# Survivor Finale, 12/20 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013 "2009-12-21T01:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/1 "2009-12-21T01:08:11Z")
Well, we’re off to a roaring halt as the football game ran 20 minutes late. :rolleyes: This ought to be interesting; if Russell goes on the Walk of the Dead Survivors, his remarks should be priceless unless he totally censors himself. I see Nat for the win at this point. I’ll post after the first boot, if and when it happens. C’mon, CBS, c’mon… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/2 "2009-12-21T01:14:58Z")
Why does Russell have shaved armpits? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/3 "2009-12-21T01:28:00Z")
Started on time in Michigan. Man, Russell has lost weight! He actually looks thin, now. I’m starting to wonder if Brett just might do this thing. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/4 "2009-12-21T01:51:43Z")
Don’t they usually do the memories-of-past-survivors walk when it’s down to the final 2 or 3? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/5 "2009-12-21T01:57:47Z")
God I hate these types of challenges. I want the final one to be a “you gotta want it more, 'cause you’re going to stand on this pole for 20 hours” rather than, “here’s a complicated hand-eye-sense-of-balance game we just make up” and last 5 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/6 "2009-12-21T01:59:02Z")
Yes, they do it at Final 3 after their big breakfast. \*_ **SPOILERS FOR THE NIGHT BEGIN HERE** _ Awww, Jaison. He was my pick to win at first and I’ll never forget his great smackdown of Ben the racist. But he never recovered from the rainstorm and has just been an Eeyore ever since. I’ll miss him and if he were a woman, Russ would have targetting him faster. Bye, bro. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/7 "2009-12-21T02:04:56Z")
I think Russell just won it. I think he can persuade the jury. And he might win the $100,000 from the home audience…and he’s on next year! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/8 "2009-12-21T02:14:02Z")
So what should he do? 1. Keep Brett, giving him a chance to win. He’ll gain some votes from the jury, in theory, and Brett may lose to Mick. 2. Keep Mick and Natalie and stick with the plan. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/9 "2009-12-21T02:17:41Z")
Hmmmph, he won’t be getting any of my votes. I was rooting for the nasty underdog on BB11 last summer, but I can’t bring myself to root for the former drug-dealer and all-time misogynist. Whoops, they did the walk of the dead before final challenge and F3 breakfast. I guess they wanted Brett around so that somebody could say _something_ about the early Galus besides, “Wasn’t he the old guy that fainted?” or “Wasn’t she the girl Ben was so nasty to?” or “Kelly who?” ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/10 "2009-12-21T02:19:37Z")
The title of this series ought to be: “I should be playing with Superstars!!” Russell is acting extra smug tonight. Natalie for the Win!! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/11 "2009-12-21T02:20:04Z")
Stick with the plan. Bret won’t be as pissed off on the jury as Mick would be. ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/12 "2009-12-21T02:26:09Z")
One can hate Russell for his arrogance, but if he isn’t the winner it’ll be the most ridiculous vote in Survivor history. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/13 "2009-12-21T02:26:48Z")
Aw Brett. Oh well. This will be the least suspenseful TC in history–only fun part will be seeing the jurys’ faces when Russell waddles in wearing the immunity necklace. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/14 "2009-12-21T02:49:10Z")
…aaaand off he goes. I would have chosen Brett FTW but he wasn’t getting a winner’s edit. Nice guy, I’d buy his shirts and wish to subscribe to his newsletter. Great variety of WTF?! looks from the jury tonight (including my cleaned-up Jaison–like John, he looked better with the beard). Aside from Dave they seemed to be anti-Russell looks to me, but maybe it was just astonishment at the end of Galu. Looking forward to the speeches, Mick’s in particular. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/15 "2009-12-21T02:56:33Z")
Why do so many women(on Survivor) think “strength” is shown by being aggressive and unforgiving? That chick with the wacky hair sounds like she wants to be a strong, modern girl, but she sounded bitter and pathetic. What was her name again? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/16 "2009-12-21T02:58:32Z")
Interesting Final Tribal Council. I’ll admit it, I had to look up “feckless”. If I had been Mick, I would have answered “Yes I may be feckless, but that is because my beard is covering up my freckles.” So Brett wants to go a “Bro-date” with Mick. At least Mick did give him a snarky answer. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/17 "2009-12-21T03:10:23Z")
BITTERCAKES! Stupidest jury ever. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/18 "2009-12-21T03:10:27Z")
Stupid stupid angry jury. That’s all I have to say about that. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/19 "2009-12-21T03:12:32Z")
Wow. Terrible choice. I hope Russel Hantz wins the $100,000 “player of the season” award. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013/20 "2009-12-21T03:13:49Z")
That was my last Survivor. Fucking idiots. Next time they should give the million to a rock around the campfire, it’ll have done as much to win as Natalie did. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale-12-20/522013.md?page=2)