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The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, which first aired in 1987, is a week-long series of feature television programs dedicated to facts on sharks. Shark Week is held annually, normally running in July or August.
ng Shark Week 2006, the Silver Spring, Maryland, headquarters of the Discovery Channel was outfitted to resemble a giant shark.
In 2000, six million 3D Pulfrich glasses were distributed to viewers in the United States and Canada for an episode featuring an extinct giant shark which had 3D segments.
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The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, which first aired in 1987, is a week-long series of feature television programs dedicated to facts on sharks. Shark Week is held annually, normally running in July or August.
Broadcasting
During Shark Week 2006, the Silver Spring, Maryland, headquarters of the Discovery Channel was outfitted to resemble a giant shark.
In 2000, six million 3D Pulfrich glasses were distributed to viewers in the United States and Canada for an episode featuring an extinct giant shark which had 3D segments.
In 2005, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from the Discovery Channel series MythBusters hosted Shark Week, and a two-hour MythBusters "Jaws Special" was premiered for the event. In 2006, Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs hosted, and two Dirty Jobs episodes were featured, titled "Jobs that Bite" and "Jobs that Bite Harder".
In 2007 Discovery Channel celibrated Shark Week's 20th Anniversary hosted by Les Stroud.
Shark Week 2008 ran from July 27 to August 2 and was hosted by the Mythbusters and Mike Rowe.
2009's Shark Week is still being worked on.
In popular culture
- Alaskan comedy duo Danny Tanner's Rainbow Militia have recorded an entire album entitled "Shark Week: The Album", dedicated to the week long event.
- In the 2004 film The Girl Next Door, while frantically driving Matthew Kidman to an adult film convention in Vegas, Klitz tells his mother, via cell phone, that "Shark Week is all week long" and he'll watch it with her tomorrow.
- News comedian Stephen Colbert featured a small segment on The Colbert Report in which he found that sand (especially people being trapped in their own sand holes) has been responsible for more fatalities in the United States than shark attacks, prompting him to suggest the Discovery Channel hold an annual Sand Week. In his last show of 2008, he also declared Shark Week his favorite time of the year, with Christmas coming second (hoping though it somehow be possible to combine the two).
- On the animated TV series The Simpsons, Homer was about to leave Maggie under the supervision of "Grandma Shark Week."
- On the Showtime series Weeds, "Shark Week" is used as a euphemism for menstruation on the "Just Like Tomatoes" episode in Season 2.
- During a 2006 issue of The Punisher (vol. 6, issue 34) the title character relies on information culled from Shark Week to survive when an enemy has thrown him to wild sharks.
- Late night talk show host Craig Ferguson has sarcastically mentioned it as his "favorite" week of the year.
- On the sitcom In the House, Debbie Allen's character tries to bond with her son Austin by telling him it's Shark Week.
- In the 2000 film Down To You, Eddie Hicks and his new girlfriend Emma have to leave Al's party early because she has to go watch Shark Week.
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