What might you expect to see with the new Survivor Africa? I discuss the babeness factor, the terrain, the wild animals, and much, much more! It’s all good.
Baseball was big when I was a kid. I played at Antonia Khoury League, which was a very large cornfield in Missouri converted into many ball diamonds. I remember all-day tournaments in the heat of the sun, no trees to provide shade – nothing but the sound of bats hitting balls, people cheering, and plumes of dust as the base runner slid into second. For those on the field, a welcome cool gust of air also meant breathing in the dirt and digging the dust out of their eyes.
From all the pictures I’ve seen, this is what Survivor Africa is going to be like – except it’ll be hotter and the players’ goal is not to get as dirty as possible. Other than that, it’s pretty much the same. I even remember kids not wanting to play left field in the far corner diamond because every year 2-3 outfielders would get ambushed by lions and dragged off into the forest.
So I can really relate to what the Survivor Africa cast will be dealing with.
(You know, sometimes I write stuff just to see if you’re paying attention. Everyone knows that lions don’t like baseball.)
The first thing I noticed about this season’s cast is that these people are HARD CORE. I mean, the only girl that probably couldn’t kick my ass is the former cheerleader and she’s a frickin’ near-perfect-SAT-scores genius. There have been many comparisons made between this and the other Survivor casts. Here’s a typical one I found at Washington Post Online.
Hot bodies are out and carbohydrates are in on the next edition of CBS’s smash reality series “Survivor.” Unlike the second edition, which featured a younger, fitter cast, the new cast members cover a wider range of ages and body types. Of the 16 contestants on “Survivor: Africa,” which was filmed this past summer, two are “tubby guys,” said Joe Rhodes, a TV Guide reporter who spent a few days in July on the set with the crew.
One, Tom Buchanan, is a 46-year-old goat farmer from Virginia. The other, Carl Bilancione, is a 46-year-old dentist from Florida. “The first cast was interesting, and the second was more eye candy – many people thought they were boring,” said Rhodes, whose stories on the new show will appear in next week’s issue of TV Guide. “The third cast is a combination.”
And I especially think that this Survivor cast is not being given fair treatment when it comes to the Babe Factor. In Survivor 2, the babes were quite excellent – truly “inspirational.” But in Survivor 3, the babes are what I call “Super-Babes” and not necessarily because they are more babe ‘o licious, but because every one of them has a resume that reads like someone on the President’s Cabinet. I think one of their profiles says this:
A typical day is 1-3 marathons or triathlons while also balancing the budget for seven third-world countries, discovering cures for both AIDS and cancer, feeding the homeless, teaching boy scouts how to start a fire from just a piece of tree bark, building a new Amish barn, setting a good example, swimming across the Mississippi, and cooking a nice dinner consisting of home-grown certified organic marinated vegetables and fresh seafood she caught herself with her bare hands.