This week, on Survivor: Tracy is totally awesome. Finally, someone to like!
The day after the Yau-Man Tribal Council, Jon decides to bring up the whole Cirie affair again, which is probably not the best idea considering that her perspective on the situation is way different than his, and neither one is true. Also, our perspective is probably off too, considering that we saw editing straight out of A Clockwork Orange for most of last week.
Cirie decides that Jon is bitter, and tells him that he's obviously just pissed that she chose not to side with his alliance. Jon, in turn, calls her "disgusting", and why do All-Star seasons always ruin the fun people? Kathy and Lex, Janelle, Diane, Uchenna and Joyce. It is a reality TV epidemic, people.
Over at the Fans tribe after the credits, Jason catches an eel, which they decide must be just like hot dogs. I'm sure some of the same parts are in both. As people tend to the fire and chop wood and whatnot, Chet just sort of lies around in the water. Doing nothing. Natalie (wait, who?) tells us that she's just been trying to keep her head down so far (yeah, no shit, who knew there was a Natalie on this show?), and Chet is making himself stick out by acting so lazily. She would like to vote him out. Mikey concurs, and we get a montage of him shooting sideways glances at Chet as he roams in and out of consciousness in the water.
Over at Malakal, Eliza is not feeling very well. I probably wouldn't feel very well if I had to hang out with Parvati and James either, especially with them making out and whatnot. She lies in the fetal position by the water and tells us that she's just trying to get through these few days without being voted out. If you'll recall, Eliza is the queen of not quite getting voted out, so I think she'll be able to manage.
Eliza has soon migrated over to camp, where everyone else is cooking and lounging around. James abruptly turns to Ozzy and is like, "We shouldn't have voted out Yau-Man with her useless." Wow, what a jerk. Eliza is hilariously like, "Um, dude? I'm sitting right here." James takes umbrage at this, because how dare she question his need to insult her to her face! He goes, "Oh, so now you're sick AND you've got attitude!" I can tell you that I've had the following conversation at least six times this week:
Person I am talking to about this episode: "Wow, when did James turn into such an ass?"
Me: "Um, did you SEE last season?"
Reward Challenge! There is a cage full of coconuts below the water out in the sea, and some of those coconuts have letters on them. Five people will take turns swimming out and grabbing the letter-nuts, bringing them to the surface. Once they've all been collected, three people on the beach will unscramble a word, which will win you reward. The reward is three hens and a rooster, which is cool and old school.
The challenge begins, and Ozzy immediately starts being awesome, picking out four coconuts with letters and rolling them all to the front at the same time. This allows the Fans to take a short lead, because their people are rolling the letter-nuts out one at a time. Once Ozzy comes to the surface with the first one, the Favorites just start going down and grabbing the cocounuts rapid fire, and soon they have a huge lead. All the letter-nuts are retrieved and on the surface being unscrambled pretty quickly, and James has a random idiot savant moment where he's like "Is the word triumphant?" and then the Favorites win. I love how they show James as the MVP of this challenge, when Ozzy is the reason they won. Editing, you are currently my nemesis. Pistols at dawn!
The Favorites decide to send Kathy to Exile Island again, and they also choose to send...Ozzy? That seems unwise. Like, literally the most unwise thing you can do in that situation. If anyone fully realizes the power of the idol, it's Ozzy, because it's basically the reason he got as far as he did. Also, he needs it more than anyone else because he knows he's going to be done for after about five or six more TCs. So...that was idiotic. Not that I expect anything less from these people after what I've seen so far. Wow, this season is lame.
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Comments (13)
A wee bit late Schoonie, but hilarious all the same. Particularly the screen caps with Jonathan explaining sex to the kids and your description of Chet being dragged around like one of those dogs that hates leashes. LMAO! Having seen the new episode, I hope you thoroughly enjoyed it. Yea Cirie?
1 of 13 | Posted by kwani | Posted on March 7, 2008 3:13 AM
I agree: Tracy was awesome this episode. I finally have someone to route for on the fans side! The manipulation of the caveman was incredible.
2 of 13 | Posted by Pegster | Posted on March 7, 2008 6:46 AM
I was so excited to see someone PLAY this game--go Tracey! Love your coverage of Eliza, "the queen of not getting voted out." Even though she irritates me, I get such a kick out of her. I also laughed out loud at "James has a random idiot savant moment..." Thanks for the recap. I cannot WAIT for you to do last night's show!!
3 of 13 | Posted by drmalcolm | Posted on March 7, 2008 7:13 AM
ok real quickly, u say James is an ass, he really just says the truth..albeit, a lil blunt but its the truth...
and how do u not mention that he WAS asking Eliza if she needed something to drink and how was she feelin? he's a nice guy, he just lacks social skills...i mean, HE'S A GRAVEDIGGER for christsakes lol
4 of 13 | Posted by ladyy2001 | Posted on March 7, 2008 7:46 AM
My funniest James momement was around the first or second episode, when he was carrying Parviti and said "She is like a sex kitten?". Like he wasn't exactly sure what it is. LOL!! After watching last season with James, I know he says what he means and means what he says. He was horrible to that asian girl. I can picture her face, but cannot for the life of me remember her name. After watching last night's episode, I actually felt bad for Chet. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, so I will wait till the next recap.
5 of 13 | Posted by featherhead | Posted on March 7, 2008 10:19 AM
Whoops, I remember it now, it was Pee Gee. He told her straight out to shut up.
6 of 13 | Posted by featherhead | Posted on March 7, 2008 10:22 AM
My absolute favorite moment of this episode was during tribal council when Mikey realized that he had been screwed over. He looks over at Joel (or BamBam as he is known in our house) and he just looks away from Mikey like he has no idea what is happening.
7 of 13 | Posted by snootchy bootches | Posted on March 7, 2008 11:35 AM
Anyone besides me think Chet looks just like Robin Gibbs? (Which, by the way, is not a compliment.)
8 of 13 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on March 7, 2008 11:52 AM
I agree with you, cattyfan! He does look like Robin Gibb!! Good call!
9 of 13 | Posted by C MacKenzie | Posted on March 7, 2008 12:51 PM
Seriously, I totally agree that Tracy is awesome. The way she preyed on Joel's fear was awesome. Even though I really wish Chet had gone, it's nice to see the "outcasts" work it. I thought it was pretty appalling how they actually separated camp from Chet, Kathy, and Tracy in the beginning. I mean, Kathy is crazy, but grow up! Just because they're not in their 20s they should be shunned?
and p.s. what is with the noticeable lack of hot girl ass on the fans tribe? I'm not attracted to hot girl ass, mind you, but it is usually the focal point of each tribe for casting purposes, right? I mean, Natalie's kinda busted.
I almost started crying last night at the reward challenge, I felt so bad for Chet. (hope that's not a spoiler)
10 of 13 | Posted by fycin | Posted on March 7, 2008 12:52 PM
That JOEL looks so tasty without his shirt on. Wow, baby, yum, yum, yum.
11 of 13 | Posted by weasel dearest | Posted on March 7, 2008 12:59 PM
I too felt sorry for Chet. The whole thing looked horribly abusive and I was surprised he wasn't more seriously injured, and that no one said anything to Joel initially
12 of 13 | Posted by kwani | Posted on March 8, 2008 5:00 AM
One other thing... has anyone noticed that the editors have been giving away who loses the immunity challenge each week? At the beginning of the episode, they only show footage of people talking about who needs to go home on one tribe. Never both tribes. I pretty much know 5 minutes into the episode who is going to TC. It has been true for this episode, the one previous (and the one after this one which hasn't been recapped yet). After 16 seasons or whatever, do they just not give a feck anymore? Remember back in the days when Elizabeth from the View was on Survivor and every week they made it look like her, Kentucky Joe and the rest were going to be ok? They put some effort into trying to fool us! Now they are just saying "Whatever" and tossing random clips.
13 of 13 | Posted by snootchy bootches | Posted on March 9, 2008 4:58 AM