The stars of Gogglebox were utterly horrified as they watched a nature programme on today’s episode, witnessing a baby fish gobble up other newborns while inside an adult fish’s mouth.
With every layer of this story, we become even more fascinated and disgusted in equal measure.
On Friday’s episode of the Channel 4 show, the cast watched Super/Natural, a documentary on Disney Plus narrated by Doctor Strange star Benedict Cumberbatch.
At one point, they were transported to Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, which the actor described as a ‘breeding ground for conflict’.
One such instance of conflict came among different breeds of fish, after one type of fish laid its eggs before they hatched into babies.
However, a couple of Cuckoo Catfish – whose name gives away their conniving ways – ate up as many of the laid eggs as they could, before spawning themselves.
When it came to laying their own eggs, the Cuckoo Catfish left them on the sea’s surface alongside the other fish’s remaining eggs.
The other fish them proceeded to instinctively collect the eggs in its mouth to keep the babies safe while they hatched – unknowingly including the Cuckoo Catfish’s eggs in its brood.
Then when the eggs hatched, the Cuckoo Catfish babies – which were significantly other than the other fish breed – began eating its ‘foster siblings’ inside the mother’s mouth.
‘I don’t think I’ve seen anything darker in the fish community,’ Baasit Siddiqui stated while watching the dramatic scenes unfold.
‘I know they’re babies, but you already know they’re evil,’ he later added.
Simon Minty called out the narrator for his deceptively smooth voice, saying while sitting with his sister Jane Minty: ‘Benedict, you soothe us with your lovely silky voice, and then we’re having babies eating babies.’
That wasn’t the end of the horror show, as then the baby catfish had to emerge from the surrogate mother fish’s mouth.
Gogglebox viewers were similarly gobsmacked by the scenes before them.
‘#Gogglebox nooo don’t ever let me come back as one of the fish traumatised,’ one person wrote.
‘Jesus who knew fish could be so dark #gogglebox,’ someone else commented.
Gogglebox returns next Friday at 9pm on Channel 4 and is available to watch on All 4.
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