Chris Daughterty, of Survivor: Vanuatu.
He’s listed as an honorable mention.
IIRC, he was invited, but chose not to participate.
It’s even better than you think it is - I promise. My husband’s favorite part of TiVoing survivor is using the slo-mo to get better looks at bouncing boobies and serious camel toe.
LIAR! You are totally wetting yourself right now, admit it. TiVo is cool! Not quite as cool as a robot monkey butler with a frickin’ laser beam on its head, but pretty darn cool nonetheless.
I agree with you 2/3 of the way. Rafe was aiiight, but not great and does not belong there. Bobby Jon was pretty, but hardly even good (koffUlongkoff), although his weird fights with Jamie last season made for some compelling television, but that alone does not qualify him for the list. A good argument can be made for Ian, actually, because he really was a strong player physically, and he totally loved the game and the experience and had such a good time, which made it fun to watch him, and he even had the mental aspect of the game down until the end there, when he went completely off his chum, but I would not include him on a top-ten list that did not also include Ethan or, for that matter, Matthew from Amazon, who should have won but for the Conspiracy of Boobs who picked Jenna instead.
I think the honorable mentions are a joke, too: Ami from Vanuatu? Tammy (who?) from Marquesas? Gary from Guatemala? I love Gary, but he is hardly one of the top 20 players ever.
Have to say, I agree with the worst-ten list almost exactly, and for exactly the reasons cited. I would have put Osten the Big Dumb QUITTER! in first place, but that’s about all I would have done differently.
And BTW, I hate Chris Daugherty, if only because he was part of the same season that brought us Stupid Scout, Eeeek!y Eliza, and Twerpy Twila. (Not to mention Julie “Jeffy’s Girl” Berry, who was cute but useless.) However, if Chris had been part of any other season, he’d probably be one of my favorites, although in any other season he would have been out the second his sorry ass fell off that balance beam in the first challenge.
The Exile Island thing is a pretty obvious gimmick, but it worked. I’ve been less and less interested in Survivor - I think I only watched a few episodes of the last one - and I thought I was done. But I think I’ll at least watch tonight’s.
I thought it was funny that there were a few players who overlapped on the BEST and WORST list.
Wasn’t Pete the Pelican from Pearl Islands? The big scary pelican that freaked out Osten the Wuss, and then …someone (forgetting his name) just picked it up and walked it down the beach, petting it and talking to it like it was a dog?
I’d like to see Pete the Pelican come back.
Ooooh … yeah, that was Ryan O. Who, incidentally, looks like my husband (who is also an engineer, go figure). Yeah, Pete the Pelican would be cool. But I’m up for someone new, too – maybe something in the marmot family?
Okay, I forgot about Smallville, so the Tivo is otherwise occupied. What was the clue? I’ve smoked a lot of pot in my time, and I don’t remember the wording of much before Jeff started telling Misty about the supplies. If Lil’ Immunity Duder’s there, all I got for a guess is inside the water bucket, 'cause I sure as hell don’t remember anything before it.
Oh, and I’m a bad person because I giggled like an idiot when Austin fell down.
Water bucket’s my guess too.
Cirie’s afraid of what might be under the leaves? :rolleyes:
Did the young woman left behind on Exile Island ever do a concerted search for the immunity idol, or did she continue to mope and whine and feel sorry for herself? And did she find anything to eat?
Stupidest first-episode vote-out. Ever.
Have fun depending on “Ew! Leaves!” Cirie to get you through the next three days, ladies…
Oh, look! A whole tribe of Ambers! “What do you want to do?” “I don’t know, what do you want to do?” “I don’t know…wanna play paper/scissors/rock again?” That turtle was lunch, ladies, not a sacred burial…
Incidentally, Bobby can keep his shirt off as much as he wants to…rawrrrr…
OK, since I want to be spoiler-free this season, I’m not going to (deliberately) put any spoilers in my post here for anyone else, but I do want to point out the following:
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[li]The best part of the show, by far, came at :58 in, when they showed the commercial for “The Amazing Race.” Squeeeee! I love Survivor, but the first episode is almost always meh. Tonight wasn’t much of an exception.[/li][li]Quote of the night? From the bootee’s final words interview: “I think [they] made a huge mistake, and I hope they do terribly.” I am thinking of two players on that tribe in particular when I say, “Word to the third.”[/li][/ul]
Otherwise, this season looks to be verrrrry interesting in an evil sort of way – or at least it can be, once we separate the wheat from the chafed. (Heh.) There was so much going on in this hour! My general observations:
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[li]Are they trying to kill me with this four-different-tribes-and-four-different-names-too bullhockey? I’m too confused! Can’t we just call them the Red Team, the Purple Team, the Green Team, and Team AstroRoboNaut?[/li][li]The young girls all have cute swimsuits, but they don’t strike me as particularly practical. And yet, all of them managed to remain fully clothed throughout the episode. Cirie. Damn.[/li][li]Lots of wingnuts this season, aren’t there? Meditating a fire? The hell? And that turtle was totally soup, you guys. Hello! This is a survival situation! You won’t have salt, but food is food! At least someone ate a worm. [/li][li]Shane is so totally Robb Z. from Thailand’s older brother, it isn’t even funny, y’all.[/li][li]Dan is so totally Gary from Guatemala’s older brother, it isn’t even funny, y’all.[/li][li]Pelicans and monkeys! w00t![/li][li]It may be early to make a judgement like this, but I think Melinda and Cirie might be a wee bit too soft for this game. And I am not talking about their figures, either. Where in the Sam Hill did Melinda get rouge and eyeliner on a deserted freakin’ island?[/li][li]Oh, and Melinda? Don’t insult the host on the third day, you goober. “You should try it sometime,” my ass. He is going to make you pay for that, you just watch.[/li][/ul]
This could be good. Or else it could suck. Next week we’ll see more, I guess.
On preview: you are so right, jayjay, I can’t even tell you. On all counts.
Missed this earlier. She ate at least one worm, so I give her credit for giving it the old college try, anyway.
Between the fire meditation and the turtle memorial I asked supervenusfreak (rhetorically) if they’d been recruiting for this one in New Age shops…
Incidentally, did anyone notice that one of the Ambers is a “fire dancer”? I didn’t even know you could do that professionally!
Of course. 
I thought it was smart of whateverhernameis who spent the night on Exile Island to lie to everyone else and say that she’d found the immunity idol.
The turtle as food? Wasn’t it already dead? I know, it’s hard to tell with a turtle. Would it be cold or warm?
Momma never let us eat roadkill.
I remember when that guy was an astronaut. But why the secrecy?
Why did that other guy want to keep it a secret that he had been in the military? There’ve been numerous ex military folks on the show.
I hope “scared of leaves” girl and “jonesing for a smoke” guy, stay around awhile for entertainment reasons.
I’m watching this on tape, so I’m a little behind the rest of you.
First of all, I didn’t know it was possible for someone named Misty to be a “missile engineer” unless “missile engineer” means something completely different from what I think it means.
Second of all, if I’m on Exile Island, I would try to find shelter and build a fire.
Third of all, I wouldn’t let the lady with the haystack on her head near the fire.
Fourth of all, if you have issues with nature, you should fill out the application for The Apprentice instead of Survivor.
Fifth of all, I’ll need a cite for the proposition that meditation helps to make fire.
Sixth of all, before going on Survivor, learn to build fire, make a shelter, and fish with limited equipment.
Seventh of all, the turtle is NOT Mother Earth.
Eighth of all, I’m liking the older dudes, but Samurai Guy scares me a bit.