Neither went out in a blaze of glory, or even much good will. In fact, these two contestants were among the least-liked members of their teams.

Contestants get dropped from the game every week on competitive reality shows, and bickering and bad-mouthing among team members goes with the territory. But Coby and Karamo stood out in both competitions for their inability to get along with the rest of their team members--especially as the initial excitement of the game wore off and the day-to-day grind of living with strangers set in.

Coby was very forthcoming about his frustration with the other members of his tribe (Koror) on Survivor: Palau, the tenth season of the popular CBS reality series in which strangers, left to fend for themselves on a deserted island, compete in a series of challenges to win a million dollars. Although Koror kept winning challenges, and were living pretty well by Survivor standards, Coby hated the cliques that were formed and the fact that not everyone was pulling their weight, especially some of the women. "I'm the one who has to go get the firewood," he ranted to the camera, "I'm the one who has to keep the fire going, I'm the one who has to boil the water, I'm the one who has to go hunt food." He decried the fact that the women were letting the "alpha males" wait on them, because "I'm too much of a feminist to watch this happen."

But he felt excluded by the men, as well, who didn't go out of their way to include him in activities--and being included was something he wanted desperately. "My whole life, I've wanted to be part of a team," Coby told the camera, tearing up as he spoke. "As a kid, I never played sports, I was always called the girly guy, the sissy. People would pick on me, and I'd just give up. I ended up quitting school because people made fun of me. I've given up a lot in my life. But I wasn't going to let anyone make me quit this time, not matter how hard it is. Now one was going to take this away from me, and that's why I've worked so hard. 'Cause I'm not quitting."

But Coby did quit, in a way, by not bothering to hide his frustration with his fellow castaways, and by trading his chance at immunity for donuts.

"I'm very cranky and everyone knows it," he told the camera in what would be his last episode. And his fellow castaways did know it: they described Coby with words like "pain in the ass" and "huffy" as he continued to get into small spats with various tribe members. Then he gave up his chance for Individual Immunity--which would have prevented him from being voted off--for two donuts, and rubbed the treat in his hungry tribe members faces.

It really wasn't a surprise, then, that Coby was voted off at that evening's tribal council. But it was a surprise when Coby initially had nothing but nice things to say about the group after he was voted off, thanking them for paying him such "a great compliment." This was in reference to the fact that several of the tribe members had told him they were voting him off because he was a threat--a compliment to someone who had always been called a sissy.

But it was all too apparent in watching the episodes that his tribe voted him off primarily because he was annoying them, not because he was a threat. Coby was a tough competitor--even those teammates fed up with his attitude acknowledged he was "very physical"--but years of being left out had put a chip on his shoulder that became his undoing on Survivor.

Or at least, he was edited that way.

"I wasn't very funny anymore," Coby acknowledged to The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith in an interview after last week's episode aired. "There is nothing fun about a bitter old queen. That's what I turned into."

His frustration was driven by the behavior of his fellow tribe members, however, who formed cliques that might not have openly taunted him, but didn't openly include him, either. "What made me sick was the fact that no matter how hard I worked," he told The Early Show, "no matter what I had done at camp; no matter how good I was; nobody would play with me. I finally turned into a bitter little kid on the playground who stormed off."

Still, Coby got off easy compared to what Karamo's teammates had to say about him on The Inferno 2, the latest Real World/Road Rules challenge. "Karamo's attitude has really been wearing on people," said teammate C.T., and teammate Abe said Karamo "didn't have any dignity," and wasn't even worth saying goodbye to when he left.

The Inferno 2 is a competition in which two teams--the "Good Guys" and the "Bad Asses"--comprised of former cast members from various Real World and Road Rules seasons compete for prizes. The Bad Ass teams includes one lesbian, Rachel, and two gay men, Dan and Karamo.

While Karamo had his share of friends and detractors on Inferno 2, his anger had begun to escalate as time wore on. He almost got into a scuffle with C.T. in a previous episode when he told him he could "kiss my black ass," and C.T. accused him of playing "the race card." Then he angered his whole team in his final episode for refusing to participate in a game of dodgeball that took place on two platforms in the water, because he has a fear of water. When Karamo refused to participate, his team had to forfeit the round, and although they eventually won the $10,000 prize anyway, the mood toward Karamo had definitely soured. "Karamo's a punk," C.T. told the camera, because "he didn't want to get wet."

Later, when Karamo was preparing for the individual elimination competition, he told the camera, "Part of me does want to lose this [challenge] so I can say 'kiss my ass' to my team, but another part of me wants to win it so I can come back to them and 'kiss my ass, I'm still here.'"

When he lost the competition, he flipped his teammates off as he left.

In a post-game interview, Karamo admitted "I was one of the weak players," but held firm on his refusal to play dodgeball. "Call me a bitch, call me a sissy, call me whatever you want," he said, "I hate cold water."

Then he proceeded to invite several former teammates to kiss his ass.

Fortunately, there are a few gay men on reality TV right now who aren't fighting with everyone around them. Dan on the Inferno 2 seems to get along just fine with his teammates, and the boys of Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Straight Gal have so far managed to keep from sword-fighting with their blow dryers and curling irons.

Then there is Lynn and Alex on The Amazing Race 7, who get along fairly well with the other teams and have occasionally even gone out of their way to help some of them. Despite very little sleep or food for days on end, they have maintained a surprisingly positive attitude.

But then again, with obnoxious Survivor couple Rob and Amber in The Amazing Race, some of us actually be rooting for a smack-down.