Jonathan's first words age well because he is closest to Yul of all people. I'm surprised.

I always find it SO FUNNY that Penner’s became known as a “rat” or a “snake” for doing things in the early ages that became “big moves” and just a normal part of survivor as survivor grew and went on, truly I think he was lowkey a trend setter/ahead of his time for the show, and will always be one of my favorite players ever

Penner is definitely a villain here but he's such a logical one that I couldn't help but side with him in pretty much every situation. One of my favorite players.

I love the scene of Jonathan trying to get Candice/Adam/Parvati to understand Yul has the Idol with them insisting he can't, despite them not having it. What's really underrated though, is the follow up to that scene after the Nate vote, where they still insist to Penner that Yul doesn't have the Idol, only for him to silence them by going "He LITERALLY showed me the Idol!".

I still will never understand how Candice was a "hero" of this season. This video really rekindled my love of Penner, it can be so frustrating knowing he had to be a much worse player in order to relate to his tribe and have a chance to win the season.

Always loved Penner and his sass towards Jeff, in a fun way. Bummed he had to be medically removed in Micronesia because he really was having a good game.

Seeing Yul & Penner talk strategy is one of my favorite things because they have such high albeit different intellects

Jonathan Penner is one of my favorite non winning survivor players ever, I can relate to his personality, comedy and desire for film making

Always gives me a smirk when people call guys like Penner a rat and a cancer, when the stuff they did could arguably fall under that category as well.

Okay, he may have been a villain, but if I was stuck with several other people, who don't do anything at camp and don't even try to think strategically, I would've flipped back too. Not to mention the fact that the trash talking after auction was an absolute bullcrap. ,,Oh no I didn't try enough to win anything so I'm gonna trash Jonathan for winning". These were the main reasons why I was rooting for him watching this season for the first time. Trying and possibly failing is better than doing nothing.

Penner’s big miscalculation was choosing loyalty to Candice at the mutiny. It’s frustrating how neither she nor the alliance she jumped ship to rejoin recognized that act as loyalty. He gets painted as a flip-flopper, while she doesn’t. But they’re all rather stupid, cliquish people, failing to recognize how treating him poorly from that point on would rebound after the merge when whomever was on the bottom of the new tribe would inevitably need an ally. When Candice would return in later seasons, I was also puzzled, because her gameplay was and continued to be almost entirely undistinguished. Penner’s returns are always welcomed, even if he has proven where his social game lacks. Penner’s gameplay makes Yul’s story possible, giving Yul a real underdog narrative and then a strategic clutch move post-merge. Not to take anything away from Yul, who always had the capacity to be a great player no matter what.

“I tell stories. It’s what I do.”

Yul explaining why elephants can't run up trees is one of my favorite moments 😭

Penner: Me want hat back. Yul: Jonathan Penner ask for hat back. Me bring hat back. Everyone: 🤯 Yul! Strategic Mastermind!

He had the best auction in Survivor history.

If penner found the idol that would have been a crazy season!

I'll never understand why other candidates and the edit are so mad at Penner in this season. He always seemed to me like a logical yet still human player (even more so in his 2 next appearances), and all of this dunking on him made me empathize with him a lot more.

I truly love Penner. His voice is so soothing 🥰

Sometimes, a player gets perceived as shady and deceptive before they even do anything, and it makes it near difficult to make inroads with people from day one. This definitely happened to Penner this season. Everyone on his origional tribe just chose not to trust him, not for anything he did, but just because. Yul seemed like the only player that actually made an effort to connect with him.

The only mistake penner made this season was not reading the emotional intelligence of the group

When i rewatched Penner this season I realized how bad he was socially. The only one who truly trusted him or was happy to work with him was Yul. Mainly because Yul knew he was someone he could beat at the end. He definitely was playing the game a bit too hard and while others treated him poorly he also did a lot of that himself.

Everyone on his season hated him (except Yul) but I couldn’t help but love him!

31:31 Villain dumb and smart on the same image It shows how impossible that situation was

The consistency on this channel is insane fair play mate ❤️

love how you throw "love for candace at tribal" segment in a lot of ur videos LOL

I'm just glad he got his hat back, thanks to Yul.

Raro is one of the only tribe names I can consistently remember because of "Candice from Raro tribe" 😭

Penner is one of my favorite survivors always entertaining i was rooting so hard for him in Philippines

cook island is one of my absolute favorite seasons,I watched it at least 6 times! at first I hated penner, but after I first watched Philippines then re-watch Cook Islands oh, I fell in love with Penner

Was looking for one of these about Penner a few nights ago he’s one of my favorites. Glad this video dropped

"why arent you giving me any food today? Also stop trying to weasel yourself in!"

When Penner got a hero moment for seeing his wife I thought "well who wouldn't have a hero moment from seeing their loved one?"............. Brian Heidek 🥶

When I started thsi season, I knew that Parv, Ozzy and Yul were the most "famous" characters. When I finished it, Penner was my fav

I'm not sure, but is this the first Neutral strategist we've had?

Unlucky for him, should have stayed with his original tribe. Those people in the other tribe were such lazy slackers. I love it when Jonathan finally speaks up and destroys their silly arguments. He was being their daddy and they showed him zero appreciation.

I wonder how much this season would have changed if Penner had found the idol in ep. 1. I don't think he wins, but the idol would have been played, which would have been fantastic. And Yul without the idol probably gets eliminated at some point, Ozzy likely wins.

Penner is one of my top 5 favorite players. One thing to note about Cook Islands was 17 of the 20 were recruited players. I think Candice was the only major player that wasn't recruited to join the show. That may be why so many players were from California. If you're going to recruit a diverse cast of players, California is the best place to go. Cook Islands messed up with dividing the tribes by ethnicity, but the way it played out made for a great season of diverse players.

Man other than the flip Jonathan played such a good game and is a guy who I grew to admire more and more over time. It's probably not a coincidence that I have a similar personality and game views as Yul, since I would love to play with a guy like Penner. Honestly unless there are things they didn't show in the edit he was dealt such a bad hand. Made a risky decision by sticking with Candice and seemingly was truthful in wanting top 4 of him, Candice, Adam and Parv, but for whatever reason Candice just hated him so much she would rather sabotage her and her friends and her lovers games, than listen to him for once. Pretty weird to see Parv act so dumb as well, considering what she would later grow into.

rooted for penned during this season and micronesia

Season 25 is my favorite season. To be fair I’ve only watched like 4 seasons… 1, 2, 3 & 25.

the lovable villain

Penner is 1 of my favorite players ever! Probably in my Top 5! #IMeanMyAss

I love how he continues expressing frustration at how Penner is being presented: “Candice says no one like Penner. I don’t when Candice was elected Speaker of the Tribe”

The story of Billy when?

"Weesel...is the verb ....in this situation"why is this so funny for me

Jonathan not voting out Yul to get the idol out of his hands was a terrible move. Nate would have still went home because of the idol but Raro wouldnt have been furious at him essentially sealing his fate. He could then still decide to go either way for the next vote and not have to worry about Yul`s idol. Instead, he votes out Nate, which turns all the Raro`s against him and keeps Yul having all the power.

LETS GOOOOOO

Honestly penner played pretty logically. He made a big move by leaving to try and work out his plan but it didn't work out so he just tried to be useful and got a ticket to merge. Then tried to guide these idiots to not vote for Yul and they still couldn't take an obvious possibility. So penner decided to to jump ship again and swallow his pride and aim for second. "Better than being picked off with those people" I'm sure he thought. Honestly don't blame him. Swallow your pride and try and make second, better than voted out earlier. Unfortunatly he couldn't keep his deal with Yul to take him to the end and he was taken out cause he was just passively causing too much problems. Sad loss of a good player.

Been waiting for this video for a long time! I feel he is more of an anti-hero.

Penner was ahead of his time 😂

I wonder why Brad was voted out. I feel like the explanation we got was just a simplification for a lazy edit team. He said after the merge its everyone for themselves. Which is absolutely a true statement. I find it hard to believe that is the reason everyone targeted him

People:Candice shouldn't have been on HvV because she was not a very well known and wasn't really a hero Me:Who? Edit:Penner is one of my favorites players and each of his stories are amazing

Rip Penners wife Stacy Title 😔 Penner > blonde and douchebag From the Same Tribe idk their names they aren’t important even tho blonde played two more times and did the exact same thing she did here

You didnt mention Adam's deal to Yul to vote off Jonathan before him or Parv lol

I don't care what people say about Penner I love him. He is my favorite contestant to not ever win Survivor

always have loved penner. he reminds me of my dad idk.

❤️ I may be a little bit in love with Jonathan

Gotta love Penner.

None of his strategic moves were dumb, the people he played with weren't thinking in a strategic mindset, if he was on a more logical cast he would have done better, I don't see it as dumb to explain to someone playing emotionally why the way they are voting is bad.

They got some legendary players here yul penner ozzy Parvati Candice

I don’t see him as much of a villain he went over to be loyal with Candice (his tribe was good to vote him out if he didn’t) and then he saw Candice was disloyal to him so he had to flip. Candis was the real snake.

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It's irrelevant with the video, bit I just want to know what's your opinion about Adam this season.

What Penner should have done is vote ANYONE EXCEPT YUL OR NATE. Yul plays his idol, nate goes home. The next vote the raro 3 vote with him because if not and they vote him out they are the next 3. Aitu votes 4 Johnathan and raro votes 4 yul. This is where it is up in the air because if Becky or Sundra draw rock raro 4 have majority if Parvati, Adam, or Candace draw then Penner goes next because then raro is down to 3 and in the minority

I didn’t like how he was treated this season, even if he betrayed his allies multiple times. Adam, Candice and Parvati were real assholes.

I don't think losing an immunity challenge should be counted as a DUMB thing, when they all of course want to win and challenges can have things that benefit certain types of people.

While watching cook islands, I felt the show tried desperately to show us Penner's more villanous moments, yet I always sided withnhim especially when he flipped on the white peoples tribe and joined the underdog Aitu four. To me he always felt like a hero drawn in an ambiguous light, which I rlly loved. Cook islands isnt the most riveting season but I find it had some excellent characters

I could never get on board with Candice and Parv in future seasons because of how they acted here. Adam gotta be one of my least favorite players of all time too.

30:26 amazing joke interspersed into the video. no notes

I just hope people know that the wandering Jew is a plant and nothing racial! Love the channel brother ❤️

The antisemitic slurs against him in that season were disgusting.

Penner should have been on the Asian Tribe!

Well that was frustrating to watch...

Never liked Candice...total mean girl

I love Penner and think he is super entertaining, but he kind of sucks at Survivor

Maybe it's just me, but watching the two white, blonde, blue eyes contestants repeatedly refer to the Jewish guy as a "rat" and "cancer" does not age well, especially given the racial themes of this season. 36:20

Hmm don’t love the Jewish contestant being called sneaky, rat, snake, double crosser, untrustworthy, greedy, weasel-y, and a handful of other antisemitic tropes and dog whistles for playing a game that many contestants have played in seasons past/in this season itself Yul was the only one that didn’t play into it and Ozzy to an extent since he explained his distrust by using a legitimate behavior of Penner

I love penner That cast was awful bar Yul and Penner and Ozzy

Jonathan Penner is my all-time favorite player! 🌴🪵🔥🍚🐠🐟☀️🌺

I’m two years late but bring him back for 50 @JeffProbst