When The Bachelor first aired in 2002, it made finding love the sole purpose of the show and people ate it up. It was completely ridiculous, sappy, and massively entertaining.
Survivor asks the question of what would happen if you placed a bunch of strangers with little or no wilderness experience on a deserted island and made them fend for their lives.
Also, a product of MTV, this show was a close relative of The Real World. To stay in the Jersey Shore house, you had to be a spray-tanned, fist-pumping, hair-gelled, Italian-American party animal.