this year's six-episode extravaganza, and I've noticed that as the show evolves, so have my celebratory customs. I'm so saturated with educational information from 20-plus years of dedicated viewership that the show has now become a drinking game, a low-budget horror movie night and a Facebook picture.
Tell us — what do you do for Shark Week? Can I come over??