Awesome / Catfish: The TV Show

• Nev throwing Kidd Cole's phone into the sea was quite awesome. Considering that Kidd Cole was a con artist and ruined people's lives with the debts he left people he hired with.
• In the midst of tracking down the infamous Tracey Barbie, who was making life a living hell for Falesha, Nev and Max spoke to a third girl, who revealed that she had deactivated Tracey's Facebook account; she had catfished Tracey, who was talked into giving the girl her email and password. No points for guessing what happened next.
• The “Jen and Skylar” episode. Skylar was just a guy named Bryan, who bluntly admitted that he had no romantic feelings for Jen and saw their relationship as just a game. It’s pretty obvious that Nev and Max had heard enough.
  Bryan: I have no emotional feelings towards her. I could never have a romantic relationship with her.
  Max: Then why the fuck are we here?
  (Bryan explains why he talks to girls)
  Nev: You realize this makes you look like a huge asshole, right?
  (Moments later)
  Nev: I don’t really give a fuck about you wanting to come clean and set the story straight about all the other girls you’re being a dick to. Why did I bring this awesome, amazing girl here for you to clear your conscience?
  Bryan: I was giving her the gift of talking to me.
  Max: You’re going to have a shallow, miserable existence and the world will think you’re a douche bag.
• Also crosses over as heartwarming; in season 2, Lauren was talking to Derek, who turned out to be real. Such instances of the catfish turning out to be real are rare throughout the run of the show.
• Max's epic dressings down (yes, plural) of 43-year-old Marcus, who had presented himself as a 25-year-old, buff, tattooed male model he dubbed "Lanum." As "Lanum," Marcus catfished between 40 and 50 young women over the last 3 years, including soliciting nude photos. Marcus blamed his having to work nights for killing his social life and fueling his "social experiment," but Max was not buying it.

  Max: You know what kills your social life? When you think you're dating someone that you're in love with, and you're not meeting anyone else because [that] someone is feeding you bullshit over the phone.

  • Marcus insists that his feelings for the hopeful, Ari, are real and hopes that, despite all the lies, she will be in a romantic relationship with him anyway. Max unleashes the riot act on him.
    Max: Since we've been making this show, every girl or guy that's ever been in Ari's place fears that they're talking to some mid-40-something-year-old man who's sad, sitting home in his crusty boxers, typing into the computer. And you're that guy! We finally met you! And that sucks for you, but it also sucks even more for Ari and all the other girls whose time you wasted!
  • Even after Ari retreats from the scene, Marcus still reiterates his desire to be with her. Max engages full-on Papa Wolf mode.
    Max: You're not going to start something. Even if she wanted to, I wouldn't let her. Period. There's going to be no future with her.
  • The next day, Marcus presents Ari with an engagement ring, which she flatly refuses. Max is gobsmacked that Marcus just cannot or will not read the room.
    Max: It just scares me that you're not grasping [this]. Get your shit together!