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** Seasons 41 and 42 featured a very unpopular twist at the merge. (See ScrappyMechanic in the YMMV page for this show) After the icy cold reception in the 41st season and its reuse in the 42nd season[[labelnote:*]]It could not be removed from the 42nd season, as it had already been filmed before the 41st season even aired[[/labelnote]], it was announced that this twist would ''not'' be returning for season 43.

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** Seasons 41 and 42 featured a very unpopular twist at the merge. (See ScrappyMechanic in merge, where one person could "change history" and swap the YMMV page for this show) results of an Immunity Challenge, taking Immunity away from the winners and giving it to themselves and the other losers. After the icy cold reception in the 41st season and its reuse in the 42nd season[[labelnote:*]]It could not be removed from the 42nd season, as it had already been filmed before the 41st season even aired[[/labelnote]], two seasons, it was announced that this twist would ''not'' be returning for season 43.future seasons.



* MovieMultipack: Starting in ''Survivor 41'', seasons are filmed in pairs back-to-back, with the second of the pair typically finishing up filming by the time the first season starts to air. This was originally a COVID-era consideration, but it stuck.
* OutOfOrder: Kaoh Rong (Season 32) was filmed from March 30, 2015 – May 7, 2015, but since production wanted Cambodia as the ''31st'' season, they held off airing it until February 16 2016. In another bit of trivia, Cambodia began filming nearly two weeks after Kaoh Rong finished filming.

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* MovieMultipack: Starting in ''Survivor 41'', ''Samoa'', seasons are filmed in pairs back-to-back, with the second of the pair typically finishing up filming by the time the first season starts to air. This was originally a COVID-era consideration, but it stuck.
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* OutOfOrder: Kaoh Rong ''Kaoh Rong'' (Season 32) was filmed from March 30, 2015 – May 7, 2015, but since production wanted Cambodia ''Cambodia'' as the ''31st'' season, they held off airing it until February 16 16, 2016. In another bit of trivia, Cambodia ''Cambodia'' began filming nearly two weeks after Kaoh Rong ''Kaoh Rong'' finished filming.



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** The French version was originally called ''Les Aventuriers de Koh-Lanta'' - a StealthPun on the fact that the name of the first series' filming location, Koh Lanta[[note]]an island off the coast of Thailand[[/note]], is translated roughly as "the island of a million eyes", referring to the viewers. The name stuck even when they moved filming location halfway across the world to Costa Rica, and was shortened just to "Koh-Lanta".
* ChannelHop: The US version has always stayed with CBS, but the Spanish version has hopped three - almost four - different times. It was picked up by TVE in 2000 as ''Los Robinsones'' , but they [[DidntThinkThisThrough pulled out]] after the furore attracted by ''[[Series/BigBrother Gran Hermano]]''. Telecinco raced to pick it up after the success of ''GH'' and retitled it ''Supervivientes: Expedición Robinson'', yet the programme swapped to Antena 3 in 2003. After a couple of series on A3, two retitles[[note]]''La isla/selva de los famoS.O.S.'' and ''Aventura en África''[[/note]] and a {{Retool}} to play it with celebrities, Telecinco bought the rights back in 2006 and retitled it ''Supervivientes'' once more.
** It could have been once more - in December 2019 it was reported that Antena 3 had snapped up the rights for another shot in 2021, but this turned out to be incorrect.
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* FanworkBan: CBS has taken down a popular ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' server, forcing their developers to rebrand to ''Outlaster'' instead. But for the most part, CBS is [[DownplayedTrope relatively okay]] with "fan-run seasons" like ''Survivor: Maryland'', and other online reality games.

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* FanworkBan: CBS has taken down a popular ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' ''Platform/{{Roblox}}'' server, forcing their developers to rebrand to ''Outlaster'' instead. But for the most part, CBS is [[DownplayedTrope relatively okay]] with "fan-run seasons" like ''Survivor: Maryland'', and other online reality games.

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* AscendedFanNickname: In the early days of the series, a popular blog post established various archetypes, named for animals, describing everyone left in the final four. "Goats," specifically, referred to players who were drawing dead because they weren't respected enough to win a jury vote. "Goat" became a standard part of the show's lexicon, with a broader application referring to any lesser player strung along simply because they are expected to lose a later part of a competition. The other terms "fox" (people who practically pick their jury opponents), "bear" (those who head to the jury in their own power, without deciding opponents), and "bunny" (finalists who ride coattails or get by off hanging under the radar) are obscure and largely forgotten.

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* AscendedFanNickname: In the early days of the series, a popular blog post established various archetypes, named for animals, describing everyone left in the final four. "Goats," specifically, referred to players who were drawing dead because they weren't respected enough to win a jury vote. "Goat" became a standard part of the show's lexicon, with a broader application referring to any lesser player strung along simply because they are expected to lose a later part of a competition. The other terms "fox" (people who practically pick their jury opponents), the other finalists), "bear" (those (people who head to the jury in their own power, without deciding opponents), and "bunny" (finalists (people who ride rode coattails or get by off hanging came in under the radar) are obscure and largely forgotten.



** In ''The Amazon'', Jenna Morasca was thought to say [[InsaneTrollLogic "Being beautiful is a handicap"]] in front of an actual handicap player. However, she never once stated that as a player just put those words in her mouth just to make a joke.

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** In ''The Amazon'', Jenna Morasca was thought to say [[InsaneTrollLogic "Being beautiful is a handicap"]] in front of an actual handicap handicapped player. However, she never once stated She didn't say this verbatim, that as a player just put those words in was Rob Cesternino mocking her mouth just to make a joke.bit after the fact. She did, however, say something close and apologized by the final stages of the game.



** Jeff Probst doesn't like quitters in general as he pretty much forbids them from coming back for another season (Jenna Morasca is the only known exception so far as she got asked to return for ''Heroes vs. Villains''). In particular, Colton probably gets the worst treatment out of the quitters as Jeff pretty much gives a huge ReasonYouSuckSpeech when Colton quits ''Blood vs. Water''.
** Jeff also doesn't like Jonny Fairplay that much due to a NoodleIncident that happened between Probst and Fairplay in the ''Vanuatu'' reunion afterparty to the point where Fairplay is banned from any event that Jeff Probst participates in[[note]]Allegedly, Fairplay got into a pretty aggressive argument with Jeff Probst’s brother at the after-party.[[/note]]. Fairplay asking to be voted out in ''Micronesia'' doesn't help much as Jeff Probst would end up labelling Fairplay as a quiter that is extremely unlikely to return for a third season.
** Ironically, despite accusations of Russell Hantz being a CreatorsPet, Jeff stated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuRIbXXmcmg in this interview]] that Russell is his least favorite contestant.

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** Jeff Probst doesn't like quitters in general as general. If it was for a bad reason, he pretty much all but forbids them from coming back for on another season (Jenna Morasca is the only known exception so far as she got asked to return for ''Heroes vs. Villains''). season. In particular, Colton probably gets Cumbie got the worst treatment out of the quitters as them all, when Jeff pretty much gives gave him a huge ReasonYouSuckSpeech when Colton quits he quit ''Blood vs. Water''.
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** Jeff also doesn't like Probst and Jonny Fairplay that much due to had a NoodleIncident that happened between Probst and Fairplay in the ''Vanuatu'' reunion afterparty to the point where Fairplay is banned from any event that Jeff Probst participates in[[note]]Allegedly, long running feud, after Fairplay got into a pretty aggressive drunken and violent argument with Jeff Probst’s brother at the after-party.[[/note]]. Probst's brother. Fairplay asking to be voted out in ''Micronesia'' doesn't help much was labelled as a quit and stoked the animosity further. However, according to his Reddit AMA, Jonny Fairplay and Jeff Probst would end up labelling Fairplay as a quiter that is extremely unlikely to return for a third season.
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** Ironically, despite accusations of Russell Hantz being a CreatorsPet, Jeff stated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuRIbXXmcmg in this interview]] that Russell is his least favorite contestant.contestant as a person.



* FanworkBan: CBS has taken down a popular ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' server, forcing their developers to rebrand to ''Outlaster'' instead. But for the most part, CBS is [[DownplayedTrope relatively okay]] with "fan-run" seasons like Survivor Maryland, and online reality games.

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* FanworkBan: CBS has taken down a popular ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' server, forcing their developers to rebrand to ''Outlaster'' instead. But for the most part, CBS is [[DownplayedTrope relatively okay]] with "fan-run" seasons "fan-run seasons" like Survivor Maryland, ''Survivor: Maryland'', and other online reality games.



* FollowTheLeader: Started an entire wave of reality shows. In fact, Jeff Probst's first speech to the players in ''Heroes Vs Villains'' called his beloved show "the '''greatest''' adventure game in the history of television".

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* FollowTheLeader: Started an entire wave of competition-style reality shows. In fact, Jeff Probst's first speech to the players in ''Heroes Vs Villains'' called his beloved show "the '''greatest''' adventure game in the history of television".



** After one episode of ''Gabon'', there was a brief message stating Rudy's wife, Marge Boesch, passed away. Later, after an episode of ''Winners at War'', there was a tribute to Rudy himself, who also passed away.

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** After one episode of ''Gabon'', there was a brief message stating Rudy's wife, Marge Boesch, passed away. Boersch died. Later, after an episode of ''Winners at War'', there was a tribute to Rudy himself, who also passed away.died.



* MoneyDearBoy: Jimmy Johnson calmly said (twice) that he expected his NFL fame and riches would keep him from winning ''Nicaragua''; he intended to help another Espada member win the game. However, Jimmy T. didn't believe that the legendary coach would remain that humble and selfless.
* MovieMultipack: Starting in ''Survivor 41'', seasons are filmed in pairs back-to-back, with the second of the pair typically finishing up filming by the time the first season starts to air. This was originally a COVID-era consideration, but it stuck.

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* MoneyDearBoy: Jimmy Johnson calmly said (twice) that he expected his NFL fame and riches would keep him from winning ''Nicaragua''; he intended to help another Espada member win the game. However, tribemate Jimmy T. Tarantino didn't believe that the legendary coach would remain that humble and selfless.
* MovieMultipack: Starting in ''Survivor 41'', seasons are filmed in pairs back-to-back, with the second of the pair typically finishing up filming by the time the first season starts to air. This was originally a COVID-era consideration, but it stuck.



* RomanceOnTheSet: "Boston" Rob and Amber during ''All-Stars'' is the most obvious. There's also Amanda and Ozzy in ''Micronesia'', Keith and Whitney in ''South Pacific'' (to the point that she left her husband for him), Jaime and Erik in ''China'', and Colleen and Greg all the way back in ''Borneo'' (although they insisted it was [[JustFriends only friendship]]). Julie Berry from ''Vanuatu'' once dated Jeff Probst himself. However, most players wisely avoid this, at least overtly - nothing says "unbreakable alliance" like two players making out.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Despite many superfans clamouring for some sort of international crossover all-stars season with US returnees competing with returnees from [[Series/AustralianSurvivor Australia]], New Zealand and/or South Africa in the late 2010s, territorial rights issues mean that such a season will likely never see the light of day.

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* RomanceOnTheSet: "Boston" Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich during ''All-Stars'' is the most obvious. There's also Amanda Kimmel and Ozzy Lusth in ''Micronesia'', Keith and Whitney in ''South Pacific'' (to the point that she left her husband for him), Jaime Dugan and Erik Huffman in ''China'', and ''China''. One might include Colleen Haskell and Greg Buis all the way back in ''Borneo'' (although ''Borneo'', although they insisted it was [[JustFriends only friendship]]).friendship]]. Julie Berry from ''Vanuatu'' once dated Jeff Probst himself. However, most players wisely avoid this, at least overtly - overtly: nothing says "unbreakable alliance" like two players making out.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Despite many superfans clamouring for some sort of international crossover all-stars season with US U.S. returnees competing with returnees from [[Series/AustralianSurvivor Australia]], New Zealand Zealand, and/or South Africa in the late 2010s, Africa; territorial rights issues mean that such a season will likely never see the light of day.
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* AscendedFanNickname: In the early days of the series, a popular blog post established various archetypes, named for animals, describing everyone left in the final four. "Goats," specifically, referred to players who were drawing dead because they weren't respected enough to win a jury vote. While the other terms, "fox, bear, and bunny," are rarely used and practically forgotten, "goat" became a standard part of the show's lexicon, with a broader application referring to any player strung along simply to be a fall guy in a popularity contest.

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* AscendedFanNickname: In the early days of the series, a popular blog post established various archetypes, named for animals, describing everyone left in the final four. "Goats," specifically, referred to players who were drawing dead because they weren't respected enough to win a jury vote. While the other terms, "fox, bear, and bunny," are rarely used and practically forgotten, "goat" "Goat" became a standard part of the show's lexicon, with a broader application referring to any lesser player strung along simply because they are expected to be lose a fall guy later part of a competition. The other terms "fox" (people who practically pick their jury opponents), "bear" (those who head to the jury in a popularity contest.their own power, without deciding opponents), and "bunny" (finalists who ride coattails or get by off hanging under the radar) are obscure and largely forgotten.
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* TheWikiRule: [[https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Survivor Wiki]], founded in 2006 but mostly inactive until the early 2010s.

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* TheWikiRule: [[https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Survivor Wiki]], founded in 2006 but mostly inactive until the early 2010s.
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* AscendedFanNickname: In the early days of the series, a popular blog post established various archetypes, named for animals, describing everyone left in the final four. "Goats," specifically, referred to players who were drawing dead because they weren't respected enough to win a jury vote. While the other terms, "fox, bear, and bunny," are rarely used, "goat" became a standard part of the show's lexicon, with a broader application referring to any player unlikely to receive many jury votes.

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* AscendedFanNickname: In the early days of the series, a popular blog post established various archetypes, named for animals, describing everyone left in the final four. "Goats," specifically, referred to players who were drawing dead because they weren't respected enough to win a jury vote. While the other terms, "fox, bear, and bunny," are rarely used, used and practically forgotten, "goat" became a standard part of the show's lexicon, with a broader application referring to any player unlikely strung along simply to receive many jury votes.be a fall guy in a popularity contest.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** In ''Nicaragua'', many people were very upset at how [=NaOnka=] and "Purple" Kelly got to be part of the jury despite them quitting the game. After the backlash from the fans, Jeff Probst stated in the reunion show for that season that a new rule was added in that if somebody quits during the post-jury phrase of the game, then production shall be able to not put the quitter(s) on the jury if they feel like doing so.
** With the very infamous reactions involving Michele's win in ''Kaoh Rong'' causing people to accuse of a bitter jury, Jeff Probst stated that he ended up changing the Final Tribal Council in ''Game Changers'' to make the jury less bitter about the events that went on in the game. Additionally, Adam and Jeremy were accused of having gotten their clean sweep victories in part due to sympathy votes. The new format has emphasized gameplay making that the main factor of someone's victory.
** After being called out for mishandling sexual harassment in ''Island of the Idols'', Jeff made it a point at the reunion show to publicly apologize on behalf of production, explain that they were making rules changes to crack down on such things in the future, and allow Kellee to open up about the incident (when she originally hadn't been allowed to as a jury member).
** Seasons 41 and 42 featured a very unpopular twist at the merge. (See ScrappyMechanic in the YMMV page for this show) After the icy cold reception in the 41st season and its reuse in the 42nd season[[labelnote:*]]It could not be removed from the 42nd season, as it had already been filmed before the 41st season even aired[[/labelnote]], it was announced that this twist would ''not'' be returning for season 43.
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* MovieMultipack: Starting in ''Survivor 41'', seasons are filmed in pairs back-to-back, with the second of the pair typically finishing up filming by the time the first season starts to air. This was originally a COVID-era consideration, but it stuck.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Among international versions:
** Too many versions to individually list here have names based on ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'', usually as ''Expedition Robinson''. Other variations of the theme include the Baltic version (''Baltic Robinson''), the Czech version (''Robinsonův ostrov'', or ''Robinson Island''), the original Finnish version (''Suomen Robinson'', or ''Finnish Robinson''), and the Venezuelan version (''Robinson: La Gran Aventura'', or ''Robinson: The Great Adventure'').
** More unique names include the last Baltic season (''Jungle Stars''), Brazil (''No Limite''), China (''走入香格里拉'', ''Into the Shangri-La''), the first Czech version (''Trosečník'', or ''Castaway''), France (''Koh-Lanta''), Israel (''הישרדות'', ''Survival''), Poland (''Wyspa Przetrwania'', or ''Island of Survival''), the original Romanian version (''Rătăciți în Panama'', or ''Lost in Panama''), and Slovakia (''Ostrov'', or ''Island'').
** The Colombian and Spanish version are named ''La Isla de Los Famos.o.s.'' (''The Island of the [=FamouS=].O.S''). The Italian version is also named ''L'Isola dei Famosi'', without the S.O.S pun.
** The Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian versions are named ''The Last Hero'' (''Последний герой'', ''Oстанній герой'', and ''უკანასკნელი გმირი'' respectively).
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* NamesTheSame: Borneo contestant Richard Hatch should not be confused with the actor who played Apollo in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' and Tom Zarek in the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 re-imagined series]].

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** In the Final 11 tribal council of ''Caramoan'', many people thought Malcolm said "Hold up, bro!" right before he asked Reynold for his idol. However, he actually said "Hold up, man!"; not "Hold up, bro!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMrJxVW0wCw This song about that tribal council]] may have contributed to this.
*** No! He said [[https://youtu.be/dm9QRWJiVD0?t=712 "Hold up, Reynold."]]

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** In the Final 11 tribal council of ''Caramoan'', many people thought Malcolm said "Hold up, bro!" right before he asked Reynold for his idol. However, he actually said "Hold up, man!"; Reynold!"; not "Hold up, bro!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMrJxVW0wCw This song about that tribal council]] may have contributed to this.
*** No! He said [[https://youtu.be/dm9QRWJiVD0?t=712 "Hold up, Reynold."]]
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* NamesTheSame: Borneo contestant Richard Hatch should not be confused with the actor who played Apollo in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' and Tommy Zarek in the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 re-imagined series]].

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* NamesTheSame: Borneo contestant Richard Hatch should not be confused with the actor who played Apollo in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' and Tommy Tom Zarek in the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 re-imagined series]].
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* NamesTheSame: Borneo contestant Richard Hatch should not be confused with the actor who played Apollo in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' and Tommy Zarek in the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 re-imagined series]].



* TheWikiRule: [[https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Survivor Wiki]], founded in 2006 but mostly inactive until the early 2010s.

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* TheWikiRule: [[https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Survivor Wiki]], founded in 2006 but mostly inactive until the early 2010s.2010s.

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*** No! He said [[https://youtu.be/dm9QRWJiVD0?t=712 "Hold up, Reynold."]]
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!!! For the band:
* NamesTheSame: As ''that'' [[Series/{{Survivor}} popular American TV show]]. Which didn't go too well with the band, as they threatened to sue Creator/{{CBS}}, the network that aired the show. They didn't succeed.
** They reunited (partly) in the 1990s, with Dave Bickler as their vocalist. At the same time, Jimi Jamison formed a band and they performed as 'Jimi Jamison's Survivor', which didn't go down too well with the original band members.
** Their less famous hit ballad, Is This Love, also the name of a ''much'' more popular Music/{{Whitesnake}} song. To the point being where both songs share the ''same first line'' for the chorus, being "Is this love that I'm feeling?"
* ReferencedBy: Survivor was used as the namesake for what's considered the weakest [[FightingSpirit Stand]] in all of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', seen in ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Jamison was a preferred choice as a vocalist for Music/DeepPurple, after Ian Gillan left the band in the late 1980s, but [[ExecutiveMeddling the record company did not let it happen]]. They had to choose Joe Lynn Turner instead.

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* FoilerFootage: During the airing of ''Borneo'', the show's website evolved the portraits of the players to feature a red cross after their elimination. Savvy internet users of the time discovered that every player portrait had an eliminated variant well before their eliminations, except for one: Gervase Peterson. Given that Gervase obviously didn't win that season, this is very likely an intentional misdirect on the producer's part.
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Tori Meehan never found an idol. It was a fake spoiler.


* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Trailers for season 42 revealed that Tori will find an idol, meaning that, in spite of her appearing to be at risk, she will not be sent home until she finds her idol.
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* AscendedFanNickname: In the early days of the series, a popular blog post established various archetypes, named for animals, describing everyone left in the final four. "Goats," specifically, referred to players who were drawing dead because they weren't respected enough to win a jury vote. While the other terms, "fox, bear, and bunny," are rarely used, "goat" became a standard part of the show's lexicon, with a broader application referring to any player unlikely to receive many jury votes.
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* FanworkBan: CBS has taken down a popular ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' server, forcing their developers to rebrand to ''Outlaster'' instead. But for the most part, CBS is [[DownplayedTrope relatively okay]] with "fan-run" seasons like Survivor Maryland, and online reality games.

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