



That includes boiling a dead mouse in a cup of her own urine.

One of the most important members of the Fast & Furious famiglia, Michelle Rodriguez is primarily associated with action flicks, so naturally, she was game for just about anything while in the middle of the desert in a 2015 episode of Running Wild. If you get thirsty during the ceremony, you know what to do. In honor of the newest season of Running Wild that’s been airing this summer (he made tennis great Roger Federer eat a fish eye, neat!), allow me to introduce the Bear Grylls Awards, in honor of the celebrities that generally Did The Most and endured the craziest hardships and weirdest pee-adjacent escapades. It was a perfect recipe mixing Grylls’s natural effervescence with easily recognizable famous people and tossing them into increasingly absurd nature scenarios just works. A year later, the celebrity-incorporating Running Wild was born, beginning with Zac Efron in the pilot episode of the six-episode first season. What started out as Grylls hanging out with Jonathan Ross and Miranda Hart on the U.K.’s Channel 4 for weekend getaways in 2011 ( Bear Grylls Wild Weekends, a great show name) eventually turned to reality TV with the short-lived Get Out Alive on NBC in 2013. But then we realized it could be even more captivating all that needed to be added to the formula was a celebrity-or in one case, the goddamn president of the United States. (I assume there are many ways to survive in the wild, but Bear Grylls is a man with a fierce preference-he is so synonymous with pee that his son once presented his own piss for Bear to drink.) Grylls can survive in virtually any environment, and he did so entertainingly for years on shows like Man vs. The survivalist and former British special forces trooper has cultivated a legitimately successful reality TV career out of wilderness adventures and a highly specific interest in drinking his own pee at nearly every opportunity. But while there is nothing wrong with Claws, the summer TV I’m interested in hits all the same notes but with a side of human urine. The ideal form of summer television is something pulpy, flashy, and perhaps a bit excessive-a drama like TNT’s Claws, for example, is the gold standard.
