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Review of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator S01E06: "The Atlantis Case"

3/9/2020

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Actor and comedian Rob Riggle is an acquired taste, and not one I have ever acquired. You probably know him from The Hangover or his time on The Daily Show, but I have never enjoyed his brand of alpha male aggressive idiocy. He can be effective when cast as a bullying antagonist, a role he has perfected in numerous guest stints on sitcoms like Modern Family, New Girl, and so on. But when he needs to be a sympathetic and likeable presence, as in Rob Riggle: Global Investigator, where he must anchor the series and connect directly with viewers, he fails miserably. Not even an Indiana Jones hat, or liberal application of the Indiana Jones typeface, can save him.
Riggle presents his “global investigator” persona as his actual self on the series, though in media interviews he admits that the persona is a character. It’s just not a good one, or a well-defined one. As seen in the show, he combines pomposity with a frattish disregard for anyone beyond himself and more than a touch of harshness masquerading as jocularity. The character could have worked if Rob Riggle: Global Investigator were a full-throated and carefully scripted satire of cable TV’s half-assed pseudo-documentary series like Expedition Unknown (the show’s direct model), America Unearthed, and Ancient Aliens. I could see a version of this show where other comedians show up to make bizarre proclamations in the manner of the Ancient Aliens talking heads, only to be undercut by facts while Riggle stumbles about making declarations of truth only to be shown up by reality. That might have been funny.
 
Here, however, the “jokes,” such as they are, amount to little more than Riggle boasting about himself and making some ethnic slights and some poorly received insults. Most are clearly improvised and simply sit uncomfortably atop what is otherwise a dull and overly familiar “ancient mysteries” show that breaks no new ground in retreading the same mysteries that others shows have done better.
 
According to the information provided by my cable company, “The Atlantis Case” was originally produced as the sixth and final episode of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator, but it is the first episode broadcast. If this is the strongest episode, this show is doomed.
 
The episode starts out with the same form and tone as any number of cable documentary-style programs, with Riggle using a pompous voiceover narration before descending into bottom-scraping comedy, calling himself the “Plato of comedy.” Throughout the show, his humor is forced, superficial, and often poorly conceived. Eliminating it would change nothing about the show. For the most part, Riggle plays his role as Josh Gates’s slightly melted wax copy straight, with only a handful of sub-frat-boy insults folded into his general air of pompous boorishness. He does, however, manage to hit upon one of the most important undercurrents of these types of cable shows, the combination of arrogance, heroic fantasy, and ignorance that marks a top-level cable host. He notes that the great mysteries have stymied many of the greatest minds in history, and then adds: “You should never send a great mind to do a hero’s job.” If we find either on this show, it certainly would be a major discovery.
 
For this episode, Riggle is in Greece to look for an underwater city that might have inspired Atlantis. However, in describing other sunken cities, his producers include the geological formation at Yonaguni, Japan, and falsely claim that the natural formation is an artificial city.
 
In Greece, Riggle visits a tourist trap devoted to Atlantis, and the curator shows him “the only diorama of Atlantis in the world.” It’s a depressing sight and an embarrassment. It’s a hodgepodge of stylistic anachronisms, from a Classical temple modeled on the Parthenon to Hellenistic lighthouses in the style of the Pharos of Alexandria, to what look like Byzantine-style or perhaps Babylonian style city walls. This model of Atlantis is also far too tiny at scale to meet Plato’s description.
 
Riggle and the curator claim that the Thera volcano destroyed Atlantis, a claim that traces back to the nineteenth century and was popularized in the 1960s. Naturally, no one bothers to explain the two problems with this claim: (a) It took place around 1600 BCE, which was 8,000 years too late to meet Plato’s date of around 9600 BCE. And, of course, (b) if we follow the 1909 hypothesis that Atlantis was Minoan Crete, we have the problem that the volcano did not destroy Minoan society, which continued on until the Mycenaean people took over centuries later.
 
Based on the faulty idea that Thera is connected to Atlantis, Riggle dives into the water to explore some caves. He sees some artifacts in the water, including the fossilized bones of an extinct elephant. Riggle is very excited by this because Plato said Atlantis had elephants, something not otherwise known in Greece. In fact, he declares these bones to be the “key” to proving Atlantis was in Greece. No one bothers to try to fit the elephants into a chronology, naturally, since the Ice Age megafauna don’t fit neatly with Thera some 8,000 years later. There is also the little problem that the Greeks didn’t recognize elephant bones as those of elephants; they thought elephant bones belonged to Bronze Age heroes, whom they considered giants.
 
After this, he visited Malia Palace, a Minoan settlement on Crete that an earthquake destroyed in the Bronze Age. Then he visits Akrotiri on Santorini, the Minoan city buried by the Thera eruption. Like In Search of Aliens before him, Riggle seems to think that a fresco showing houses on an island surrounded by a ring of water is Atlantis, even though Plato said that Atlantis sat in the center of multiple rings and contained a temple among other things not seen in the mural. Riggle still doesn’t deal with the problem of the dates—that Plato’s Atlantis existed nine thousand years before Solon, who lived in 600 BCE, a difference of 8,000 years from Akrotiri.
 
Riggle does another dive in the waters of the volcanic caldera within Santorini to see Minoan artifacts in the water, though obviously there is no lost city of Atlantis contained therein. He sees some geometrical blocks of stone that Riggle excitedly thinks belong to Atlantis, though even his guides concede that they could be natural geological formations. Later, marine geologist Paraskevi Nomikou claims that the squared off stones underwater may be manmade. Riggle says that the experts are “killing my buzz over here” when one tells him that some of the actual artifacts under the water are almost certainly from much later than the imaginary Bronze Age period where Riggle has placed Atlantis.
 
Later, Nomikou returned to the caldera to scan the site of the stone formation in hopes of proving it was part of an ancient port used during the period when the sinking caldera filled with water. She plans to investigate the steps further in the hope of exploring ancient use of the volcanic caldera. Riggle excitedly declares this proof of Atlantis, though there is an obvious problem: If the caldera only formed after the Thera eruption, and the stairs were part of a port (meaning they were meant to access water), then any stairs found within the caldera cannot be from “Atlantis,” however you define it, since the volcano destroyed “Atlantis” in forming the caldera.
 
“I, Rob Riggle, have found Atlantis!” he said.
 
Not even close. But he did find a way to waste an hour of TV remaking what we’ve already seen before.
48 Comments
Kal
3/9/2020 03:34:50 pm

It would seem the producers of this show heralded from the same focus group micro managed staff that thought of the Fox News "The Half Hour News Hour" comedy show, which too was spectacularly not funny at all, and ran for 8 aired episodes, and later revealed to have filmed 13.

Never understood his humor either, like an imitation of The Man Show with Carolla and Kimmel, which also was pretty bad.

The problem with spoofing Ancient Aliens and America Unearthed is they're already parodies of themselves. In order to make fun of them, you'd have to juxtapose something, not just imitate an episode of Finding Atlantis. Since it's comedy, have them actually go to Atlantis casino (in Las Vegas) and stand there claiming he finally found it, while then getting a big roll on a casino craps game, only to lose everything in the last minutes, and go, 'Oops, my bad.'. Then it would harken back to his Hangover appearance and be vaguely better. Not much.

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GEM-W
3/10/2020 10:52:44 am

The Atlantis is in Reno, not Las Vegas. Those two cities are about as far apart as Crete and Beirut.

There's also a casino at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, which would be more easily "mistaken" for a lost underwater continent.

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Kent
3/10/2020 12:09:24 pm

Fun fact: Reno is further west than Los Angeles.

119°49′19″W vs. 118°15′W

There, I've set off the alarm.

Kent
3/10/2020 12:10:47 pm

Fun fact: Reno is further west than Los Angeles.

119°49′19″W vs. 118°15′W

There, I've set off the alarm.

Kent
3/10/2020 12:24:27 pm

Fun fact: Reno is further west than Los Angeles.

119°49′19″W vs. 118°15′W

There, I've set off the alarm.

Tony C
3/15/2020 12:09:56 pm

When I was in the military, I also taught for the universities on Camp Pendleton. I also used to say that Reno is further west than San Diego. The kids today don't learn US History, Civics, Geography, etc...

On another note about Plato and Atlantis. I believe the date used by Plato had one too many zeros in it. 900 hundred years prior to Solon, not 9,000 years prior. My understanding was Solon, a priest in Egypt passed the story on, later to Plato. If the dates were as was said, they would not have been able to fight the Myceneans or Greeks. Similar, "Red Sea" was really the "Sea of Reeds, as according to the translation. Noah in ancient Aramaic means "Old Man" and wasn't his name! Sometime names and dates get passed on incorrectly and the error just continues on a different path.

EDWARD LOPEZ
3/16/2020 02:23:15 am

To Tony C.: You said "Noah in ancient Aramaic means "Old Man" and wasn't his name!" And to add, Jesus Christ is not a name as the foolish call him. "Christ" means"The Anointed One". That misnomer really doesn't matter as there is no historical evidence for him as he was a man-made creation.

Kent
3/17/2020 07:28:09 pm

Genesis isn't written in Aramaic so the dubious Aramaic etymology can be gratuitously dismissed as irrelevant. Smart money says "Noah" doesn't mean "old man" in any known language. "Noah" in Hebrew means "rest" or "repose".

"Jesus Christ" is just the Greek way of saying "Jesus the Mosiach (Messiah)".

Doc Rock
3/9/2020 04:35:48 pm

You don't make Lite Colonel as a Marine without having a strong does of Alpha Male that often comes shining through.

I guess the silver lining is that he does provide some humor as lubricant and since he is coming from a comedic background people have a decent ide of what they are in for in advance.

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fern rednic
3/9/2020 10:51:49 pm

I am an alpha male and I will fight any one who doesn't agree with my men in black theories, coz I am a right hard man.

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THE MESSAGE OF THIS BLOG
3/10/2020 01:20:03 am

All supernatural and paranormal content of the Bible is OKAY. Opinions held by Biblical Mainstream scholarship, however dubious, is beyond reproach.

However, all other stuff is subject to criticism, ridicule, and belittling. Especially Ancient Aliens, Graham Hancock and Scott Wolter.

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Doc Rock
3/10/2020 01:28:08 am

How would you define Biblical mainstream scholarship?

How would you go about demonstrating that opinions held by these people are beyond reproach?

Biblical Scholarship
3/10/2020 02:03:05 am

Biblical Scholarship is funded by the taxpayer. All wrong. Biblical Scholarship should be voluntary, done in spare time and all Biblical Scholars should have proper jobs. So easy to dismantle centuries of Biblical Scholarship within literally seconds.

Larry Hurtado 1943–2019
3/10/2020 02:15:07 am

This dude was a waste of time and space. He didn't know anything at all about his subject matter. The Bible is not a complicated subject matter. It can be easily explained using everyday thinking and language.

K.DeFlane
3/9/2020 04:41:35 pm

Riggle must have a variety of characters to embody. I really like his persona as co-host of that putt-putt golf competition show "Holey Moley" (which has been renewed for a 2nd season), but it probably only works because of the sincere sportscaster beside him as balance and foil.

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Kent
3/10/2020 12:16:16 pm

Yes he must, due to his long and successful career career in television and film. Nonetheless I think it has been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with geometric logic that... those grapes are sour.

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UCLA Film Major
3/10/2020 02:28:36 pm

It is sour grapes to suggest that an intentional match-up of a goofball and straight man is successful because it is a good match-up? Tell us more, Mr. Lipton.

Kent
3/10/2020 02:50:41 pm

Fun fact: Reno is further west than Los Angeles.

119°49′19″W vs. 118°15′W

There, I've set off the alarm.

Kent
3/10/2020 03:32:00 pm

"It is sour grapes to suggest that an intentional match-up of a goofball and straight man is successful because it is a good match-up? Tell us more, Mr. Lipton."

I wasn't talking to you I was talking to the dirt.

'Riggle must have a variety of characters to embody."

"Yes he must, due to his long and successful career career in television and film."

It's really that simple Corky. Reading is FUNdamental.

UCLA Film Major
3/10/2020 03:56:37 pm

But you are talking to the dirt. My real name is Joe LeDirt.



But you are talking to the dirt. My real name is Joe LeDirt. But doesn't change the fact that your sour grapes reference was irrelevant to the statement that you addressed. Neither does it change the fact that Pettycoat Junction is actually further west than Hooterville.

I'm late for my two hour shift at Starbucks so good day, sir.








Kent
3/10/2020 04:14:00 pm

Good Lord and Holy Bleeding Baby Jesus you are obtuse. "Sour grapes" was a reference to the way Jason subtly notifies the reader that he thinks he should be on TV rather than the presenter of the day. Nothing to do with Mr. Ruggle.

Again, reading is FUNdamental.

Moses Maimonides
3/10/2020 04:23:23 pm

Kent, I find it reprehensible that you would use the name of a well
known and beloved fictional character who was born with Down syndrome (Corky from the TV show “Life Goes On”) as a way of attempting to insult the reading abilities of another poster! Do
you think that such an awful slur is somehow funny? Your conduct is particularly outrageous given that it was YOU who were only recently complaining about how this comment section has turned into a sewer. Please immediately retract your terrible statement and publicly apologize to those whom you have demeaned or I will be forced to email Jason and demand that you be permanently banned from this blog. Thank you.

Joe Kent's biographer
3/10/2020 04:24:10 pm

Clearly articulating one's specific thoughts is a fundamental first step in interpersonal communication. You need to learn to distinguish between the conversations in your head and what you attempt here.

Kent
3/10/2020 05:42:31 pm

Yes, it's incredibly funny and no, I haven't seen your baseball.

Gusg
3/9/2020 07:22:21 pm

My theory is that Jason only reviewed this show as a way of providing his own oblique commentary regarding the comment section of this blog which has lately been dominated by “alpha male aggressive idiocy,” as he calls it.

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Joe Scales ghost
3/9/2020 09:18:59 pm

You are correct. They killed me off.

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Hal
3/9/2020 10:28:22 pm

Thankfully.

Curiouser and curiouser
3/11/2020 12:09:01 am

No Joe
Kent retired you because he’s sick and tired of people lifting the veil, exposing two persons in one.
Became too easy

Humphrey Bogart
3/11/2020 09:06:20 pm

Contrary to rumor Joe is alive. However, he tried a power play over on Dr. White's blog. By the time that the smoke cleared he was looking like Commander Queeg in the trial scene from The Caine Mutiny. He will be back when he is finished licking his wounds.

hugh's poo
3/9/2020 10:48:03 pm

Ahhh that's better!
Plato would have been proud of the underwater structures I just left in the hungry bog bowl.
Not even Hercules himself could have matched the great pillars I blissfully squeezed out, whilst reading Charles Berlitz...

Perhaps, Nomikou can return to my upstairs crapping caldera to scan the site of the brownstone formations I shared, & prove it was part of a pooping port used during the pile tickling period when I filled the stinking crud caldera filled with back splash water.

ooooo Riggle would find some artifacts in the waters I tell ya!
& I can let her know that the caldera was definitely here before my anal eruption, or there would be monolithic mounds on my bathroom carpet!
Anyway, must dash I feel that familiar friendly tummy bubbling and my bog trotting buddy, P.P and I have to prepare to tour the local shithouse facilities at Rancho La Cobata, Santiago Tuxtla and leave some Olmec haeds of mu own for the locals to admire..

Teluric currents, giants, earth energies, Ley lines etc, etc, blah, blah........

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Jr. Time Lord
3/9/2020 11:15:00 pm

One way of looking at the three concentric circles is equating them to the Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer and the Equator. There are other possibilities but this was the first put forth to me. Visualize the Earth at a distance from the null point down.

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Alexander Washington IV
3/10/2020 01:40:48 am

Are there three concentric circles of scars on your head from your three lobotomy operations?

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LOL
3/10/2020 02:05:10 am

Witness the irrational stuff that you believe in, Mr Hitler

Jr. Time Lord
3/12/2020 11:04:02 am

Since this is apparently more than you can wrap your mind around, I won't go into the planetary orbits or celestial wheels. I forgot that not everyone has the mind's eye. Something you need the frontal lobe for.

"Are there three concentric circles of scars on your head from your three lobotomy operations?"

Well... Maybe your mother stunted your brain with the coat hanger. My frontal lobe is intact and works just fine. Obviously better than yours anyway.

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Kent
3/12/2020 01:32:03 pm

You tell him Anthony! That's cutting him down to size! Best thing I've seen you do since you scored four touchdowns in one game at Polk High!

The Coathanger in the Baby's Brain Gambit never gets old! :) :) :)

Timmy
3/10/2020 01:56:47 am

Not that anyone cares, but doesn't good journalism require mention of what channel it was on. Or do I have to look it up myself?

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Jason Colavito link
3/10/2020 06:57:51 am

It aired on the Discovery Channel.

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Floyd Cheesy
3/10/2020 12:49:34 pm

I’d rather not know which channel is airing this crap.

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Kent
3/10/2020 06:20:21 pm

"I think the glass of water is rather filled for 50% than it is empty for 50%." It's that kind of verbosity that lost you two wars.

I may be older than you but I learned it as "Where is the lice-riddled Jew who's been drinking out of my glass?" Of course times have changed and in SA we used to say "Whose township do I have to bulldoze to get some more water?" and it's now "Where is the shinless Palestinian who's been stealing his own water?"

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-42-knees-in-one-day-israeli-snipers-open-up-about-shooting-gaza-protesters-1.8632555

Benson O’Doul
3/10/2020 08:42:04 pm

In your drunken stupor, you replied to the wrong comment.

Google Translate warrior
3/10/2020 09:56:09 pm

Does it really even matter what he is responding to, Benson? It's like having a much younger, much dumber, much less sane, and much less articulate version of Dennis Miller pontificating here on a daily basis. Any comment that he makes to someone in this thread would be indistinguishable from his response to someone in another thread who is discussing their favorite pancake recipes.

Kent
3/10/2020 10:40:36 pm

Oh wow, jeez! How am I ever going to get over the shame I have brought upon myself? But you guys are right, it's Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa and present-day Israel for the win!

Hard to argue with life's winners, Benson O'Doul and Google Translate Warrior. I've certainly been put in my place.

Marty McFly
3/10/2020 10:59:26 pm

Kent;

You have made a career here out of insulting and harassing people for slight errors or for simply offering opinions that differ from your own opinions. That bitter taste in your mouth is your own medicine. Enjoy, Biff.

Kunta Kentae
3/12/2020 04:11:52 pm

Kent wants to treat people like dummies for not spelling a word correctly. By his own standards he is a friggin' idiot for making this level of mistake. That's a big reason why he got banned from Reddit.

T. Franke link
3/10/2020 02:29:17 pm

I more or less agree with this review, yet, as we say in German, I think the glass of water is rather filled for 50% than it is empty for 50%.

I see two improvements in Rob Riggle's "docu" compared to other "docus" about Plato's Atlantis:

(a) Rob Riggle is consequently self-ironic (my dictionary says: self-deprecating). He is not serious with his bold claims. He repeatedly shows that simple claims do not stay on safe ground. He says e.g.: "Yeah! I did it!" (pause, then:) "potentially!" Or he says to the contradicting scientists: "Can't we just say this is Atlantis and go and can have a drink?"

(b) There were even several (real) scientists who where allowed to voice their contradictions. For me it is not a problem that they partially took part in the game of irony. It was all the time clear to the viewers that they do not agree with bold claims, and this is really an achievement!

By the way: So many want to see irony in Plato's Atlantis story, where there is (almost) none, but here, in Rob Riggle's "docu" there is real irony!

PS: I found the video on youtube, otherwise I couldn't have seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJr9eIFmbMU

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Tony C
3/16/2020 11:34:14 am

To Edward Lopez: Exactly! Many stories in the Bible (both old and New Testament) came from the Babylonians and other older civilizations. Possibly in an attempt to create s storyline or foundations for the people (sheep) to follow. I went to Italy twice last year (Early last), to check out sites, visit relatives and explore things first hand. Too much to put in a blog, but it really shows that much that people "think" was historical and accurate, were usually created for controlling people, wealth, or power.
Below is a link that is interesting and covers some of these ideas:

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/master_file/jesusmyth2.htm

Later

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Tony C
3/17/2020 10:16:30 pm

Most likely it was the Sea of Reeds, not the Red Sea. The name Yam Suf appears in Tanach a total of twenty-three times.3 However, most people associate Yam Suf with the body of water the Israelites crossed while fleeing Egypt. Many of the sources that translate Yam Suf as Red Sea indicate that literally it means “Sea of Reeds or Rushes” (see, for example, The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible4 [1962, vol. 4, pp. 19-21]). In Exodus 13:18, when describing the Jews fleeing Egypt, the Torah states: “God took the people in a roundabout path . . . to the Yam Suf.” ArtScroll’s Stone Edition Chumash translates Yam Suf as Sea of Reeds and includes a note stating that what is today known as the Red Sea is situated too far south for the Jews to have crossed it upon fleeing Egypt. The Jewish Publication Society Tanakh simply calls it the Sea of Reeds, and the Koren Chumash calls it the Sea of Suf with no attempt at translation or identification.

I was incorrect about the Noah translation! Noah is a given name and surname most likely derived from the Biblical figure Noah (נוֹחַ) in Hebrew. It is most likely of Babylonian and Assyrian origin from the word "nukhu" meaning repose or rest, which is possible in view of the Sumerian/Babylonian source of the flood story.

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Jr. Time Lord
3/18/2020 07:16:59 pm

"repose or rest"

Exactly what the Sun does every Solstice for 3 days or 72 hours. Some call it a symbolic death. Have
you ever heard of geometric time?


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