Survivor Recap: The Family that Prays Together…..

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   ChaCha
   Posted December 10, 2012 at 2:35 pm

   Re Lisa playing the game to be true to herself, it makes me wonder if anyone else climbed on a moral bandwagon in the past and even won this game. This isn’t a game for people who don’t want to be devious and underhanded when it comes to trying to win. So why even bother being on the show if you’re not????

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   carol
   Posted December 10, 2012 at 3:03 pm

   I was hoping that this was finally the time that a player has gone crazy enough to believe that their fake HII is real and actually play it at tribal. I just want to see Jeff’s face when it is handed to him, then the rest of the tribe when he tells them it is fake. By the wording Jeff uses when someone actually plays a HII, you can tell he really wants someone to try and play a fake one.

   How much video feed does Jeff watch while on the island? Does he know everything that is happening at camp or is he really kept in the dark? The producers know exactly who has the HIIs and where they are hidden (both before found and after), but does Jeff know? Some of his questions are so leading, it seems as if he is watching the feeds all the time. But that just might be the editing of tribal. I remember a couple of years ago Jeff said that some tribals can last a couple of hours.

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   Chicken Lips
   Posted December 10, 2012 at 4:20 pm

   Carol, someone did once (knowingly) play a fake idol. I can’t remember who or when but I remember Jeff throwing it in the fire while cackling.

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   hot cawfee
   Posted December 10, 2012 at 4:41 pm

   Thats right ChickenLisp—it may have been the ass of all times Johnny Fairplay or Boston Raaaawwwbbb (as I cringe). It has been done. I wish they had kept Spicoli–he is a shoe in tho for some $$$ from the audience b/c of how well he played and also giving up rewards so the tribe could have something. In my book that counts BIG.

   Chacha–I think was Colby and that petite blonde lady (from Long Island???)– Colby thought she deserved a shot at final two and further that he had a 50/50 shot at beating her. She won.

   ChickenLips–I think Jeff knows all that goes on. The real funn comes when Scabby will get called out for everything–and have the great privilege of watching the show and reading aaalllllllllll about herself.

   Pottykins— thank you love— am waiting with ya’all for this madness to be over. This season will never end!!!! Maybe someone will kill Scabby in her sleep—to steal her HII of course!!! No other reason.

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   myfavoritesunglasses
   Posted December 10, 2012 at 4:50 pm

   @Chacha – Yul, Ozzy, Becky and Sundra took the high road in Cook Islands and wouldn’t turn on each other at 4. They made Becky and Sundra do a fire-making tie-breaker, which was AWESOME because they were both so inept that Jeff eventually gave them matches, and then Sundra ran out of all of hers before getting a fire going. Would they have bonded so closely and stuck together had Candice & Jonathan not totally effed them over with the mutiny? Maybe not, but it ended up being a ridiculously feel-good season. But not boring at all (at least for me) because watching Raro implode was just too deserved.

   @ Carol – it was Eliza in FvF! One of my favorite moments in Survivor history — she was like, “it’s a fucking STICK!” but played it because she was going home anyway.

   I wonder how Jonathan felt having Lisa say she’d take someone she could beat, given that that was the EXACT same argument he put forth last week and she rejected it. I know some people think she’s threatening b/c the jury will respect her honesty, but I think the jury will find an annoying waffler. Who knows. I can dream!

   Potty – I died at “long haired Colby”. So true about Jeff’s flirty ways …

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   myfavoritesunglasses
   Posted December 10, 2012 at 4:53 pm

   Oops, I meant @ChickenLips

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   considerthis
   Posted December 10, 2012 at 6:05 pm

   Is Lisa really that naive – clueless – babe in the woods OR is it just an act to engraciate herself with others and appear to be a non threat??

   Anybody who would pour hot sauce in a child mouth be it “in the name of God” or whatever has got to have some malicious intent under the surface.

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   cattyfan
   Posted December 10, 2012 at 7:07 pm

   I remember the professor-looking guy (who eventually won) created a fake idol and left it for someone to find. That poor rube played it at Tribal, and that’s the “idol” Probst gleefully threw into the fire.

   Either this season has been long or I’m getting feeble, I had already forgotten/blocked out Russell.

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   cattyfan
   Posted December 10, 2012 at 7:12 pm

   I felt compelled to look it up. Bob Crowley in Gabon made the fake idol which Randy subsequently tried to use.

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    Robin
    Posted December 10, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    PottyMouth,

    I am sick of her crying all the time, too. And it seems like the waterworks always coincide with her “integrity and her inability to betray a trust”. Apparently, according to her, it is so hard that it makes her physically ill to go back on her word. I am curious how many times she threw up when she ran her mouth about finding Malcoms idol in his bag AFTER she promised Malcom his word was safe with her. Hypocrit of the worst kind.

    I think I may shed a tear if my Sis came to Survivor. I would know that I would see her soon anyway, so it wouldn’t be I miss you, thing. I would probably cry a bit because this is one of the coolest things we can do together and the experience would be worth some happy tears.

    Lisa, on the other hand acted like her brother just came back from the dead! It was a bit scary, kinda. My opinion is that she is jazzed that he is there and can tell her “start fucking these folks and blame it on me”. Because Sister has to bow to waht brother says and it isn’t your fault. Justice after all.

    I think Abi’s Mom has a Temperr..Saw a glimpse at challenge

    A bit long winded. I am only on page 2…

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    Robin
    Posted December 10, 2012 at 9:06 pm

    Lisa has Never wanted Malcom at the end. Check out PottyMouth’s recap ~The Blair Snitch Project~

    This goes back awhile.

    At first I gave her the benefit of the doubt when she “accidently found that Idol in Malcom’s backpack while” helping out” the tribe. And then she told Malcom she wouldn’t say anything because she will never betray a trust. But, she told Skupin, Skupin told the fork and the dish ran away with the spoon. And, this is why I have never trusted a word that comes out of the side of her mouth.

    I understand that she is playing for a bunch of money and in the past; I have enjoyed watching what some may say were scumbags. One of the main problems I have with Lisa is her “face time” , is that what it is called?

    She talks to us as if we just didn’t see her on the screen acting like two faced liar. She is condecending to the viewer and it always seems like one of those cheesy local 30 second commercial trying to convince us how well she has played while never lying, and there many ways to define lying, after all.

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    Robin
    Posted December 10, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    I thought that Scabby was slow picking up her junk out of the water because she wanted folks to think she hadn’t a care in the word. She had the idol of her dreams, heh. It may have worked, except they have seen her at challenges on land and at sea and she is always in the same gear. With the same look on her face and the same attitude! lol

    I wasn’t too surprised that the got rid of Spicoli. He was OK. But I think he was kinda boring.

    Thanks for the Recap, PottyMouth. I am sorry that I had to break up my post. After a few paragraphs it got wonky and shaky so I had to divide it up.

    hugs,Robin

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    itchy
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Ethan from the Africa season played a straight up game and won, right? But that was only the second or third season, maybe it was still possible back then.

    But Lisa and Skupin have already been given a sign from god that Malcolm is supposed to win this. That’s the way this works, right? God gives the sign, and they’re supposed to following orders? Or is it all really just a game of Yahtzee where you keep throwing the dice until you get the combination you need? Hmm.

    I think Scabby didn’t bother in the challenge because she knows she’s going to the finals. And she’ll at least win whatever prize second or third place gets. (Not to mention the 100k for being America’s favorite.)

    I’d like to see Malcolm win this at this point. He’s played a pretty good game, seems pretty humble about it, hasn’t been an asshole about it either. Definitely him over Lisa and Skupin. My goodwill toward Denise has worn off a bit…

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    lindaw205
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 12:49 am

    I would rather have Scabby around than Lisa. I think that Survivor has been one long audition to her and I’m really tired of The Lisa Show. At least Scabby is in your face nasty and you know up front what you’re getting with her.

    I’m hoping that the other jurors realize how she yanked them around with her wishy washiness. Penner, for one, seems to have a handle on her and doesn’t seem to respect her game play. At this point I just want anyone else to win except Lisa.

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    itchy
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 3:27 am

    You know, I hated Facts of Life, so I wasn’t a big fan of Lisa’s going into this. Coupled with her deviant religiosity and child-rearing techniques, and her weepiness on this show, I’ll be pissed off as hell if a) she wins this and/or b) she revives her acting career because of this.

    And yes, at least Scabby is indeed honest about being a bitch.

    Oh, and who wants to bet Lisa and Skupin are part of the same church as Mark Burnett (and, presumably Probst these days)?

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    msjacqmills
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 7:17 am

    I always crack up over the hot sauce comments. My boys (7 and 8) love hot sauce. They eat the hot sauce packets from Popeye’s chicken straight out of the packet. Guess I just have to resort to beating them when they’re bad.

    That picture of Denise – not sure which page – but, YIKES! Reminds me of Abitchia last year, only with a little Crypt Keeper mixed in.

    Itchy – good point about Lisa and Skupin belonging to the same church as Burnett. But, I thought Lisa is Mormon, no? Guess not.

    Has anyone watched Probsts talk show? I tried, but I think it’s pretty bad.

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    JasonR
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 7:27 am

    The only people who can play a straight up game are those that are top dogs in a tight alliance. I’m thinking about guys like Yul or Tom the firefighter, or Malcolm for that matter, or their main alliance partner. Pretty much anyone else will have to betray someone at some point in the game. Lisa has the right idea but already cut so many potentially allies loose because of her reluctance to, you know, PLAY SURVIVOR. That said this has been one of the best seasons in recent memory. The returnees did not dominate the game or screen time. Abi was an entertaining annoyance. Malcolm, Denise, and Penner were all very self-aware, played intelligently and always had great confessional comments. And, one more thing that makes this season better – THANK YOU MARK BURNETT for finally dropping the awkward Sprint phone product placement during family visit/reward!

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    zerocool
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 11:39 am

    ditto to everything you said, JasonR.

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    sweetblondie
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    Blah blah blah…I love Lisa and I’m so glad it looks like she’s going to the finals.

    The Facts of Life was my whole life growing up…and Blair Warner was my queen. If all Lisa gets out of this is more acting gigs…then I’m a happy camper.

    I was so worried because I’d heard she became a total thumper (and I’m a proud athiest)…and yet the last episode was the first time we saw her pray…and she even said a little disclaimer about “god” not caring about your football team winning…! tee-hee…

    Has anyone else ever made it this far without lying to anyone? If she gets to the finals, at least she can say she never lied to anyone, she tried (although failed) to make a big move and was about to try again but Malcom won immunity…she won’t win, but at least she’ll have a farily good closing argument…

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    dan
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 12:15 pm

    She lied. She told Malcolm she would keep his idol a secret, but didn’t. In the most recent episode, she made plans to vote him out despite promising him he was in her final four. I also think she lied when she claimed to have ‘accidentally’ gone through his things.

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    itchy
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    Oh I have no doubt she knew what she was doing when she went through EVERYONE’s laundry, not just Malcolm’s. She’s clearly a snake. It’s possible she truly doesn’t realize just how much of a snake, a liar and backstabber she is. But she’s made it pretty clear to the rest of us. I wouldn’t have as much contempt for her if she’d own up to any of this. But she comes off as being brain-addled.

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    sweetblondie
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    @Dan: good point. I do think she was sincerely trying to air out everyone’s clothes…but she did lie when she said she’d keep it a secret. I guess I was filing that under her trying to “make a move” that failed…

    @Itchy: wow…you’re pretty passionate about it! But she’s not “clearly a snake” to me…at all. I think she’s a sweet, kind person that is in over her head and trying her best to play…and I don’t know what brain-addled means but I’m full of a Hobbit brunch from Denny’s and way too lazy to look that up right now…so won’t comment on that comment.

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    Clair
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    I never want to hear “This game is bigger than me” ever, ever again.

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    wcsdancer
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    I haven’t watched Survivor since season 3 or 4, but still loved your recap, PM. Also it confirms why I don’t watch anymore…so predictable. The same story every time with different characters.

    I’m probably in the minority, but I get SO irritated at these people bawling when the family members show up. You haven’t seen your family for what, 30some days because you wanted to be on Survivor? Pffft. My dad was a Marine when I was a kid and he was deployed to Japan for a whole year. Twice, two years apart. This was in the 70s, before cell phones and internet, and the folks couldn’t afford many international calls. Maybe the stress of the Survivor experience makes a person more emotional, but whenever I see that, I’m all Seriously? It’s been barely a month! Try a whole year, asshat! But maybe I’m just coldhearted.

    I really hope God isn’t putting some person on a game show (or a football game, etc.) at the top of his priority list.

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    itchy
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    That’s okay. I’m not exactly sure what a Hobbit brunch is either…

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    lindaw205
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 4:18 pm

    I figure the over the top reactions to seeing their families is mostly producer manipulation. And Lisa trying out for a Lifetime movie.

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    lindaw205
    Posted December 11, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    Oh, and I saw some links to some interviews RC did. She needs to send Survivor a thank you note for editing Abi and only Abi as the villian because she sure is full of herself.

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    PinkTop
    Posted December 12, 2012 at 7:32 pm

    Unless he gets cut at 4, Malcolm totally has this. I almost want Scabby to win just to see the look on Denise’s face. Almost.

    RC is no paragon of self awareness (and I can’t with that laugh), but her villainosity (I made up a word! Whee!) pales in comparison to Scabby’s.

    The Hobbit brunch – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/grubgrade/first-look-the-hobbit-men_b_2009741.html

    Jo Polniaczek was cooler than Blair Warner.

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    itchy
    Posted December 13, 2012 at 3:56 am

    I would have ordered the burger with the turd on it:
    http://grubgrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/The-Ring-Burger-Dennys-Hobbit.jpg

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    sweetblondie
    Posted December 13, 2012 at 10:12 am

    @Pink Top: Jo was cool, but Blair was the whole package, babe.