This show is surprisingly popular in North America – at least the Canada part. In fact, on my recent trip to Ottawa, I discovered that a quick and easy way to make new friends on the bus is to sit with a friend and impersonate Steve Irwin until someone makes it obvious that they are a fan of the show by crapping themselves with laughter.
Steve Irwin is some sort of Übermensch. He can wrestle anything, but he'll still admit that some stuff scares the bejeebus out of him, like camels, or hunting a saltwater crocodile in the black of night, knee deep in a muddy river. In addition to being in tip-top physical shape (which I attribute to a diet of iggs, iggs, iggs, tistosteroene piws, 'n' iggs), he's very intelligent and has a strong sense of respect for the natural world and its power. He also has no illusions about man's place in the ecosystem; he'll spend hours making sure that a man-eating saltwater crocodile is safely relocated, but won't think twice about sending feral pigs off to the pork processing plant.
Here are some great choice lines you might add to your repertoire for those occasions when you might need to impersonate Steve:
This soowtie croc is laaaage -- look at the teeth on 'ehh. With thiasends of piands peh squore inch a' boit prishah, she kin boit threugh flish loik buddah. And she's grumpy!
This heah is the moest vinimous snaike in Osschrollia. Neah Oi'm gonna shove 'im dian me treausahs! Croikey, 'e's poisoned me jinnitools!
Contraaary to populah belief, the Tesmainien Divil spinds moest of the daiy sleeping. Unless yeh yoorinaite on 'im, loik this! Neah he's cranky!
Neah wotch as Oi place my woif Terri in mootal dainjah!
Terri likes to play with fluffy little baby animals while Steve wrestles their parents. She also likes to say witty things like, "I guess he doesn't want us in his neighborhood, Steve!"