Catfish Recap: To Skype a Stripper

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By Honey Gangsta | Thursday, November 22, 2012 | 1:56 am | 14 Comments
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Hello beloved readers!  I am so excited to discover that I am not the only one glued to this crazy show!  LOVED reading all of your opinions on it and catfish stories of your own!  We should put Nev out of business and make our own TV show, right?  At least we’d have some human reactions.

So tonight we join Nev sifting through his emails deciding who he’s going to help next.  He chooses a girl named Shawnise from Maryland.  Well, her name is Shawnise but she wants everyone to call her Trina the Natural.  She explains that she has a barbie doll body but that it’s all real, so she prefers this three-word title.  I’m not sure how I feel about titles including the word “the.”  Wait, yes I am.  It’s stupid.  Henry the 8th, Atilla the Hun, Robert the Bruce, Jabba the Hutt.  Trina the Natural?  Whatever.  Trina the Natural has fallen in love online with a guy named Lee.  But most people know him as Scorpio.  I’d say that’s sketchy, but she has an alternate name too, so we’ll see.  They are both exotic dancers (strippers) so they’ve bonded over that.  But Scorpio lives in Atlanta, Georgia and claims to be bad with technology and therefore unable to skype.  Ok, NOW I’ll say that’s sketchy.  

Nev skypes Shawnise, who right away insists upon being addressed by her complete three-word title. 

“If you want me on your show, you’ll use my FULL name.”

Then she explains that as a stripper, she is constantly being judged by men and has not been able to find true love… until meeting Scorpio on MySpace.  This IS true love because he understands what it is like to be a stripper and also treats her like a lady.  But she’d like to actually meet him now that they’ve been talking for a year.  She does find it slightly odd that he won’t skype with her.  Nev’s mission is clear.  Off to Maryland!

“This is a job for the Friendship Patrol!”

When they arrive at Trina’s apartment, she’s actually super cute, but DOES SHE KNOW IT!  Her mom lives there too and she comes out to say that Trina will make someone a really good wife.  I’m guessing she’ll want to stop stripping when that happens, but who knows?  Trina tearily explains that her dad died when she was only two so she’s been looking for a father figure, but the men she meets at the strip club just don’t don’t view her with any serious potential.  I totally can’t figure out why.  Enter Scorpio.  Respectful, understanding, non-judgmental, technologically challenged Scorpio.  He can’t skype, but he can send her exactly three professional modeling photos of himself! 

“Two more where this came from, baby.”

Nev asks if Scorpio has ever sent Trina a more casual photo, like with his friends, or you know, wearing clothes.  Trina thinks for a second and realizes that no, no he has not.  And here she’s sent him dozens of pictures of herself.  Max asks if Trina has ever asked Scorpio to take a picture of himself holding up her name.  WHAT?  Okay, I see what he’s getting at, but what normal human asks that?  It’s like a proof of life photo.  Is this what we’ve come to?  I guess when someone dodges skype for a year, yes.   

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14 Comments

  1. 1
    blazergirl
    Posted November 23, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    Man, I love this show! I watched the movie when MTV aired it a couple of weeks ago and was fascinated! In this episode, I had the same question as you, which was why hadn’t Trina noticed the blog entry signed by Larry, the real Scorpio, and along with that, why hadn’t she seen all the other pictures. But then Lee mentioned that supposedly the real Scorpio had asked him to set up a page to see how women reacted to him, and that was the page Trina found him through. So it sounds like she never saw the real Scorpio page.

    I’m really curious if they actually find someone at some point who really is who they say they are.

  2. 2
    Madelyne27
    Posted November 23, 2012 at 5:37 pm

    I love this show. The docu was so cringeworthy that i knew Nev wouldn’t fail me… i just don’t understand people… if you’re online enough to meet someone, why aren’t you googling and searching for every morsel of info too? I “research” people just for fun… I look at mugshots as a stress reliever… but in this story, the three pics only was the tipping point… she lost any credibility with me when she accepted 3 pics as “proof of life”.

  3. 3
    Loulee
    Posted November 24, 2012 at 8:38 am

    I saw the movie this weekend. Nev’s willingness to risk by sharing the sexting won me over. Totally embarrassing but he rolled with it.
    If they had a \Catfish Network\ and ran these 24/7 I would watch.

  4. 4
    Derek Hazelton
    Posted November 24, 2012 at 11:08 am

    No one online is exactly who they say they are, so if you tread lightly and never take it too seriously, you won’t get hurt.

    I’m more concerned about the previews for next week. It’s one thing to not meet for a year, which is way too long obviously, but that girl waiting TEN years. Too much crazy for me to unpack.

  5. 5
    Miss Molly
    Posted November 24, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    I have a confession. My real name is not Molly.

  6. 6
    annie annie
    Posted November 24, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    I thought “Trina the Natural” was a cute girl, but she needs to STAY AWAY from the black lipstick. Girl put it down and walk away :)
    She’s cute though, I wish her lots of love, and hopefully she finds a good man.

    Also, I totally thought “Scorpio” photoshopped Chris Brown’s face onto his body, especially the bottom pic on the first page!

    This was a good episode, I really like this show. And I LOVE they contacted the real Scorpio!!!! that was a good twist.

  7. 7
    JudgyWudgy JudgyWudgy
    Posted November 25, 2012 at 7:16 am

    I can’t emphasize enough that I feel like this show would have made so much more sense 15 years ago when the internet was new. In this day and age, a legit person over the internet wouldn’t need a tv documentary crew to meet in person. Also, these “wide-eyed and innocent” subjects who are duped all claim to have seen Catfish, so……they’re aware of the essence of the movie, right? It’s about deception. They have to have SOME idea who they’re talking to most likely isn’t really who they’re talking to.

    Oh man, there I go using that jaded logic again.

  8. 8
    JudgyWudgy JudgyWudgy
    Posted November 25, 2012 at 7:21 am

    Also, love the “friendship patrol” caption. Nev rubs me the wrong way. He portrays himself as the bleeding-heart type that would judge you for not wanting to befriend the…….person with a personality disorder who misled you for a significant amount of time.

  9. 9
    labowner
    Posted November 26, 2012 at 10:14 am

    Trina looks like a very messed up Whitney in that last screen shot. Goodness. I see a future contestant on VH1s Tough Love.

    Judgy do you think they volunteer to be on the show since they are well aware of what Catfish is about? It is a new generation of stupid.

  10. 10
    JudgyWudgy JudgyWudgy
    Posted November 26, 2012 at 10:38 am

    No argument that this is a new generation of stupid.

    But in the opening credits of every episode Nev states the whole idea behind the TV show was his email blowing up from people who could just relate to his story SO much. And in reading the initial contact from “Trina the Natural” he reads out loud (apparently in her words) that she, indeed, also saw his movie and relates to it.

    So yeah. We’re at least being led to believe these people are aware of what Catfish is about.

  11. 11
    rebecca pressley
    Posted November 26, 2012 at 11:14 am

    in 1996, I met a guy on AOL, he lived about 45 min from me. He said he had played in the NFL until a knee injury. he said he was 280 pounds, in shape, etc….We met at LoneStar Steakhouse one night. He was every bit of 400 pounds, bald , ugly as hell! at least i got a free meal out of it!

  12. 12
    jp
    Posted November 28, 2012 at 9:04 am

    Trina was pretty adorable! You could tell her priorities were a little messed up though. And there is no way she suddenly stopped stripping.

    Also so funny about Nev and friendship. I thought I wouldnt like this show bc it is the \man and his camera\ format but the stories are good! Still not into Nev and his camera though. Just not my format.

  13. 13
    JudgyWudgy
    Posted December 6, 2012 at 9:18 am

    I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I have Divorce Court on in the background right now and just noticed that the male plaintiff is a large, jolly, self-proclaimed comedian named Phillip \Lee\ Avent. Divorce Court. His supposed wife claimed one of the huge problems in their relationship was her seeing damning messages from other women on his phone (\I miss you,\ \I love you\) and the ending claimed that his \modeling agency was really taking off\. HA!! Oh the webs we weave. Lee because his deceptions seem neverending and me because I apparently watch so much trashy TV that it starts to overlap.

  14. 14
    shakenbake
    Posted January 4, 2013 at 5:55 pm

    lee is cute and I live in DC…he should have hollered lol.

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