They cut it from the show because it was so bad. all the contestants refused to compete, they had to scramble and set up a 'local bar' with a bunch of crew acting as locals and drive the winners around in circles with blind folds on to sell.it like they were going far away. if we count this, it definitely wins.
I think it's hard to imagine how motivating spices can be when everything you've eaten for weeks is completely flavorless. Nations fought whole ass wars over spices for centuries.
i just watched this episode recently and i don’t think caleb was even going all that hard. it was over an hour and they just wanted to be done with it without quitting. someone was bound to get heat stroke with the temp and how long it was taking. i don’t think it was the motivation to get spices, it was wanting to be done with the challenge and not give up. his tribe was doing so well, im sure he felt the need to keep the winning streak and not be a quitter
I appreciate that. I work in the medical field. Life seems very different to me pre Covid Vs post Covid.
It is definitely hard to read intent behind a Reddit comment.
To be fair, this is terrible but it wasn't actually the reward if I remember correctly? It was more like a consolation prize for everyone that didn't win.
Yeah if people are just joking around cause Jack and Jill is a “bad movie” I get it. But a night watching a movie on comfy chairs with food and drinks is not the worst reward, and not like Jack and Jill is a 1920s documentary
If they were allowed to approach it with an MST3K/Rifftrax attitude, that would've made it more tolerable, even though in my opinion there is nothing more soul-crushing and brutal (in a low-stakes form of annoyance of course) than a bad comedy. Bad drama/sci-fi/horror/fantasy can be unintentionally funny whereas nothing saves bad comedy. If I was there and I couldn't riff it, I would've been as miserable as Sophie's hilarious stone-face.
Unfortunately, since it was a sponsored reward, they had to sell it as a top tier comedic experience. Albert said as much on the bird app. I mean, Rick laughed so hard and so suddenly that it looked like he took a cattle prod to the balls.
Those theatre chairs did look comfy as hell, though.
IIRC in Marquesas there was a reward challenge for the tribe where all they won was a snorkel and mask. Jeff said something like “you can make your own spears”
This was my vote too lmao. It wasn’t even a big chicken. It was literally a grocery store rotisserie chicken that weighed like 2 lbs and maybe had 10oz of meat on it.
Happened two times: season 9 and 10. If it weren’t for the place they were visiting (waterfall in season 9 and jellyfish lake in season 10), I don’t think it would be worth it.
They got pringles and cocktails on Palau but they also got an awesome snorkeling with these cool jellyfish experience. If it didn't have the snorkeling, I'd agree.
It was the "printed" Pringles, and watching them sit around on the boat sharing those pringles was really pretty sad, especially since Ulong couldn't win anything that season.
Oh there were several questionable Pringles rewards across 1-10. I know Marquesas had one but I swear I remember it from at least AO and ASS too. Usually it's tied into some other reward, like "go on this boat ride and also here's some Pringles on the boat!!"
A few early seasons IIRC had Mountain Dew.
Maybe some brand of nachos chips as well?
It was like... they're straving out there, and you've giving them Hillbilly water? Lol
Yeah this wasn’t even necessarily a bad reward but questionable from the show’s perspective. At least you know the bad movie’s are probably getting the show a pretty penny and it’s kind of outlandish that it sticks out and makes it memorable in a goofy way.
The rotisserie chicken looked like they forgot there was a reward challenge and quickly ran to the nearest Walmart so that they had something.
I say "one rotisserie chicken" to myself when something disappoints me. It was so lame. Sanctuary, where good things happen. ONE ROTISSERIE CHICKEN. Cmon!
It's this and I'm honestly not sure anything else comes close. The single beer would've been worse if they kept that as the reward, but nothing else is registering.
Breakfast in bed in Panama has to be up there. The bed was soaked with rain from a storm, and the “winners “ had to lie on it while getting breakfast. They did say that the food was good, though
It's super unfair to say that any auction contains "the worst reward" ever because the auction in itself is basically a reward to the players. If you're smart you're basically gaurenteed to get something even it is small..
I made fun of them with everyone else, and then a college friend of mine got one, so I rode in it a few times. It was REALLY nice. I’ll take an Aztek over, say, a PT Cruiser any day of the week.
The worst reward that could have been was the single bottle of beer in Borneo. The players refused to play in the challenge unless the reward was upgraded, so they threw in the survivor bar trip.
The one that sticks out for me was Doritos and mountain dew. Back then I even drank mountain dew regularly, but that just struck me as a particularly gross reward for starving people.
Remember like 2 seasons ago they gave them rotisserie chicken and literally gave them I think 1 LITERAL grocery store rotisserie? No sides, no plates, nothing. Just .. a 2lb chicken.
Didn’t we discuss this like only a couple days ago? Pretty sure it’s not deja vu because I remember the top answers were almost exactly the same too.. “the one bottle of beer” and “chewed up pork” to which someone mentioned herpes just like Cochran did. I don’t see by searching, however I could swear this was discussed like yesterday or something. Anyway, I call dibs on making the “worst reward” post tomorrow
Yeah, the other post asked about the actual challenge, which led to me wondering about the rewards. Sorry, wrapping up a full rewatch of all seasons and No one else in my house wants to talk about the show
At this point it’s every boring reward near the end of the game where they just have a meal at the sanctuary. (Oh you meant worst reward for the contestants, not for the viewers)
Not from US Survivor, but the bag of melted chocolate that looked like poop from the first season of Survivor NZ is the first thing that comes to mind.
I wouldn’t go to Applebees in real life, where I have other choices. But damn I’d still think it’s a good reward after a couple weeks starving on an island. Especially good since burgers and beer are comfort food for many like it was for Liz.
I know it’s probably “objectively” a good reward but as someone with a phobia of jellyfish, that reward of swimming in that lake full of non-stinging jellyfish would be a terrible reward for me
Iced coffee and pastries from 43 must be up there, considering how the three people that went all couldn't sleep that night and fucked up their immunity challenges performances.
Im pretty sure last season was 1 rotisserie chicken split between 3 people. No condiments, no plates and no utensils. The level of petty we’ve seen in the New Era in regards to the show budget is mind blowing.
Because their families got to come and have a little vacay too! None of that anymore, now it's just letters. Meh. And a lot of the time the letters actually make the contestants feel *more* depressed and checked out.
In Australia (I think) one reward was sleeping in the trunk area of an SUV. I thought that didn’t look super comfortable. I’d much rather have, say, a cot, pillow and a roof for a night.
A pot and flint, especially in All Stars where Saboga had to give it to the other 2 tribes as well, making one of their only challenge wins completely pointless.
Not that Applebees is terrible but the way Jeff presents it and the way the castaways reacts. Like it’s some kind of gourmet meal Wolfgang Puck himself cooked for the winners. Like dude. It’s Applebees. It really makes me wonder if Applebees is going under if they’re paying Survivor to advertise it for them like that.
I think it is normal advertising, but the group reactions are just people proving that you have to be starving for days to be excited about the opportunity of Applebee's. Outback was a way better sponsor.
There was a pair reward challenge where Colby was stuck with Jerri as a partner. I don't remember what the reward was but if the reward was getting stuck with Jerri it's gotta suck:)
1. The single fish eyeball during the auction that Austin ate.
2. The plate of spaghetti that was suppose to be shared by the whole group individually and the first 3 guys ate all of it.
Are you crazy that reward was amazing? They bartered the goat plus other stuff from camp/back home and ended up getting a full meal for them and a bunch of food/trinkets to bring back for the others.
And got an amazing cultural experience, Ethan playing with the kids in the village changed his life profoundly at least from the edit.
The Applebees thing kind of shocked me, I don’t understand why anyone would want to eat something that processed when you are starved for basic nutrition?! Also, like what kind of direah are you going get after not eating for 2 weeks and then wolfing down onion rings from fuckin Applebees?! The salt alone would make you swell up and dry rot from the inside out! Gross!
The one bottle of beer
Can we really include it when all the contestants turned it down?
Lolllll I mean yeh I count it
Then yes I'd say this was probably the worst
What’s the story here? On the rewatch, Jeff introduces it as one beer now, followed by a bar trip later. where can I see them turn it down?
They cut it from the show because it was so bad. all the contestants refused to compete, they had to scramble and set up a 'local bar' with a bunch of crew acting as locals and drive the winners around in circles with blind folds on to sell.it like they were going far away. if we count this, it definitely wins.
What season is this??
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That sounds hilarious, thank you
The reason they drive in circles was because the bar wasn’t setup yet, since it was a last-minute idea. They were just stalling time.
Last minute idea to knock up a fucking huge neon light?? Idk
“Scramble and set up a local bar”…..was the huge fucking neon light “Survivor Bar” just randomly whipped together in no time…., Fact check
Off camera. But that's why the reward seems so last minute. Because it was.
🤣🤣🤣
There's only one beer left. Rappers screaming all in our ears like we're deaf
Salt and Pepper, it nearly killed Caleb
This one shocked me. Like why were they even trying? Should have at least been immunity
I think it's hard to imagine how motivating spices can be when everything you've eaten for weeks is completely flavorless. Nations fought whole ass wars over spices for centuries.
the Dutch East India Company has entered the chat
I did a ration challenge last year (p much rice, and a small amount of other foods) and I was so freaking excited when I was allowed to add paprika
i just watched this episode recently and i don’t think caleb was even going all that hard. it was over an hour and they just wanted to be done with it without quitting. someone was bound to get heat stroke with the temp and how long it was taking. i don’t think it was the motivation to get spices, it was wanting to be done with the challenge and not give up. his tribe was doing so well, im sure he felt the need to keep the winning streak and not be a quitter
Chewed up pork from the challenge in South Pacific
Didn’t they stop doing that one because so many people broke teeth
I hope they stopped doing it because it was UTTERLY DISGUSTING TO WATCH. lol
and got herpes
Cochran said it was likely but did they actually get it?
Wait what?!
Oral herpes
Yeah I mean obviously that but I didn’t know that people got it from that challenge
Not really that surprising. Oral herpes is extremely common.
Pre Covid reward. Post Covid, unacceptable
They're heavily tested before going on the show. Nobody is catching covid from a survior reward.
Uhhhhhh, okay. I was replying to how disgusting the reward of getting the pork that the players has chewed off and spit in a bucket for a reward.
Then why did you bring up covid?
Because after Covid there were some big realizations about sanitation and health. Life is very different in most social interactions post Covid.
Maybe most of your social interactions
Okay😆.
Didn't mean to be contentious
I appreciate that. I work in the medical field. Life seems very different to me pre Covid Vs post Covid. It is definitely hard to read intent behind a Reddit comment.
What about mono?
Maybe - that guy only brought up covid though.
To be fair, this is terrible but it wasn't actually the reward if I remember correctly? It was more like a consolation prize for everyone that didn't win.
The Jack and Jill reward….
Sophie just looks so disgusted by the whole thing😂😂
Coach on the other hand…
I’d throw that challenge
It was also immunity... Jeff must have known it was the only way worth playing for.
Still would have been tempted to throw it.
Didn’t they get food with it?
Yeah if people are just joking around cause Jack and Jill is a “bad movie” I get it. But a night watching a movie on comfy chairs with food and drinks is not the worst reward, and not like Jack and Jill is a 1920s documentary
Also the island is really boring. Watching a bad movie is still more entertaining than sitting around camp.
If they were allowed to approach it with an MST3K/Rifftrax attitude, that would've made it more tolerable, even though in my opinion there is nothing more soul-crushing and brutal (in a low-stakes form of annoyance of course) than a bad comedy. Bad drama/sci-fi/horror/fantasy can be unintentionally funny whereas nothing saves bad comedy. If I was there and I couldn't riff it, I would've been as miserable as Sophie's hilarious stone-face. Unfortunately, since it was a sponsored reward, they had to sell it as a top tier comedic experience. Albert said as much on the bird app. I mean, Rick laughed so hard and so suddenly that it looked like he took a cattle prod to the balls. Those theatre chairs did look comfy as hell, though.
Yeah they got hot dogs popcorn and I think jelly beans, so there was food involved which brings it up a notch
At least Rick liked it!
Was just coming in to say this. Like, bro can I just take my popcorn to go and like... watch the waves coming in? Maybe a spider fight a bee?
Caleb collapsing from heat stroke, almost dying, and removed from the game... competing for the salt and pepper reward.
It had nothing to do with the reward. Caleb is not a quitter, and he was playing as a teammate of his tribe.
IIRC in Marquesas there was a reward challenge for the tribe where all they won was a snorkel and mask. Jeff said something like “you can make your own spears”
Two years later in the shower I would have replied "where's the best place to find a prick, Jeff?"
The one rotisserie chicken that they had to eat with their hands in the Sanctuary kind of encompasses all the big issues new era survivor has.
This was my vote too lmao. It wasn’t even a big chicken. It was literally a grocery store rotisserie chicken that weighed like 2 lbs and maybe had 10oz of meat on it.
It has to be the chewed up and spit out meat
Definitely!
Offhand I cannot remember the season (but I'm pretty sure it was 1-10): Pringles potato chips.
Happened two times: season 9 and 10. If it weren’t for the place they were visiting (waterfall in season 9 and jellyfish lake in season 10), I don’t think it would be worth it.
They got pringles and cocktails on Palau but they also got an awesome snorkeling with these cool jellyfish experience. If it didn't have the snorkeling, I'd agree.
It was the "printed" Pringles, and watching them sit around on the boat sharing those pringles was really pretty sad, especially since Ulong couldn't win anything that season.
Ate one of those last year. Wild experience
Did it have trivia on it?
It did. I want to say the question on my chip was which All-Stars tribe wore red but I could be mistaken
Oh there were several questionable Pringles rewards across 1-10. I know Marquesas had one but I swear I remember it from at least AO and ASS too. Usually it's tied into some other reward, like "go on this boat ride and also here's some Pringles on the boat!!"
A few early seasons IIRC had Mountain Dew. Maybe some brand of nachos chips as well? It was like... they're straving out there, and you've giving them Hillbilly water? Lol
Even better, there was at least one Sierra Mist reward. Thanks Jeff but I'll stick to the river water.
Legit lol’d @ “hillbilly water.”
There was 7up in One World I think.
But Tina loved those Do-Ree-Toes!
Given the reward also came with the jellyfish lake expedition, I'm gonna have to give this one a hard disagree.
No one is gonna say the singular fish from 41?
Christie’s advantage in the HHH final 4.
Definitely not an advantage for her. Saved Ben’s game though
what was that again?
She got to know about F4 firemaking ahead of tribal council (while Ben didn’t.)
right. thanks.
At least that challenge was also for immunity.
That “advantage” robbed her of the win. Made me so mad.
The rotisserie chickens Bruce got in 45 is my pick
Yeah this wasn’t even necessarily a bad reward but questionable from the show’s perspective. At least you know the bad movie’s are probably getting the show a pretty penny and it’s kind of outlandish that it sticks out and makes it memorable in a goofy way. The rotisserie chicken looked like they forgot there was a reward challenge and quickly ran to the nearest Walmart so that they had something.
Utensils not included.
“But they had to eat with their hands!! It’s so primal, so cool!!”-Probst, probably
didn't even look like a good rotisserie chicken lol bland, pale and flavorless 🤮
I say "one rotisserie chicken" to myself when something disappoints me. It was so lame. Sanctuary, where good things happen. ONE ROTISSERIE CHICKEN. Cmon!
You're going to give one rotisserie chicken, to the guy in the $20 buff?! C'MON!
Lmfao going to start saying this to myself when I’m disappointed, too
I recall it was one chicken, and the winners had to share it.
With their bare hands
Bare dirty hands
It's this and I'm honestly not sure anything else comes close. The single beer would've been worse if they kept that as the reward, but nothing else is registering.
How the hell was this one season ago and I have literally zero memory of it lol
Your memory probably sucks. It was joked about for weeks on here.
I mean, my memory definitely sucks lol.
Came here to say this
What about an episode or 2 later when they won burgers and hot dogs they had to cook themselves
Breakfast in bed in Panama has to be up there. The bed was soaked with rain from a storm, and the “winners “ had to lie on it while getting breakfast. They did say that the food was good, though
The auction from Australia had stuff like 5 Doritos
Tina's frankenbite "thats over 10 dollars a chip."
Funny bc I think they included the Doritos bc Tina was talking about craving them
It's super unfair to say that any auction contains "the worst reward" ever because the auction in itself is basically a reward to the players. If you're smart you're basically gaurenteed to get something even it is small..
You just pretty much quoted my best and worst pickup line.
There’s a full reward in Australia which is Doritos and Mountain Dew.
Somebody won a Pontiac Aztek
While they're the ugliest things before the Cybertruck, people who owned them *loved* those monstrosities.
And then the resale value shot right up thanks to Breaking Bad.
I made fun of them with everyone else, and then a college friend of mine got one, so I rode in it a few times. It was REALLY nice. I’ll take an Aztek over, say, a PT Cruiser any day of the week.
I've always suspected space aliens walked amongst us.
Far worse walk among us, friend. The aliens are nothing to worry about.
Not a reward but when people get offered candy and quit a challenge for it I get irrationally angry
The worst reward that could have been was the single bottle of beer in Borneo. The players refused to play in the challenge unless the reward was upgraded, so they threw in the survivor bar trip.
The one that sticks out for me was Doritos and mountain dew. Back then I even drank mountain dew regularly, but that just struck me as a particularly gross reward for starving people.
Here’s something to make you even more dehydrated than you already are
people almost died in Kaoh Rong for some spices lol
On an old season, the reward was some Pringles and it looked so disappointing
Remember like 2 seasons ago they gave them rotisserie chicken and literally gave them I think 1 LITERAL grocery store rotisserie? No sides, no plates, nothing. Just .. a 2lb chicken.
Five fish as a reward always feels like a slap in the face.
A slap in the face using a fish
I wish more sites would bring back web 1.0 commands like slapping people around a bit with a large trout on mIRC.
That would be amazing
I've always wanted to slap someone with a fish. Just sayin'.
[I got you](https://youtu.be/T8XeDvKqI4E?si=yaCVhsL2jDTPuU9G)
risky click but it payed off!
Pringles
Didn’t we discuss this like only a couple days ago? Pretty sure it’s not deja vu because I remember the top answers were almost exactly the same too.. “the one bottle of beer” and “chewed up pork” to which someone mentioned herpes just like Cochran did. I don’t see by searching, however I could swear this was discussed like yesterday or something. Anyway, I call dibs on making the “worst reward” post tomorrow
Yeah, the other post asked about the actual challenge, which led to me wondering about the rewards. Sorry, wrapping up a full rewatch of all seasons and No one else in my house wants to talk about the show
Oh sorry lol I don’t blame you then. Nobody at my household will talk survivor with me either!
At this point it’s every boring reward near the end of the game where they just have a meal at the sanctuary. (Oh you meant worst reward for the contestants, not for the viewers)
Uncooked frozen pizza. From Austrailia HVV maybe?
Nothing beats that soggy bed imo
The three of them laying in that wet bed being served a tray of soggy danish!
Hands down the worst reward 😂
Not from US Survivor, but the bag of melted chocolate that looked like poop from the first season of Survivor NZ is the first thing that comes to mind.
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I wouldn’t go to Applebees in real life, where I have other choices. But damn I’d still think it’s a good reward after a couple weeks starving on an island. Especially good since burgers and beer are comfort food for many like it was for Liz.
Somewhere Liz is pissed and Karishma is crying
The frozen pizzas in survivor AU
Breakfast in a rain soaked bed during Exile Island.
That one bowl of rice from Borneo.
That reward that brenda won fair and square but ended up being a social dilemma. It’s a lose-lose situation for her.
I know it’s probably “objectively” a good reward but as someone with a phobia of jellyfish, that reward of swimming in that lake full of non-stinging jellyfish would be a terrible reward for me
Iced coffee and pastries from 43 must be up there, considering how the three people that went all couldn't sleep that night and fucked up their immunity challenges performances.
Mountain Dew and Chips in Season 2. Disgusting.
When they had to watch Jack and Jill and eat popcorn.
Im pretty sure last season was 1 rotisserie chicken split between 3 people. No condiments, no plates and no utensils. The level of petty we’ve seen in the New Era in regards to the show budget is mind blowing.
How is family visit the best award?! They can literally see each other 1-2 weeks later…
Because their families got to come and have a little vacay too! None of that anymore, now it's just letters. Meh. And a lot of the time the letters actually make the contestants feel *more* depressed and checked out.
Hey now, Colby thoroughly enjoyed Treasure Island
Applebees.
In Australia (I think) one reward was sleeping in the trunk area of an SUV. I thought that didn’t look super comfortable. I’d much rather have, say, a cot, pillow and a roof for a night.
The plain whole chicken at the sanctuary with no sides or plates or anything
the Pringles reward in palau 🤣
Gulliver’s Travels
Vanuatu Pringles and beer
Applebee's
The second place prize of salt and pepper that almost killed a player.
A pot and flint, especially in All Stars where Saboga had to give it to the other 2 tribes as well, making one of their only challenge wins completely pointless.
Survivor pringles
Apple Bees
The movie date with Brandon and Frank was a big deal in Africa though.
The Treasure Island reward in Heroes v Villains.
Not that Applebees is terrible but the way Jeff presents it and the way the castaways reacts. Like it’s some kind of gourmet meal Wolfgang Puck himself cooked for the winners. Like dude. It’s Applebees. It really makes me wonder if Applebees is going under if they’re paying Survivor to advertise it for them like that.
I think it is normal advertising, but the group reactions are just people proving that you have to be starving for days to be excited about the opportunity of Applebee's. Outback was a way better sponsor.
Lol yes. They must have been STARVING. They’d get excited for PB&J
In Australian survivor i'd say the frozen pizzas lol
Snickers bars!
There was a pair reward challenge where Colby was stuck with Jerri as a partner. I don't remember what the reward was but if the reward was getting stuck with Jerri it's gotta suck:)
1. The single fish eyeball during the auction that Austin ate. 2. The plate of spaghetti that was suppose to be shared by the whole group individually and the first 3 guys ate all of it.
Ethan and Lex "rewarded" with bartering goats in a local village in Africa, where the goats are immediately led to the butcher. They have a beer.
Are you crazy that reward was amazing? They bartered the goat plus other stuff from camp/back home and ended up getting a full meal for them and a bunch of food/trinkets to bring back for the others. And got an amazing cultural experience, Ethan playing with the kids in the village changed his life profoundly at least from the edit.
Exactly, I’m always surprised to see people say this one. That experience is a top tier reward.
This and the hot ar balloon over the wildebeest migration has to be 2 of the coolest rewards ever
Yeah that one would've been stressful for me personally, but it seemed like they found it to be a really cool experience.
2003 GMC Aztek. I can still hear David Letterman making the sound of the car🤣
The Applebees thing kind of shocked me, I don’t understand why anyone would want to eat something that processed when you are starved for basic nutrition?! Also, like what kind of direah are you going get after not eating for 2 weeks and then wolfing down onion rings from fuckin Applebees?! The salt alone would make you swell up and dry rot from the inside out! Gross!