Lots of homoerotic moments and camel toes on this show too, I thought I was watching the Gauntlet.

I did enjoy the violence of the challenge! It was funny.

KH

I thought they were pretty stupid getting rid of Misty first. Doesnt anyone watch past seasons before going on? Dont get rid of the strong first! What is Ruth Marie going to do for the tribe that Misty couldnt do better? Not to be mean, but RM is a lot weaker.

Oh, Shane. He is so out there...I hope he sticks around a while longer, I'm enjoying the insanity.

"More like he performed his 'I gotta take a crap/freshly sodomized' waddle."

Jesus, I laughed for five minutes after reading that. And now I'm laughing again. Maniacally. SUCH the perfect description for that jacked up walk of his. Awesome recap B-Side.

#3, I'm right with you. If Shane did nothing else, that walk alone would be enough to make me hate him.

Awww, was hoping for a nice montage of Cirie making mincemeat of her opponents. The fact that she is wearing head-to-toe pink whilst doing so just makes it that much better.

Bobby didn't barrel down on Ruth Marie. He sauntered up and plucked her like a grape. I was thinking "What the hell is he doing? She's gonna make it." Little did we know he would just control her like a rag doll at the last second. Nice one Bobby.
Ruth Marie joins the growing number of ladies who look like Jack Skellington with cantaloupe breasts. So, so stank.

B-Side, I'm so glad you saw Jamie on Parental Control! I've been waiting for this recap ever since I saw him just so I could see if anyone else saw it! I mean seriously, the show has to be set up or something, he was nuts!

Anyways, great recap! Shane is nuts, I'm still having problems remembering who everyone is, the usual... Yay for TAR next Tuesday!

Hell yeah they should have voted out Ruth Marie before Misty! She's a lot weaker and doesn't seem to be scheming at all. I'll never understand their reasons.

btw- did you see the "Family Moment" afterwards with Misty's clan? Did anyone else wonder where she got her looks from after seeing the family? Nice comparison to Colin, B-side. I do see the resemblence.

Too bad they didn't eat the puffer fish.

Things could have been very different had Bruce been on La Mina. Who knows? Maybe he's a certified sushi chef. Or maybe he'd say something like, "We can create a puffer fish poison filtration system with 6 T-shirts and a pair of smelly socks. This will take out 90% of the poison."

Then they'd all eat the fish and die. Good TV.

I didn't understand saying goodbye to Misty either. Why does nobody realize you keep stronger people until the merge? Isn't this like the 12th season of this show!?! She isn't an individual threat yet.

Cirie still bothers me. She is funny, but she is also scared of leaves. She might have died had she had to go to Exile Island. Shane would have quit outright had he been sent since there'd have been nobody to talk him into staying.

Terry probably caught that little fish because both him and Casper went out fishing. The fish was so frightened by the ghoulish sight of the ex-astronaut that he swam to Terry for safety not knowing he was the bigger threat. Whatever happened . . . poor Nemo.

That snake freaked me out because he seemed to be saying "Hi." I hate snakes.

I am glad Misty is gone, because she irritated me and I like Ruth Marie.

When Shane had his whatever that was with Courtney, she appeared to be trying to pull the pot of water off of the fire with sticks. Now first of all, why didn't she just use her clothes as potholders since her and Danielle were wearing bikinis? And second of all, the minute Bruce is sent to Exile Island, they stop filtering the water through t-shirts and start boiling it again-interesting.

Why does it only rain at night and every night?

What's up with "Parental Control"? Is that show fa real? I nearly died when I realized that was Jamie portraying a portly complete asshole. He did a fine job too (shocking). As though any parent would actually tolerate behavior like that towards their sweet little daughter. Please tell me it's just pretend...

zoobabe, I too announced "Mindy's adopted." Too bad she has that ruddy complexion that doesn't hold up well to insect blitzkrieg. She may have been voted off to spare the others eyesight.

I still can't get the tribe names straight yet...I have no idea why...

jenny10girl, it's too soon. It'll take another week and then they'll change the tribes again and screw us all up. Another problem I have is when Jeff is describing the challenges. I never have any idea what's going to happen until I see it. He descibes it well, I just can't grasp it until it starts.

I don't think it was such a bad decision to get rid of Misty. Strength wise, I'd say her and Ruth Marie are pretty much six of one, half dozen of the other. Ruth Marie is a much more malleable player strategy-wise, and now Sally is too. Austin and Nick got to resolve their conflicting alliance issues before it becomes too messy.

I thought Misty's HII bluffing was pretty lame and pointless when she did it. And very well might've been one of the factors in the decision to vote her off,i.e., shifty behaviour. It certainly didn't prevent anyone from voting for her, when all it would've meant if she had was that Ruth Marie would go instead.

Great recap, b-side, but methinks ye understated the magnanimous brilliance of this most recent survivor extravaganza. Solid cast? well, la mina seems a little blandly agreeable at the moment, but casaya has the finest balance of underdogs, wack-jobs, and delusional 'nut-balls' since 'amazon' or even the original pilot-season. in less than three episodes, shane has already definitively cemented his stature as survivor's ultimate scary dickhead. aras and courtney are both averaging in the 90th percentile on the 'irrational' and 'peculiar' scales. cirie has earned points both as a villainess (for ousting tina) and a heroine (for some great anti-jerk alliance sound-byte and some serious kickass in the immunity challenge). bobby's not getting much play, but he's already broken survivor's 'curse of the brothers' simply by shrewdly winning a challenge and not being lazy (gervase), irrationally angry (sean), a pussy (osten), a worthless pretty-boy (ibrahim), or prone to awkward morning wood while spooning in the shelter (ted). danielle is making the most of the boston patois and the cleavage, and bruce . . . well, anybody who doesn't love an asian karate expert named bruce can take a time-out on shane's thinking chair. the more able la mina has fewer eccentrics, but the corpse-like pallor of the casper-naut more than makes up for other deficiencies.

as for the challenges: that battle-royale immunity challenge was the greatest idea since the first WWF cage match. flying cross-faces, clotheslines, figure-fours, boobies everywhere, shane taking out his nic-fix rage on poor dan . . . what's not to love?

best of all, casaya came up with the immunity win, guaranteeing a little parity and at least one more week's worth of shane-anigans.

LQ - glad to hear I'm not the only one who get confused...LOL...!!! :o)

Anyone know why there was no clue given to Bruce on Exile Island about where the idol is hidden?

Hey Elvis (#17) I wondered about that too! I'm thinking Bruce found it the first night and the producers couldn't show us footage of him trying to hold back him smiles through the reading of the clue just for good tv sake. Bruce might be a Mighty Mr. Miyagi but he might not be a good actor.

This episode was fun. Great recap, B-Side.
I was expecting to see Cirie whip one of her puppies out and smack someone inconscious during the immunity challenge but sitting on them worked just as well and eliminates the need for all that blurring.

Great recap, B-side. That reference to the obscure Belinda Carlisle single was pure gold. I was hoping for a screencap of that gratuitous crotch shot of Danielle while she and Ruth Marie were going at it in the immunity challenge. That was pretty hot. Jack (#15) your "curse of the brothers" analysis was hilarious.

How about when Danielle's smokestack jugglies came out during the immunity challenge? That was something. Great recap, I laughed out loud at work when I saw the snake's caption.

One other thing, anyone else notice how proud Shane was of himself because he told Aras to bring the bag back to him in the immunity challenge? Then when Aras brought it back, Shane kept yelling "I told you to bring it back to me, I told you!". Jeez, this Shane guy's going to pull some weird Jack Nicholson "Here's Johnny" thing out one of these episodes, total lunatic.

Great re-cap-- Stacyrocks, you got me howling with that one!!! What a visual, esp with the way she just tossed Misty out of the way!!!

Have to say, I like RM, but she was so typical white woman running from big black man, another rag doll in the end, but I was a bit confused as to why bobby got the point with her inbetween him and the bag . . .

And B-side, I was thinking about "I gotta take a crap/freshly sodomized" waddle.--perhaps we should take a good look at his thinking rock when he's not sitting on it--there might be a BIG reason that's his rock and his walk!

I saw the parental control with jamie also.I knew it was him! i'm glad others saw it too.he was a dick on it, just like shane! what a douch! I like how he took on Dan, the friggin weakest guy out on the immunity challenge, and thought he was tough. And then in the next heat, when aras got the bag, Shane took credit for it because he was on the sideline telling Aras to bring him the bag, and when Aras won it, Shane was saying "it's because I told you to bring it to me". If you know what I'm talking about, that doesn't seem quite as confusing as it does here.

Yay! jack is back!

i have missed your astute comments.

Saw that Parental Control - Jamie was such a tool on there. But that seems to be what the script calls for. Lame show.

So if Bruce is the MIPOE how come he hasn't devised any sort of shelter on Exile Island? I mean the man has had it all to himself for going on 6 days now and the best he can do is lay under a giant leaf every time it rains?

"I gotta take a crap/freshly sodomized" waddle.
Best. Line. Ever.
Glad to see you back Jack. I enjoy your comments and astute memory of Survivor history.

juddfan- very funny comment about Shane's "rock"! I'll look closely this week for any phallic protrusions.

I think I can help you with the Bobby q. He got the point b/c he was touching the bag and the mat at the same time. It didn't matter that Ruth Marie was still holding it, just that he had a hand on it.

Is anyone else playing Fantasy Survivor on the official website or am I the only dork that does that?

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor12/pgall.php?id=21&ep=03 has a lovely picture of Shane on his thinking seat (#22).

Anything making fun of Shane in any capacity is gold! What an ass hat! If you see Shane crossing the road... CROSS IT! He's CRAZY!! Glad there are camera crews there so he doesn't kill everyone in their sleep. B-Side, any possibility of reviewing The Shield on FX Network? Just curious. Love that show and love the blogs. Thanks again for always great recaps. ;> I'm laughing out loud all the time.

In this week's Us Weekly, the interviewed Shane and the headline said "Survivor's Hot Headed Hunk." Hunk would be the last word I'd use to describe him!

Zoobabe - I play it too - have for the last buncha season. I find (like TVGasm) it really enhances my viewing of the show - even if I am really BAD at guessing stuff.

OMG Ash - that pic makes Shane look like the super scary dude from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

http://www.unsinkablecork.com/chitty/images/childcatcher.jpg

EEK! (shudders) that guy totally gave me nightmares when I was little.

Tinkerbell- I'm bad at guessing stuff too, but I've always played it as well. Even when I think I'm doing well, I seem to be far behind on the leaderboard. Same thing with the Bachelor Rose ceremony game. Oh well- it's fun to play.

How are we supposed to watch Survivor, American Idol, Villanova vs. Cincinnati and the Cambell's Soup kid Sasha Cohen all at the same time tonight? Is this why I need TiVo?

LQ-Sasha Cohen will be on at about eleven o'clock tonight, which will not interefere with the other programming-you can watch her blow her gold medal then. I know all my V.C.R.'s will be going tonight.