MiniCap: Survivor

73 Comments

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   Derek Hazelton
   Posted March 21, 2013 at 9:35 am

   This was the most boring tribal council in a long time because no one cared about the person who got booted or the person who potentially could’ve been booted.

   But, I must say I was annoyed by Corinne’s effusiveness about “loving the gays.” While it’s better than “hating the gays,” I kind of wished she would shut up about Michael’s sexuality. She didn’t even take the time to learn his name and just referred to him as “THE GAY!” WTF was that about? Corinne is the bitch I remember from Gabon where I loved her railing against Sugar and Sugar’s handing the game to the least deserving winner ever because of her psychological issues, but her going on and on about liking him because he was gay was extremely demeaning.

   Sherry truly benefited by the tribal swap. She’s the eldest member of the stronger of the two tribes and the new orange tribe is unlikely to lose the upcoming challenges. So, she can slide through to the merge where the Favorites will pick off Reynold and Eddie first. I hope that Sherry will align with Erik and Brenda and find a way to get her strategic groove back after the Laura/Shamar boots.

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   lindaw205
   Posted March 21, 2013 at 9:59 am

   This episode taught me that Corinne is indeed an idiot. WTH was that and had the guy even mentioned being gay? Oh wait, of course he hasn’t or at least it wasn’t shown because it’s been the Mantie/Hantzy/Shamoo show.

   Yeah, that was a bullshit tribal swap. And I thought Malcolm really let his douche colors shine through.

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   itchy
   Posted March 21, 2013 at 11:04 am

   I got an excellent deal on a gay just the other day. Wal-mart was having a special, two-for-one deal! Sure, I had to fight a horde of hefty gals, but I got one for me AND one for Mrs. Itchy! She’s thrilled.

   One of ‘em got a bit scuffed up, but that’s okay, he seems like he can take it, with all that leather he likes to wear. (That one’s the wife’s. Go figure.)

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   featherhead
   Posted March 21, 2013 at 11:05 am

   Phillip’s head is getting so big, I’m afraid he won’t fit into the shelter soon. Does he think he’s in the mafia now? Someone is going to come and give you a secret task to do…. dun dun dun. After you complete the task, you will now have a super secret stealth name, from this day forward you will be know as the Exterior. And you will be handed a tee shirt. LMAO! I have to give Matt and the “Gay” (tm Corrine) credit for not cracking up in Phillip’s face.

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   considerthis
   Posted March 21, 2013 at 11:15 am

   Convenient that the “swap” happened right after the rice is dumped so nobody has to suffer. After all why would you suffer in a game named SURVIVOR????

   Whomever said in last weeks comments that the game went to shit once Probst got his hands all over it is spot on. Jeffy picks and manipulates who advances and approx when the can be dismissed as was so evident in this swap.

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   Clair
   Posted March 21, 2013 at 11:18 am

   Gasp! I didn’t realize there were two bowls. Thanks PottyMouth for pointing that out.

   Lame.

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   crayondrawn
   Posted March 21, 2013 at 11:25 am

   Well to be fair at least they added another fan to the game. This Julia girl no way she’s been here this entire time right?

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   itchy
   Posted March 21, 2013 at 2:28 pm

   This season is seriously vying for the title of Worst Season Ever.

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   J-Mo
   Posted March 21, 2013 at 2:42 pm

   It’s weird, whenever I run around saying how much I love “the blacks” and say how I like playing games with “a black”, people give me THE strangest looks! I cannot figure it out for the life of me.

   love, J-Mo

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    carol
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 4:14 pm

    This episode was so dull. I know last week was great, but this episode was just a snooze fest. Nothing happened. Yes the tribes ‘switched’ but even that didn’t do anything since there is still a dominate tribe. I also saw the two bowls and call bull on that one. I wonder if they didn’t plan on the switch now and had to make some extra eggs and forgot to bring a larger bowl.

    I totally want to make those eggs for an outdoor party. It’s better than a balloon because you can’t tell what the color is. I can just imagine a game of shot/egg roulette.

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    Robin
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 6:05 pm

    I was just waiting for her to say “I can say these things because I have gay friends”…pfft

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    cattyfan
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 6:59 pm

    Isn’t it interesting that the team swap shored up the chances of all the producers favorites. and it had nothing at all to do with PROBST HANDING THE EGGS OUT instead of players picking them at random.

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    pretty good year
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 7:15 pm

    This episode was awful. As someone pointed out earlier, I didn’t care about the boot (Matt) or the potential boot (Julia), because the airtime has been dominated by offensive camera hogs. Yes, Shamar and Brandon are gone now, but Phillip is still dominating the edit and it looks like Corinne is shaping up to get an irritating confessional every few minutes, too. Where are Brenda, Erik, and Dawn? You know, the people I actually like and want to see?

    Phillip is beyond tiresome at this point. Stealth R Us is not entertaining and never has been, and is it even really that relevant? Everyone on views him as a joke, and apparently the major strategy happens without him. Like, Cochran took charge of the Matt boot, yet didn’t get half as much airtime as Phillip did. I’m not a huge Cochran fan, but wouldn’t it make more sense to show the people who, you know, are actually making the strategic decisions, instead of the cartoons who contribute nothing except dumb nicknames and dumber quotes?

    Also, did anyone else notice that there was a challenge set up on the beach where they switched tribes? Usually the new tribes compete in a challenge as soon as they switch (they did in One World and Nicaragua, at least), but I guess the challenge was edited out of the final cut of the episode. They had to make room for more narration from Phillip and Corinne, you know.

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    pretty good year
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 7:21 pm

    Also, the egg thing was a total joke. If the fans had a separate bowl, then it clearly only had three purple eggs and three orange eggs. There was no way they wouldn’t be a minority on both tribes. Every reality show has an element of producer manipulation, and I don’t expect Survivor to be any different, but this is reaching Big Brother levels of ridiculousness. You’d think they would try to make it less obvious, don’t you?

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    Robin
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 8:32 pm

    @pretty good year

    Great analysis. I agree.

    What this show used to be and what it is now is sad, actually. I will forever mourn the: ate rats because they were really hungry, killed a pig with a spear,chased down rice in rapids because thats all the food they had, picked maggots out of rice, had to boil the flippin water to drink, won a fishing hook at reward and were happy about it, hadn’t seen a pizza or a buffet ever, digging holes to poop and wearing the same fucking clothes til they fell apart Survivors!

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    cattyfan
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 8:48 pm

    One team this year won fishing gear. Have they used it at all? Remember when players would go out fishing every day? When being a provider for your team could keep you in the game?

    Remember when Richard Hatch brought in a four foot shark…after it had bitten him? Yeah. We aren’t likely to see anything like that out of this flaccid little group.

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    cattyfan
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 8:49 pm

    Oh…and the weigh in toward the end of the season to see how much weight they had lost.

    These days some players appear to gain weight while “surviving.”

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    nashuaf
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed the different bowls of eggs.

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    pretty good year
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    Robin: I agree that the show isn’t the same, but I think it mostly comes down to editing. That survival stuff you listed still happens, it’s just that the editors don’t show it anymore. You only hear about it in interviews, and occasionally you can find a survival-related secret scene on the Web site.

    Also, I disagree about the clothes part. The early seasons gave the Survivors more clothes than the recent ones. I re-watched Borneo and The Australian Outback recently, and they had tribe-colored ponchos and a decent selection of rain-resistant Reebok gear (since Reebok was a sponsor at the time). I think nowadays they just abandon them in their color-coded street clothes (suits, jeans, and dresses) and swimsuits. The first time they abandoned them with “just the clothes on their backs” was Pearl Islands. The show made a big deal of it at the time, because it hadn’t been done before. Now it’s passe.

    They also still have to boil their water in order to drink it. That hasn’t changed. In fact, the only survival-related thing that I think has majorly changed is that they’re given more elaborate rewards now, when originally they would run challenges for, like, a slice of pizza. I can name a few scenes from recent seasons where they picked through rice for maggots and killed rats (Natalie in Samoa had a good rat-killing scene), but I think it mostly comes down to the fact that the editors aren’t showing us this stuff. I don’t think the castaways necessarily have it easier.

    What’s wrong with the show is that they focus on a lot of tedious strategy and forced “characters” now, because they assume we don’t care about the survival element anymore. It’s sad, because I still enjoy that physical element, and I hate that I have to look at deleted scenes and read interviews just to see that it’s still a part of the show.

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    A monkey will bring you your secret name—but only if you have been secretly selected to become a member of Stealth ‘R’ Us. Middle management need not apply. Rogue Keebler elves will be shot in the ass with a tranquilizer gun and removed from the island. That is all. This coconut will self-destruct in 60 seconds.

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    Robin
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 10:59 pm

    @ pretty good year,

    I have to disagree with you concerning what is happening behind the scenes and what they are showing.

    I cannot believe that a show called Survivor would edit out scenes of folks actually surviving and instead focus on the luxury packages given to winners of the reward challenge’s. They know who their audience is, or was, and it certainly isn’t folks who want to tune in to “Watch People On Vacation”. Jeffy is even giving massages now for goodness sakes..

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 11:09 pm

    I would almost venture to say that there are probably port-a-pottys just out of camera range. If one does happen to find its way into a scene then it just gets photoshopped out. I just can’t imagine these people having to dig a hole and having to wipe with whatever plant that might be available at that moment. I can see it now. *OK, todays reward is duty paper!!!* *Make sure all duty paper is completely covered so it’s not blowing all over the island after you have used it.* Sayith the Probst. I have yet to see somebody having to go around or actually stepping in someone’s poo when they are following them around with the camera. Like when they are searching around for the HII. Or somebody flipping over a rock and the only Hidden Imunity Idol that’s under it has a really bad aroma to it. Definitely not something that you would want to stick in your pocket either!!!

    What is up with these people that they refuse to get rid of Agent Pink Manties??? I don’t get it!!! He is annoying as hell. Everything that comes out of his mouth is pure *bullshit!!!* And I mean that in every sense of the word. He’s not that great in challenges. Stealth-R-Us is just about the dumbest, childish, most annoying thing I never did hear tell of. If that dumbass come up to me and started with that bullshit. I would tell that asshole, *You better don’t!!!* and *Tear your stupid fucken ass!!!* *And where ever you see me. Make sure you ain’t even anywhere close to that spot no matter what!* There is just no way in hell that I could possibly be around this joker for any more then 5 minutes, before I would be chasing his ass off with a big stick, or knife, or whatever I could get my hands on. That would do as much bodily harm as possible to this idiot!!!

    I really didn’t care one way or another about Matt’s Weard Beard. But I never in my life would have voted him out before Agent Pink Manties!!! I would be one happy assed camper to be able to watch Jeffy Pop put his fire the hell out this next week!!! No matter what, it shouldn’t take to long now anyways. The other side is going to be handing them their asses and there just ain’t a damn thing that they are going to be able to do about it!!!!!

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    Robin
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 11:30 pm

    @ Mike Hunt,

    The did indeed have to dig a hole to poop into in the first Survivor. It freaked out so many folks that they said they didn’t poop the whole time they were there. (then again, the weren’t eating pheasant under glass on a sailboat as a reward either) I have no doubt that they are given some kind of porta potty to use nowadays simply because if they came to my country I wouldn’t want them digging holes and shitting everywhere so they probably had to, for enviromental reasons stop that part of surviving.

    The reason that Agent Pink Panties is still there is the oldest reason in Survivor. Everyone looks better compared to him in the end. Of course, this could change but for now I think that is why, although he is not ALL there, he is still there.

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    Robin
    Posted March 21, 2013 at 11:46 pm

    That reminded me…does anyone remember when a tribe was awarded the materials to make an outhouse…then Yau Man and someone else got drunk and passed out in it?

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 12:16 am

    If they let ‘em have an outhouse this time, it’d be too much of a temptation—they’d be likely to find Pink Manties upside down in the shitter. They would if I was on that island.

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    itchy
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 1:09 am

    Yes! There was definitely a reward set up at the switch! Looks like another skill-booth challenge, from the aerial shot, so probably boring as hell. And most likely a complete blowout — which is why it was cut, because it would have spoiled the immunity challenge as well. Since one tribe is so CLEARLY weaker than the other.

    I mean, it’s pretty obvious the producers fixed things to give the “favorites”a majority. They probably didn’t expect the tribes to end up so uneven, of course. But that doesn’t really matter anyway, it’s pretty evident that the favorites already discussed the strategy of sticking together and just picking off the fans (as someone else pointed out, they already knew the tribes would be switched). And there’s just another couple of episodes to go until the merge, right?

    So all the favorites need do is hang tight for that. They need to choose which of the fans are the least likely to present any kind of challenge at all (which means they’ll be keeping Julia and the Taco Bell lady) to bring to the merge with them.

    But it simply does not matter which tribe wins the next couple of immunity challenges. Great season you got going there, Probst.

    And yeah, Phillip knows he’s sitting pretty. He doesn’t give a shit about winning — he’ll get the 100 grand again, that’s already pretty good.

    You gotta wonder who they’re making this show for nowadays. It’d be interesting to know who Probst spends his days with. We already know where Burnett’s head is at. And that explains a lot of why this show has become so watered down.

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    Robin
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 1:55 am

    I think Burnett’s head is up Jeff Probst ass.

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 2:00 am

    I don’t know. Surviving is surviving. I personally think that they should have no accommodations!!! Just a couple of changes of clothes and that’s that. They should have to take care of themselves the best way they know how. By hunting, fishing, gathering and earning anything and everything. All challenges should be designed for both individual and tribe alike. The tribe wins the challenge and they get like a boat/raft. The person putting forth the the most during the challenge should get limited fishing supplies. Like a couple of hooks and some line with a couple of sinkers. Go get some dinner dammit!!!

    There shouldn’t be any of this, steaks and whole sides of ham with all the trimmings and so forth. You should have to be able to make it on your own and as a tribe. With very little of the modern conveniences that they get. This shit ain’t surviving. It’s going on vacation with some of the things that they get right off the bat. Like tarps and rope and fishing supplies that make a regular fishermans tackle box look empty. Then they don’t even use them half the time. It’s because they don’t really have to. They are given plenty of other stuff. So why go fishing if you don’t really have to.

    If these people were to have to actually survive on their own and work together as a real tribe. There would be none of these Shamooos and Cochbites like there is now. If it were to be true survival then these kind of people would be begging to get thrown out. Agent Pink Manties would be crying for his mommy and he would never ever come back for a second go round.

    This garbage that they shove down our throats and expect us to like it ain’t nothing about true survival. To me it’s a bunch of folks getting together and socializing and playing some Carnival games being a little hungry for a little more then a month. Actually less then a month for most. With a host that tries to bring as much drama to the table as he can without trying to even hide the fact that he is doing it.

    What it really boils down to is that it’s just a silly TV show. I’m sure that the fear of being sued for the smallest of things runs rampent each and every season. Anymore your neighbor can sue the hell out of you for your dog pissing on his bushes. It doesen’t matter that he planted them up against your fence!!! Dog piss is eventually going to kill them bushes and that’s all that matters. So I guess what I’m saying is that we should be happy with what we got. Because it could always be worse. I could be living under a bridge instead of underneath the steps at this beautiful public library…..

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    Robin
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 2:01 am

    But I wouldn’t be so bold as to presume that is what you meant, itchy

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    itchy
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 2:38 am

    Well, there’s a reason why Probst seems to happy about this season.

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    Robin
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 3:05 am

    He does seem pretty happy with himself. I think he should give all the folks that are voted out a shoulder massage as a parting gift.

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 3:20 am

    Isn’t there somebody from this show in jail??? Like in Peru or somewhere like that???

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 4:11 am

    Robin, don’t forget PottyMouth got that great screen grab of Probst getting a handful of Hantzy Pantz’ right moob too. On this show it’s better than being auf’ed by Heidi, you get a farewell massage not just some lame ass air kissing.

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    pretty good year
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 4:21 am

    Robin: We’ll just have to agree to disagree, then. I mean, I probably have an unhealthy level of obsession with this show, because I can remember a lot of trivial things about it. If anything, the trend for the first few seasons was to give the castaways less and less at the start of the game. In the first three seasons, they all got to strip supplies from the boat or truck that marooned them. Then, in Marquesas, a big part of the promotion for that season revolved around the fact that they weren’t given any rations at all. Instead, they were just given a pot and a machete. Then Pearl Islands took it a step further, abandoning the players in regular clothes instead of survival gear. Once these changes took place, they became the norm for the subsequent seasons, so they never really got mentioned again.

    Of course, a lot of it’s just a marketing gimmick. The show can say, \We’re abandoning them without food or supplies!\ but then turn around and give out those same supplies in reward challenges later on, removing the impact. Still, after re-watching some of the early seasons, it did surprise me how elaborate some of the shelters were back then. I had completely forgotten Colby’s huge Texas flag that, combined with a tarp they won, gave the castaways a giant tent shelter in The Australian Outback. It was a nice change of pace from the standard bamboo hut.

    (One exception to this is Redemption Island, which was sponsored by Sears, where the castaways had huge tool kits right from the start. I don’t think that affected the quality of the season that much, but it did irritate me.)

    Anyway, Probst has said in interviews that people get bored by the survival aspect and that the show’s main focus is on the strategy — including all the twists like the Hidden Immunity Idol, Exile Island, and Redemption Island. I don’t really know who the \people\ are he’s talking about — probably the same ones who tell him a Hantz needs to be on every season and Phillip’s the greatest character ever. If I had to point to who’s ruining the show, I definitely would have to point to Probst. The quality declined immensely as soon as he took over as executive producer. I don’t think Mark Burnett makes too many of the decisions anymore, even though his name’s attached to it.

    itchy: Yeah, I examined some screenshots of that reward challenge setup. It looked like a coconut slingshot, similar to the one in One World where they had to launch coconuts and hit a bunch of different targets. Theoretically, brute strength shouldn’t help that much in a challenge like that. The female tribe in One World won it, after all. But the new Gota tribe has both Malcolm and Reynold, and they’re also the ones who usually end up throwing rings and sandbags for their tribes, so yeah, this is going to be a boring few episodes before the merge. I don’t expect the new Bikal tribe to win anything.

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    pretty good year
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 4:30 am

    Oh, and Robin, you’re thinking about Panama–Exile Island, the twelfth season. The Casaya tribe won an outhouse filled with rolls of toilet paper, but they cleared it out and used it to keep firewood dry, instead. Then, a few episodes later, Bobby and Bruce (Bruce being an older Asian male; Yau-Man was on a later season), took some wine they won at a challenge and got sloshed together while everyone else slept.

    They also dug holes to poop in as recently as Gabon, season 17. I only remember that because that blowhard, Ace, had to go on a long spiel about how the Roman soldiers used to do it, and everyone on his tribe had some hilarious reactions to his pretentiousness over something like pooping. I’m sure that particular thing depends on the season, though, and what the local governments allow them to do. The show is filmed in a variety of national parks and wildlife reserves, so I’m sure they have a lot of restrictions about what they can and can’t do each season.

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    Robin
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 4:53 am

    @ pretty good year,

    “Robin: We’ll just have to agree to disagree, then.”

    I am on the same page. Can you imagine how awful this place would be if everyone agreed with everyone. ;} I don’t want to log into a world like that! lol

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    Robin
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 5:10 am

    “you’re thinking about Panama–Exile Island, the twelfth season. The Casaya tribe won an outhouse filled with rolls of toilet paper, but they cleared it out and used it to keep firewood dry, instead. Then, a few episodes later, Bobby and Bruce (Bruce being an older Asian male; Yau-Man was on a later season), took some wine they won at a challenge and got sloshed together while everyone else slept.”

    Wow! Good recall! I knew someone got drunk and passed out in the outhouse. I thought it was Yau-Man and somebody else. You know what they say about those Asian folks and how they all look alike… ;}

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    itchy
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 5:26 am

    I’m starting to think that pretty good year is Cochran in disguise. How the hell can you remember all this? I’m lucky to remember last week’s episode. (Well, in this case, no, I’m not lucky.)

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    lindaw205
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 5:46 am

    I seem to recall someone mentioning just last season about how important it was to get the fire going so they could boil water. Was it Russell?

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    pretty good year
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 6:24 am

    itchy: Survivor and The Amazing Race are pretty much the only shows I watch these days, so that makes it easy. I think it also comes from being a teacher at a small school where I work with almost every student (around 140) on a regular basis. I have to remember a lot of names, grades, phone numbers, and family situations, so I think that memory skill has developed over the years, and it just bleeds over to other aspects of my life, too.

    Speaking of which, The Amazing Race is blowing Survivor out of the water these days in terms of entertainment. That’s a show that has, unlike Survivor, has kept mostly true to its original concept, and it shows. I’m really enjoying the current season.

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    L Chienne
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 6:52 am

    Has that (think her name is) Beverly uttered a word yet??

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    itchy
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 6:55 am

    You mean Julia, right? She had a couple of lines this episode. Nice guttural voice she’s got going there. Too bad she appears completely useless. Another part of the stacking of the Favorites’ deck.

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    Robin
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 7:21 am

    @Lindaw,

    I am pretty sure that was so that they could cook the rice.

    Those folks have plenty of access to water as is indicated in the challenges. They are hydrating all over the place and nobody seems to be on “boil water to drink” detail.

    Not that that is a bad thing..they need to stay hydrated so they don’t keel over and die. If they keel over and die we don’t have anyone to make fun of.

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    lindaw205
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 7:39 am

    Well, I remember him saying something about not wanting to dehydrate. Wasn’t Russell removed from his previous season for dehydration? My memory is kinda hazy so I’m sure I’m just remembering it wrong.

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    Anon
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 8:10 am

    So what if the tribes are very unmatched now? I enjoyed that switch because of how the colors were revealed. It was like “Everyone covered in Big Bird’s jizz is on Gota. Everyone covered in Barney’s jizz is on Bikal.”

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    itchy
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 10:10 am

    I did enjoy how all the Favorites immediately figured out Reynoldswrap’s douchiness.

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    sploosh
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 11:27 am

    I don’t think that anyone was trying to conceal that the bowls were set up to give the favorites an numbers advantage – I even went in assuming that the tribes were always going to shake out 4-3. That being said, I think it would be way more interesting if the contestants could have come out in any sort of combinations.

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    itchy
    Posted March 22, 2013 at 1:10 pm

    Breaking news: The French version just started filming its new season. Except one of the candidates DIED during the very first challenge. Heart Attack. He was 25. They canceled the entire season.

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 23, 2013 at 1:17 am

    I guess the French version don’t do the typical Carnival games like ours does. I just can’t imagine anyone having a heart attack throwing rings at poles or small Coconuts at some over sized blocks!!!

    That is to bad though. It always leaves a grey area that almost always changes the way of doing things. Things that are never for the better.

    Now I haven’t really watched Survivor for that long. Four maybe five seasons at the most. So I am a late bloomer in the game. I’m also sure that they have it worse then it appears to be on TV too. I know that a lot has to do with where they wind up being has a lot to do with just how hard some things are. Like the last 2 seasons being in the Philippines and the couple before that being in the South Pacific that fresh water and things like Coconuts and what not are readily available. Which help out no matter what. I also know that if I were on the show that by the end of the third rainy day in a row that somebody like Cochring would have a nice cut from ear to ear too!!! So I think it best to not even think about trying out for the show. I would either win because everybody would be terrified of me. Or in prison for killing Cochrings!!! So much for my social game…..

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    itchy
    Posted March 23, 2013 at 2:16 am

    The French version always starts off with some kind of big race through the sand and into the jungle, where they have to climb over obstacles, crawl through mud, etc. It’s pretty grueling, considering how hot it probably is. This guy apparently had a heart attack inside of 10 minutes of it.

    Also, as I’ve mentioned before, the French show has stuck to the spirit of the original — these people are really forced to survive. By the middle of the show they’re usually starving. To the point where the show has to intervene sometimes and give them food. And for *only* 100,000 euros.

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 23, 2013 at 8:19 am

    I’m sure I would like that version much better!!! I guess it just goes to prove just how spoiled we really are here in the good old USofA. Because a Million Dollars just seems like a whole butt load of chump change for spending some 35 days out in the wilds. Hell I’m lucky to be able to even spell it because I know I damn sure can’t count that high!!!!!

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    Robin
    Posted March 23, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    Did you dognap sheesh’s pup?

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    sheesh
    Posted March 23, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    FLUFFY!!!!!!!!!!!
    WTF dude?

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 23, 2013 at 5:47 pm

    Oh man!!! That’s to much!!! Here I thought I had an original going and it turns out I’m a no good for nothing avi thief. I can’t believe it. Ok, I am really sorry and I will definitely change it. I thought I was somebody sporting the destroyer of worlds and it turns out that I’m a coyote!!! HA!!! What do ya know about that!!!

    Would you happen to know a feller by the name of Trelane by any chance???

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    Robin
    Posted March 23, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    Is he a dognapper too???

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 24, 2013 at 1:26 am

    I would never in my life intentionally napper anybodys Dog!!! Or Cat for that matter!!! I’m just not that kind of boy. My pride and dignity would never allow me to do such a dastardly deed as that. I can honestly say that I had no idea that anyone else had an avitar similar to that one. I have apologized and taken it down in good faith. I feel I have done everything in my power to right this wrong. As for said person above. All I can say to the question is that I have no idea!!!!!

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    sheesh
    Posted March 24, 2013 at 2:16 am

    Thank you for changing it mike hunt. I have had fluffy for quite a few years. I cannot
    really blame you Fluffy is cool as ice. There is a cat Destroyer of worlds or some otger destroyer of worlds. Get on that. We’ll be twinz!!!!!!

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    sheesh
    Posted March 24, 2013 at 2:18 am

    Robin is my hero! Thank you!

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    lindaw205
    Posted March 24, 2013 at 4:06 am

    I’m glad this was handled amicably and no hostage negotiator was needed. Those situations can get messy.

    By the way, I have lusted for Fluffy since I first saw your avatar. I’m going in search of my own cut kitty or doggie.

    Ugh, I have crumbs in my keyboard.

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted March 24, 2013 at 6:10 am

    If you are looking for a fluffy avatar — now that Beardschlong has been voted off the Island, I bet he’s up for adoption. He prolly smells like a wet Irish Setter after all that rain.

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 24, 2013 at 8:59 am

    HA!!! You guys are to much. I about spit my coffee all over my monitor and keyboard!!! Thanks a lot guys!!!!!

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    L Chienne
    Posted March 24, 2013 at 11:00 am

    Seems Brenda is the one I don’t remember uttering a word. Phillip more than makes up for it. What an idiot.

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 24, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    The person I feel most for is Dawn. It’s not that I really like her that much. I just think she kind of got the short end of the stick after the shake up got over with. She went from a tribe that was doing all the winning. To a tribe that, well, I don’t know. I just really cant see that bunch of screwballs doing much except for being completely and totally fed up with Agent Pink Manties before it’s all said and done. Hopefully they will pull there heads out and vote that dipshit off as soon as possible. For some odd reason I just don’t see that happening though…..

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    itchy
    Posted March 24, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    I’m still wondering why Dawn is on this season at all. Maybe she cut a deal with Cochran — he’d only go if she was brought back on? Because she was pretty much worthless her season, and she’s worthless now, other than for making her highly exasperated housewife face.

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 25, 2013 at 12:04 am

    It does seem like she is always making some kind of a freaky kind of face. That’s funny!!! Something else that’s kind of odd is that the mimicap almost all the time has quite a few more posts then the regular recap does…..

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    itchy
    Posted March 25, 2013 at 5:57 am

    Obviously it’s because we’ve all spent our load on the minicap. Maybe there should be a way of merging the minicap comments into the full recap once that’s been posted?

    Of course, if they could do that, they could probably also give us an edit button so we (er, I mean, I) can correct our typos.

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted March 25, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    I swear they have quotas for stereotypes like those old World War II movies did–we need:
    one religious mommy (that always seems to be the same slot)
    an annoying turncoat nerd
    an asian
    a hottie or two (the Jezebel slot)
    the cocky hot guy
    the muscle-bound dumb guy
    a gay
    a guy with tattoo/beard/biker/outsider guy
    one rogue Keebler Elf (preferably from the Hantz fambly of inbreds)
    a couple of African-Americans
    with Pink Manties they filled the slot for the megalomaniacal, delusional wing nut and a couple of other categories as well.

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    itchy
    Posted March 25, 2013 at 3:10 pm

    Actually, this season was filmed in 2012, which was supposed to be the Year of the Mormon, which is the real reason why Dawn was there. Every reality show had a Mormon — sometimes even two — last year. It was the height of fashion. Oh! How silly we all looked back then!

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted March 25, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    Survivor must be rocking the trend then, they’ve had Mormons forevah–as far back as the winsomely annoying Neleh and her substitute PawPaw.

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    Derek Hazelton
    Posted March 25, 2013 at 3:54 pm

    @Aunt Dorsey, you forgot the requisite old man who always tends to get voted out on the third episode.

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    Robin
    Posted March 25, 2013 at 5:49 pm

    http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=797981

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    Mike Hunt
    Posted March 25, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    @ Derek Hazelton – Exactly!!! Does anybody remember Jimmy Johnson???

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    CattyFan
    Posted March 25, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    Everyone remembers Rudy Boesch, at age 72 the oldest contestant ever. He placed third in season one…and was easily one of the stongest players ever. He was also a man who never broke his word during the game (or outside the game, I’m betting.)