I've never missed a season of Survivor, despite it being pretty formulaic and boring for the past 9 years at least. I'm very loyal to television shows that once amused me - Desperate Housewives (thank god it's nearly over); Grey's Anatomy (should have stopped watching around about the time they burst into song in the ER about 3 years ago); Who's That Girl? (nah, just kidding - that show is GOLD! Schmidt is easily the best character on television. I've even named a daggy pair of shoes I own my 'Driving Shoes' in his honour). But Survivor...man, my loyalty to that drivel really takes the cake.
A decade of yelling at the stupid people who do stupid things every single episode. I mean, for chrissake, it's been TEN years, people. Don't they watch the show before they go on the show? Why do they all think that they are in the 'top three' when there are seven people in their alliance and it's clear to everyone who the real top three is? And why do they always play follow the leader and do everything one person says and never once thing 'holy cow, batman, I need to vote the ring leader's arse of the island 'cos they're gonna win the whole damn show'? And how is it that they're constantly mesmerised that you can't actually play Survivor and win if you're 'nice' to people? Except that one time when that policeman actually pulled it off and it was the most boring series in the history of boring series.
How is it that they don't stick like glue to the alliance they should have formed in episode 1 even when they work out that one episode isn't enough time to realise who the annoying people are and now they're stuck with them? Better that than to have no alliance at all... who does that? Thirty nine days of putting up with annoying people for a million bucks? Geez, even I could do that and I have the tolerance level of a goat.
Speaking of goats, have you noticed how even after 39 days, none of the women have any body hair? They're wearing their skimpy little 'buffs' as a top and their underarms are just as buff as the buffs. And shiny, shiny white teeth even though they're ironically scoffing down more junk food 'rewards' than the average person sitting at home watching television. Just week after week of people in rags pouring cake and peanut butter down their gobs. I can barely look.
And yet I do.
Is it the meanness? The dumbness? The arrogance? The self-delusion? The blatant lies damn lies? I can't quite work out what it is that keeps me watching this silly show and yet there I am, never missed an episode. It's like I think I'm part of the show and, god knows, should Jeff ever bail out, I could step in and recite his lines at a moment's notice. I would even don that blue shirt with the weird nipple rings he's been wearing for ten years, just to keep in character. Is that man onto the best gig in television or what? While the cast are eating donuts and hydrogenised dripping in their palm-leaf shelter, he's living it up at some six star tropical resort waiting for the moment he needs to don his blue nipple shirt and laugh at the stupidity of the contestants. See - laugh in their very faces, rather than just at the television screen - it's the ideal job, I'm telling you.
Are you loyal to a television series that really doesn't deserve you?
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20 comments:
I love Survivor too.
It's the only program I'll make sure I don't miss.
And I'm always looking forward to the next season.
It's sad. I know.
And YES - I've often wondered about the lack of body hair too...
Supernatural. The first season was a pearler. Since then? Not so much. Can't help it.
How good is who's that girl best show!!
LOVE survivour. Actually, I just loved Amber, and then Rob by default because what's his is hers right?
I get so annoyed when people now hook up on the show and you can see they just do it as an attempt to win. *sigh* Don't they have a brain to come up with their own strategy?
Also I do not like Russel at all. Being an asshole doesn't mean you should win, it actually means quite the opposite.
Also YES to the body hair! You watch the mens faces get hairier and hairier but why do the women stay hair free. I have seen hairy armpits and the like in the older women, so I was putting it down to the youngin's getting their laser on in preparation (although it takes months to get those kind of results), but I remember somewhere around season 4 my friend mentioning how it's not at all like it seems. That they legally have to provide them with dry clothes after storms and fresh water, showers for the women who have their monthly as well as sainitary supplies etc. Which did make sense...but then you go back to earlier episodes and you see so much more of a struggle and hardship. Now it's all just a big laughable. They're too busy complaining about who hogs the blankets at night or farts in their sleep. I'd like to see them struggle with food and fresh water and all of that.
I am a TRAGIC Survivor fan - watched all the episodes over the years and like you I should know better. Did you know Jeff actually produces the show now and it has made him wealthy as a result? He can afford some new shirts now...
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about because I've never heard of Survivor. (Should I admit to this?) But I enjoyed the post nonetheless. I still watch Grey's. Love it, except for when they irritate me with perfect scripted backchat. Who talks like that in real life??? (I wish I did.)
I too am glad Desperate Housewives is nearly over, keeping up with it has been exhausting! Sure, it would be easier to just stop watching it (4 years ago) but that would be quitting and NO ONE LIKES A QUITTER!
i have not had a telly for a few years now- -but even when I am home can get sucked into drivel very easily. as you say ' have they not seen the show before they go onto it'. If someone gives me a DVD of shows here, i end up watching it-even if it is crap, just to watch something. Have you heard of 'Castle' -absolute rubbish-yet I have watched all of them. Wooden acting at its best
I've watched about ten minutes of ONE episode. There was some appalling man who kept taking his clothes off and being an arse. Cured me for life.
Right now, the only things I watch on TV are Good Game Spawn Point and Once Upon A Time.
I am jonesing for some True Blood on DVD though.
The Bachelor.
Love the melodrama.
It's car crash tv at it's best.
Makesme seeth and laugh at the same time.
I especially love how they give these fragile girls copious champagne at the nerve wracking rose ceremonies.
I love watching the trashed blubbering!!
Survivor was fantastic - series 1 & 2!
:-) xx
Oh how I used to love Survivor. But we have parted ways now. Too much repeating the same stuff, that and hubs has banned it, he can't stand the show. xx
I haven't had cable for years. Back when I did, I still didn't watch anything (except The Soup, occasionally, so I at least knew what shows I wasn't watching). I'm am as out of the loop as one can get. Boring, boring me.
Shhh dont tell anyone but Home and Away. Its my guilty secret.
Heh, heh. The girls obviously take razors as their luxury item instead of a toothbrush. Their bodies are hairless but their teeth aren't ;)
I must say that my attention span is dwindling these days. I have been dragging myself through this year's Grey's Anatomy but it has been an effort. I gave up on Desperate Housewives after season 2. I loved this year's "Homeland" as it was self contained and complete without any more ever being made. And I am hoping that the rumour that Downton Abbey will be 3 series only is true and that they wont decide to cash in on the success and run it into the ground.
I will continue to tune into a few shows like Dexter as long as they keep making them but Mr Boozle and I tend to get full series of shows on DVD these days and watch them ad-free and back-to-back. Very satisfying and time efficient.
Oh this made me laugh!! Blue nipple shirt indeed! I'd never noticed it before. We don't have commercial TV at home but when I was younger I LOVED Felicity. With a passion. I've watched it again as an adult and oh my, the teenage angst! The 90's hairstyles, the bad story-lines. ...I love to hate it!
I used to watch Survivor religiously for the first three seasons when everyone seemed to be just trying to work out how to play it and they only supplied them with rice, food rewards were far and few between and everyone got hairy and looked like they smelled pretty funky. Now I can't be bothered and even forget it's on.
The Amazing Race on the other hand.....LOVE IT! Big fan! I want to go on it as the token "person with a difference." My sister wants to come with me. We'd laugh all the way 'round the world!
offspring!!! Yes a sucker for Nina, and her moments.
Love Greys, Private Practice, and a sucker for Desperate Housewives. Yes I said the last one!
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ADDICTED to Survivor too.. just watched my recording of last night and now I cant wait for next just to check for hair....
I am loyal to shows as well. I haven't watched Survivor since the first series though. I am a loyal Greys Anatomy fan and that singing episode aside I like their dramatic lives. Desparate Housewives...what can I say? I would live on Wisteria Lane in a heartbeat. But a really bad cringe worthy one that I love is Secret Life of the American Teenager. It's horrid, the acting is bad, the storyline isn't that great and yet I DVR it religiously and watch it while eating bad for me food.
Oh Goodness i think this is why i turned my back on TV a couple of years ago. I was sick of those shows sucking me in and taking bits of my life away i could never get back. So now...im proud to say i'm not hooked on anything. I rarely watch tv...although somehow Kevin Mcloud on Grand Designs gets me every time!!!
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