Since I haven’t tuned into Survivors last…6 or 7 seasons, I am aware i’ve been missing out on some highly entertaining stuff. Evident too me watching the season finale tonight and reunion show.
Is there a website that has the greatest Survivor moments? I mean like dramatic arguments, fights, accidents, crazy twists, give-ups, breakdowns, etc.
Or, go ahead and tell us about your favorite Survivor moments over the last few years!
Check out www.realitynewsonline.com for one. It’s got both a Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame.
The best moment ever was when the women beat the men in the canoe race. Can’t remember what season it was but it was dramatic enough for someone here to remember.
My favorite moments are usually subtle little things, not big events.
In Survivor: Borneo, it was Colleen talking about Rich and saying, “It’s like making a deal with Satan himself.”
In Survivor: TAO, it was Kimmy and Alicia cat-fighting in the background, and the camera slows on Mike Skupin, who’s shaking his head ever so imperceptibly, as if to say, “It’s like this all day long.”
In Survivor: Africa, it was Brandon asking the final 2 who was least deserving of the million dollars, to which Ethan Zohn answered, “You.”
In Survivor: Marquesas, it was FedEx pilot Hunter Ellis, offering this gem during his confessional after being voted out: “I was camping with a bunch of knuckleheads, though, and I’ll tell you that to your face when I see you again, so don’t worry about it. And – I will phone the Red Cross and let them know where you guys are so you can be airlifted out of there after you die of starvation and dehydration after the next couple days.” 
In Survivor: Thailand, it was the look on the fellow contestants’ faces during the “video from home” segment, when Brian Heidik’s home life was revealed to be…much, MUCH more elegant and well-off than their own. Whoops.
In Survivor: Amazon, it was anything else on television at a competing time-slot.
In Survivor: Pearl Islands, it was Johnny Fairplay. How this guy didn’t get selected for All-Stars is beyond me.
And, in All-Stars:
My favorite moment was thanks to Colby Donaldson. When he quietly read the riot act to Shii Ann, it went down as perhaps my 2nd favorite moment ever. You know why? Because he’s RIGHT.
“You can go a long way in this game by playing under the radar. But that’s not playing. There’s a lot more to this game than writing a name on a ticket.”
Truer words haven’t been spoken.
I’ll agree that Amazon was the worst Survivor series, but there was the great moment at the last vote when Heidi was fishing for compliments with her questions but both Jenna and Matt refused to give her any.
Best moment ever: In Survivor All-Stars, Richard Hatch gets bitten by a shark. And bites it right back. And then kills and eats it.
Kimmi: You better get your finger out of my face!
Alicia: I will always have my finger in your face!
Not to mention Heidi & Jenna stripping naked for chocolate and peanut butter. Volunteering to strip naked for chocolate and peanut butter.
And volunteering to strip naked for chocolate and peanut butter when there was no need to. Jeff hadn’t said anything about nudity; he offered everyone a chance to quit the challenge for food. It was Jenna who volunteered to strip in addition to quitting (and convinced Heidi to join in).
In Maquesus, the core alliance of four apparently were not aware that five is more than four, advertised their alliance by grandstanding during the immunity challenge, only to get blindsided completely at tribal council.
In Australia, when Colby, assured of a win if he took Keith with him to the finals, instead takes Tina and blows $900,000.
In Thailand, after blowing a big lead in the immunity challenge by not follwing one very basic rule, Robb saying the single stupidest thing ever said on Survivor, that they didn’t get beat by the other team, they got beat by the rules.
In All Stars, Shii Ann casting the deciding vote to kick Colby you’re not really playing the game unless you play like I do Donaldson off the island.
Also in All-Stars, Shii Ann vs. everyone in the water bucket endurance challenge, with Shii Ann coming out on top by sheer force of will.
Onr thing that will always stick out to me was from Pearl Islands, when the pelican flew down to the one beach and scared Osten half to death. He scrambled away from it like a little girl, and then started sharpening the machete, while talking about how he was going to kill it if it came any closer.
Ryan rolled his eyes, and then calmly picked up the pelican and walked down the beach with it, petting it and telling it he was better off away from Fraidy-Cat Osten. Osten later quit, after telling Jeff he was going to get pneumonia and his lungs would fill up with blood. :rolleyes: What a wuss.
You’re right. That is the defining moment of Survivor: PI for me. I forgot about that one.
For me, the ultimate Survivor moment will always and forever be Rupert, stealing the shoes of the other tribe … and then the rest of his tribe trading them for food.
I don’t remember this. Could you elaborate?
Amazon had one good moment in the very first episode: when the men’s team bragged about how they were going to whip the girls in the IC, and procceded to get their butts whipped. It was an obstacle course, and they couldn’t get over the balance beam at all. The girls ended up beating them by a mile.
It was one of those IC’s where you wrestle on a plank over the water (repeated during All Stars, where Richard & Sue had the famous Incident). There was supposed to be a neutral zone where no contact was allowed, but Robbbbb couldn’t get that through his thick skull. Repeatedly violated the neutral zone, and got disqualified. (But then, he was the one who brought a skateboard as his luxury item.)
In Survivor: Africa, it was Brandon asking the final 2 who was least deserving of the million dollars, to which Ethan Zohn answered, “You.”
This was also the Survivor where four twentysomethings (including Brandon and Sarah IIRC) decided to form a clique, straight out of sixth grade, including wearing special little bracelets. They sat around all day, doing no work and being openly obnoxious to the “non-clique” members of their own tribe because they smugly thought that their combined IQ of 80 had figured out an airtight strategy: Stay loyal to their alliance and pick off the older members of their tribe until the merger.
Then Burnett pulled a tribe shuffle. 