I live in a house full of guys.  I know - don't you feel sorry for me!  The only other females in this house are our Jack Russells and they are no help!  When we get a chance to sit down and watch TV together the guys usually watch some testosterone pumping manly show like Dirty Jobs, Future Weapons, or Build It Bigger or whatever it is called.  Now, I am not a girly-girl by any stretch of the imagination but if I have to watch another show that is about blowing things up, building things, or catching lobster I am going to scream!
So tonight when my hubby said that he rented the Planet Earth series for us to watch, I was thrilled!  What a breath of fresh air!  I had seen previews and knew this was a show I could enjoy.  I wouldn't have to smile and pretend I am enjoying it while secrectly writing the next book in the For Dummies series titled "Living with Boys for Dummies".

Well, wouldn't you know it, this Planet Earth show (all about caves), was a boys dream come true!  We weren't even five minutes into the show when they start showing a really gross pig-looking blind salamander and clear slimy worms whose butts glow in the dark (I'm not making this up)! 
It gets better . . . Deer Cave in Borneo is home to five million bats. Their droppings are in a pile so huge it takes quite a bit of time and energy to scale it (we watched those brave camera men do it in the diary portion of the cd).  The whole massive pile of droppings is covered with millions of dung-eating cock roaches and other insects. 
After talking about stalagtites and stalagmites, we learned of snottites.  Yes, I did say snottites.  "Snottites" are slimy bacterial stalactites found in one of the caves on the episode.  These things look just like a two-year-old's runny nose, and just to prove I am not lying, here is a picture:

As most guys will tell you, you have to see it up close, in HD, on a huge wide screen to really do it justice but trust me - these snottites were disgusting! 
Well, the show sure was "EDUCATIONAL", just not the type of show I want to watch snuggled up to hubby with a glazed donut and coffee - yuk!  Watching TV with guys is just a bummer, but I'll sit through 6 hours of The Twilight Zone or Myth Busters over this show anyday!