It was a hot summer's day, beyond hot even, and everyone's favorite host was struggling to come up with a new season from his office. He had four fans on in the room and the AC cranked up, but it was barely enough to keep him from sweating. "I don't know how much longer this heat wave is gonna last, no way we can host a season in Muskoka if the weather is gonna stay like this!" Chris complained, looking over options from the network.
Chef was in his office as well, off in a recliner and reading a newspaper while Chris was doing the paperwork. "Then we don't a season, the ratings for the last few seasons were off the charts like you and your network boys said they'd be right? Y'all got plenty of money to work with." Chef suggested, half-sarcastically.
Chris gulped, then shook his head. "Not exactly... we need to really squeeze the ratings out of this season if we want to keep our jobs. And that means you should actually care for once, because if I lose my job, so do you!" Chris informed Chef, showing him the feedback from the network.
"Then just copy another show and you get your ratings back, don't even gotta do it right. Just take some show, let the kids vote each other off, and the network boys will leave you alone." Chef then suggested, still not super invested.
Chris scratched his chin as he thought about it though, then looked over the ideas in front of him. "Hey, you know that show where they have people try to survive in the jungle while naked? That thing was a smash hit! We could-"
"I'm out." Chef immediately responded, getting up from his chair.
Chris watched Chef get up, grumbling to himself for a second. "You're just gonna walk out like this? It'll be so good for ratings dude! Plus it'd be a blast with this heat wave going around! Imagine if we had Lindsay on a season like this one! It'd be a gold mine!" Chris tried to reason.
This just made Chef more disgusted though, and he shook his head. "And that's why I don't want any part of this. You're messed up Chris-man. This ain't gonna work out, so you got my number for when you wanna do an actual season with some actual class." Chef chastised Chris, then walked out of his office.
Chris narrowed his eyes at the door to his office as Chef left, but didn't stop him. "Guess I won't be calling him then, because this new show is gonna be a smash hit! The network will love it for sure! Just gotta find a cast... hmm, probably gonna have to put a heftier reward than usual to get people to sign up for this." Chris now tossed all the other ideas aside, focusing on this one.
He began to jot down notes and ideas in his head onto a sheet of paper, having a wicked grin. "10 million dollars, that should be enough for these guys to toss away their dignity. But what do I call it... can't be the same name. Hmm. I'll call it... 'Nude and Fearful!'"
AN: Yes, a parody of Naked and Afraid. I've yet to see this tackled in the fandom, and after submitting to SYOCs for so long, I wanted to enter the fray with something a bit spicier than an Island remake or World Tour 2. For those who don't know, Naked and Afraid is a survival reality show where contestants have to survive for 3 weeks on their own with nothing but one item they bring with them, usually it's done with just a partner, rarely a group, but in this case, I'll be bending the survival aspect to better fit Total Drama. How? You'll just have to wait and see. I don't have really much in the way of rules for this either, just don't make someone obviously OP, any other kind of character is perfectly fine, you can imagine the kind of people that would sign up for this. The application is on my profile, and I'll be aiming for around 14 characters (due to the three week timeframe of the show). Hope this fic can stand out in the sea of SYOCs.