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170. Jerri Manthey (Survivor: Australia - 8th Place)

Remember that this rank is of two seperate characters, so even if I may like Jerri now, this particular write-up is strictly for her time during Australia. Jerri was really one of the first true famewhores in the show's history. It was pretty clear since she was an aspiring actress that she desperately wanted to use Survivor to boost her acting career. Unfortunately, she was a horrid bitch and actually became one of the first real villains of the show (if not THE first), so all she got were a couple gigs on other reality shows and a Playboy photoshoot. Still, despite being a bitch, Jerri was a great villain because you loved to hate her in Australia. You loved to hate her clique-ishness and her jealousy and her whining and everything else that she did. That's what seperates a negative edit like Jerri's from a negative edit like Jenna's. Jerri was so over the top that there reached a point where you just had to laugh at how crazy and delusional she was, and you had to laugh at just how much the other players disliked her. Still, at the time of Australia, Jerri pissed me off, so I can't let post-ASS stuff influence this ranking too much, so she gets 170.


169. Diane Ogden (Survivor: Africa - 16th Place)

I would really love to see Diane get a second chance in a season where she doesn't get dehydrated and sick right off the bat, because she seems to be a real fan of the show who just happened to get some bad luck early on. Hell, she's probably the earliest Survivor player who still gives enough of a shit about the show to continue posting at Sucks, so that has got to count for something. Diane just seemed to have a very upbeat and winning personality. And yeah, she may have sucked at navigating for her tribe, but she could've turned things around. Really, going over the first boots from the early seasons, I would say only John might have a better chance of success than Diane, and even then, he was booted early despite his strength while she was booted early solely because of her sickness. However, she doesn't seem to grasp the fact that you need to win challenges in Survivor, as evidenced by her participation in an over-the-phone pick 'em for a fanfiction season in which she picked all the weakest players possible, allowing the other tribe to get pretty much every player that would be even remotely dominant.


168. Amanda Kimmel (Survivor: China - 3rd Place)

As much as I believe that Amanda did not deserve, in any way, to even be CONSIDERED for one of the ten "favorite" spots in Micronesia. She was still a pretty good player in China, and helped contribute to one of the overall best female casts in any season thus far. She started off kinda lame. Make that really lame. But really, she didn't have to play hardcore early on. She's part of the demographic that, so long as you can fake being nice to people, is pretty much guaranteed to go far just based on age and athletic ability. She had her alliance with Todd and Aaron, and later with Courtney, and she was simply overshadowed by the two more interesting personalities that she was aligned with. She did show strategic prowess, even though Todd usually took the lead in that stuff. And even though Todd had suggested it two rounds earlier, Amanda was the one who finally went about taking jury and immunity threat James out of the game. Really, she was playing a pretty great game (aside from being completely fake and basically ignoring Peih-Gee for about a week) until the final 4, where she had her traditional breakdown that she never recovered from. She wound up losing to COURTNEY, which was absolutely hilarious, and a fitting end for the manliest girl on the season.


167. Cassandra Franklin (Survivor: Fiji - 2nd Place)

As mentioned in the Dreamz write-up, I label Cassandra as second place because, even though it was a tie, I'm almost positive that she would've beaten Dreamz, as would anyone from the final 5, had the finals been a straight-up final 2. Cassandra got a really bad edit, as seems commonwith at least one woman, if not more, who makes it all the way to the final episode of the season. She started off on Moto and basically didn't need to worry about the actual survival aspect of the game for the entire first half, due to consistently being on the tribe with a pre-built shelter, and Lisi/Stacy being jealous of Liliana. But she was nice to everyone and she always had a smile on her face (seriously) even towards her enemies. When the tribes swapped, she got in good with her rival, Stacy, and she kept Stacy from flipping over to her old allies on NuRavu. And she was targetted at the final 9 over Yau or Earl, simply because she was the biggest social threat and she was the one keeping that alliance together. She tried to organize a blindside of Yau that would've greatly improved her game going into the final few rounds, but sadly, two of her allies were stupid and prevented the blindside from happening. She defended herself as best she could in the final tribal council, but the jury hated her and thought her useless, so they didn't even give her a chance. So sad.


166. Chad Crittenden (Survivor: Vanuatu - 8th Place)

Yup, we're almost at the halfway point of this ranking and we're only just getting to the first member of the Fat Five to show up on this list. And thankfully, it's the least entertaining (but still entertaining) one of the bunch. Chad was unique in Survivor history as the first person with a prosthetic leg to try out of the show. This is not to say he was the first person with a disability, as we already had Christy in Amazon, but still, it was pretty big at the time, and enough to get me rooting for him. Especially since Chad was so covert about it at first. The long hike to camp, he didn't tell anyone, but then when they got there, it was like "BAM! LEG!" And the rest of the tribe was cool about it too, and it didn't really seem to affect Chad in terms of challenge performance. But really, the leg was all Chad had going for him in terms of storyline (also he jaw dropping moments where he looked like a blow-up doll, what with the baldness). He was targetted (stupidly) by John K. for being a jury threat, and later by the women for the same reason. Really, the leg was only really good for one thing, and that was Chris' "you've got a leg up on me" comment when trying to decide who the women would vote out first. Still, Chad was a nice guy and I was rooting for him at the time, so he places pretty high.

Manliest GIRL, Ken. Not manliest MAN.

Mikester only got one right.

All-Stars Jerri, unless she's in the next update, made the top half of my list.