Survivorman/YMMV

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  • Fandom Rivalry: With Man vs Wild.
  • Hell Is That Noise: That odd, recurring guitar riff (if it is a guitar) in the background which gets repeated several times per episode, and sometimes several times in a row.
  • Moment of Awesome: Making a hot air balloon engine into a flamethrower to defend his tent from lions. Among others.
  • Reality Is Unrealistic - Simply on the seemingly overwhelming opinion that this show is more "real" than Man vs. Wild. After all, in an actual situation with someone fighting for their life and trying to conserve as many calories and as much energy as possible, some can find it more ridiculous that Les Stroud will do something like climbing a dangerous cliff twice so that he can get it on camera. Bear Grylls may have a camera crew following him around, but that likely means that he only needs to do something once that a survival situation would indicate you'd do once, if you had to at all.
  • Squick - some of the things Les eats.
  • Too Good to Last - Not the network's fault either. The Discovery Channel and OLN certainly wanted more of the series, but after 3 seasons and 23 episodes, Stroud ended the show himself because of, to quote The Other Wiki, "the significant physical toll of videotaping each episode", since he does everything himself and it takes him several weeks to recuperate from each survival situation to do another.