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Originally Posted by NewChief
My favorite Bourdain moment was when he went to... Sardenia maybe? Somewhere in Italy. The guy he is "fishing" with attempts to set up a photo op where they're supposedly catching their seafood by hand. He wholesale starts throwing frozen fish and octopus and such into the water, then pretending to go and gather them with fins and snorkel.
Tony, in the narration, completely busts the guy out and talks about how miserable the whole thing made him. He then proceeds to get wasted drunk because he's so dejected about it. He also narrates that and says, "I'm glad this is on film, because I have absolutely zero recall of how this evening turned out or the conversation I'm having with this couple."
It was just so refreshing for him to peel back the lens of how so many of those photo op "reality" shows stage crap and to see how much it depressed him when he was seeking an "authentic" experience. His subsequent alcoholic binge rang so true, and reminded me of something I'd do.
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Yeah I think that was the one where the wife is giving him dirty looks during dinner.