
Each episode is an investigation into whether the other participant in the virtual relationship is legitimate or a "catfish".

MTV and the Catfish film's producers, Schulman and Joseph, help people who are emotionally entangled with someone they have never met in real life. The term "catfish" is derived from the title of the 2010 documentary, in which filmmaker Schulman discovers that the woman with whom he'd been having an online relationship had not been honest in describing herself. These "catfish" usually intend to trick people into falling in love with them. On the internet, a "catfish" is someone who creates fake personal profiles on social sites using someone else's pictures and false biographical information to pretend to be someone else. Why the term "catfish" is used to describe people who portray someone else online boring and dull if we didn't have somebody nipping at our fin." And I thank God for the catfish because we would be. They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh.

And there are those people who are catfish in life. So this guy came up with the idea that if you put these cods in these big vats, put some catfish in with them and the catfish will keep the cod agile. By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless. "They used to tank cod from Alaska all the way to China.
