The Worst Shelters in Survivor History

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[@lizzies4964]

"I'm amazed that they're still alive, poor things. They should be dead." is such a classic James line. Love it.

[@IdoledOut]

China and Micronesia James is one of the funniest characters ever

[@ziyle5238]

Iconic tho

[@Colaman112]

James just wishes to get another paycheck out there.

[@knifekink]

@@IdoledOut yeah the 2 idols vote out was hilarious

[@Brakiros]

@@knifekink I just wonder what would have happened to the game if Aaron had the idols instead.

[@NoHomers23]

Rupert's shelter is comedy gold except for the people who had to live it in.

[@boomz2526]

The best shelter he did was for ANOTHER tribe

[@meganhart6341]

Poor Jerri 😭😭😭

[@finniganflynn7603]

Rudy and Tina probably watched that episode and were glad they got voted out

[@IdoledOut]

Raffa's facial expressions when he's examining the shelter kill me 😂

[@ryanmeneo6301]

@@finniganflynn7603 I dont think tina watched because in bvw she said rupert is a great shelter builder

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

I actually talked with Ethan a year or so ago and he said the Rupert shelter was worse than anything else on Survivor, including the Edge of Extinction.

[@kellydaunis]

Awesome you got to talk with Ethan. He is one of my all-time favorites, and just a genuinely good guy.

[@IdoledOut]

Didn't he spend his 30th birthday in that shelter? Wouldn't wish that on anyone...

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

@@IdoledOut Oh yes and he explained how production just kind of left them out there with no one else.

[@DarkAngel-ow1ck]

I thought nothing could be worse than the Edge of Extinction until I remembered Rupert’s shelter 😂

[@sideeswipe]

These teams needed a shelter master like Jtia

[@joe-op2gr]

so they can at least start correctly

[@420schmokey420]

I just seen that season in the past month. Dang her character went downhill fast

[@maddyrevenge]

“they make some truly baffling decisions like on day 2 they're boiling water and washing their underwear instead of building the shelter. ladies unless you plan to sell that dirty water to this guy this is probably a waste of time” Spoken like a fella who has never had to face the misery of an untreated UTI or thrush

[@JosephCartoons]

What makes the Rupert shelter thing even worse is he won favorite Player that season while Jerri got booed off the stage at the reunion. That still bugs me

[@shesjustafrienduhhafriend8655]

Same loved jerri that season like the audience sucked at that renuion

[@whatever9274]

man i thought everyone cheered for everyone at the reunion even the villains. why did they boo her off? was she that bad?

[@YoshiDryBones]

@@whatever9274 She was despised by pretty much all of America for her "villainous" persona on AO and it carried over into All-Stars. Butting heads with mega superstars Colby and Rupert at the time didn't help her either. No matter what she would've said during the reunion , she was going to attract a lot of negativity, even if it was undeserved.

[@crazyinsanepenguin]

Being a newer fan and not having seen the conversation around the earlier seasons as they were airing, I'm completely baffled by all the hatred that was directed at Jerri. I can't think of a single thing she did that was deserving of even 1% of the vitriol

[@Kyro4Productions]

@@crazyinsanepenguin idk, watching the whole thing with Kel in AO I can definitely see how that would have colored peoples' perceptions of Jerri and led them to view her already abrasive personality as "villainous" as the series went on of course, now even Jeff has come out as saying he believes Kel DID smuggle that food in, but no one had that knowledge at the time and the edit had to paint her as the one in the wrong so that we would side with Tina

[@ajl9772]

I think Rupert's shelter required one of the highest levels of effort to build, but it was also the worst shelter ever lol.

[@ljoseph5153]

Gotta love how mad Jerri gets at Rupert’s shelter when she was one of the main people who suggested building the Barramundi shelter in a creek bed…

[@J0RD4N971]

Well maybe she learned from that experience

[@behindthespotlight7983]

ohhh SNAP

[@NYChica23]

Which would probably make her an expert in knowing that building a shelter inside or next to any source of water is not the smartest idea in the world

[@itwasagoal]

I'm just more baffled that Rupert was ripping on the Morgan tribe for building a shelter too close to the water the season prior. Only for him to do pretty much the same

[@johndebono1870]

Jerri's not great at this, but at least she didn't make a creek bed.

[@rosiellagrace]

Paused before it starts to pour one out for poor Jerri havin' to make it through Rupert, twice.

[@danielturgeon6808]

"Where they voted off Reem, Keith, and one other person" This man's arm must hurt from throwing all that shade

[@Blue-om9xn]

Considering Rupert‘s building experience I think that he’s built log cabins in the mountains before. It’s probably a great way to make shelters! ......In the mountains..... not on the beach

[@JurzGarz]

That “cuties collection” thing is legitimately horrifying.

[@NYChica23]

No kidding...FBI or someone needs to check out this video and find out who this creeper is

[@malt7321]

rob probably used his magic 8 ball to make the girls shelter fail. rob- “can you make the girls shelter fail?” magic 8 ball- “yes.”

[@haydenfaithh]

Honorable mention (imo) is the merged tribe from Amazon. The shelter was great until their crap planning led to it catching on fire while at a challenge burning the shelter & their stuff with it. I don’t even know if you’d call that a bad shelter or just bad design but people don’t talk about that shelter fire enough.

[@NYChica23]

And Butch deciding to stockpile the entire forest's worth of firewood in front of the shelter certainly didn't help matters

[@handsoaphandsoap]

The shelter wasn’t bad or poorly designed, the fire was caused by reckless handling of firewood. Butch left some right by the fire and leading up to the shelter wall so when it predictably caught fire, the entire shelter went up in flames.

[@haydenfaithh]

@@handsoaphandsoap reckless placement of firewood was definitely part of it but I say poor planning because putting the wood storage section in the same space as the fire itself isn’t great planning regardless how much wood you have

[@handsoaphandsoap]

@@haydenfaithh It wasn't there initially, they used the space underneath the shelter itself for storage but that got full so Butch started putting it in the little firehut too because he was so obsessed with gathering firewood for whatever reason and they had it in abundance. They had a whole segment on it before the reward challenge in the episode, foreshadowing what was about to happen.

[@bradleyberdan5154]

I just want to say that I appreciated the “lesu is moreu” pun regardless of what anyone else says 😌

[@NYChica23]

Good puns are always fun to appreciate

[@rowan4573]

My favorite thing about the All Stars Shelter Building Challenge is Lex's "More Stories = Better Shelter" Logic when they lost

[@NYChica23]

Also gotta love Cesternino building some kind of Zen rock garden out there and taking work breaks every 2-3 minutes

[@lukeliebert1199]

The reason Tina loves Rupert’s shelter building skills is because they nearly killed her arch nemesis!🤣

[@fireemblemfan75]

She was glad to see them suffer after they voted her out first lmao

[@Lsaldana92]

What is crazier now they don't have beef with each other they are nice to one another.

[@Timeline4313]

We all know No. 1 is Ruperts all star shelter

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

When you know, you know lol

[@kellydaunis]

@@OnceUponAnIsland 🤣🤣

[@Lsaldana92]

My partner saw the title and was like Rupert's from all stars.

[@sunburstshredder]

I'm still laughing at Jeff's comment as he's about to leave: "If you don't hear from us at all, hope it keeps you dry."

[@jet__girl]

Airai's camp was a disgrace. Jason slept in a cave by himself lol

[@amy-cx3xm]

meanwhile malakal was living the high life

[@itwasagoal]

Can you rank 5 times a player single-handedly carried their whole tribe in a challenge?

[@cjtrules1]

5. James 4. James 3. James 2. James 1. Ozzy Pretty sure it would be some combination of James & Ozzy. Lol

[@ytkenny5]

It would just be 5 different clips of Tom in Palua

[@styleluv209]

Spencer and Nick could also be added to that list for sure, but that might say more about the tribes they were on than the actual player.

[@itwasagoal]

@@styleluv209 Spencer and Rory was the inspiration that gave me the suggestion. Spencer when he done all the work in the luzon tribe but still came up short and when Rory won the immunity challenge all on his own with the slingshots

[@shesjustafrienduhhafriend8655]

JOEY AMAZING

[@morganfreeman8390]

I built a shelter. And it holds over 7 billion people. Not worth it.

[@gamerzpro091]

on another note about that ground shelter.... there are also many reasons why most tropical cultures (or people living near to large water sources) made their houses to stand above

[@shawnasliwowicz4514]

I know this is not traditional survivor but an honorable mention is in Australian Survivor Season 4 (Champs v Contenders 2), when a tribe literally had a shelter collapse whilst sleeping on top of it.

[@Vixela]

What about in Aus Survivor Season 3 when the red tribe (can’t remember the name) which had Lee and Kristy built their shelter near a sand cliff by the beach and they just waited until the tide eventually washed it away? I still laugh at the stupidity. That was one of the unluckiest tribes ever as well.

[@WeezeBadfishHalen4]

I love Australian Survivor. They have kept the old school final tribal. I'll be watching it tomorrow! Go Brains!

[@morgannichole2020]

“A woman who’s afraid of leaves” 😭😭😭😂😂😂

[@obsidianagent]

"Why don't you pull yourself up by your bootstraps?" "Because you stole my shoes!"

[@so_qp]

I'm working as construction worker every time when i just look at those shelters it brings me ideas how to "unintentionally" destroy it infront of everyone

[@neond6740]

Honestly, I'd love to see a video on the best shelters in Survivor history, or who you would put on a tribe if you wanted to make the best shelter Survivor had ever seen.

[@DircyaT.Rubino]

Chapera’s homey condo, Koror’s episode 4 reward win, and the Idol Island Mansion are top 3.

[@sophiagolingan3351]

@@DircyaT.Rubino what seasons and episodes are they ?

[@DircyaT.Rubino]

@@sophiagolingan3351 Chapera’s condo is from episode 3 of All Stars, Koror is from Palau, and the Idol Mansion was constructed in Island of the Idols.

[@Ramboost007]

My picks for Shelter Builders tribe: - Wendell - Boston Rob - Tom (Palau) - James - Dom - Chicken (unironically, just listen to him)

[@DinobotTM2]

Stupid trivia: Fiji was the second time Mark Burnett used the "haves vs have-nots" twist. The first was The Apprentice season 6. Obviously, he learned nothing.

[@markjackson6431]

it worked in Big Brother.....until BB21 showed up

[@Phyrre56]

Haves vs. Have Nots can work, but you have to mix it up. Like after a couple weeks, switch it so the Haves become the Have Nots, etc. You can't just let one side have all the advantages, you run the risk of a complete steamrolling of the Have Nots which is worse than no twist at all.

[@DinobotTM2]

@@Phyrre56 Considering the way the twist was used and the words they put on Jeff's mouth, I think Mark was trying to make a point, trying to prove that someone that has nothing only needs to work harder go win...

[@AmandaPanda531]

i wanna see a video of all of james' iconic/idgaf one liners bc he's seriously comedically underrated

[@tymonster183]

James is the funniest player that has ever been on the show. I'll die on that hill.

[@jet__girl]

Ravu didn't have a shelter, they had a rock.

[@allahnah]

One of the things that make me so mad in Micronesia is that Tracy helped them. They were so rude to them and treated them so bad until they realised that they could use them. Tracy deserved so much better.

[@edogthe4387]

YES I asked for this forever and it finally happened

[@alexjered3]

Can we get a best shelters video too?

[@Dlatsch1]

Now Jenna said in an interview that the reason they had boiled their buffs was because one of the females had their period so they wanted to get the clothes clean

[@chwaftka9775]

That and Shawna actually sold her clothes it seems so maybe she had that foresight?

[@isthatrubble]

hot water locks in blood stains though.....

[@ilhamari3351]

YOU ARE KILLING ME WITH THESE THUMBNAILS😭

[@DarkAngel-ow1ck]

Fr best thumbnails on KZbin ❤

[@amy-cx3xm]

in Micronesia the favorites found an awesome cave to sleep in and it basically rained the whole time. the fans were a mess

[@ahojjajsemmichal4876]

"like Matt", "Leif", thanks for this hilarious video

[@IdoledOut]

Thanks for watching!

[@hukoseft]

Rupert is an excellent shelter builder.....just don't let him design the thing XD

[@EpicConspiracy]

I instantly knew what #1 was just seeing the title. It’s still a running joke with me and my wife today lol

[@dknight04]

"How many families has he killed"....the deadpan humour on these videos is priceless!

[@Officer_Main69]

Literally love the quips, like the guy that collects survivor game worn clothes 😂😂

[@NYChica23]

Okay...that dude is just creep central

[@supaman321123]

The fact they gave Rupert $1 Million for building a literal death trap for himself and his tribe is the most hilarious thing to ever happen on Survivor.

[@orrfamous8078]

Them building shelters is one of my favorite parts. Loved i one of the early series where it was a challenge of who could make the best shelter and were given a bunch of supplies

[@freddytang2128]

Now I wonder, how do they ensure the shelter is safely constructed and wont just you know, collapse on everyone while they're sleeping? That would be a genuine safety hazard right. Its not like they always get nails and tool kit to build a professional shelter. If they're building like cavemen, how do producers ensure safety?

[@miroslavapaleckova838]

It's survivor. I'm happy nobody get hurt by falling shelter. But it isn't the safest game and players know that.

[@BrettMKW]

Saboga better be #1 and I haven't watched anything yet. EDIT: I was right, but what the heck someone actually collects survivor clothing worn by women on the show?

[@jet__girl]

Dude, chapera's shelter was a rustic resort.

[@AnalyticalStrategy]

David Wright... Joe Anglim... match up pretty well from a physical and camp-life perspective to me!

[@fernandacarvalho887]

"Because of the creepy crawlies out there...like matt"

[@nicholasr9892]

wasn't expecting to see a Darrell Wolcott reference wow that's a deep cut

[@NotHaydenMoss]

And one other player??? Aren't you forgetting someone???

[@DircyaT.Rubino]

Are you the real Chris Underwood, or a Stan with his alias and profile picture?

[@johnr.timmers2297]

2:20 When he says "And he politely tells them to pound sand." Lmao cracks me up every time

[@egalitarian2207]

Awww yeah I didn’t expect to see this in my feed, I requested this a bit ago and I see some others have too, and it was as funny to hear you count out as I expected. Thanks for the content ❤️

[@boomz2526]

LEIF BOX LETS GO

[@maxmackinlay618]

3:47 "the all women's team was pretty rootable" lol.

[@pockylovingranger]

That Island of the Idols mansion Rob made for him and Sandra was awesome and it was a smart move to give it to the tribe at the end IMO

[@dragon_ninja_2186]

I like to think Tina was saying that sarcastically but came out too serious.

[@shawnastepun6694]

Ruperts shelter underground must be on this list!!!

[@Snookered4568]

“i’m not even sure they even have a combined 359 minutes of watching survivor” Erik: am i a joke to you?

[@NYChica23]

And Tracy was also a legit superfan

[@jet__girl]

Rupert hole shelter was great... For fish who want to chill during high tide.

[@tenerife_sea]

"a woman who's afraid of leaves" don't disrespect Cirie like that 😭😭

[@purplecatloverrandompizza]

I literally haven't watched a single episode of Survivor but my immediate thought of watching this was still: Ulong is gonna be on here aren't they.

[@sargeamigo123]

5:20 Luke, I see you using a good Spanish accent on that Viveros pronunciation! Bien hecho!

[@kylebeardsley6200]

5:00 Yep, I was waiting to see if Leif's box got mentioned.

[@Gashnaw]

On paper Rupert's shelter sounds like a good idea. especially underground where you would stay cooler during the day. But digging that deep removes the ability to sleep easily, does not protect you from the wildlife, and then the elements also took a toll as we saw. They built further up to avoid the tide coming in, and used trees and such as a natural cover in addition to using prawns (Hopefully weaved_ and rain gutters, they would have had a fairly decent shelter. (Minus the sleeping area, beyond everything else, I cannot see a spot for them to sleep.

[@MugurDeBrad]

Villains didn't have a shelter for i don't know how long. And neither did the yellow tribe in Survivor China

[@Nate9-9]

What if there was a season that started in a merge, or 1 tribe, starting on day 1. The first several "tribe" immunity challenges would be men vs women, old vs young, school yard pick of tribes to compete in the challenge, etc. So, each pair of tribes for each challenge would be different until a certain number of players is left and they have individual immunity challenges. This idea probably has flaws, but what do you think? Could this day 1 merge idea work? Even if the details are different from my explanation.

[@paulwright6044]

I've though of this type of twist for year, and thought "Survivor: One World" might try something like that when I first heard the name. I like the idea of everyone together on one beach, as it eliminates the possibility of pre-merge jury boots having never spent a night living with someone who makes it to Final Tribal Council. You could pick teams schoolyard style (which in and of itself could cause drama -- hi, Michaela!) or random draw, with the losing team going to Tribal Council. It would be so important to have strategy in place ahead of time, as you'd never know who is going to vote and how many you may have. Do you pick your allies for your team, guaranteeing your safety if you lose? Will that isolate a strong ally on the opposing team (who might certainly be voted out if they lose)? The concept reminded me of the half-and-done season of "Pirate Master," which tried (and failed) to put "Survivor" on a boat.The only thing that I could see wrong here is teams starting to throw challenges to get rid of strong individual players. Maybe have the winning team grant individual immunity to one other player?

[@Nate9-9]

@@paulwright6044 well the issue of throwing the challenge could be solved or at least improved a couple ways- Combine immunity and reward so there is an incentive that is good enough to where they don't want to throw the challenge. Have a penalty in addition to losing immunity. Maybe a disadvantage in the next challenge or something. This could be sort of like a speed bump in the amazing race. Each "tribal" immunity challenge could have 3 different teams each time instead of 2. Not a perfect answer, but it would be harder to throw a challenge if 2 or more teams are all trying to throw it as well. If they are each trying to get rid of a strong player. Throwing a challenge usually involves stalling for time. The problem if they did this is challenges could last a while. Always have another immunity challenge that would give immunity to 1 or more of the members of the team that is going to tribal. Some of these would probably over complicate the season espectially for production, maybe it can work. Also, maybe they can design challenges that are harder to throw, idk.

[@cjtrules1]

"The older woman's tribe had a woman who's afraid of leaves on it." You better pray to the Survivor Gods for your sin. No one makes fun of Cirie.

[@zoidsfan12]

Thankyou bro, I found the only season I'm rewatching. Survivor Fiji was the best one, Yau-man was the best contestant the show ever had.

[@chwaftka9775]

I find it comedic that in Heroes vs Villains specifically Rob dares to call the villains camp the "worst shelter in survivor history" when it's just as good as the heroes' shelter and he was on All Stars as if he even watched the season his wife won.

[@Lsaldana92]

To be fair Rob and Big Tom made the best shelter ever, and anything also would be terrible for him. But yeah that shelter was no where near as bad as Rob made it out to be.

[@NYChica23]

Have you seen the last shelter Rob had made? He actually knows a thing or two about shelter building, and compared to what Chapera had to sleep in, that Villains shelter was a tenement slum

[@teresawatson1038]

@@NYChica23 he should have seen all stars and if you've seen all-stars you no how bad at shelters Rupert is

[@NYChica23]

@@teresawatson1038 True, but Rob never actually had to spend any time in the underwater bunker that was Saboga's shelter, so he hasn't experienced Rupert's lack of building skills firsthand like Jerri did, which is why she said that she already had to live in the worst Survivor shelter ever

[@RishRam526]

you should do a best shelters video too!

[@Jacobmelrose26]

I love Rupert, but that's gotta be one of the worst judgement calls in Survivor History!

[@landonweaver1040]

What about the best shelters (ioti shouldn’t count cause that’s was a freebie)

[@IdoledOut]

Will definitely happen! IOTI shelter will most certainly be excluded too

[@landonweaver1040]

@@IdoledOutsince Ruperts shelter came in a challenge would Chapera’s be eligible.

[@C_CREATURE_]

Rupert's shelter wasn't bad. It was just built in the wrong climate.

[@0pacbig32]

The thing about the Viveros shelter is that when i looked at the recruit chart i saw that all 4 members of Viveros were recruits for that season.

[@nasecoo]

I just finished watching Panama, so that thumbnail was *chefs kiss*

[@1fishmob]

Now, a lo cabin could work. But the problem was always going to be "underground". Had they just stuck to the cabin on the surface and focused on stuff like roofing, that infamous shelter could have worked.

[@MartinFluteCompany]

I've never been idled out but buffering is yet another story.

[@Mason-dq7cf]

Great video as always. Keep up the good work

[@kimclaussen9413]

I saw this title and my first thought was Rupert's horrific "cabin" and Jaburu, and I was not disappointed. 😂 I forgot about the others on this list! It always threw me why the Jaburu women were so hopeless with thier shelter - they were clearly capable, so they just...chose not to???? And I can never understand Rupert's insistence on the UNDERGROUND cabin. Why not above ground??? And why in the SAND?! On the BEACH, NEXT TO THE OCEAN, where the tide change and there's no tree cover and flooding it is SO easy with one rainstorm?! Absolutely baffling.It still could've been unique, to still build a cabin-style shelter, possibly even achievablein the time frame of the didn't waste all thier time and energy digging. But instead, it was absolutely bonkers stupid and ultimately miserable. At least he eventually admits it was the worst idea, ever, but man it's SO hard to watch him double down on it and steamroll Jerri and the others into doing it, when it's clearly SUCHHH a stupid idea.

[@stonehydra4]

Can you do best shelters

[@jeffk3746]

lmao at the Chris underwood disrespect in the EoE section

[@itsgrazzin5871]

Now I want to see a "The best Selters" video.

[@freddymendez6265]

I live for your commentary 😂🤣👏🏾👏🏾

[@milanetc4865]

When I saw the title of this video I thought the undeground log cabin would be #1. That thing was truly horrendous!

[@gatorcroc7212]

Rupert is great at building other people shelters.

[@SurvivorAndBone]

Petition for another have vs have nots season, but the have nots get Wendell and Boston Rob to build a shelter for them. Which therefore cancels out the twist entirely and makes it just a normal season.

[@hecc7906]

If I built a shelter then someone else just takes it like that, I'm burning that shit down

[@paulwright6044]

Question: if no one drops out of Fiji and they stick to the original Race War 2 plan, does the "Haves vs. Have Nots" twist work better? You'd have one tribe living in the lap of luxury, with another living...by the ankle of luxury? The other two might have to fend for themselves, but you might not have had the steamrolling that happened with Ravu if four tribes compete for that camp. It also didn't help that the Moto tribe had a MASSIVE amount of stuff just handed to them. Even if it was just a fraction of that, they would've still been much better off than Ravu, demonstrating the point of the twist, while not presenting an insurmountable obstacle to Ravu.

[@roger_towny_jr]

I think we've all had a lot of fun dissing Rupert for his one bad shelter in All Stars. That said, the guy still made decent shelters for Drake in Pearl Islands, and also helped Morgan with theirs, And made a good shelter for the Hero Tribe in HvV, so yeah I think Tina knows what she's talking about when she'd rather have him on her tribe than his wife (no offense Laura B).

[@jasperkelly181]

You should go on survivor would love to see that

[@queenzoroark]

Chris is a underrated name. Just see the winners.

[@Paddyvertex]

Challenge-God "The Wardog"...ROFL

[@danielkoskipalo6365]

You know is’s quality content when the like dislike ratio is this good. Great work!

[@Insertname0814]

RIP dislikes

[@aukaing5090]

Honorable mention: the villains tribe tarp tent from HvV

[@jamescollins9178]

why did I find this so engrossing? I haven't seen an episode of Survivor in about 16-17 years.

[@ketchupboy2002]

4:11 He couldn't resist plugging his stuff

[@ThreeRunHomer]

No tribe has ever built a shelter that kept out rain (unless given a tarp). Just tossing palm fronds on the roof ain’t gonna get the job done. It would be interesting if some contestant in the future knew how to build a thatched roof.

[@tatetesta4085]

The Leif reference is hilarious

[@krisvalderrama9043]

i don't get why many of the survivors join without that much survival skills. just why

[@jptoony2670]

LMAO The Darrell reference