Survivor: A Map? For Real?

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This week on Survivor, people get the crap beat out of each other, rock a slip and slide, and are provided with detailed directions for no reason whatsoever.

We open on our first post Tribal Council night vision of the season, where everyone is discussing the fact that getting rid of Gillian was likely their best bet. Crystal tells us that Gillian was a "major physical weak link". She does not add, "Oh, and also she was annoying as shit. I still have nightmares about her accent." Randy tells us that he doesn't believe that it's possible to win with the Fang tribe over shots of GC attempting to break a large chunk of wood into pieces, and succeeding only in making himself look like an escaped mental patient. That's when you know might be doomed: when you're locked in a battle of wits with a piece of wood, and the wood is winning decisively.

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"I refuse to lead this wood, and I resent having the wood leadership position thrust upon me."

Credits. Hey, did you hear that Gabon is "Earth's Last Eden"? The population of Eden, North Carolina does not approve.

On Day 7, the Fang tribe has already consumed half of their rice supply. Randy, who has mysteriously become the voice of reason despite the fact that his skull has been caved in, addresses the situation by suggesting that they stop eating three square meals a day and reduce that number to two. GC is the only one who disagrees, telling Randy there's no reason why GC himself should be punished for the wasteful sins of people who have already been voted out. Yes, I'm sure Michelle and Gillian were total hogs. Douche.

Randy rolls his eyes at this, telling us that GC is a cancer on the tribe. It took all the way until episode three for someone to bust out that old gem, huh? As further evidence of this, GC approaches Randy while he snoozes in the hut. "So, are you the leader now or something?" GC says. Randy becomes indignant, telling GC (as I'm sure he has a hundred times already) that it was decided that the tribe did not need a designated leader. GC is trying so hard to stick that tag on someone, and it's obvious that he wants someone blame when he inevitably fucks everything up. I mean, Randy is the leader all of a sudden because he still wants to be eating in a week's time? Whatever.

Over at Kota, Marcus fishes in his underwear. He somehow manages to do this without exposing himself. On a side note, ten people e-mailed me a link to the footage of Marcus falling out of his pants during last week's premiere. I love it when you guys e-mail me and all, but it's actually TVGasm policy that all wang-related news items be emailed directly to Flipit. Hey, I don't make the rules, people.

Charlie breaks down Kota's alliances for us: Paloma and Kelly are tight, Sugar has buddied up to Ace, and Charlie himself is still in bed with Corinne, Jacquie and Marcus (he wishes!). He tells us that Bob has no alliance to speak of, but that he is "definitely woo-able", which is not a word. We see evidence of Paloma and Kelly's newfound friendship as they bond over how much they dislike Ace. "I want to gag every time he opens his mouth," Paloma says, citing the fact that he tries to order everyone around all the time. Meanwhile, Sugar cuddles up to Ace in the hut. "Ace and I have some kind of connection," she states. Poseurs tend to run in packs, as I'm sure you're aware from watching The Hills.

Kota receives treemail about the upcoming reward challenge, which hints that the winner will be getting some sort of bedding. At this, Ace declares that Kota should sit their stronger members, since the reward isn't really essential and they want their best possible squad to compete for immunity. He's totally right, but he says it in that tooly way he has that makes people, well...want to barf. In fact, Paloma looks on with a revolted look on her face, as if Ace just told her that he punches terriers in the face during his leisure time.

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Comments (9)

JustJesse:

Good recap!! I didn't even think about the fact that Sugar had a map and Dan didn't...How is that fair? Then again, its Survivor, so what do you expect.

I saw a commercial on TV today that they are picking new tribes this week. I hate when they do that, but its always cool when alliances end up getting split up. So, maybe it will be a good things. Anyways, thanks again for the recap!

Anonymous:

Schoon, you tossed off some of the funniest lines you've gotten off since "Two People I Don't Give A Shit About So Who Cares Theatre."

But: The next time Lil' Marcus comes out for air, are we only supposed to notify Flip? Did no one think to send Foz a link to that naked photo of Dallas from "The Amazing Race"? (Which I'll also take, now that his mother's lawyers have intervened.)

geewits:

I felt like an idiot. All through the beginning of the show I kept saying, "Why are they showing all this Kota strategy, when we know they're not going to tribal council?" As for Sugar's map I thought each successive person got an extra clue. No? I thought they did. Usually I'm on board with the internet majority, but I like Ace. And thanks for the shout out to Eden, NC!

schoonie:

I think they change it up from season to season, as far as giving out successive clues goes. I think they've either done the "4 clues in four different places" thing, or the "the idol is really hard to find, so you get an extra clue every time" thing. They've never done both, like they have this year. And it's never been a map.

itchy:

I don't see the hidden immunity idol adding all that much interest to the game anyway. You'd think they'd come up with something better after all this time.

It always takes me a long while to get into the cast of a new Survivor season. So far I don't really care much about anyone. I kind of like the Pinup.

Although I'll be happy to see GC leave -- he didn't give up so easily when it was a scramble for individual immunity, did he?

Oh yeah...can someone do an experiment and draw some Borat hair and a mustache on Ace's head? I'm just saying...Ace? Really? Why not Snoopy?

mrsc:

Ohhhh was I glad to see the little mouse gone! I actually told Mr C that if I die and he remarries someone who talks like that, I will haunt him forever. He told me not to worry.

Come to think about it, if you had to live with someone who made dogs come running every time you spoke... that is punishment enough.

And LOL on the "send the wanker shots to Flipit first" rule. OK schoonie, you don't make de rules but we can now guess who does! :D

mrsc:

Oh and wanted to add:

thanks for the great recap!

That first screenshot was great; showed how awesome Crystal was- she was pulling both of them! You go girl!

And who was it that gave up their blue jockey's to Paloma and Sugar? Now that is chivalry!

Snootchy Bootches:

The ultimate "Ace is a douchebag" moment for me this episode was when he was talking about how poorly Paloma did in the reward competition. Um... Let's see now. Paloma is about 1/5 the size/weight of Ace, right? Yet the EXACT same two people who took Paloma out also took Ace out! And who did poorly? Oh right... Paloma. A-hole.

malcolms:

This is the 1st time I've visited this site, and I usually never post anything, anywhere. But after reading this, "Randy tells us that he doesn't believe that it's possible to win with the Fang tribe over shots of GC attempting to break a large chunk of wood into pieces, and succeeding only in making himself look like an escaped mental patient. That's when you know might be doomed: when you're locked in a battle of wits with a piece of wood, and the wood is winning decisively." and then the caption in the pic underneath it. I laughed so hard I literally had tears running down my face lol. I hated that GC retard and am so glad that he got booted off. Keep up the good (and hilarious) work! :)

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