[70th Division]

You are absolutely RIGHT! Their favorite line is “This is the first time I have EVER done anything like this.” I watched it once and they caught the same guy twice in two days. Too funny

[AppyPappy]

That was the naked guy I think. He proved the point about the importance of the show.

[Titan Magroyne]

Their favorite line is “This is the first time I have EVER done anything like this.”
I love that show. Another popular rejoinder is:

"I came here to make sure the girl/boy would be safe," as if to say they're looking out for the kid's best interests.

Really shocking how many of them are aware of To Catch a Predator-style stings before arriving to the house but are seemingly helpless to the compulsion that brings them there. If that isn't proof of the need for better than the justice system's catch-and-release response to pedophiles, I don't know what is. A few of them even admit to prior convictions for sex crimes, yet here they are again. Sick.

Now that I think about it, the Actual Number One Favorite Line is some version of "She told me she was 18 years old" after Chris Hansen asks them the age of the kid they're coming to see. Hansen is "nauseatingly smug"? All he does is produce a hard copy of the online chat that disproves the creep's lie. That he manages to do so time after time after time is mere proof of his professionalism. Me, I'd be stuffing those pages down the creep's throat to muffle the screams caused by my next act ...