Your Really Hot and Free Idols for Everyone

EmilEdam Day 23 Reynold said getting rid of Corrine last week was the best thing that could happen to him. His crew that includes Malcolm and Eddie are now ready to take the game over. Malcolm points out to the viewing audience that his best buddy Corrine is gone but then again she was the only one who knew that he had an idol. Double edged sword there, you do have an idol but now a hated player is now gone so your protection level from being voted out has dropped. Phillip tells Sherri that she is hot. The confusion has started again and it was just last night (In Survivor time that is) that Sherri got five votes to be eliminated. I think she has taken on the role of Sarah Palin, first you hate her, then you sort of like her, then you really hate her, then you sort of like her again then her unmarried teenage daughter gets pregnant…………….Sorry, I got lost in my thoughts there. Reward Challenge This was basically handball over water. The goal is setup over a body of water with one team perched on a pedestal in front of the goal, being the goalie of course. Teams on the other side then run of the end of a dock and attempt to throw a small volleyball past the goalie into the goal. The all guy purple team of Erik, Eddie, Cochran, Reynold and Mike win the prize. Their prize is to repel down a large water fall into the small pond below and then enjoy a feast of food and drink. I always love the conversation that ensue during the meal, everybody is happy and smiling and making plans to take all of them to the finals. Then we get the little confessionals where people say, “He or she is lying and I don’t want to go to the end with them.” It is a modern day family reunion without the snot nosed kids and unmarried pregnant teenage cousins. I just read where Sarah Palin visited West Virginia and the girls there didn’t like her because she was too perrtty. Okay enough about that. Immunity Challenge Holding onto a set of monkey bars that are setup in the water and waiting for the tide to come up and slowly cover up your face making it hard to breath. They scale this challenge from about an hour and half to about four minutes. Total mute Brenda wins the challenge and continue on with 22 days of having not spoken. For those of you new to the blog, Brenda is playing for the second time and the first time around she never shut up. She has taken the total opposite approach and I don’t think she has said more than three words all season. Here is what I don’t get about her not talking at all. There are two prizes to win on Survivor, the million for winning and you have a chance to win 100 thousand if the fans of Survivor vote you as the player of the game. Nobody gets you know you if you shut up all the time. Eddie and Andrea The couple of the season. Andrea thinks Eddie is hot and Eddie thinks Andrea is hot and they talk and Eddie tells Andrea that he will do whatever she wants him to do to stay in the game. Eddie gets his dad’s station wagon and they go to the drive in for a date…….. Okay so I make things up sometimes. Day 25 Scrambling, scrambling, scrambling. Malcolm says the next vote is the most important of the season. A little dramatic but true. Dawn comes up with a plan to to tell Malcolm that the group is splitting the vote on Eddie and Reynold, but their real plan is to blindside Malcolm, love it, love it, love it….Eddie then tells Andrea that his group is either going to vote for Mike or for her. Confusion reigns. Here’s the thing that people should learn from this. Have a plan but let the day play out and then spring it on people at the last moment just before going to tribal council so they don’t have time to check sources and change their mind yet again. Come on people, pay attention this is how the best players do it. Oh by the way Dawn get Reynold to show her his idol which was brilliant on her part and stupid on his part. Tribal Council Mike starts out by saying the veterans are starting to rely on the rookies. Phillip goes on with one of Stealth R Us stories, I stepped out for a beer a smoke while he was talking. Sherri says that pay backs are a bitch. I am guessing this was because she got five votes the week before. Andrea announces that this would be the perfect time to make a move and she is 100% correct, however if you are going to make a move you shouldn’t announce that you are going to make a move. Sort of like a girl who wants to break up with her boyfriend and tells him she wants to break up with right before Christmas and can’t understand why he didn’t get her anything for Christmas. The vote is taken and Jeff asks if anyone wants to play their idol. Reynold stands up and is about to play his idol when Malcolm stops him and says, “Dude, everyone is voting for me, give me your idol.” Remember, Malcolm has an idol in his pocket and yes Reynold gives him his idol to play making Malcolm safe and Reynold vulnerable to being voted out. Mike gets five votes, Andrea gets three and Reynold gets one vote. Mike is gone and Reynold looks like a fool for giving away his protection. Next Week Dawn looks like she going to leave the game. Maybe, just maybe she is playing everyone.

Balut and Throat Punches

Bikal Night 19 The tribe goes back to came having just voted out Julia. Mike is the last of the fans crew left in their tribe and he thanks them for not voting him out. Thanking people for not voting you out of the game isn’t a good thing because it means you are probably next on the list to get voted out. Philip gathers Dawn and Corinne and tells them that he threw the challenge and wanted Julia gone. Corrine says, “How convenient that he says he threw the challenge, AFTER he loses the challenge.” Bikal Day 20 Corrine begins talking with Dawn that she doesn’t think Sherri or Eddie from the other tribe have a clue on how to play this game. Okay, first of all they are on the other tribe, what difference does is make now if they don’t know how to play the game? Secondly, isn’t having dumb people who don’t know how to play this game an advantage to you? DAH? Dawn picks up all her belongings and tells everyone she needs to take a walk alone. I understand her need to be alone but taking everything with you that you own? She looks at the camera and says she hates the back stabbing that goes on in this game. You don’t like back stabbing but for the second time in your life you signed up to take a trip half way around the world to play a game that centers around what? Backstabbing. Gota Day 20 A boat arrives with a message telling them to pack everything and get on the boat. They are taken back to Bikal Camp and the Merge has happened. Malcom comes up with the name Enil Edam for the tribe which is Madeline spelled backwards. His mom’s name is Madeline. My mom’s name is mom and if you spell her name backwards you get mom. Just sayin’. The tribe opens a huge chest which contains a lot of food and Mike comments that, “Dawn jumped right into mom mode and starting serving people and doing things like cutting the cheese, literally.” Philip starts talking to Andrea about getting rid of the big 4 or Eddie, Reynold, Malcolm and Erik. Meanwhile, Corrine is talking to Malcolm about getting Reynold, Eddie, Mike and Erik and having an alliance of six and work on taking out Philip or Sherri. The thing about Sherri is she is an easy vote out so you really don’t need to take her out now. And my big question is, “Where the hell is Brenda?” Of the twelve people left she hasn’t said anything on her second time playing this game, totally opposite of her first time around. However, no one is talking about voting her out either. The bad part about not talking to anyone is when it comes time to vote for a winner…..no one is talking about you either. Best Horrible Food Eating Challenge Ever Not your mom’s Thanksgiving Dinner here. First round two teams of six eat worm-like beatles that are still alive and moving on the plate. These things were the size of your little finger. The first three of from each group to totally eat the two bugs move on to the second round. Andrea, Eddie, Malcolm, Philip, Cochran, and Mike move on. These six then had to eat a pile of slimy worms with Malcolm, Cochran and Eddie moving on. Balut is next food item which is my all-time favorite food item in the history of Survivor. It is an egg with a pre-formed small bird embryo inside. Yes folks I can promise you Balut would never be a food item on a Grand Slam breakfast at Denny’s. Malcolm and Cochran win and get the final treat of eating pig brains. Cochran wins immunity and does his best Rocky boxing dance in celebration. David truly beat Goliath today. Pre-Tribal Council Oh yes when the merge comes the paranoia goes up three-fold. Cochran does point out that everyone is a friend of Malcolm and that he indeed beat him in the challenge. Malcolm’s cockiness comes in again as he allows Cochran to enjoy his win and to cross it off his bucket list of winning a challenge in Survivor. Philip wants Eddie or Reynold gone because the Boston Rob theory is to take a big player out now. Corrine wants Sherri gone which really makes no sense because Sherri is an easy vote out at any time. The discord goes further as Corrine then starts to make an effort to rid herself of Philip and makes plans to do so and mentions this to Dawn. The problem with running your mouth to a small group of people on a deserted island is word will probably get back to the person you are targeting. Philip finds out about Corrine’s plan (because Dawn told him of the plan) and he is pissed. Dawn and Cochran are talking to Corrine who seems to have a double alliance. Corrine says she wants to “Throat Punch Phillip.” Wow, not kick him the crotch or run over him with a car, no we want to throat punch the guy. The discussion between Cochran and Dawn centers around Corrine and they soon realize they would be numbers 6 and 7 in a 7 person alliance. Oh shit here we go again they think. Andrea is talking Erik about a certain person who is making plans to rid the group of Philip and rather than say a name Erik asks her to point at the person’s name on the flag who is going after Phillip and she points to Corrine. Wow, Corrine’s secret plan to get rid of Phillip isn’t a secret anymore and you know why? Because she told almost everyone on the island of her plans. Oh my goodness what a dumbass. Tribal Council Mike thinks one of the fans will be next to go. Corrine seems to think a fan will be next to go which brings smiles from many of the players who know she is lying through her teeth. As I have mentioned many, many times before, when if you tell a lie it has to be a lie that is convincing and not one where everyone knows you are lying. Sort of like that one guy, what was his name, oh yeah O.J. Simpson. Sherri then is quoted as saying a top ten dumbass line of all time, “I don’t think any of the fans have a chance of winning this game.” Way to give up there champ, why don’t you just quit right now. The vote starts and Sherri gets the first five votes and then wait a minute, surprise, surprise, Corrine gets the remaining seven votes and is sent packing. What a surprise, NOT. Next Week Are Eddie and Andrea hooking up? Don’t break that Cardinal Rule of hooking up and letting everyone know you are hooking up.

Dummies Guide to Being Stupid

If you haven’t watched last night’s episode of Survivor stop reading right now. I said stop reading right now. Okay? Okay. If Hollywood were to write a movie about last night’s episode it would be a story about a guy who wants to rob a bank. The twist is, he goes into the bank and holds a gun to his own head and says, “Give me all your money or I’ll shoot myself.” I was totally confused watching it too. I won’t give away the ending until the ending. Gota Day 10 – The Turning Point Matt and Eddie both speculate that getting rid of two players last week made the camp better because the most negative player and then the weakest physical players are now gone. What Matt needs to remember is his alliance had a 6 – 2 advantage which is now a 4 – 2 advantage. Reynold speaks up that his idol is now gone and that the others in his tribe with the exception of Eddie are useless. Nice team spirit there guy. Bikal Day 10 Brandon is doing a slow burn because he thinks Phillip is disrespecting him and he is letting everyone know this. Cue the foreshadowing music, dohn – dohn – dohn. Reward Challenge Two tribe members of each tribe are instructed to each hold a rope attached to a separate pulley and supporting a net. Members of the other tribes are to shoot heavy coconuts into the two nets of the opposing teams making the nets heavy and hard to hold. The heavier the nets the harder they are to hold until, yes you guessed it, to the point where the player holding the net can no longer sustain the weight. Phillip wins the challenge for the Favorites tribe winning them food and drink for the evening. Oh yes, during the challenge Jeff points out that Sherri from the fans team is “worthless” in this challenge. Quick comment here, that dude ain’t playing the game, shut the hell up. By the way, I noticed Brenda for the Favorites has a very noticeable limp and had her knee wrapped as well. If I was in that camp I would tactfully point that out to others. It is often times the little things that get you further in this game. Gota Day 11 Are Matt and Reynold bonding or just pretending to? Sherri makes the most candid and obvious comment once again, “We kept Eddie and Reynold around because they would help us win in challenges and guess what, we lose again.” And Jeff called her useless. Then the entire tribe starts looking for the idol, with the exception Eddie. Here’s the message that sends to me, everyone in that tribe is scared now and at this point the leader of the entire tribe is in the minority. Makes no sense to me either. As the searching continues we see Reynold find the idol once again. I am not really a fan of his but to make the show better you know he had to be the one to find it. Bikal Day 11 Other wise known as the day the beans and rice hit the beach Brandon and Phillip are bickering, then they shakes hands and make up, then they fight then………well then Brandon takes ownership of his elimination. Brandon tells his tribe that he had thought about peeeing in the rice and of course they thank him for not doing that. I know when I was younger that we always prayed before supper, “Bless O Lord and these thy gifts and thanks for not letting anyone pee on our food.” Then Brandon finally goes over board and dumps both the bag of rice and the bag of beans onto the ground. Game, set, match to Mr. Hantz. Challenge Both tribes walk up to the challenge area and Corrine of the Favorites Tribe announces that the Favorites are going to forfeit the challenge. Brandon tells Phillip to shut up and Phillip tells Brandon to grow up. Jeff asked Brandon to walk over to him and while insults are being exchanged, Jeff continues to give Brandon a shoulder massage. Brandon is voted out. The dumbest part of this elimination was Brandon had friends on his team who would helped to take him a long way in this game. As I mentioned he was the guy who walked into the bank holding a guy to his own head saying give me the money or I will shoot myself and everyone said, “Okay…..shoot yourself.” I think he was proud of the way he went out and I think he is a dumbass. What did we learn The Gota Tribe has no leadership at all, they are lost. Bikal Tribe ridded themselves of a major problem but, you never and I mean never intentionally give up a player in this game. I think somebody unexpected is going to step up and lead, maybe Andrea. Next Week. Tribe Swap.