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Fair Warning: Discovery Channel's 'Shark Week' Starts This Sunday

Deep breaths. Deeeep breaths. This is your warning that this Sunday begins the period of TV that pretty much beats all other TV specials all year: the Discovery Channel's Shark Week. Seriously, is there anything better than sitting back with just relaxing while watching shows titled "Top 10 Weird Sharks," "Ultimate Air Jaws" and "Jaws Comes Home?" The correct answer is no, obviously.

Next year we're totally throwing a Shark Week party, like so many others this weekend. We would this year but we're traveling (duh) and the bulk of our Shark Week action is going to come over the internetz, thanks to the brilliance of the Discovery Channel uploading many half-hour programs straight the their website.

Shark Week (hosted by SNL's Andy Samberg) starts at 9pm EST on Sunday, July 31. Now for the Funny or Die quickies to get you in the mood:

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Discovery Channel Livestreams from the Georgia Aquarium for Shark Week

Free live streaming by Ustream

OMG. Be prepared to drop productivity for the day and instead zone out to the cool blue hues and occasionally scary confrontations that comprise Shark Week's special "Ocean Voyager" Ustream of a shark tank at the Georgia Aquarium.

In the span of about 10 minutes, we were pointing and shouting at our computer screen: "Whale shark! Stingray! Shark with a long, saw-thing sticking out of its face! Bull shark! About 15 more sharks we can't name without Googling their characteristics!"

Consider this a warning. Shark Week begins on the Discovery Channel on July 31, and this is just a preview. We may just sit here watching it until the promised shark feedings happen.

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Shark Week 2011 Will Totally Be the Best Shark Week Ever

Who was it that once said, "Live every week like it's Shark Week?" Ah yes, it was 30 Rock character Tracy Jordan, by way of Kenneth the Page quoting him. Never have we heard a more inspirational saying. Even better would be adding that it's never too early to start planning for the real Shark Week, the blessed period of seven days when The Discovery Channel airs episodes of "Ultimate Air Jaws" and any ocean-based "Dirty jobs."

This year, Shark Week is being taken to a whole new level. SNL comedian Andy Samberg is hosting as "Chief Shark Officer," and his feelings on this opportunity mirror our own: "Everyone loves Shark Week. I love Shark Week." Fun fact: Shark Week first began in 1987. Samberg was born in 1978. That would have made him nine years old and the ideal age at which to form a healthy obsession with and fear of...SHARKS.

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