Bobby John the Baptist is just a loser all around. So many excuses why he can't perform. I hope his tribe votes him off first.

I kind of like the Steph/BJ twist, but I think it would have been better to bring back the two who were never officially voted off last year (Crazy Song Lady and Premature Evacuation Guy). It somehow seems unfair. This is not Survivor All-Stars.

Alternatively, if you are going to bring back real players, the time to do it would be the second installment of the season. I'm not sure of the timing, but I would think you could start shooting the second installment (i.e., the February-May verson) before the fall verson airs. That way, the constants would not KNOW that there are former contestants in their midst. That would be more interesting, I think.

Excellent! Well worth the wait. I don't care what ayone says about Bobby Jon, I love him and am thrilled he is back. Over at cbs.com they have a blog they are calling survivors strike back where previous contestants put in their 2 cents about this season. It's pretty good, but has got nothing on our TVgasm.

rafe, the wilderness guide, sits back and lets gary, the quarterback/landscaper, plot their course through the jungle. way to step up, mighty wind. let's hope one of the competitions is a game of flag-football, so gary can let rafe run the two-minute offense.

Gary barfing on a passing monkey: priceless. make it happen, Burnett.

Best Season Evah!

"...that was the utter definition of the word pansy" um...you know Rafe's gay right.

I would have laughed so hard if Brandon (the dumb hick) was like "Bad Thorn Branch" and stepped on it. :)

LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the video from Jim's wife...straight from an SNL skit. Wow. Imagine the mad, sweaty monkey love that Jim gets from his S & H Green Stamp-collecting, Reader’s Digest-hoarding, doily-making wife.

Brian may LOVE Stephenie, but he also apparently loves dick.

dag, b-side, you might have been tired when you wrote this, but you were hitting on all cylinders. there's about six spit-my-coffee-on-the-keyboard worthy zingers in this recap, and i wasn't even expecting much since the majority of the episode was a barf-o-rama. 'go back to brat camp, mountain'--that's good stuff.

so, i get why everybody's so happy to have margaret the nurse on their team, but i'm wondering: i she's so durn wonderful, wouldn't she have had enough sense to make sure these guys were drinking enough water BEFORE they were all on the edge of death? obviously, somebody on the other team must have done this, since nary a one even got a cramp. margaret better start specializing in preventative medicine, or else it's going to be another koror-style rout.

as for steph and bobby jon--no big surprise there. but i don't see either of them making it too far unless they start scheming pronto. steph probably has sense enough to build herself a solid alliance that will get her to the merge, but bobby jon might be a little too kind and decent to avoid being an early target once they feel like they can do without his brawn.

I still think Jim looks like Rev. Kane from Poltergeist II.

Seriously. Check it out.

http://home.comcast.net/~mlpaul/polt/kane5.jpg

Strange that the Mayans "mysteriously vanished", since some 30% of the population of Guatemala is...Mayan. F*ck anthropology too...

Whew, it was a good thing I came here while I was waiting for my pizza. Now I'm thinking that watching my tape of Survivor over dinner isn't that great of an idea...

Wait til they sacrifice a virgin and cut her heart out......

Best line was the doorman guy -- " I never even went camping.. "

BJ is a moron. There is no way he isnt going to get voted out. Like all-stars people with an advantage will be booted. Staph may just be able to manipulate a few people but BJ has no hope....

Great Recap. Yes. Margaret is going to be quite the matyr aint she?

Speaking of Margaret -- did anyone else notice that at one point she gave someone who was puking a cup of water with lemon in it?? I thought lemons were a diuretic -- makes your body rid itself of fluid -- why would you give a dehydrated person water with lemon? Hmmmmmm.............

B, you're killing me with this recap! Laughing so hard I am afraid I will wake my daughter. This is going to be a great recap season-can't wait!

I wikipedia'ed lemons and there was no mention of diuretic properties. I've never ever heard that about lemons. Tea, coffee, cocoa and alcohol, but not lemons.

Where did they even get the lemon? Are they indigenous to Guatemala? Sorry, I don't think about something that grows in my backyard as growing in the tropics.

#18--Citrus is a tropical phenomenon...

Every time the commercial for this week's episode comes on, I collapse into a fit of giggles at BJ's ROOOOOOOOARRRRR!!!!!

Can't wait!

(P.S. In my company's Survivor pool, I got stuck with Rafe. I don't think I'm gonna win the free lunch. *sob*)

Watching the 11 mile hike ont this episode got me to thinking, are the cameramen lugging the cameras on the 11 mile hike with the Srurvivors? Or are the strategically placed along the route? Surely, the cameramen can't carry all the equpiment over 11 miles? Any ideas?

Lady J,

Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) is the diuretic, not the lemon itself.

#21 - I was also totally thinking about the crew during that hike. I am guessing they tag-team styled in after a mile or two. And I am guessing that somewhere in the map/compass that they got, there was a gps chip so they could never get really lost. That way the crew could always find them as well.

Previews for this weeks ep look great. BJ is starting to look scary, you think he would have gained weight before coming back on the show.

Oh, poor, sweet, retarded Bobby Jon. My friend predicted at minute 1 that you would burn out after an hour in the jungle.

Every time I hear Stephenie's tribe name, I think of the great Karen Black film, Trilogy of Terror. For some reason, it reminds me of that little idol that tries to kill her.

B-Side on Survivor - genious! Lugging his laptop through the jungle so he could recap the events as they are happening. Then that wouldn't be a recap, that would be a cap??.. Anyway, B-Side braving the elements while making snarky remarks to the cameras, causing the cameramen to lose control and roll down the hill. I can see it now, B-Side at the campfire, doing stand-up while some wannabe actress crisps the grasshoppers. Oh, make it happen, Mark Burnett, please make it happen!

Ooops...Genius, not genious...who's the genius now??

Am I the only one that gets fits of giggles when I see that pic of Bobby Jon laying on the ground?! Does that make me a bad person?! heehee

Thanks for the great recap! I think I like these better than the show. *Drooling for the next one*

I was afraid they were going to bring in Rob and Amber as the former survivors! If they had I'm sure I would have - well - vomited!

At least they won't get scurvy.

Who the hell was Lydia???

"Judd in particular was feeling full of brio..."

Awesome, you just helped me finish my crossword puzzle. thanks!

I think "too much vomit", that's what I think.

/not a Vomit Fan

And funny, funny recap, thanks!

interesting note -- at first, when they announced the cast, Rafe was listed as "Ivy League Grad" just like Brian...suddenly it switched to Wilderness Guide once the show started. Hmmm....

Also, I love how poor little Lydia was lagging behind and then you see why -- she's like 4 feet tall and someone decided she should carry the giant awkward pole!

Papercuts!, (#7), Brian is a meterosexual.