Every Episode Of Tiger King Ranked
5. Episode Four - Playing With Fire
Playing With Fire is actually a pretty paint by numbers episode as this series goes. Nothing spectacularly weird happens during the forty five or so minutes, but obviously some bizarre stuff does take place because...come on, it's Joe Exotic, for Christ's sake.
First and foremost we get another Joe Exotic original tune, and it's a banger!
Then we're treated to an exceptionally odd interview between Joe and a mannequin whom he is pretending is Carole Baskin - and one can't help but wonder if he took some inspiration from Clint Eastwood interviewing an empty chair whilst pretending it was President Obama (look it up). Oh, he also shoots said mannequin in the head...foreshadowing. Next up Joe had the absolute gall to name his 'entertainment' label Big Cat Rescue entertainment as another middle finger to Carole and then hold demonstrations right outside Big Cat Rescue claiming that Carole murders rabbits!
The big one, however, is the inferno at his on site studio that destroyed all of Rick Kirkham's footage as well as killing every alligator within their enclosure. And no one is saying Joe Exotic did it...we certainly aren't...we swear!
We're also introduced to Jeff and Lauren Lowe, whom we're pretty sure we can all agree are the worst human beings ever in this show full of less than awesome folk.
Oh, by the way, Howard Baskin! That "goopy thing" is called a Blobfish and it is goddamn majestic, thank you very much!