For the second time you've been hooked by CBS on Survivor II. After all, nothing cheers the spirits like watching people deal with more adversity than we have in our daily routines, right? But doesn't it make you wonder how you'd do if you had won a place among this group of castaways? Do you think you could deal with the wet, the dirt, the hunger, and the boredom? Why not find out who among your friends has what it takes to win the big prize?
This year do absolutely nothing to make your guests comfortable at your Survivor finale party. These party tips are designed specifically to help you recreate the misery in your own home, or at least as much misery as is possible with a solid roof over your heads.
You've Got Tree Mail! - The Invitations
For your invitations use parchment colored paper and don't forget to crinkle them up before sending.
One final challenge, one last reward and soon the end of all their toils. So join us on May the third To see which Survivor wins the spoils. Time: 7:00p.m. Place: Host's House Attire: Bathing Suits. Rain Gear, optional.
Inform your guests that skimpy bathing suits are required although rain gear is an optional addition. The majority of your guest list should be young, thin and muscular, although you're permitted to invite a few token older people.
Decorations
- Decorations are very simple. Even a child could help you prepare the primary shapes that you'll post on your walls and scatter about your tables: circles, triangles, and X's representing Target, Doritos and Cingular. I know there were other sponsors, but these are the easiest to prepare.
- Hang a few rubber chickens and pigs where your guests are likely to run into them.
- Place rubber snakes where they will be least expected such as on the backs of your chairs, on the floor, in the bathroom, etc.
Welcoming Your Guests
- When your guests arrive you should begin by hosing them down outside, or have them step in the shower to get wet before joining the party. They will be permitted to put on their rain gear after that if they wish.
- Hand each guest a play dagger in case the urge to backstab a fellow guest should arise. These daggers will also be your party favors.
Refreshments
- Bring guests to the kitchen. Set large bags of rice on the counters and tell your guests that they will be required to prepare the rice as a group. One catch, however, is that they will need to prepare the rice at half hour intervals throughout the party. Therefore, they will need to measure the rice carefully. Encourage everyone to participate, after all, as we saw in Episode 2, there are never enough cooks.
- Since it's not feasible to make your guests go fishing, have several whole fish available for them to skin, gut and prepare on your available (but cold) grill. Let them find the matches.
- Stock your refrigerator with a six-pack of Bud Light and a liter of Mountain Dew. Let your guests decide how to divide them.
- Leave a jar of peanut butter on your counter with a spoon handy for any takers.
- Place a couple of chocolate bars next to the peanut butter.
- Serve a small bowl of Doritos.
- Offer a piece of beef jerky, if anyone will risk the repercussions of taking it.
Activities Before the Show Begins
- Organize a roulette game of unpleasant foods as they did in Episode 2. If your guests won't play, they can go home.
- Establish an auction for good, edible food. Your guests will have to bid with their own money for the food items you choose to make available.
- The reward challenge for this party is to have your guests stand in their wet bathing suits in front of cold blowing fans. They are not permitted to move once their feet are in position. The last one left standing wins the money from the auction. If the cold air on their wet suits doesn't make the players give up, then give them cardboard tubes that they can use to attempt to knock the other players off their spots.
- Ask your guests to play a game of connect the dots on paper - you know, the game where you need to make squares as the players did during one of their challenges in Episode 8. There's no point to this other than to bore your guests with a tedious game
- About an hour into the party you should pour the uncooked rice down a nearby sewer and tell your guests that if they're still hungry they'll need to retrieve it. After all, Tina and Keith braved some very fierce rapids in Episode 12 to get their rice back.
- Let everyone have one minute in an online chat room of their choice. Be sure to provide plenty of hankies for the tender moments that will ensue.
Let's Get Serious...
Finally, if you decide you don't quite have what it takes to be a ruthless survivor, and you'd like to entertain your friends with a real Australian Outback menu, you can visit the menu page for last year's Aussie-Style Olympics Party.
