Catfish Recap: Amanda Hugginkiss

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By Honey Gangsta | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | 10:18 pm | 21 Comments
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Tyler waxes sentimental about what good friends he has and the friends tell Nev what a good guy Tyler is and how he deserves someone who appreciates that.  They think the whole internet girlfriend thing is weird, especially her total lack of a phone.  And they talk about what a hard time they’ll give Tyler if Amanda turns out to be a guy.  Amanda Hug ‘n Kiss.  

Nev and Max manage to find a coffee shop with wifi in this town with no hotels and they proceed to do their intense research rituals on Amanda.  They pull up her Facebook page to see what’s going on and here is a recent post she put up:  “Why can’t sex be like it is in the movies?  Music in the background, guy with abs and one that really cares?”  Okay what kind of post is THAT?  It’s an obvious invitation for guys to answer her advertising how sexy and romantic they are and how GREAT and movie-like sex would be with them.  There is NO other reason to post something like that.  Max, of course, quickly points this out.  They notice that none of the responses to that post seem to come from people who actually know Amanda.  They message a few of the guys talking to her to see if they can get any info.  One named Mikhail calls them and says he met Amanda on Facebook, they’ve never talked on the phone, and they exchange messages of a sexual nature.  Then a guy named Brendon calls with an identical story.  Facebook, no phone, sexual chatting.  So obviously this girl is using Facebook as her ego stroking playground. 

Nev Schulman, P.I., pulls out all the stops.

Time for the almighty Google Image Search!  And Amanda’s pictures match up with a MySpace profile of a girl named Trina (not The Natural).  It’s funny how MySpace was this free-for-all for everyone to sort of flaunt themselves.  Pictures like “Amanda’s,” with bikinis, underwear or whatever were everywhere.  It was like a virtual escort catalogue. I guess since Facebook is so minimal it’s hard to do the whole porn-model-profile page.  You’d have to spend a lot more time hunting people down to pay attention to your nudie pics.  Anyway the guys brilliantly conclude that Amanda is not the girl in the pictures.  Duh.  

So Nev and Max go back to Tyler’s the next day to tell him about the MySpace profile with all of the same pictures as Amanda’s Facebook profile.  Tyler says he feels betrayed but he still wants to find out who he’s been talking to all this time.  So Nev and Max head back to the cabin to send Amanda a message – don’t forget, she has no phone.  Amanda answers that she’s not sure about all this, although she DOES want to meet Tyler because he’s her favorite person to talk to.  Oh yes, I’m sure she’s never said THAT to anyone before.  She keeps saying that she doesn’t want to let Tyler down.  By meeting him?  Okay CLEARLY this person is nowhere near the person in the pictures. 

Don’t miss one exciting second of Nev typing, Max.

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21 Comments

  1. 1
    Whatever
    Posted January 16, 2013 at 11:56 pm

    Obviously the people who are duping people and pretending to be someone they’re not are missing something and faking another life is filling some kind of void but I have to think that these obviously dubious relationships are filling some kind of void that also exists in the person being duped. So many of these people are obvious fakes and the excuses they give the people they are duping would barely fly in 2002 let alone 2012! I can’t accept that people being tricked are really this dense – it has to be willful ignorance because they want to believe. I especially thought that in this episode. How could he believe in 2 years she never had access to a phone of any sort? Not even a friend’s? Or anyone with a webcam?

  2. 2
    AliceinPopLand
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 12:56 am

    Aaron gets off on seducing straight guys. Theres no mystery or deep seated trama. Its his thing and he probably not going to stop.

  3. 3
    PinkTop
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 2:00 am

    Seriously. This isn’t the 60′s anymore. One no longer has to move to New York City in order to be gay in peace.

  4. 4
    April
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 5:29 am

    It is funny how your avatar is a pink triangle and you said that PinkTop.

  5. 5
    badgerfreak
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 7:09 am

    I’ll be honest, I laughed really hard when I saw that the girl was really a gay guy. Overall, I thought it was an eh episode. A bigger twist than some of the other episodes where the people are just fatter than the pictures they showed. But there was no drama. People were rational and calm.
    There is a star player for Notre Dame, Manti Te’o that got catfished himself. So, it can happen to anyone who’s willing to believe it I guess. I get skeptical about someone if they’re being nicer to me to my face than they should be, let alone someone who wouldn’t even skype with me. But, there are all kinds of people who are desperate and lonely enough for something that feels like real love that they will stretch the bounds of belief to feel it.
    I can’t wait for next week where it appears as though the faker is the one reaching out to Nev, and is wanting to come clean.
    Also, I loved how uncomfortable Nev got when Tyler told him he sent him dick pics. Classic Nev.

  6. 6
    TurtleGirl93 TurtleGirl93
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 7:44 am

    I’m just waiting for this to explode in a really bad way. Nev seems to be playing armchair psychologist with the catfishers and catfishees and I’m just afraid someone is going to start throwing punches one of these days.

  7. 7
    sardini
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 8:09 am

    First of all, Amanda has no phone, right? Well in some the pictures she has, she’s doing the thing where you take a picture of yourself in the mirror WITH A PHONE!! Also, when the high school friends were there, I’m surprised they didn’t say, “I’m single!!!”

    Is there ever going to be an episode where both people are who they say they are, and live happily ever after?

  8. 8
    smango
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 8:30 am

    At one point during the episode, I felt like I was watching a “Google Image Search” infomercial. Nev was explaining the process to Tyler: You take a picture, and drag it into the search bar on google image search, and then it finds the image on the BIG WORLD WIDE WEB.

    Tyler looked at him like he was an idiot. I would also appreciate a title card at the beginning of each episode: The following show is brought to you with limited commercial interruption (because Nev will shamelessly plug our service throughout the episode) by GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH – helping stupid people find out their being duped by crazies since 2012!!!

    The spokesman from Notre Dame actually referenced Catfish at some point in the whole Manti Teo thing. The REALLY sick part of that whole ordeal was that Teo thought his girlfriend was actually dead – and died within a day of his grandmother. He found out it wasn’t true when someone called him from her number last month, said “I’m not dead” and hung up. Now… I’m not certain he is completely clueless about this whole thing… but he seems like a genuinely nice guy. Kind of hard to believe that with such a high-profile guy that NO ONE figured out this girl wasn’t real before now. His fans actually sent money to a leukemia foundation in her honor… no one realized this girl didn’t exist, nor did she die??? Its a little (cat)fishy.

    Great recap!!! Most weeks, its better than the show!

  9. 9
    JudgyWudgy
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 9:28 am

    @sardini – my guess is no, because people who are who they say they are can prove it in a timely manner.

  10. 10
    Cheergirl
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 9:45 am

    haha it’s 2013 and I actually have no cellphone and I’m 22 and it’s because I’m in college and can barely afford to eat or buy a metrocard (I live in NYC and use public transportation to go to school) so I stopped wanting to struggle to pay a phone bill. So not everyone has a cellphone. I do have a webcam though. I thought every laptop came with one now.
    I’m also not a creep and met my boyfriend in real life and go out on real dates. People baffle me

  11. 11
    jp
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 10:17 am

    I am from MI and I gathered from this ep that he is from Holly, MI which is between Flint and Detroit. Really an odd location more so than in the boondocks. Like there are 2 highways nearby and everything. Never heard of anyone either going there or coming from there though.

  12. 12
    Faye
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 10:51 am

    My favorite part of this episode is when Tyler came clean to his friends and one said “how far did you go on the date” and they busted out laughing and so did I

    Everyone is starting to question that Notre Dame player saying he may not have been Catfished after all .. it’s all over the news blogs and they had an extensive conversation about it on CNN including showing a tape of the coach giving the “girlfriend” the game ball

  13. 13
    JudgyWudgy
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 11:45 am

    Waaaait wait wait. This Notre Dame thing is happening NOW?! I am at a coffee shop on my lunch break and it’s on CNN. WHAT?! How does this happen, and why is it national news?!

  14. 14
    KG
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 11:48 am

    Women, tend to not ask for dick pictures. It would take anyone 2 seconds to figure out that a beautiful woman who has no phone or webcam and likes to be sent dick pictures is a dude. Let alone two years.
    I think Tyler must be a little slow, maybe with the mentality of a 12 year old. He had this lost expression the whole time. College’s do take mentally challenged people, so hopefully he’s getting some guidance there.

  15. 15
    blazergirl
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 12:12 pm

    I agree with you all who worry it may end in violence, but hopefully those involved in this show won’t, because they know that since they are on tv, they would never get away with it. Although it didn’t stop the Jenny Jones incident. I did notice that Amanda/Aaron asked Nev if he would be there when they were FB chatting, and said it made him feel better. Probably his insurance of knowing that Tyler wouldn’t beat the crap out of him when he realized it was a guy, since there would be witnesses.

  16. 16
    Classy Drunk Classy Drunk
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 12:14 pm

    @KG…dicks aren’t pretty. Why would I want a picture of it?

  17. 17
    labowner
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 12:34 pm

    What did these nut-jobs do before the internet?

  18. 18
    Faye
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 12:58 pm

    @labowner – personal ads and hookers

    Even when I meet someone in a bar if he does not have a cell phone or debit card it’s a huuuge red flag. And Tyler never thought that she can afford – a computer, college, fake boobs, a vacation on a cruise based on the pictures but not a boost mobile cell phone?

  19. 19
    annie annie
    Posted January 17, 2013 at 6:31 pm

    @sardini……YES! I was thinking the same thing. He does realize cell phones are ALSO ELECTRONIC THINGYS YOU CAN TALK TO SOMEONE WITH and not just used for taking pictures, right?! Duuuuuurrrr

    I swear these people are dumb as rocks.

    Meanwhile, glad to see some more Michigan freak-love. I think that makes 2 Michigan stories for Catfish the TV show, not to mention the location for the original Catfish Movie.

    (I lived in Michigan a few years ago, it will always have a place in my sarcastic heart)

  20. 20
    mere2142
    Posted January 18, 2013 at 8:21 am

    I laughed when Nev said ‘fellatio’. He was so visibly uncomfortable with the whole situation.

    And I prefer bitter Max who seems to be tiring of this whole routine. Also, I prefer Max with his shirt off!

  21. 21
    captain-save-uh-hoe
    Posted January 19, 2013 at 3:07 pm

    @faye- B Kelly gave Manti the “game ball” in the locker room, after the game, to give to send back to his girlfriend. There’s no footage of him giving the ball to a girl and pretending it was Manti’s gf. Manti got DUPED, hardcore.

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