Testimonials

Okay, new mission called "Travelers." The kids are to break up into three teams of two, and must travel 5.5 miles to a crazy-looking statue. For every team that gets there, $10,000 added to the pot. Since there are seven of them, that means one is left over. And that person is Craig, who, as the first person to mention the word "exemption" at breakfast that morning, was from then on secretly designated as the Transportation Captain. He gets to choose the teams and pick the various forms of transportation that they will be using. If no one gets to the goal, he will earn an exemption, but no money goes into the pot. "With the sweet, comes the sour," smarms Jon.

"I just had my eyebrows sharpened this morning."

Jon leads Craig over to "Jon's Rentals". Kind of an odd choice for a small business, a random rental store in the mountains of Argentina, but you do whatever you gotta do to pay those Botox bills, Jon. He shows Craig the various tortures that he may foist upon the other players, such as scuba gear, random bikes and whatnot, and a really cheerful llama costume.

"I'M SO HAPPY TO BE HERE!!"

When the other players arrive, Craig tells them that he's going to go for the exemption, but he's also going to make this fun. And by fun, he of course means humiliating. He assigns Alex to a conquistador costume, complete with donkey, and Mark gets the scuba gear. Meanwhile, on Team Circus, Clay gets a unicycle and Kristen gets stilts. Finally, Paul and Nicole must suit up in the llama suit, with Nicole at the head and Paul, appropriately, at the ass.

Mark immediately says he's not doing it, and then proceeds to lead the revolt among the other players. One by one, they all opt out. Kristen is especially insistent, saying that she doesn't to look like a circus freak. On foot-high stilts? Jesus, woman. It's not like you have to dress up in a ridiculous costume. That's Alex's job.

"So are we doing this, or what? Guys?"

Alex says in interview, though I'm not quite sure he said it out loud to the group, that there's a chance that Jon could meet them halfway with some sort of a deal, as is his way. Sure enough, Jon and Craig are waiting at the halfway point, probably with some sort of insidious offer, but no teams arrive. You just know Jon is heartbroken over this.

"WHERE ARE MY MINIONS??"

So with NO small amount of griping and whining, the players decide to abandon the whole thing and drive the van up to the monument. Craig is happy that he got the exemption, but Jon looks absolutely crestfallen as he surveys the donkey-less group, crushed that his malicious little plan for embarrassment failed so miserably. He asks if the decision was made by one person, and while the team says that it was made collectively, we all remember that it was really Mark. Craig says that his suspicions of Mark have increased, and Clay agrees in interview, saying that he can't think of a time that he, Clay, has quit something without even trying. Oh, you mean like in the naked mission, when you quit immediately without even trying? Get out of here, Jesus boy.

At the pre-quiz dinner back in Mendooooza, Craig apologizes to everyone for treating them like shit when they let him get out of the cold first in the previous challenge. They're still bitter, but they agree that they all probably would have gone for the exemption. The only difference is the manner in which he did it. They start throwing around words like "dignity" and "scruples," and can we just back the fuck up for a moment? You people walked around Santiago, a heavily populated city, in your UNDERWEAR, and you can't dress up in a little llama outfit in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE? Ugh. I think Craig puts it best when he exclaims "These people are crazy!" Amen, fatty.

Quiz time. No snarky questions this week. I think the writers are losing their edge. Or possibly their patience. At the Results Caucus, Jon says that there was a tie yet again this week, and that the difference in time was only ONE second. Ouch. And long story short, the red screen this week goes to...Kristen.

Farewell, Kristen. We'll miss your creepy fembot tendencies and deathly fear of circus freaks.

Well then. Scratch that one off the list. I think this is the first week that someone has been executed who has been on my Suspicious Roster. Kristen exhibited classic Mole behavior throughout the game. I thought she'd definitely be in the finals, whether as the Mole or as a potential winner. Oh well.

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