# !SURVIVORS! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294 "2000-06-03T16:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/21 "2000-06-10T15:32:49Z")
“Survivor” is about the daily exploits of these two “tribes” dumped on the islands. Every episode we see is the compilation of 3 days of activity. On the third day, they have the council meeting and one member is voted off. As of last week, when BB was voted off, 6 days had passed. (In fact, one “cast” member referred to bonding with the others in the past six days.) The entire “season” amounts to about a month and a half on the island, spread out over several months here. The winner of the Survivor show has already claimed their prize. We just don’t who it is. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/22 "2000-06-10T15:39:04Z")
I just read the “Bobby Flay” thread. How 'bout next season, we throw a couple of Iron Chefs on the island. Instead of losers getting voted off the island, the Iron Chefs would have to make dinner for the others out of the dead carcasses of the losers. We’d of course give the chefs thirty minutes to prepare their masterpieces. Filet du Bob, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/23 "2000-06-10T15:42:17Z")
You know, if this show gets as popular as Jeopardy or WWTBAM, they could have a celebrity week! My money would have to be on Bob Denver. I’d also tune in to see Rosie O’Donnell sacrificed a la “Lord of the Flies.” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/24 "2000-06-10T16:04:04Z")
I agree, I haven’t actually seen an episode or the like, but it sounds so… stupid. Like being a Pledge again. Oh Joy, like I’d want to do that again. :shudder: heck, I yell at the morons on Millionare. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Strider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Strider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strider)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/25 "2000-06-11T01:47:55Z")
IIRC, when there are only two people left, everyone who was booted already gets to vote on who get the $. -N ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/26 "2000-06-11T16:02:57Z")
Here is a great site about the show: > **[Survivor (Official Site) Season 41 – Watch on CBS](https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/)** > > Stranded in the beautiful islands of Fiji, these 18 determined new castaways will be divided into three tribes of six and will face one of the most dangerous seasons in the history of the show. You can even vote at the tribal coucil yourself. Here is a quote from there “Each tribe satisfies their hunger, albeit in surprising ways.” Yeah, I bet. That explains why Greg & that girl go into the bushes for an hour. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/27 "2000-06-15T17:15:51Z")
Rudy is still there. Amazing. Kinda funny that the team has to eat rats now. BBQ rats. Yuck. On the 7th day too… At least they caught some form of fish. That eel looked pretty tastey but they didn’t catch it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/28 "2000-06-15T17:31:54Z")
Actually, I was glad to see Stacey go. She was a whiney, back-stabbing bitch. If it were a real survival situation, the tribe with Rudy would be foolish to cast him out. But since this is make-believe, I predict Rudy will be gone at the next tribal council that team has. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/29 "2000-06-22T23:45:21Z")
Cervase has cost them three challenges already but no one ever votes him out. I wonder what gives? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/30 "2000-06-23T00:01:04Z")
I want to state, just for the record, that my screen name is over a decade old, and has nothing to do with that “Gervase” guy on this lame, lame, lame TV show. Just on the off chance anybody was wondering… ---
**Author:** ![blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/31 "2000-06-23T15:54:11Z")
this show cracks me up. Johnny L.A. – you’re right…Stacey was a MUST to go. Leave it to the lawyer to try to start a union.\* heh heh heh They all kinda tick me off…but I think Colleen’s going to get her walking papers pretty soon. I’ve got a question though. What happens if the same team keeps losing over and and over again? In theory, one team could have one player left and the other team could have five. The “team” with one person left on it surely would lose to the other – the one person would get booted off and thus we’d really only have the one team left. Do they split the remaining teams up then?? \*the above comment does not reflect the opinion of the SDMB or the poster. Said poster loves lawyers…just not back-stabbing bitchy girls on goofy tv shows. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/32 "2000-06-23T16:05:49Z")
Its already been completed actually. Who won? WHo knows. Ramona was on tv the other day on a talk show & she said that the blond guy & the girl that go into the woods are there for sex. & that they are the talk of the island. Cervase [note spelling] is supposed to be a basketball champ & when he was running during the challenge, he was going slower & slower, resting sometimes. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/33 "2000-06-23T17:49:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Cervase has cost them three challenges already but no one ever votes him out. I wonder what gives? > \*\* I only feel mildly retarded for coming to his defense, but this last one wasn’t his fault. Despite his damnably sluggish running in the jungle, he was still back on the beach long before the chests were completely dug out of the sand. I did laugh at the way he ran full speed into the jungle, then stopped to rest, sitting on a log, etc… then ran full speed again once he was in sight of his teammates. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/34 "2000-06-23T18:11:10Z")
Did anyone see Stacy’s comments at being thrown off of the island? (Actually, I think they should literally throw someone off of the island, into the ocean. Good television! :D) She seemed a rather petulant person, and I’d like to know how she took it? ---
**Author:** ![blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/35 "2000-06-23T19:21:34Z")
…all I remember was Stacey seething as she bitched, “you changed your vote!” aahh haaa. I was a happy camper when she got dumped. Though I will sadly miss making fun of her. ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/36 "2000-06-23T21:21:20Z")
there is an article in the **toronto star** today, talking about how unrealistic this show is. a bunch of nutritionists and exotic survival experts have been analyzing the show, and have suggested that the contestants receive more food and shelter than is revealed. they compare the experience to a club med adventure. “Where are the itching and oozing insect bites, the hideous cuts and sores and ensuing infections, they’re wondering.” “The show promotes the island as much scarier than it actually is, (Chris Heath, a writer for _Men’s Journal_) says. They’d have you believe it’s crawling with giant montior lizards, poisonous sea snakes and barracudas in the water. In fact, he reports, the snakes are called sea kraits, they stacy in the water and are afraid of people.” ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/37 "2000-06-24T02:34:59Z")
I know that they are supplied with all kinds of first aid stuff, saline solution, etc… Interesting concept, but it’s heavily edited to manipulate the audience. I wonder how long Richard actually sat in that tree on the first episode? They tried to give the impression that he sat up there giving orders while everyone else did the work. Richard or Rudy will win (probably Richard). Older white males. The women are already sniping at each other. They’ve already thrown off two of the older people and three women. Two of the three original votes against Rudy have been banished. Problem is, it’s pretty boring to actually watch… * * * You want to see people try to survive in adverse conditions, watch “The 1900 House” on PBS. A family of 6 is chosen to live for 90 days in a house outfitted for a middle class family at the turn of the last century. Similar in principle, but this family is suffering (and there’s no payoff at the end). What’s amazing is that people go in thinking that it’s three months of no TV, no internet, then they find that doing laundry takes three days and you can’t adjust the temperature on a coal-burning range. The wife was the most excited at the beginning, and she ran into the yard screaming on day three. I hear that the girls get into trouble this week cuz they were caught with a bottle of shampoo after a shopping trip. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/38 "2000-06-24T03:13:03Z")
I just want to add that, while in Washington state not too long ago, I heard announced on a radio station who actually “survived” the island. Sadly, I have the most horrible memory in the world so I can’t tell you. I would just like to point out that people do in fact know who wins. Some people anyway. I can tell you that the survivor is a woman and she has an unusual name. That is, if the radio station isn’t full of…well, you know. ---
**Author:** ![blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2000, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/39 "2000-06-25T14:31:46Z")
I’m guessin’ that the radio station was full of sh\*t. I could be wrong…it’s been known to happen. I remember reading in Entertainment Weekly (not exactly a journal of record mind you…but considering what we’re talking about…not a bad source)…anyway…I remember reading that if ANYONE involved in the show gives away details about the ending or the winner, etc., they will be fined $500,000. Plus…none of the women left have a very unusual name…Colleen, Jenna, Gretchen, Susan… ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294/40 "2000-06-25T15:45:29Z")
I agree with KT, the guys are always clean shaven, the women’s hair is nice, no one has the big sunburns on their backs or noses, the clothes are clean too, they didn’t have any soap for awhile. Also, Ramona who knew about the secret water stash got voted off, which is odd. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivors/21294.md?page=3)