Malden man encounters sunfish and the result is the funniest video to hit the web ever

A sea turtle? A tuna? A baby [expletive] whale?

Malden resident Michael Bergin didn't know what it was that he and his friend Jason Foster were seeing as they cruised Boston Harbor in Foster's boat last week. But his profanity-laced reaction he captured on video has made him an Internet star.

"We seein' some [expletive] we ain't never seen before, kid," Bergin is heard saying as he and Foster circle around what was later determined to be an ocean sunfish.

The thick Boston accent and over-the-top reaction probably don't help fight off Boston stereotypes, but it is -- as most people commenting on the video have pointed out -- hilarious.

After running through guesses that the sunfish was a seat turtle, a [expletive] whale, a tuna, flounder and Moby Dick, Bergin shouts, "We'd better call the aquarium or something, dude."

Foster is heard in the background calling the Coast Guard.

But like a true Bostonian, Bergin eventually starts thinking of what the duo could make off it.

"If that's a flounder man, let's pull it in, Jay," he says in the video. "Come on. Jay, we could get some big money for that if it's a [expletive] fish. Let's [expletive] hook that [expletive] and we'll be on the [expletive] news."

In an interview, Bergin later told the Boston Globe he doesn’t go out on the ocean much.

"I don't know, man. I went nuts. We didn't know what the hell it was," Bergin told the Globe. "It was scaring me to death, it was like a dinosaur. It was so ... ugly."

You can watch the video below.

WARNING: Video contains enough curses to make a sailor blush (or just about what you’d hear while stuck in traffic in Boston on a hot summer day).

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