Would you put on your Fonzie leather jacket and ride a motorcyle over the shark tank?

I could see Leo on survivor...

I could also see our resident MA masters on amazing race. How hard could a trip around the world be compaired to a summers MA?

I don't see this as a jump the shark moment.

You'd watch. And you'd probably even host a Survivor party to watch it every Thursday.

How is separation along ethnic lines more offensive than separation along gender lines?

I'll watch anyway. I'm hoping there will be some hot medics with Kiwi accents.

Oh God, kill me now!

But, sadly, you're probably right. I just would be in the kitchen while everyone was watching. I love a party and, a wee hour for some bad TV is doable.

I agree that it is the latest "watch me" gimmick, but if you think about it, it makes sense. Survivor has been criticized for the fact that the players are mostly white. I haven't watched in a few seasons, but it seems like the minority players are subject to prejudice and early ousting. This new tribe segregation guarantees that more minorities have the opportunity to play, and will be voted off for reasons other than race. At least until the merge.

These are both excellent points. Babette's post reminded me of a Chappelle show sketch where he says that anyone who watches reality TV would think that black people are crazy, because they stick one black guy in with the craziest white people they can find and the black guy goes nuts. So in Chappelle's sketch they stuck one white guy in with the craziest black people they could create...pretty damn funny.

That was an awsesome sketch!

Possibly, but they won't be separated into four tribes for very long. Didn't the whole four tribes thing last for about 3 days last season? All that hype about 4 tribes instead of 2, and it lasted one episode before the show was back to the same old same old.

I'm not sure. When did the "survival" part of the game disappear? Honestly, I have a hard time differentiating one season from another beyond the third season, and even then, I don't remember a lot about seasons 2 and 3.

I think Survivor would have been quite the phenomenon had they only done it once.

Their attempts to add new "twists" and try to make the game so that the people playing it don't know exactly what they're in for are--well, quite lame.