elmer fudd
Contributor
Just thought I'd make a list of some of the things that make Seahunt particularly amusing to me.
1) The deadpan narration. "I'm Mike Nelson, professional diver. I've done a lot of dangerous things, but the most dangerous..." He had a new most dangerous experience every week.
2) The semi-hot chicks. There were a few smokin' hot chicks on SH, but for the most part they weren't quite A-list material. They cast them in almost every episode though and 75% of them were completely infatuated with Mike Nelson.
I was watching an episode with my daughter a few weeks ago where Mike Nelson was supposed to meet a covert operative. While the narration was going on about how he had no idea who the operative was, I told my daughter, "It'll be the hot chick!" Sure enough, it was.
3) MN's shorts. Those things look like they were intended for the pride parade. Then they repeatedly film him in them from an angle looking up.
4) The underwater currents. This has to be my favorite. You hear the narration talk about the ferocious currents while you see a diver going into what looks like a grand mal seizure. The bubbles however and the plants all clearly show that there is no current whatsoever.
5) The obvious stunt double switches. It's always amusing how the old overweight diver suddenly transforms into an athletic 20 something as soon as he submerges.
6) The clearly visible surface 10 or 15 feet above them. It doesn't matter how deep they say they are, half the time you can see the surface right above their heads.
7) The cold war atmosphere. Good thing we won it, otherwise we'd all have to be on the lookout for communist spies intent on cutting our exhaust hoses every time we went out.
1) The deadpan narration. "I'm Mike Nelson, professional diver. I've done a lot of dangerous things, but the most dangerous..." He had a new most dangerous experience every week.
2) The semi-hot chicks. There were a few smokin' hot chicks on SH, but for the most part they weren't quite A-list material. They cast them in almost every episode though and 75% of them were completely infatuated with Mike Nelson.
I was watching an episode with my daughter a few weeks ago where Mike Nelson was supposed to meet a covert operative. While the narration was going on about how he had no idea who the operative was, I told my daughter, "It'll be the hot chick!" Sure enough, it was.
3) MN's shorts. Those things look like they were intended for the pride parade. Then they repeatedly film him in them from an angle looking up.
4) The underwater currents. This has to be my favorite. You hear the narration talk about the ferocious currents while you see a diver going into what looks like a grand mal seizure. The bubbles however and the plants all clearly show that there is no current whatsoever.
5) The obvious stunt double switches. It's always amusing how the old overweight diver suddenly transforms into an athletic 20 something as soon as he submerges.
6) The clearly visible surface 10 or 15 feet above them. It doesn't matter how deep they say they are, half the time you can see the surface right above their heads.
7) The cold war atmosphere. Good thing we won it, otherwise we'd all have to be on the lookout for communist spies intent on cutting our exhaust hoses every time we went out.
