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By admin | Sunday, October 30, 2005 | 2:26 pm | 51 Comments

suvivor10-27-05h There was a lot of action last week on Survivor, and I am sure they weren’t going to be able to repeat the amount of excitement that was in an episode that had two double tribal councils, but quite honestly, I was expecting a little more than what we received this past week. I haven’t seen Survivor lay an egg like this one in a long time, but with a merge imminent and with it an emphasis on an entirely different type of physical challenge and politicking, we won’t have to sit through something like that for a long time.From the first shot of the episode, I knew that we were in trouble It’s more of those marching ants in NightVision. Do you ever wonder that there hasn’t been any new ant shots since the first season of Survivor? I bet the footage could have even been an accident. One lazy cameraman left his rig in the jungle, pointed at a tree, and it ran for a while. The producers noticed it, used it, and now it’s a staple of “we’re back from commercial intros”. But do you think anybody is paying attention at what kind of ants they have been using? No, of course not. I demand proof that the ant footage is not recycled. The people demand justice!

Well, if you are wondering why I wasted a paragraph on ants before anything else, well, you have an idea of what kind of episode we are dealing with. Nakum has had some good momentum, and although they were forced to go to tribal council, it seemed like everybody wasn’t that upset because they had a chance to get rid of Margaret, and she seemed to be the biggest cause of problems in the tribe. It wasn’t because she was actually that huge of a bitch, but she was enough of a bitch to piss of Judd, and if Judd is pissed off in even a small way, he has no problem mixing it up and causing a lot of problems.

I think Judd is pretty stupid, but even he was able to realize that he might have shown a little bit too much of his temper with Margaret at tribal council, and he tried to assure everybody that his bark is worse than his bite. The main problem, he said, was that Margaret “pushed his button”. Now, personally, I don’t get mad at a person unless they push my buttons, if they only push one button, I can usually live with that. If Judd gets upset when only one button is pressed, I guess his fuse is shorter than we thought. Then again, maybe he just doesn’t have multiple buttons like most people. After all, it seems like he has been working fine with less of a brain than your average person, so maybe he is working with fewer buttons than a normal person, and pushing that one button really pisses him off.

Judd went on an on about how Margaret was bringing everybody down because she was upset that she wasn’t seen as the mom in the new Nakum and she was upset. He admitted he was a loose cannon and he did blow up, but insisted that he was a big teddy bear around camp, and there was nothing for people to be afraid of. Jamie put it another way. He admitted that Judd was a big guy, has a big voice, scares other people (and probably likes that he does), but Jamie was happy that Judd was all of those things. He knew that Judd would be a good ally after the merge, and if he took Judd to the final two, there was no way that people would vote for Judd because of how much he was pissing everybody off.

Yaxha had an entirely different problem. Yes, they also had to vote off a member of their tribe, and although Bryan was not hated around camp, it didn’t look like they were crying that he was gone. What they were crying about was the marks on their body from the big balls they were pushing around in the reward challenge from day before. I am not sure why they suffered so much more than Nakum, or maybe the producers simply left Nakum out because they had were bitching about Margaret enough to fill a segment. Whatever the reason was, every single member of Yaxha had these huge blister-like things on their shoulders and faces, and they had scabbed over and were turning into open, festering sores. Not even the pharaohs had seen things this bad, and none had it worse than Bobby Jon. When I first looked at one of his shoulders, I thought that he had placed it in a deli slicer.

Mmmm. Tasty.

The two teams came together for the reward challenge, and we figured that it would be some sort of feast, but we weren’t sure. Well, in honor of the Mayans, who discovered chocolate, the winners would win a lot of the sweet stuff as well as a zip line canopy tour of the rainforest. In order to win, the teams completed in a challenge that looked a lot like one that we saw in the Real World/ Road Rules challenge with Veronica and Jodi wrapping themselves in toilet paper. The twist on this was that there would be four people who wrapped themselves up in succession. That means that the first person would wrap themselves in fabric, would unhook themselves from a post, run to the next survivor, and then at that post, the fabric had to be wrapped around two people. The third post, it would wrap around three people, and the fourth post, four tribe members would have to work in synch with each other to wrap themselves up. The players would then unwrap themselves in succession, and the first team to have all four players unwrapped at past the finish line would win.

It sounds pretty complicated, but was fairly easy. In fact, other than waiting for somebody to get sick and vomit from all of the spinning, I wasn’t sure what the hell to say about this thing. I mean it was kind of funny to see everybody strapped in together. Brandon and Bobby Jon were tied together in such a way that I thought they were going to use a ball gag next. I guess I could say they were strapped in tighter than an Indigo Girls slumber party with Melissa Etheridge. Ba-dum ching! Seriously, it was more of an interesting concept than it was an interesting something to watch. Why can’t they come up with Mayan curling?

After a bunch of spinning and no hurling (or curling), Yaxha won the reward and got to enjoy the benefits. The first part was a zip line tour of the rainforest. It must have been a great feeling flying through the air like that. Amy was scared, but given the chance of a lifetime, she wasn’t going to miss anything. I really liked Bobby Jon last year, but this season, he has seemed more like a horse’s ass than anything else. When talking about his experience zipping down through the canopy. His words are more humble than lofty, and he comes across as very humble and appreciative. I guess when he’s not losing, he gets a little bit better of an attitude.

When they go to the reward, there was a ton of chocolate and plenty of milk to wash it down. It was true that the people of ancient Meso and Central America discovered cocoa, it was actually the Europeans that perfected sweetening the cocoa powder and making it into the candy that fattens us, gives us cavities, and makes us break out all over the place. But we all still love it anyway. My favorite candy bars are Butterfinger, Reese’s peanut butter cups, and Symphony bars with Toffee and Almonds. Actually, I still have part of a Symphony in the fridge. Just a minute, I think I’ll have a bite. Mmmm. That was good.

I always though it was a bad idea to have these rewards where the primary component was sugar, because you would think that all of that sugar all of a sudden would make people sick since they weren’t used to it. It was the most chocolate Bobby Jon ever saw in his life, which probably means he’s never seen a Godiva or Ghiardelli store. That wasn’t the case, and after Yaxha pigged out, they took a lot of it back to camp.

Last week, the promos made a big deal about the “FIRST EVER!!!” time one tribe invaded another one. Yaxha made their way over to the Nakum tribe by boat, and it looks like they were going to stop until they heard the lamentations of the women and Stephenie. Or not. The members of Yaxha actually just wanted to invite Nakum over to a pool party in celebration of Danni’s birthday. It was a pretty harmless request, but there were some that didn’t think it was a good idea to be cavorting and canoodling with the enemy. Cindy wondered why anybody would hang out with the people that they wanted to get rid of. Well, part of it is probably the producer sort of want you to, but you can understand why Nakum is content. Margaret is no longer around, and Rafe had managed to collect enough leaves and paint them to make a deck of cards. That Rafe, he’s so resourceful. What are the chances that he knits? And is good at it?

The pool party was not that big of a deal, but there were some highlights. There was Bobby Jon, at one with nature, feeding little pieces of his festering shoulder to the minnows. It takes quite a man to sit there and watch an animal eat a part of your body, and not only not let it bother you, but to enjoy watching it happen. Bobby Jon was using himself as bait, letting the little fish gather and eat his shoulder, and then try and dive in with his mouth and get the minnows. For Nakum, the highlight was the leftover chocolate Yaxha let them have.

Flesh-eating fish? No problem!

There were also some lowlights. I don’t think I will ever get the image of Judd in his boxer briefs. The only thing that came to mind other than “get a garbage bag before you make a mess of the living room” was “at least there wasn’t a bunch of yellow stains on the front”. I wouldn’t put all of you through such on ordeal, but Juddfan would probably never let me live it down if I didn’t share it with you.

Judd’s back is actually much less hairy than I imagined.

Eventually, Nakum went back to their own camp. Jamie was being really pissy, and he even got Steph a little bit upset about his attitude. That left Yaxha to their own business. We once again got another attempt by somebody to pin down Gary’s true background. Was he a football player or just a humble landscaper? Does anybody care? Amy wanted an answer, and said that she would beat Gary down like a stepchild, but she didn’t say if the stepchild was red headed or brunette. Gary seemed so proud of himself because he said that he had lied about his name and his hometown, and so it would be difficult for Amy to look him up, even with her police connections. HA! I am not sure if Gary was trying to be funny, because obviously as soon as she gets home, she’s going to check the internet and see that Gary was a football player on the CBS page for Survivor Guatemala. So I guess that search for the truth would be metaphorical, much like our search for anything worth watching in this episode.

Immunity this week would be decided as the two teams competed to complete a giant Mayan calendar. Three team members would search for puzzle pieces partially or completely buried in the sand and two others would complete the puzzle. Going into this, Yaxha knew that it would be a big day. The merge was happening soon and if they didn’t win, they would surely be at a huge disadvantage with the numbers, meaning Nakum could simply vote them off one by one.

suvivor10-27-05f Early on, the game was pretty even. The teams were gathering the pieces pretty evenly, and it looked like it would come down to who could put the pieces together the quickest. Yaxha was having trouble with their 11th and 12th pieces, and gave Nakum a huge time advantage that they wouldn’t give up. Nakum won, and in celebration for putting the pieces together quickly, Rafe grabbed Stephenie from behind. At first it looked like she was going to turn around and slap whoever it was that had copped a feel, but then realized it was Rafe and decided not to do anything.

This was a worst-case scenario for Yaxha in general and Amy in particular. She knew that she had an uphill battle, and she decided that she wouldn’t be able to outlast or outplay the people on her tribe, she decided that the only thing she could do was outwit them. Well, if Brian wasn’t able to outwit Yaxha to save himself, I don’ t think there was going to be much of a chance of Amy doing it. She had a pretty good strategy, however, and that was to try and convince everybody else that she deserves to be there more than Bobby Jon because Bobby Jon was on his second season of survivor.

It seemed like Amy had a chance to use that reasoning, but I was concerned when the person that should have been her biggest ally was entirely noncommittal when it came to the decision. Gary said that he wouldn’t vote for Bobby Jon unless Amy got Danni or Brandon to go along with it. I’m really surprised that Gary didn’t try and help campaign for Amy a little more. It would be advantageous to have her going into the merge with him, but instead he became wishy washy about the whole thing, talking about how he wants to keep loyalty with the other three. I am not sure what Gary’s angle is, but I have to say I was almost upset at how he acted pretty much like a coward when it came to this thing. Where’s that football mentality that you’re supposed to have loyalty to the people who had been through the trenches? And practically speaking, wouldn’t you want to have Amy competing in the immunity challenges on a bum ankle than a strong Bobby Jon?

suvivor10-27-05g At tribal council, Jeff asked about how you make the choice of how to send somebody home. When Brandon mentioned that the hardest part is justifying why you voted somebody out and how maybe somebody in your alliance is less deserving, Bobby Jon shot a look at him which made me think he was quite surprised at what he was hearing. I thought that maybe Amy actually had a chance, but when the votes were read, she was the one who was being sent home. It was sad to see to see her go, because she brought tons of personality, but we were happy to see that when she left, she would be able to go back to her family and the Jose Canseco doppelganger that they keep in the basement.

After the vote, Jeff told Yaxha that they were to head back tot he Nakum camp, take new buffs, and come up with a new tribe name together. It’s a whole different ballgame now, of course, and it’s going to be interesting to see if there are any people up to the task of scheming their way to the final two.

What did you think about this episode? Is Judd causing too much trouble in his tribe? Does anybody like Gary? Who has the best shot of winning now that we are at the merge?

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1

The Dogg Pound

Posted October 30, 2005 at 3:02 pm

I think that the two people with the best chance to win are Brandon and Danni. I think that Rafe and Lydia might make it to the final four, but no way would the jury vote to give either of them the million. And yeah, that was one of the most boring Survivor episodes in a long while.
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jack

Posted October 30, 2005 at 3:30 pm

true, true, j-unit–this episode was a downer, not the least because the more harmonious and likable of the two tribes had to go to tribal council, voting out amy, a tough lady with an endearing wiseass streak and a great attitude–by far one of the easiest players to get behind this season.

as for gary’s angle, my guess is he’s got a final 2 deal with danni and that they are hoping that bobby jon will end up being a good target to step behind going into the merge as they work on building a majority against the jock cabal. rafe, lydia, and cindy would probably be more than happy to ditch the testosterone trio of judd, steph, and jamie. lydia has to know she is on the bottom of that food chain; cindy’s a clear outsider–the whole ‘let’s not go to the pool party’ thing was just overcompensation to avoid being the next original nakum member to get booted; rafe just looks totally intimidated and is smart enough to know he has no chance of competing for immunity in anything remotely physical against the likes of steph or jamie. they would be wisest to realign with less dominant and belligerent players while they have the chance.

as for bobby john, he’s definitely regaining ‘bobby jesus’ status with his thickening beard and that whole ‘this is my body, take and eat’ thing with the fish. jesus was way into all the fish metaphors and symbolism, too. coincidence? i think not.

this episode really pointed out what a loss brian was to the entertainment value of the series, and losing amy will only make things worse. hopefully the merge will knock the tension back up.
3

gt

Posted October 30, 2005 at 3:43 pm

I’m gonna miss ol’ Amy. I had hoped you had a sound clip of Amy ribbing on Gary about beatin’ him down if he was a football playah – I could barely understand a word of it, but for once that boston accent made me smile rather than wince. She showed a lot of spunk and personality, its too bad she had to go.
4

Dana

Posted October 30, 2005 at 3:56 pm

Danni looks good to get into the final 2 now, but she still looks like a walking skeleton on camera.
5

XETMOT

Posted October 30, 2005 at 5:46 pm

Amy reminds me of a harder-edged Ana Gasteyer. Will miss her.
6

chronic

Posted October 30, 2005 at 6:26 pm

I seem to have developed a crush on Brandon.
7

Trumpoline

Posted October 30, 2005 at 10:11 pm

Hehehe. Steph had that “Okayyyy…” look when Rafe tried to squeeze Steph’s boobies. She probably felt it was no big deal, since Rafe solved the puzzle while she just stood around and probably that was his first close encounter with boobies. ;D

Next, did anyone notice Judd wandering, looking at the ground and the trees while his team was competing in the reward challenge? Probably he really has ADD.

Anyway, do we really need a shot of Judd in his wet boxers?

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

And somebody please take a look at Bobby Jon’s wounds! Awww… BJ, my sweet.
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Victoria

Posted October 30, 2005 at 11:19 pm

The Passion of the Bobby Jon
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Victoria

Posted October 30, 2005 at 11:24 pm

http://www/cbs.com/primetime/survivor10/survivors/pgall.php?id=16&s=3
Sorry, I don’t know how to do a link, but this is my Passion of the Bobby Jon pic.

I LOVE Bobby Jon!

I loved this recap almost as much. So many good things-the ant paragraph followed by Judd’s “button” paragraph. Ah, good times.
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Victoria

Posted October 30, 2005 at 11:26 pm

Hey, it just did the link for me. Cool. Clearly, I am no genius at computers, which reminds me my beloved Bobby Jon can win some individual immunities, but God help us if there are any puzzles.
11

Victoria

Posted October 30, 2005 at 11:37 pm

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor10/survivors/pgall.php?id=16&s=3

Okay, it doesn’t do any good if it does the link for me and I don’t put in the correct info. Sorry, it’s late. And the recap was so funny I couldn’t concentrate.
12

Lisa

Posted October 31, 2005 at 12:34 am

Survivor is just getting boring.
They need bigger personalities. Well.. ones that aren’t going to get voted out too soon.
And they also need to do my idea.
2 tribes, living together on the same beach.
They’d still have to compete with the other tribe, but they’d have to still live on that same beach.
Would make a merge all the better and would change the way the tribes view the other since they’d know the other people.

I think it would be neat.
13

GregnNYC

Posted October 31, 2005 at 6:02 am

Definitely a dull episode. But that’s why they tried to make it the “FUN!!” episode with card games, chocolate, zip lines, puzzles, and pool-parties! IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m surprised the Survivors all werenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t wearing little cone-shaped birthday hats.

Rafe is totally going to make it to final four.

And #5 (XETMOT), I TOTALLY have been thinking the Amy-Ana Gasteyer thing since before the show aired and I saw her pic on the website. I even commented as such to my Survivor circle.

And what was with Bobby Jon’s Mayan History lesson at the pool party that the Mayans used to get together to smoke before they went back and continued the war. Was Phil from Amazing Race coaching him from the side? With this episode we needed a Fast Forward.
14

is

Posted October 31, 2005 at 8:33 am

What would Bobby Jon do, if he cought one of those fish in his mouth? I think he would hold it between his teeth, and growl like an angry dog.
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General Dreedle

Posted October 31, 2005 at 8:44 am

I don’t think Judd has ADD. I don’t think he has SUBTRACT, or MULTIPLY, or DIVIDE, or SPELL, or GRAMMAR, or BRAINS either.
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realiTV fan

Posted October 31, 2005 at 9:20 am

Well played, General Dreedle, well played.
17

Ash

Posted October 31, 2005 at 10:54 am

Am I the only one who has been on a zipline before? Those people were so excited to ride it and acted like they had never even heard of such a thing, but maybe I’m just more “small-town” than I thought.
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juddfan

Posted October 31, 2005 at 11:03 am

J-unit!!!! thanks for the shout out–and thanks to all of you for sustaining vomit inducing images and descriptions of Judd the Studd.

All I can say is . . . I’ll push his button anytime!!! LOL!!!

As to top 2–I think it’s anyone’s game, but I still think Jamie and BJ will go Alpha-Male, head to head, one of them has to go first thing.
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Juddfan

Posted October 31, 2005 at 11:10 am

I agree, Ash . . . and didn’t Jeff make it seem like a scenic tour over all of the rain forest, not one little zip over a bunch of trees. Looked like Gary tried to make the best of it, leaning back like this was going to take more than 2 seconds to finish . . . and what’s with all the junk food. Those poor starving people, getting all their nourishment from chocolate, Margaritas and chips–I could understand if it was Pringles and a product placement . . .
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Lizardqueen

Posted October 31, 2005 at 2:11 pm

Yeah, not to much fun this week. It was like “Survivor, the Family Edition.” I must be Queen Moron because I could barely figure out the reward challenge. J-Unit said “It sounds pretty complicated, but was fairly easy”. I still don’t know what happened. I too always cringe when the malnourished are fed non-nutritive snacks. Can we get a bowl of wilted kale with garlic on the side please? Just to make me feel better.
Danorexia is getting out of control. I’ll quickly make the point that breast implants are disgusting. Ladies, please don’t mutilate your bodies for “beauty’s” sake. Having what looks like two halves of cantaloupe superglued to your ribcage is not attractive. It’s sad. Your own real boobs are awesome, purposeful, authentic, and free. From the A to the D and everywhere in between real breasts are a good thing. Ok, off the soapbox. Speaking of boobs… I missed the Rafe feeling up Steph incident. I would’ve guessed he’d have felt up Judd.
I am Gary’s smallest fan. I don’t know why I hate him, I just do. Oh, maybe it’s because he’s a Lurch lookin’ like, Charlie Brown’s teacher talkin’ like, Benedict Arnold acting like, making up stupid lies idiot.
Hottie-Jon Drunkard is growing on me. The minnow in the festering sore bit was very classy. I didn’t watch whatever season he and Steph were on, so I don’t have any mental baggage with them other than what I’ve picked up this year. Why exactly did they get invited back? Please let me know if possible.
21

Ash

Posted October 31, 2005 at 2:55 pm

What does everyone think about Jeff being gone after the next season? Anyone think it’ll just go downhill from there, or will it really have no effect?
22

juddfan

Posted October 31, 2005 at 3:05 pm

Guess it’s safe to say, I, like Rafe, would have felt up Judd too ; )

I saw the season with steph and BJ, and I became a steph fan as a result. She was basically last woman standing in her whole tribe, and not only spent her last days alone with BJ (who was definitely a “guy-guy”) but utterly alone for a good 48 hours or so–scared sh**less, might I add.

There were a few tribal close calls for her, and you could see it written on her face how desperately she wanted to stay. She was the only merger, needless to say, and lasted a bit with the other tribe, but alas . . . I think she’s back as she was so popular and I think BJ is back, to offset it–I could be wrong . . . I do see some string pulling in her direction, I swear, Jeff was coaching her team on the challenges.

As to Danorexia . . . all I could think when they won the challenge was, “she could really use some chocolate!”
23

jack

Posted October 31, 2005 at 3:21 pm

i can’t imagine anyone being able to live up to the probster’s snark-a-rific style over the past few seasons. i always liked probst, but as his tenure has lengthened, his sense of ownership and self-righteousness has made for some excellent smack-talking.

i heard they were considering bringing in a former female contestant, probably a girl. who’s the best option? jenna morasca would seem to be a front-runner; elisabeth hasselbeck (nee filarski) has experience (if you can handle sharing a couch with star jones, you can handle survivor). if they went for a former male contestant, i could easily see probst’s BFF colby donaldson stepping in.

my personal pick would be twyla from vanuatu, but that’s wishful thinking, i’m afraid.
24

juddfan

Posted October 31, 2005 at 3:33 pm

I was thinking they would use that guy who was on the pre-show before the first episode–he was sooo goofy, and a bit “gay” as Steph might say. I forgot his name and only caught the end, but I liked his dancing with the contestants.

Jeff is too serious for me, so grim, and no sense of humor as to the, if you think about it, ridiculousness of the show and the challenges . . . but I’m still a fan.
25

Trumpoline

Posted October 31, 2005 at 4:23 pm

Jeff needs more time to date more survivors. We need Ryan Seacrest on the show.

Why didn’t Bobby Jon put his legs up again when he was flying down that zippo?

And do you think they should do a Survivor:celebrities?

Sorry, this is so random.
26

Lizardqueen

Posted October 31, 2005 at 4:44 pm

Yes to celebrity Survivor. Yes to any reality show for A-listers. These filthy rich pathetic tools can hawk all manner of items in other countries, but they fear doing it in the U.S. will ruin their cred. Guess what assholes? If you’re selling shaving cream in Japan and I find out about it, I’m telling everybody. Where’s your cred now? Wow! Where’d that rant come from? At any rate… Gimme’ a Survivor with Willem Dafoe, Christopher Walken, Tyra Banks, Derek Jeter, Meryl Streep, Simon Cowell, J-Lo, Angelina Jolie, Paul Newman, Kate Moss, Eminem, Jerry Seinfeld, Stephen King, Donald Trump, Martha Stewart,& Renee Zelwegger (sp?) or should I just call her “oooh that lemon was sour”? These are just the first 16 people I thought of. I would be agreeable to altering the list.
27

Lizardqueen

Posted October 31, 2005 at 4:45 pm

Notice I’m even willing to use the term “a-listers” loosely. But not too much.
28

usnrnpage

Posted October 31, 2005 at 5:40 pm

Did anyone catch Colby Donaldsons guest appearance on Las Vegas? Eye candy, but a horrible actor.

However, I would not mind him as the new host of Survivor. But then again how many more seasons does this show have in it?

And yes, Symphony bars with almonds rock J-unit.
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juddfan

Posted October 31, 2005 at 5:43 pm

Go Lizardqueen!!!! Gotta love your rants!!! Interesting choice of guests . . . not sure whether to pick celebs I want to sufer, or one’s I want to see scantly clad with big-bites and welts . . . (Maybe Peter DeLuise is available LOL!!!)
30

cmulca1

Posted October 31, 2005 at 5:59 pm

I would like to see Jeff and Phil trade places for a season.
31

Trumpoline

Posted October 31, 2005 at 10:32 pm

Hell no. No Dr. Phil! He belongs to the Biggest Loser.
32

cmulca1

Posted November 1, 2005 at 5:55 am

Oh No! That’s not who I meant. I would like to see Probst and TAR Phil trade jobs. Just for a season. What would Phil wear on Survivor…

Dr Phil would be doing himself and reality tv a world of good if he was a contestant on Biggest Loser.
33

Trumpoline

Posted November 1, 2005 at 7:30 am

Oopsy daisy! I didn’t realize you were talking about Phil Keoghan. LOL.

He’s starting to look like Sting.

Anyway, he seems like an crazy guy.

He claimed he had a near-death experience at the age of 19. Obviously caused some kind of brain damage. Because he went on to break a world bungee jumping record, gone diving in the world’s longest underwater caves, eaten a meal on top of an ERUPTING volcano, and renewed his vows underwater.

Fear Factor needs him.
34

stephanie

Posted November 1, 2005 at 7:50 am

I can’t believe no one has mentioned this! How on earth did Judd’s underwear stay so white?
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mac

Posted November 1, 2005 at 8:30 am

Celebrity Survivor–cool.

Jenna Morasca as host? GOD ! NO ! She’d be making everyone strip to their nuthins for P-nut butter and chocolate. And she’d probably want to bring skanky little Heidi with her.
36

realiTV fan

Posted November 1, 2005 at 9:05 am

mac – I still don’t see the downside.
37

jenny10girl

Posted November 1, 2005 at 9:37 am

Didn’t they do a Celebrity-Style Survivor? I seem to remember Joan River’s daughter on the show (again…using the term “celebrity” loosely). Am I dreaming or does anyone else remember that show?
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jenny10girl

Posted November 1, 2005 at 9:42 am

I knew it existed…it was called I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here!

PLOT SYNOPSIS
Based on a British original, this self-explanatory reality series gathered together ten “celebrities” and plunked them in an Australian rain forest, there to survive the elements without the usual showbiz perks. The producers also allowed the folks at home to call or e-mail ABC to select individual contestants to perform various tasks, among these, the grueling “Bush Tucker Trial.” As the series progressed, viewers voted for their favorite celebs, with the one receiving the most votes earning the title of King (or Queen) of the Jungle. Comedian John Lehr acted as host. Debuting February 19, 2003, with a special live episode, I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here! was subsequently broadcast over 15 consecutive evenings.
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juddfan

Posted November 1, 2005 at 10:45 am

Stephanie, great observation–that white does seem to beam off the screen (from behind all those obstacles)

; )

Actually , I’ve been noticing how the clothes don’t change on AR either–how do they keep them clean, after days of running and sweating and stress. Wouldn’t want to be down wind from one of those teams!!!
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Victoria

Posted November 1, 2005 at 12:45 pm

Where do they even get these people who are hosts on these shows? I heard Probst was leaving so he could start a family with Miss Julie from Vanuatu, even though he is old enough to be her dad, and therfore old enough to be his own kids’ grandfather. Sexy!
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juddfan

Posted November 1, 2005 at 1:46 pm

and if you saw Vanuatu, you’d have seen her showing her wares and flirting with all the men on the tribe, who’d have thunk it was “special flirting” when it came to Jeff.

Isn’t he only 40ish? Coz you know, 40 is the new 30 . . . LOL!!!
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jack

Posted November 1, 2005 at 1:58 pm

well, i know probst famously appeared on a little somethin’ called “rock’n'roll jeopardy!” before taking up the job of torch-snuffer. can’t really blame the guy for partaking of young lady-flesh, that oldest of old men’s vices. at least he seems to want to make an honest woman of her. after all, probst is a bona fide international babe-magnet who could be pullin’ wool like an irish shepherd from the s.f. valley to thailand and back. he could probably have three or four at a time even younger than julie, without even having to pay for it.

lucky bastard.
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Dana

Posted November 1, 2005 at 7:27 pm

that’s funny jack- and true!
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Victoria

Posted November 1, 2005 at 11:46 pm

Yes, juddfan, I saw her and all her flirting with Sarge and almost threw up, but boy did he want her-just like Twyla wanted him-boy was that a bizarre triangle!
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juddfan

Posted November 2, 2005 at 9:49 am

Is this where I have to confess I liked Sarge too . . . I still have that blurred out butt tanning episode emblazoned on my brain!!! I guess Julie was my ally for that one! LOL!!!

Ps. don’t know if any of you have seen Jeff in those Looney Tune boxers, but he’s got quite the bod under that khaki gear!
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silverss

Posted November 2, 2005 at 11:37 am

Gary has a ranch in Clark Wyoming……I bet Amy can find him there
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Kimberly

Posted November 2, 2005 at 12:09 pm

WTF Jeff Probst? W.T.F.
(not safe for work)

http://www.livejournal.com/community/ohnotheydidnt/4125497.html
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Victoria

Posted November 2, 2005 at 12:18 pm

juddfan, say it ain’t so. First Judd, now Sarge-yuck. But I love Bobby Jon of the snot rockets and eating fish as they feed of his peeling flesh, so who am I to say anything?
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juddfan

Posted November 2, 2005 at 1:08 pm

I know Victoria, what can I say? I guess I’ve got no taste in men . . . and if you add James Gandolfini to the list, then you’ll see the tree I’m barking up! (after the ants finish their migration over the trunk, ie)

At least someone likes Judd–he’d have no fans here, it seems . . .
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juddfan

Posted November 2, 2005 at 1:43 pm

Well, Kimberly, I guess that’s a little more than the shot I saw . . . or perhaps a lot more, or even, hmmm, that’s a lot more than I even wanted to see . . . guess he can hardly complain about Julie’s antics now . . .
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Trumpoline

Posted November 3, 2005 at 1:06 am

OMG! Jeff’s gross human torch. ARGH