I watched Anthony Bourdain's parts unknown season 2 episode 5 and was nearlly as depressed as he was during the show. It was a bit unbelievable but I bellieve it.


In this episode he goes to Sicily. He's been tehre before to film a show ans said it was a disaster. This time as well. The worst part was the first 15 minutes or so. He went to try to get some fresh seafood on a boat but was really surprised that none of the fish was fresh and actually the sicilian guide was trying to trick him.

Here are quotes of what Anthony Bourdain said and you can then learn what happened.
"So I get on the water and I'm paddling, and 'Splash!' Suddenly, there's a dead sea creature sinking in front of me. Are you kidding me? I'm thinking, 'This can't be happening.' There's another one! And another rigor mortis half-frozen freaking octopus. "

"Each specimen dropped to the sear floor to moments later be discovered by our hero, Torino.""I'm no marine biologist, but I know dead octopus when I see one."

"Strangely everyone else seems to believe the hideous sham unfolding before our eyes, doing their best to ignore the blazingly obvious." "Then, they gave up and just dumped the whole bag of dead fish into the sea. "

"At this point I begin desperately looking for signs of life. Hoping one of them would become revived. Frantically swimming around the bottom for one that's still twitching, then turn to the camera and end this misery. But, no, my shame will be absolute."

"For some reason I feel something snap and I slide quickly into a near-hysterical depression. "

"'Is this what it's come to?' I'm thinking, as another dead squid narrowly misses my head. Almost a decade later and I'm back in the same country staging fishing scenes?

"Complicit in a shameful shameful incident of fakery, but there I was bobbing listlessly in the water with dead sea life sinking to the bottom all around me. You've got to be pretty immune to the world to not see the obvious metaphor here. I've never had a nervous breakdown before, but I tell you from the bottom of my heart, something fell apart down there. And it took a long long time after this damn episode to recover

."I'm sitting in a nearby café pounding one Negroni after another in a smoldering, miserable rage."

"By the time dinner rolls around, I'm ripped to the TV-bleep. Did I mention it's my birthday?"

Here's the show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqrVwkLov2s
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