I’m sure there would have to be a challenge that involves paternity testing.
(6) Morbidly Obese
(7) pregnant teen
(8) bigamist
(9) anorexic
(10) guy addicted to porn
(11) girl looking for sugar daddy
(12) cougar
Ok we need four more
(13) - (16) could be the “normals” – the poor folks who get to be cannon fodder because, hey, someone has to get voted off first. Probably we ought to throw a fundamentalist Christian minister in there, just for fun – or perhaps some poor Amish kid who wandered into an audition by mistake while he was away on rumspringa?
Oh, and I assure you that when “Survivor: Chicago” airs (for that is where Jerry Springer is filmed, IIRC), my very very favorite contestant will be either the Tranny, the Gigolo, or the Gay Porn Model, and they will end up finishing no better than 3rd.
This Invisible Survivor Season sounds fantastic, you guys. Throw in some monkeys and I will start stalking Burnett now.
ETA: Know what? We also need some creepy “children’s entertainer” who makes puppets out of sticks and fish heads and talks in weird voices.
Ok Rockle you helped finished the cast:
(13) Amish kid on Rumspringa
(14) PeeWee Herman
(15) Elvis (or Michael Jackson) impersonator
(16) A Goth
Guaranteed for a blockbuster season
- Junkie kicking heroin cold turkey
Well, calling it a photoshoot is just one of the reasons. They might also be asked to come in to sign some papers. Or, they might be asked to come to a certain hotel to spend the night, then be flown out the following morning, but they’re actually whisked away right when they get there.
Also, the photos you find of them already on the beach could be photoshopped.
I think we’ve already had at least a couple of these.
(Just got around to watching last night, so I’m a bit late to the party, but I wanted to add my 2 cents.)
I keep going back and forth on Russell. Not about whether he’s a psychopathic asshole – he is – but about how long he’s going to stick around.
On the one hand, his “plan” seems like it could unravel very quickly. Betsy already has a bad feeling about him. The 2 blondes now know he also aligned with Marisa and screwed her over. It seems only a matter of time before he’s exposed for what he is and kicked out of there post-haste.
But on the other hand, due mostly to editing, the contestants are often oblivious to that which is obvious to us at home. And history shows (e.g. Coach, Boston Rob on All-Stars) that even when they do start to realize who the manipulator is, they tend to somehow keep him around week after week.
Marisa could have done so much more to try to save herself. After her bizarre encounter with Russell, her best move would have been to take her concerns to everybody else. But even if she didn’t realize before Tribal Council that she was in trouble, once it became clear at TC that she was on the block, she still did nothing to defend herself or air her doubts about Russell. So I can’t feel too bad for her fate.
By all rights, Shambo should go far, but she won’t. She’s already separated herself from the rest of the tribe, literally and figuratively. She may kick ass in survival skills, but has no social game.
Mike, the 62-year-old guy who was surprised that an “Afro-American” was a good swimmer, is bound to rub people the wrong way in time, and Ben appears to be a giant tool. My early favorites are Betsy and other-Russell, but it’s still too early to have a fully-formed opinion on anybody.
Should be a fun season!