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175. Linda Spencer (Survivor: Africa - 13th Place)

And with Linda's appearance on the list, we have now completed the Pre-ASS curse of black women coming in 13th place. Linda wasn't really all THAT great, mainly because she was paired up with the awesome Frank Garrison and T-Bird Cooper. But she was crazy, and crazy old ladies are hilarious, I don't care who thinks otherwise. Linda was surprisingly black, given how light-skinned she was, but much like Rory trying to act gangster, that only served to amp up the comedy when she was go on and on about Mother Africa, especially if the viewers at home didn't realize that she was black. Linda really should've been the first boot from Samburu, but she wasn't because the Mallrats were afraid of her Africa triva knowledge. And she was a major antagonist to them. While Frank was more into taking potshots, Linda was openly criticizing them and even made Lindsey break down when she tried to hug her, and, upon Lindsey's refusal, Linda implied that Lindsey's mom never hugged her. It was funny only because Lindsey was the victim, but that just made it absolutely frickin' hilarious, and it was a shame to see Linda go home and miss out on Silas' rampage after getting three votes at tribal council.


174. Stephannie Favor (Survivor: Cook Islands - 16th Place)

I'd just like to start off this write-up by saying that I am very made at Stephannie for booting Sekou in the first round, essentially dooming Manihiki to failure and giving us a whole season of Sundra. But really, in a tribe where one gender has a majority and the genders are at war, the swing vote is probably going to stick with the others with similar chromosome patterns to themselves. Stephannie was a crazy lady, like Linda, but unlike Linda, it didn't seem like she went out of her way to be crazy, and as such, she came off as more realistic in her insanity, as weird as that may sound. She got stuck on Raro after the first swap, where being over 35 and acting like it was a cardinal sin, and it wound up putting a pretty big target on her back right away. Fortunately, Parvati put a stop to that and took out J.P. instead, but Stephannie's days were numbered. When she started talking about mashed potatoes and gravy and that got all blown out of context, she was done. It was a pretty stupid reason to boot someone, but she hadn't really been performing well in challenges anyway. Stephannie was just a very nice person, probably not cut out for Survivor, and she at least made the first few episodes of CI somewhat interesting.


173. John Carroll (Survivor: Marquesas - 9th Place)

John was arrogant and he was dominant in Marquesas, and that was what made his downfall THAT much funnier. He was so paranoid about everything that he wound up screwing himself over several rounds before his boot by stupidly booting Gabe out of sheer FEAR that Gabe MIGHT turn on them. This is rather than targetting Rob, who he KNEW was a threat and he KNEW was going to stir up trouble. But John made it to the merge and the pecking order was clear. He had a path paved ahead of him for the finals, and he got so cocky as to say that Neleh and Paschal were rooting for him to succeed. That was the kiss of death. You see, Neleh and Paschal, along with Kathy, Vee, and Sean, formed the first every successful counter alliance, taking the majority by force and sending John out of the game in a humiliating ninth place. He even cried during his final words. John's boot and his arrogance were so entertaining that they kept him out of my hated group, even after his self-righteous final tribal council speech. Plus, he seemed like a real fan of the show who just got power-hungry when he was actually in the game, so I won't fault him TOO much.


172. Danny "G.C." Brown (Survivor: Gabon - 14th Place)

My opinion on G.C. has definitely changed since Gabon first aired. I mean, I had really high expectations for him going into Gabon. I was expecting him to be a positive force that would make up for Dreamz being so absolutely stupid. But then G.C. became so hilariously inept that he was really Diet Dreamz. And actually, Dreamz is one of the few times where a Diet version is preferable to the original. G.C. failed miserably in pretty much every challenge. It was like he was exhausted, just being there, and between him and Crystal being completely inept, it made Fang's challenge losses that much more fun to watch. He got appointed leader of the tribe over the seemingly better choice in Dan, and he gave it up after a day because he couldn't handle the pressure. Eventually, he made comments about how he was ready to go that were blown out of proportion and he got voted out in one of the dumber moves by the Fang tribe. But he wasn't really quitting. He was just tired, so I forgive him for that. He totally made up for it by having a good sense of humor post-show and not trying to skate out from under the footage that was shown. Plus his Popeye's Chicken joke at the reunion had me laughing my ass off so hard.


171. Jan Gentry (Survivor: Thailand - 3rd Place)

And with Jan's inclusion, Thailand finally overtakes Amazon in terms of character having shown up on this list. Yes, I'm surprised that I ranked three crazy old ladies in the same update, but really, they weren't as good gamewise as they needed to be in order to rank higher. Jan started off the game being singled out as the oldest woman in the cast, where she was then forced to pick her own tribe. People thought she was crazy (they were right) when she picked only the oldest players in the game and Tanya, but maturity proved more valuable than brute strength as Sook Jai made a boatload of dumb decisions that got them Pagonged out of the game. Jan basically annoyed the shit out of everyone in the game, either with her random screaming, or her crying over two dead animals, and that's part of the reason why she got votes at every tribal council from the final 7 to the final 3, when she, surprisingly, received no votes on her original Chuay Ghan tribe. So she made for good TV, but what keeps her from being ranked higher is that she was just such a sheep that she prevented better moves from being made and allowed Brian to coast into a not-so-easy win.

Mikester gets three correct!

Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:

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Kitty Pryde1 wrote:

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He didn't actively choose to quit. He was a nice guy after the show instead of being a little bitch. He wasn't part of a shitty alliance.

Osten wasn't being a bitch after the show. If anything, everybody else was. He had a right to quit, he had the right to do what he wanted with the slot he had, and you can't choose your tribemates. Jeez Louise, did you expect him to align with Ryan S because he was a poor wittle underdog?

Uh, Osten was a bitch who acted like Survivor didn't even matter to him. So not only did he quit, but he didn't even give a shit about the game that he applied for and took the spot of someone else who wanted it.

Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:

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Meh, he was kind of an asshole but I can't say he was so much worse then people like Twatwaffle or Corinne. I usually don't blame recruits for being boring or not caring about Survivor because they volunteered to be on the show in the first place, knew the risks involved and what the show was about. While Osten was a pussy, he was a hilarious pussy, and I like him all the more for defending himself from the onslaught of self righteous asshats who expect him to apoligize to some guy he doesn't even know under false pretenses. You earn your slot on the show, and you can and will do what you want with it. As far as I'm concerned, only the crew members or story boarders can actual "ruin" a season of Survivor.

So asking to leave is not the equivalent of quitting?

G.C. didn't ask to be voted out. He made a stray comment that his tribe, particularly Ace, Sugar, and Douchetwat, ran with. He said he would've kept playing the game if he survived that TC. Osten wanted to be voted out in episode 2. His tribe didn't let him. Osten really did nothing to help his tribe win immunity, and he wound up quitting anyway, completely fucking over everyone from Ryan S. to Trish who deserved to outlast him.