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Just to put into perspective how long Survivor has been on, Gabler was born in the same year as Alex Bell from Amazon and Brady Finta from Vanuatu. That blew my mind.

Got this one in two. First guess was Rime.

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92. Terrance Higgins (Big Brother 24, 7th place) [10/16]
Were still in the doldrums of this list and almost halfway through the BB24 cast, and if that doesnt tell you how bad that cast was, then Terrance ranking 10th from it ought to. I really dont have much good to say about him. I found his camera whoring to be more awkward than anything (I guess I can say that there were far worse camera whores on that season), and, like Monte, he treated Taylor poorly early on and brought race into it. He constantly tanked his own game by aligning himself with the most troubling contestants, first Nicole and Daniel, then Kyle, and then complained that he kept going up on the block. I can KINDA forgive his disastrous HoH because of the odd circumstances surrounding that week but it still wasnt a good look on him to side with Kyle there in the end. Then after Kyles racial remarks were made public to the house, Terrance actually still fought to keep Kyle. I actually saw someone on social media say in response to this, What if I told you I hate Terrance more than Kyle? and honestly I wouldnt blame them too much. I dont really blame Terrance for walking out without saying goodbye the way he did at his eviction because nobody left in the house at the time, other than maybe Alyssa, was really all that close with him or respected him as a player, but at the same time he never gave them much reason to. The biggest thing keeping him afloat is that he wasnt an outright vile person like so many people on BB24 were, so he looks KINDA better in comparison to, say, Daniel.

91. Either their first or last name begins with the letter T, but not both

I need to rewatch the episode because I started dozing off in the second half (out of tiredness, not out of boredom). I saw the last two teams arrive and when Linton & Sharik got there I legit didn't know if they were last or not.

Dom: *attempts the roadblock for literally 12 and a half seconds* I can't do this, I'm done.

I'm actually laughing that she has no idea what she's quitting (obviously she won't really but it's still comical).

BlueCrystalTear posted...

We've only gotten one of those from Worlds Apart onward, and that's not exactly a very watchable season for... other reasons.

DvG remained so until the Carl boot at the final 9 (fifth boot into the merge) finally shook things up.

I like Elie. The rest suck (Sami is an annoying tryhard, Gabler is a curmudgeon, and not the fun type like Randy, Owen is kinda lame and Jeanine is just kinda there).

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93. Sarah Burkett (Tough as Nails 2, 3rd place) [9/12]
Sarah was the first female to make the finals of Tough as Nails (Season 1 had an all-male final three) and honestly that actually HURTS her on this ranking due to a very degrading comment she made earlier in the season. When Savage Crew was on a losing streak she hotly told Dirty Hands that they were winning because they had 3 men and 2 women to her teams 3 women and 2 men (as Mikey from Savage Crew had been ejected and Tara from Dirty Hands had been medevaced). Aside from being outright untrue (as Savage Crew was in fact the stronger team and losing because of Scotts piss-tier leadership and teamwork skills), it was more or less a declaration BY A WOMAN that, in a show that is almost 100% based on physical challenges, women were inferior and implied that they essentially had no chance against the men. It did NOT go unnoticed by the other women and when Knuckles called her out on it she at least seemed apologetic but it still felt kinda icky to have her rewarded for that comment by being the first woman ever to make it to the finals. Aside from that, Sarah was just kind of a grouchy person in general - she wasnt mean or anything but she had this perpetual scowl and an aura of grumpiness about her, making her not very fun to watch in general.

92. Was the oldest person on their season

"Brutal"

There's obviously going to be a tribe swap next episode IMO.

That felt so unsportsmanlike.

I kinda got this vibe earlier in the episode that this was Cassidy's boot episode. Call it intuition but I still think she's going.

I love Cody

IMO the machete should be off limits. That's a death sentence.

"You can always trade your reward for a previous reward."

Wut

If a clue refers to a single person but describes at least one member of a TAR team, they are fair game in my mind. Take that as you will.

My first guess today was Super Mario Sunshine because I thought that was FLUDD

Gripe
Winch
Sonic
Tonic
Monic (whatever the fuck that is)
Ionic

at least I got it, but I really thought I had it with those third and fourth guesses.

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94. Travis Long (Big Brother 23, 16th place) [14/16]
I feel like Travis was probably cast to be the salesman-type of the season, since Christian was almost certainly the one cast to be the Tyler-type (known on Survivor as the Freelancer), yet it seems like Travis thought he was the new Tyler. He kinda just brod around the house thinking he was going to be some comp beast, being vaguely misogynistic, and just having this air to him like he thought he was better than everyone else. I think the one time I got a little bit of a chuckle out of him was when he gave Kyland a striptease for his birthday, because it was kind of amusing to see that happen as an obvious joke between two heterosexual men, but otherwise every single moment he was on screen I was just kind of low-key hoping hed be the first boot. And in fact, he ended up being the victim of the most insane first week of BB Ive ever seen, and nothing of value to the season was lost.

93. Was on an orange tribe/team

Drone
Timid
Plaid
Valid

Par

First time playing in a few weeks and...

#GuessTheGame #149



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95. Ryan & Dusty (The Amazing Race 33, 3rd place) [10/11]
TAR33 was absolutely killed by the break. From the very start there seemed to be a pretty significant rift between which teams were stronger and weaker, but once we saw who was back from the break and who wasnt, the final three teams were pretty much locked barring a catastrophic leg by one of them. And Ryan & Dusty almost managed to pull that off. They (along with Anthony & Spencer who didnt return post-break) were obviously intended to be the very strong type of M/M team that constantly places high and is one of the favorites to win, but end up being rather boring in terms of entertainment value. The funny thing is, they didnt even do all that well. On paper they have a fairly high average leg placement, but its very deceptive since the race was whittled down to 7 teams much earlier than it normally would be, and because the four weakest and most incompetent teams of the season all came back from the COVID break. Prior to the break, and for the first two legs post-break, Ryan & Dusty dominated with 1st and 2nd place finishes, but then fell into 3rd place and never did better than that for the rest of the race and the ONLY reason they didnt do even worse was because the other teams aside from Kim & Penn and Raquel & Cayla were just that bad. These guys were CONSTANTLY fucking up either going to wrong locations, doing tasks incorrectly, or picking the worse side of the Detour. And they were so nonchalant about it because they knew that they were still among the stronger teams in the race despite these blunders. They even came in last on a non-elimination leg, which was incidentally the only episode in the back half of the season where I had positive feelings towards them because Dustys inner monologue while struggling with the rock hunting Roadblock really humanized a team that desperately needed some character development beyond Ryans I was in jail for 10 years for something I didnt do. They ended up not even being remotely in it in the final leg and while this could be largely attributed to the staggered departure times throughout the race, a much better team probably could have made up that time once or twice.

94. One of the four guys labeled a "meathead" by Frenchie

TAR had an AMAZING stretch from 25-30, with 25, 27, 29 and 30 all being tippy-top tier seasons, and 26 being surprisingly not awful (I won't deny 28 sucks). Since then, 31 was a disappointment, 32 was horrendous, 33 was a bit boring and predictable (though I put a lot of the blame on the break) and 34 seems very mid-tier so far.

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96. David Voce (Survivor 41, 16th place) [18/18]
Survivor 41 finally shows up nearly 20 entries in and its an episode 2 boot, and its because that cast is just so damn good (theres actually still one other season being considered here that hasnt reared its head yet but thats more due to an abnormally high degree of ambivalence to that cast rather than it being good like S41). Voce was cast to be the highly-intelligent Ivy Leaguer of the season and as such the odds of him ever amounting to anything more than a painfully boring gamebot were slim to none. He spent the entire first two episodes just talking strategy in confessionals (I guess its kind of amusing how he constantly talks with his hands, having such an incredibly Italian last name) and making alliances on the beach. He was so blinded by his own strategy that he couldnt see Evvie turning against the men and siding with the women, and due to fear of Xander playing an advantage, the women elected to boot Voce instead, which is just as well since, while Xander was far from perfect, he turned out to be almost certainly much better TV than Voce would have been.

95. An M/M TAR team

It doesn't even surprise me a little bit that James was awful. I wouldn't have Domenick and David in my list of people I wouldn't want to see again though. Domenick was entertaining enough on Ghost Island (granted, mostly by virtue of being one of the only electric players/personalities in an extremely lifeless cast) and David was at least a very nice, funny guy, even if he is a bit of a trainwreck of a BB player (a lot of which isn't his fault... I think he ends up in unwinnable scenarios a lot).

I don't really mind Ryan that much but I certainly didn't want to see a poor man's version of him, when Ryan himself is basically already a weaker, nerdier Adam, who is already a weaker, nerdier Spencer.

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97. Swifty Sanders (Tough as Nails 2, 4th place) [10/12]
Swifty ranks this low because of his misplaced cockiness. Almost every episode he talked about how good he was and how he was going to get things done, and yet he wasnt a particularly strong contributor in the team challenges and generally placed in the lower end of things in individual challenges, going into overtime three times. Two of these were in the final two episodes and in the first one he actually did well for once and in the process took out one of the better characters left in Iraida (list spoilers I guess) and in the second he lost to Zeus which I mean on one hand Swifty winning would have prevented the predictable Scott/Zeus showdown but on the other hand it would have made the final challenge even MORE boring than it was because the only person giving Scott any competition would have been gone (not that it ended up mattering). So it was just annoying to see someone consistently be a below-average performer. yet always talk themselves up and never come through, especially in a season where a few people were so much stronger than the rest of the pack.

96. Generally went by their last name

Genie
Spend
Haven
Entry
Enjoy

Not a difficult word IMO but I kept missing the mark.

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98. Zach Wurtenberger (Survivor 42, 17th place) [16/18]
So now were entering the range where I cant say I hated these people because they either didnt last long enough, werent relevant enough to the edit, or their offenses werent egregious enough, but they still just mildly rubbed me the wrong way for one or more reasons. In Zachs case, he basically came onto the show as the new Ryan Ulrich, and while I love me some season 35, Ryan is NOT the castaway you want to emulate - hes got this misplaced cockiness about him and just kind of weasels his way in and out of alliances and blows challenges yet somehow surviving while better characters get picked off. Zach begins doing this as he becomes close to Tori (who finds his nerdiness endearing) but then grows paranoid about her so he tries to throw her under the bus, but luckily his tribe catches onto what hes doing and gives him the boot in episode 1 after a tribal council where he really just did not look good. The best thing that came from his time on the island was Maryanne revealing she had a crush on him after he was booted and having a pretty great and relatable moment about her love life. As for Zach, we were most likely spared of a very weak challenge competitor and unpleasant trainwreck of a player.

97. A finale boot

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99. Monte Taylor (Big Brother 24, 2nd place) [11/16]
I kinda didnt want to put Monte this low because he just doesnt exude the qualities that usually make me hate/dislike an RTV character, and he definitely did some good for the season, but he has some distinctly negative aspects that forced me to knock him off the list before we move into the mildly annoying tier. Lets start with those. Early in the season he turned on Taylor very quickly just out of hearsay, and even though she had been honest with him he believed the people who said she wasnt. And a lot of people were in this same boat but he made it personal by saying that he didnt want to target any other black houseguests but now he felt like he had to, and also saying that she wasnt a good representative of black women. His relationship with Taylor ended up having its ups and downs that eventually led to a short-lived showmance that he called off because she. took headphones off his head because she thought he had fallen asleep and even though he hadnt they were hers as HoH anyway. And he basically this is why no one likes youd her for it and opened old wounds that had sort of healed as much as they could. All this while he brod around with Turner for the final few weeks of the game acting like they were the ones to beat and totally counting Taylor out of it and just generally being a bit of a chauvinist. But as I said, it wasnt all bad with Monte. He played a huge part in forming the Leftovers alliance, which was built around protecting and standing up for Taylor. Out of all the people still in the game at the time, I thought he was the best at handling the Kyle situation. He was neither too diplomatic nor too damning. He won some crucial challenges that helped get many of the truly awful people out of the house. And at the end of the day, it was ironically that chauvinism that gave us the best ending the season could have had - he won the final HoH, took Taylor to the end considering her an easy person to beat, and she DEMOLISHED him in the jury vote. And for everything Monte did, both good and bad, I think he was treated fairly in the edit, by the jury, and by the fans/critics, so despite the bad I cant say he got away with stuff or got rewarded for poor behavior like a lot of the people below him.

98. Played their Shot-in-the-Dark

Bulge
Sport
Coach
Howdy

Another one that took me a while to see but considering it was a rather difficult word and my first guess gave me all greys (and my second guess gave me but a single yellow) I'm not too ashamed.

Spock stealing Cookie Monster's cookies

Buffy_Summers posted...

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CRIME
FIRST
VIGOR

Not bad. Probably one of my luckiest first guesses!

Woah, that was actually my first guess today too and it still took me 6 tries to get it.

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100. Cynthia Bailey (Celebrity Big Brother 3, 3rd place) [9/11]
I WANTED to be able to root for Cynthia (or more specifically, her side of the house because lets face it, she was the weakest member of her alliance) because I hated Miehsa and Todrick so damn much, and for the first half of the season that was pretty easy, but holy shit she blew it in the second half. She totally fell for Todrick and Mieshas gaslighting of Shanna, and so did Carson and Im going to hold him accountable for that as well, but Carson was at least diplomatic about it, while Cynthia got way too personal about it and really made Shanna feel awful. She really believed Miesha and Todrick were her friends and looking out for her when really they just wanted to go deep in the game with her because shed be easy to beat in the endgame challenges. I do think she just got caught up in the game, and in post-game press, after she got to watch the season play out, she seemed to feel really bad and was honestly apologetic, but in the moment it was SO uncomfortable to watch. She then proceeded to be completely useless for the rest of the season, going up as a pawn round after round and miserably failing every challenge, which was particularly frustrating because there were SO MANY TIMES in the back half of the season where the Miesha/Todrick F2 could have been avoided by her pulling out JUST ONE WIN and it NEVER happened. Even Todd managed to pull out a couple of crucial victories. She then cast the sole jury vote for Todrick (as I mentioned in that write-up, she was the only juror who didnt get to watch the season before voting due to being booted on finale night) so she wound up being, as Inviso said in the moment, clueless to the very end, and arguably the worst all-around player in CBB3 (if youre not counting Chris Kattan and even then you could probably at least make an argument). As I write this I remember just how frustrating she made the final few episodes of the season and retroactively think I should have had her below a moderately-annoying pre-juror but whatever.

99. Won at least two of whichever is relevant: Individual Immunity, Leg, HoH, or Individual TAN comp

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101. Daniel Strunk (Survivor 42, 13th place) [17/18]
Daniel is another example of a person that in a boring season I could have maybe appreciated as a trainwreck but in Survivor 42, which was excellent and had a pretty decent cast overall, I found him to be annoying. Right out of the gate he seemed like a camera whore and then he got a dislocated shoulder in the first challenge and while Im sure it was still painful even after they relocated it, he milked the hell out of it for the rest of his time in the game. He used it as an excuse to get out of work at camp and for sitting out/performing poorly in challenges while simultaneously suggesting challenge performance as a reason to get rid of people. He then went on to be an abysmal social player, constantly annoying his tribemates (and the viewers) and an even worse strategic player by repeatedly blowing up his and his allies games by turning on people for weird reasons and then showing his hand entirely too soon at a critical tribal council. All this from a superfan who clearly wanted to be the breakout star of the season. Thankfully his tribe finally got sick of him and booted him pre-merge, so he doesnt wind up lower. While I can appreciate an entertaining trainwreck player (and many will rank highly on this list), Daniel in Season 42 doesnt do it for me at all.

100. A female juror

Didn't get yesterday's.

Got today's but with a "Well, Seymour, I made it..."

Outer
Tonal
Sloth

Not bad for tired at 1am

I feel pretty apathetic to like half of these teams too. It's definitely not shaping up to be the best fall for CBS RTV.

Blaziken posted...

No, that's a KOR leg. This seems like there's no false pit stop in the middle (but I could be wrong on that).

It's the same thing with no pitstop basically

This is basically a non-elimination leg without calling it that.

Yeah so far this is quite the letdown compared to 41 and 42 and I blame the cast. This is just not a particularly dynamic group as a whole.

Not sure Nneka really earned that music. Especially after just three episodes.

Karla, Cody and Elie are far and away my favorites on each tribe.

Sami's annoying and all, but Gabler is such a fun-sponge.

Spork
Crash
Marsh

I seem to do better when I start with a more aggressive word.

bwburke94 posted...

My guess is that the weird quarantine situation meant they had to send the alternates home early, and they got caught off guard on Day 0 with the Jackson lithium thing.

Yet the alternates had already been sent home in Fiji and San Juan del Sur when players dropped out of those seasons.

Without spoiling anything on my list I'll contribute to the current discussion by saying I don't think they should send the alternates home before the game has started. It's not like they haven't had people drop out after they were sent home before.

Magic
Guest
Wrung
Bough

Last two took me a few minutes to come up with.

I'd personally rather put the people that I had net negative feelings about below the "whatever"s.

Anyway, we're inching into "mildly annoyed me" territory with the next few entries.

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102. Nicole Layog (Big Brother 24, 13th place) [12/16]
The biggest reason Nicole isnt even lower than she is is because her downfall was one of the most hilariously satisfying in recent memory. Other than that, she pretty much sucks. She was one of the nastiest people to Taylor in the house, despite supposedly being women all the way, she was OBSESSED with getting rid of Taylor. Indy and Jasmine were to a degree as well but not on the level of Nicole. Nicole literally spent her entire time in the house talking to Daniel about how bad Taylor was and how imperative it was that they get her out ASAP (oh and talking about how good she is at reading people because she used to be a cop, despite being absolutely atrocious at reading people in the house).

In week three, as Taylors Festie Bestie, Nicole WANTED to go up on the block so that Taylor could be there as well and everyone could vote her out (because that worked so well for Pooch just the week prior). So when they get picked to play in the Veto competition, Nicole goes into her room and starts crying because she doesnt want to throw the competition because its not in her nature but she knows she has to for the good of the house. Taylor, being a sweet person, believes that Nicole is crying because of her sick mother, so she goes in to comfort her. Believing Nicole has her best interest in mind, Taylor basically tells Nicole to just do what she needs to do as far as the competition is concerned and if shes not feeling 100% not to push it. Nicole flips out on her and asks how dare she accuse her of not giving it her all because shed never give up on anything, even though the literal reason Nicole was crying in the first place was because she was planning on giving up in the challenge. So the hypocrite runs out to Daniel and everyone else and tells them that Taylor just used her sick mother as a chess piece to try and get her to quit the game, which ignites Daniels attack on Taylor. When Taylor turns to Nicole for support, Nicole doesnt give her any and sternly tells her that she needs to watch how she speaks to people.

So after all that, Nicole still puts an effort into the challenge that makes Peih-Gee and Jaimes challenge throw look good, and is stunned when the veto is instead used to take out her friend Ameerah. And despite being blindsided by that vote, she STILL THINKS that shes in with the majority of the house and offers herself up as a pawn to get rid of Taylor AGAIN. Needless to say, she is evicted by everyone except Daniel, aka the only person more clueless as to whats going on in the game than her (even Terrance voted with the majority on this one that tells you something) and leaves the house utterly stunned. It was honestly one of the most satisfying blindsides Ive ever seen, and upon leaving the house she was rightfully grilled for her treatment of Taylor. Ultimately, my feelings and her placement here are very similar to those of Jack in BB21 - she was awful and is still quite low on my overall list, but because she was edited to be unlikable, had an extremely satisfying downfall and got stomped on for her behavior upon leaving, she avoids the bottom few spots for her own season.

101. A pre-jury man