So, about that guy getting 'Eaten Alive' by a snake ...

Did you hang around for two hours to watch a dude get eaten by an anaconda?

No?

Then perhaps you're smarter than the rest of us.

On Sunday, the Discovery Channel aired its heavily hyped Eaten Alive special, in which Paul Rosolie and his team traversed the Amazon jungle in hopes of finding a snake that was big enough to eat him. An easy task, no?



Well, actually, quite the opposite. We spent most of the two-hour special with crocodiles, eels and anacondas that weren't quite up to the size Rosolie was gunning to get consumed by. Shrimps.

In fact, it wasn't until the last 15 minutes that he even went head-on with his 20-foot, 250-pound foe, during which he was cloaked in pig blood-soaked chain mail and a helmet. And he wasn't even fully devoured: After an hour spent in the snake's coils (roughly five minutes in TV time), Rosolie was pulled away with some gnarly cuts and poor circulation in his arm.

Riveting, huh? Well, Twitter didn't really think so:

There may have even been an Amazing Amy in his midst:

As it turns out, the snake that ensnared Rosolie wasn't even one his team came across in the jungle, but a Peruvian green anaconda from captivity, he revealed to People Sunday.

Both he and the mammoth reptile are healthy, although Rosolie suffered a broken rib during the snake hunt.
"I thought it was great how many people came out in support of a snake," Rosolie told USA TODAY before the special aired, after receiving thousands of "abusive" e-mails and several dozen death threats. "We didn't hurt any snakes. Snake safety was the most important thing we were doing."
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