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Refrain from playing the addictive, but annoying, ‘Survivor’ theme song. Your neighbors will thank you.

AS VIEWERS are reminded every week, fire means life on “Survivor,” and when a contestant’s torch is extinguished, he or she knows it’s time to hit the road.
Tiki torches can be had for about $20 at discount and hardware stores; if you can, pick up one or more to line the walkway to your house.
Refrain from playing the addictive, but annoying, “Survivor” theme song. Your neighbors will thank you. You might have thought “It’s a Small World” was bad, but this song will burrow into your brain and never come out.

GET ’EM MINGLING

For a “Survivor” ice-breaker, buy a pack of those “HELLO, MY NAME IS” self-sticking labels, and fill them out with the names of the sixteen contestants (add smarmy host Jeff Probst if you like). As guests arrive, attach a label to each person’s back (don’t let them see the name).
Tell each guest that their task is to find out the name on their back by asking only yes-or-no questions of other guests.
Example: “Am I male? Am I under 30? Do I have a special fondness for cherries and beans? Am I Clarence?”
Or: “Am I female? Did I rarely speak? Was it easy to watch the entire show without once remembering my name? Am I one of the Kims?”

Even if you serve TV dinners, your guests will be eating better than the “Survivor” contestants did (although since one of them ends up with a million dollars, their month of hunger is probably not that bothersome).
The food auction has become a “Survivor” tradition, so if you’re really ambitious (and have tolerant friends), you can try this at home too.
Hand out $500 in Monopoly money to each guest at the beginning of the evening. Then, several times during commercial breaks, randomly bring out a special treat (cover the plate with a bowl so guests won’t know what it is).
These treats should be more funny than fancy . . . a Hostess cupcake on one plate, a serving of chips and salsa on another. Throw in a few booby prizes - maybe a glass of water or a single marshmallow.
Once the auction’s over, only then put out your full spread of snackage.

PASS THE COW BLOOD

The most-talked about challenge from this year’s show is definitely the one in which the two tribes drank blood recently drawn from the side of a cow. Since your guests (and your cow) are unlikely to go for that, whip up a pitcher of Bloody Marys and call it even. Label the blender “cow blood” and you should have no problem with guests asking for refills.

When Ethan and Lex visited a village to barter the goats Ethan had won, they scored a huge plate of French fries (which looked nothing like the American version, but were gobbled up in no time). Here’s your excuse to warm up the Fry Baby and serve up fries, onion rings, cheese sticks or any other deep-fried battered product.

While Africa Survivors are eating a lot of cornmeal, past seasons have loaded up on rice. Order takeout Chinese as a main course, and you can set out dishes of fried rice as well as plain white rice.

“Survivor” is infamous for asking its contestants to eat bugs, worms, and other goodies, and now you can encourage your friends to do the same. Head to the bulk foods section of your supermarket and look for anything gummi. You’re likely to find stretchy, sugary worms, but depending on the quirkiness of your store’s manager, might also luck into gummi rats and frogs. Mmm, gummi “Survivor” goodness.

DURING THE SHOW

Since your guests (and your cow) are unlikely to go for cow blood drinking, whip up a pitcher of Bloody Marys and call it even.

The finale is two hours long, and face it, some of that time spent getting down to the final tribal council is just filler. Keep your guest interested with a “Survivor” variation on BINGO.
Before guests arrive, brainstorm a dozen or so events that often happen on the show. (Examples: Ethan falls down, flies are shown crawling on the rice, Tom says a sentence that is totally unintelligible, Lex’s arm tattoos are shown, someone refers to Teresa as “T-Bird,” there’s a flashback to Lindsay’s tick.)
Write each event on a piece of paper, throw them all in a hat and have each guest choose one. If someone’s event actually unfolds onscreen during the finale, award them a small prize.(A box of Minute Rice? A can of beans? A plastic lion?) The quirkier the prizes, the better. Trading encouraged.

AND THE WINNER IS. . .

Buy or borrow an office-type white board. Before the show starts, write each guest’s name on the board and then ask them to list the order in which they predict the contestants will be voted off. Award points for each correct guess (1 point for correctly guessing the first banishee, two for the next, and so on).
The winner receives - what else? - an immunity necklace. If the Immunity Necklace store at your mall has closed, make one yourself by cutting the center out of a paper plate and decorating it with some markers. It’s like grade-school day camp all over again. The tribe has spoken.

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