OMFG! That is priceless!

And yes, most of the "survivor man" guys are just morons. Bear Grylls is the worst of them. Les Stroud is more realistic, but he still really has very little ability.

For the record, I would not want to be out there with any of them. However, if I did find myself stranded in the wilderness with Bear Grylls, I would just save him the pain of starvation or a miserable death by stupidity and shoot him and take his gear and use it properly.

The video was hilarious. You would be better off in the woods with the latest 'American Idol' winner than you would some of these survival idiots. Les Stroud is probably the least offensive. I'd rather be alone.

P.S. Someone please airdrop a Boy Scout manual and a box of MRE's to the next one of these reality survivor geniuses before the next commercial break.

To me both suck, I am so over survival shows and competition shows, but that is due to two things,( in my limited opinion) the very short attention span of viewers and the "cheap show for ratings" producers in TV land. The people in this world know what it takes to make quality product, like in any other business, but why do so when you can getaway with making crap on a dime?

I don't get it. All you guys/girls are dumping on Les and Bear when I don't see you out there "educating" the public let alone describing what it is they actually do wrong. The shows are created for entertainment and to show "basic" survival, all inside of an hour. Anyone who thinks they can survive "alone in the wild" for a week or more after watching a few episodes of Bear Grylls (sp?) is an idiot but at least they may survive a day or two drawing on him as an inspiration and keeping busy trying to make his "tactics" work. If you're looking for survival nuance, read an effin book.

As for Chad's question, I'd pick Bear for the reason that he's seems like the most amiable and you could probably have a nice conversation with him while waiting for the rescue crew to arrive.

Funny video. To answer the question, I would choose Bear Grylls to be with in the wilderness. Why? You could just get the hotel key from the camera crew, go take a shower & order up room service.

There has been a ton of backlash directed towards Bear Grylls recently. I don't really get the hate. I don't know about anyone else, but I only tune in to watch him eat giant grubs and cut open bloated corpses. Its like outdoor fear factor, and its a lot of fun to watch. Its not a survival course.

Les Stroud is somewhat amusing as well, mostly because virtually everything he does fails. Its pretty realistic in that way. However, watching Stroud fail to find a single thing to eat over a 3 day period is nowhere near as entertaining as listening to Bear describe the taste of live scorpion.

Sure the shows are a bit bogus, but I don't see any of you trash talkers out there surviving with no more than a knife and what you're wearing.

Dragging Irwin into this isn't exactly fair. The taipan really is an extremely venomous snake, a serpent that I doubt y'all have the balls to handle. For that matter, try wrestling a 9 foot croc.

I enjoy watching Bear Grylls, and I've seen him do some pretty ballsy stuff to demonstrate survival skills. So I wouldn't mind being stranded w/him, plus, he was pretty funny when he had Will Farrell on Survivorman w/him. I'm no survival expert, but I think for the most part he knows his stuff. The spoof video was hilarious. You gotta remember, that these shows are for entertainment, in a real, harsh, survival situation, you don't have the time or energy to worry about camera shots, but to make a good tv show, you do have to worry about those things.

Bear was in the SAS and broke damn near every bone in his body when his chute wouldn't deploy. He recovered from a broken back, and now he's a world renowned motivational speaker. Despite the fact that his show is crap, the guy knows his stuff. If he were equipped and briefed on the type of environment he'd be entering as he'd been trained he could probably survive a good long while. Les' show is good, but the reason he only finds one thing to eat in a three day period is because he's worried about where his second and third cameras are pointing and whether or not the tripods are level. Bear has producers and sh*t for that.

There is deff. worse t.v. shows out there, Fake or Not they keep my attention. Les Stroud is the real deal, however I do sometimes worry that some kid out there is going to get hurt by trying to jump down waterfalls in subzero temps. or become dehydrated due to attempting to run down and tackle a carribu, just because they saw MR. TV STUNTMAN BEAR GRILLS do it.

And I would have to agree, not only does it probably get kids off the couch, but I have to admit that I have tried several of Les's shelters, traps and fire starting methods myself......But I wasnt sold until I found out a little more about Stroud's background in canada.

Don't know how I missed this post, since it is sort of down my alley. During my journeys around the world, I have been in a few crummy situations, like life or death sort of. If being stranded, being held hostage or plane wrecked count.

I'll settle for my knowledge and a tall willowy blonde as company. Hopefully, answering the question.

About 40 years ago I had a harrowing adventure in Alaska which ended up with getting back to the closest telephone twenty days after I was supposed to be home. I said "honey I am alive "! After making sure I was her husband, she indicated she had not worried, thought as usual I was still looking for an animal I had not found.

@ Makikalooo

You say you were lost for 2 months?

Where on God's green Earth could you possibly have been so lost for 2 whole months that you could not have walked in one direction until you got to civilization?

Well, you obviously know how to feed yourself, and to make fire and shelter or you wouldn't be on this blog, but I think your navigational skills would need some work before you ventured more than a stone's throw from your back porch again...

The video was funny as hell. As far a being stranded, with any of those guys. FORGET it. If you had half a brain, you WOULDN'T get LOST in the first place. But as an Eagle Scout, I may have a slight advantage, on the aveverage guy. COMMON SENCE goes a long way!

There are a lot more than just Les or Bear. There is the "Wildman" who, in Florida, grabs 6 foot long Gators and Water Moccasins. Then there's the guy the abandoned in Canada for what two months and he just about died!! Even some of the hunting and fishing shows are trying to get in on the "Survival" stuff!! Being a former Marine who was in combat and who used to know the Marine Survival manual really well and now has forgotten most of it, still knows more than those two guys... BUT, for people who have no clue about survival at all, Les Stroud is the guy to watch! He is more of the common "lost" person and does what most of us would do and/or try. Now Bear, he is a bit more on the extreme side of survival, which is cool for the people who have his energy level but not for the rest of us "common" folk! Though, either one of the shows are v entertaining and somewhat educational if not down right funny! Hey, the fact is these guys are getting PAID enough money to not really give a damn about what we think and that's the bottom line... Cause Stone Cold said so...LMAO!!

I would go with Bear... i mean yeh it is fake but the guy has to actually know a little about something with all the shows he has done. I would not be laughing as much but I might just survive...might.