Survivor: Snowflakes
What happened to eating rats?
Hello from Old Man Mountain. I was catching up on Survivor 50 last night and I noticed someone had a thermos.
A thermos?
What happened to eating rats?!
I miss that first season of Survivor. That was before everyone starting playing Analytical Survivor like it’s a sport. Before hidden idols and extra gimmicks and this season’s Billie Eilish double secret idol thing that you send to the other tribe (that’s a real thing). Before we saw all the images on the Survivor Sucks website showing the parking lot ten feet away. Before I started fast forwarding through every single challenge thirty seasons ago.
That first season was fun. We didn’t know how the whole thing worked. Someone invented alliances halfway through the season IIRC. And they ATE RATS.
Things started to change in season 2 when the guy passed out fell face first into the fire. I am generally against people falling face first into fires, so I get it, but from there on Jeff would always show up with rice of a hamburger just in the knick of time.
Now somebody has a thermos. No no no no. Crack open a coconut and walk a mile to the well like your forefathers did!
I kept watching. Zac Brown showed up on the island. I like Zac Brown. I like his music, I like his concerts. Zac showed up with food and played a few songs. What are we even doing?
My frustration let me do look up some clips from Survivor season 1. Man, just about everyone on that show would be canceled now. There is a scene on Youtube where Richard Hatch is explaining to other people that it is ok to say the word homosexual, he isn’t offended, and it’s like the other survivors have never encountered a gay person before. It is amazingly of another time.
Even the clip name…
…maybe we don’t need to go back to that, but maybe Jeff could hold off on showing up with the cheeseburgers.