Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 26, 2024

The last two things Survivor wants from its contestants are integrity and honesty.

I remember a Betty & Veronica comic where the girls were on SURVIVOR. To Veronica, “roughing it” meant only three servants attending her!

I hate that show almost as bad as I hate the Big Brother show.

Wasn’t it the first, the mother of all reality shows? I read the description of this upcoming new tv show and asked my class how many of them would like to watch that show. About half put up their hands.

I avoid shows which feature people behaving badly—I get enough of that in day-to-day life. I like shows like veterinary shows (Dr. Jeff, Dr. Pol, etc.), and shows where determined NTSB investigators try to make flying safer (“Air Disasters”), and (best of all), “Too Cute” (Discovery Family) the show with the cutest puppies and kittens on the air! (I can feel my blood pressure going down right in the introductory five minutes!)

haha yes BD you are

producer is Brit. Mark Burnett TV – guy who read orange traitor’s ghostwritten book, married for a green card, dumped his wife. married Touched By An Angel actress then when Putin guided him, chose to build a lie around a sows ear & sold him as a silk purse on The Apprentice to the gullible citizens of the Divided States of Armederica with unspeakable results.

I would think admitting to being shameless gets you a direct flight to whatever gross island “paradise” they are dropping the contestants on this week.

It’s reached the point where the winning couple on THE BACHELOR announce their divorce six months before the first show is aired

Since Boopsie’s answers are in cursive, I wonder how many Gen X’ers can read them.

This is what you get when you have too many channels running 24/7

24 years later and I have still NEVER seen any episode of Survivor, or any of it’s copycats. I have however seen all of the episodes of the failed live action Gilligan’s Island spinoff.

My high school had a contest to name a mis-stamped artillery shell, which had come out looking like a face. (Times have changed). The contest was sponsored by the artillery shell manufacturer A. O. Smith. The winning entry was “A.O. Smith”; second place went to “A.O.”

It was a very “educational” lesson in cynicism for most of us

P3: They never had any reruns of any season.

Boopsie may be overqualified. And Hunk-Ra is not telegenic.