Animal Planets PUPPY BOWL and Kitty Halftime!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...XT-sJcJka4

So very special, I am taping it and watching it after.

Not a football fan? Check out Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl

By Rick Kushman | MCT News Service


This Sunday is one of my favorite TV days, and it comes down to two words: "Puppy Bowl."

The puppies are back almost all day on Animal Planet for the cheapest, most pointless and, clearly most adorable, Super Bowl counterprogramming on Earth.

The Super Bowl - excuse me, officially it's Super Bowl XLI, because this matters so much it gets a Roman numeral (it's pronounced "zleee") - is TV's annual biggest show. It drew nearly 91 million viewers last year, and is responsible for more beer sales than any other day. Including St. Patrick's Day. I think. Actually, I made that up. But doesn't it sound right?


The Puppy Bowl - excuse me, officially Puppy Bowl III - (starting at 6 p.m.) averages about 2 million viewers, which for Animal Planet, is about the same windfall as a Super Bowl audience.

Whoever thought this up at Animal Planet must have earned a major bonus. The thing can't cost more than a couple dollars to produce. They take a large pen, paint it to look like a football field, fill it with puppy toys, then let a dozen or so puppies loose to do puppy stuff.

It sounds spectacularly dumb, even though you get an occasional close-up of a puppy nose through the water-bowl cam. But I'm telling you, if you have even a tiny, shriveled soul, it's irresistible.

For two years now, I've been in a room with a bunch of snack- eating, football-intense people who melted every time we switched to the puppies. Big, tough, macho guys would go "aaaawwww." (Though one of them cried when the Seahawks lost last year, so I'm not sure he counts.)

A periodic highlight comes when a poor guy dressed as a referee, most likely a down-on-his-luck actor with a cruel agent, drops a penalty flag to stop play. Then he cleans up a puppy mess. The road to stardom is paved with indignity.

The thing runs on a three-hour loop, and will air until midnight Sunday. All the while, Animal Planet will be offering encouragement and advice for adopting puppies and kittens. More details and adoption links are available at www.animalplanet.com.

Also online, viewers will be able to pick an MVP - yeah, it means Most Valuable Puppy. What can I say? My early favorites are Larry, Izzie and Bess, but the scouts like Milo because he's been developing good chewing skills recently and could be a player.

Oh My Jesus!

INSATIABLE said:

I wanna see the kitty half-time show!
All of the animals are residents of a shelter...hopefully this will help them get good, permanent homes

applekisses said:

Yes, you can adopt the puppies and they show you how.

awww...

if the kitties are dressed up in little prince costumes this year, i'd SO TOTALLY choose the puppy bowl halftime show over the real thing.


KITTIES IN PRINCE COSTUMES - CAN YOU EVEN FATHOM SUCH A THING? COULD I SURVIVE SOMETHING THAT CUTE???


oh lord, i just pulled something
[Edited 2/2/07 11:12am]

Anx said:

Another alternative too

http://www.lingeriebowl.com/

You have to pay for this though

applekisses said:

Darin recorded it for me last year (I don't have cable) and it is seriously THE most precious thing I have ever seen IN MY LIFE!

Anx said:

OH



MY




GOD!!!!!





I would die.

I WOULD DIE!!!!!

CarrieMpls said:

I'm so excited!
I saw a little bit of it the year before last and the cutest thing was the water dish cam...the pupsters little snouts were snarfing up the water Is this the first year for the kitty half-time?

CarrieMpls said:

My friend called our other friend (who loves animals) to drop what she was doing at that very minute and check it out. All he heard was her awwwing over the line. I am so DVRing this!

applekisses said:

Apparently it's been kitten half time since the beginning.

applekisses said:

That's all he recorded for me last year.
Puppies are great, sure, but I'm in it for the kitties.

superspaceboy said:

What do they do? Do they put them in little marching band uniforms?

applekisses said:

oh
my
god!


They had a disco ball and colored lights and brought out this HUGE cat toy crawl around thing and all the kitties played on it and round it and at the end glitter and streamers came down everywhere!

It is SOOOOO CUTE!!!!!

applekisses said:

Check out the youtube video I posted at the top. They show a clip of it. I think it's simply cams in a cute doggie pen set up to look like a football field. I heard that the referee comes out when there is an "accident". I think that's all it is cute cute cute puppies being puppies. Apparently there is a water bowl cam too. HOW CUTE!

CarrieMpls said:

That sounds beyond special! I had no idea. I have just heard about it but have not seen it.

CarrieMpls said:

Kitties or Prince! I can tell you all it is a complete quandry for me! Although I have a feeling all will be decided as I'll most likely be at a place where it's all Super Bowl.

CarrieMpls said:

I think I will spontainously combust from the cuteness I will witness that night!

I think I speak for all straight men when I say

sextonseven said:

superspaceboy said:

Pfft... Don't let him fool you...he's a big ole softy when it comes to kitty cats...when he came to see me he was all snuggly with my kitties...he even was loving up my sister's cat!

superspaceboy said:

applekisses said:

sextonseven said:

which is why i'm happily queer as a catfart!

Anx said:

You wouldn't prefer watching men in tight pants jump all over each other?

Sports is very gay.

sextonseven said:

and you're saying this as a straight man?

Anx said:

I don't understand why more gay men aren't into watching sports because it's so clearly homoerotic what with all the patting on the butts and stuff.