‘Nice Beaver.’ ‘Thank You, I Just Had It Stuffed.’

In its ongoing effort to catalog the great tapestry of the American experience, the History Channel will continue to not air anything about the Kennedys, and instead begin airing a reality show about taxidermy. That’s right: History is moving forward with something that DIDN’T work on TLC. From Inside TV:

The network has ordered a new half-hour series titled Mounted in Alaska, going behind the scenes of a respected family-run taxidermy shop.

Aw dammit. I had $20 on “Mounted in Alaska” being a TV movie about Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston. Oh well, at least the show is about a RESPECTED taxidermy shop. When you’ve got an animal carcass that you want to turn into a lifelike statue, it’s important that you use only the utmost professionals.

Knight’s Taxidermy takes on challenging projects ranging from creating a charging warthog so that it’s busting through a wall in a client’s home, to restoring a 50-year-old polar bear that’s an Alaskan landmark, to working with Theodore Roosevelt’s personal taxidermy kit.

Wow, Teddy Roosevelt had a personal taxidermy kit? File that one away for trivia night. “Which U.S. president was also a serial killer?”

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