I like how The Coch pretty much summed himself up after the challenge, when he said he thought he had a shot to win, but his lack of skill and ability showed. He said it himself. Maybe he is as smart as we think he should be. Yes, Cochran, you have absolutely not skill and/or ability in anything that involves physical actions. Hell, you can’t even attach a carabiner to a damn rope for God’s sake. But, you go ahead and keep thinking you have a shot to win these competitions. Ginger up.
Whitney is on a roll tonight. Where has this girl been all season? She explains to Dawn how Albert is their only chance to make a move and get someone to flip. She says this as she goes through the rest of the tribe, explaining that Rick “isn’t even playing” and “Edna is so far up Coach’s butt.” So, she approaches Albert about making a move and Albert (for the sake of the episode, I’m guessing) makes it appear like he’s into voting out Edna and doing so in order to secure votes from Savaii if he does in fact make it to the final 3. Of course, he has to know that none of his tribemates are going to go along with this idea, but he does mention it to Sophie, who seems to teeter on the idea fence a little, but you knew she’d end up falling on the side where Paper Mache hat still stood.
Then, of course we get Coach talking about how he’s going to kill Albert if he goes “against the five.” But, Edna wasn’t even in the original five, so technically he wouldn’t be able to kill Albert for voting her out. But, we get a few of these comments each season where someone says that so-and-so person is playing their own game and they don’t like it, and that’s dangerous to do, and I’m going to cut their testicles off and boil them in the water so we can eat if they vote against the alliance. Seriously, I’ll say it again, what do you want these people to do? Does Coach still not understand he’s back on Survivor? This is a game where each individual person is trying to win $1 million. He does know that the entire tribe can’t win, right? The six members of Upolu can’t share the prize money. You have to advance yourself in the game as far as you can so YOU can win the money. So, yes, you have to play your own game, Coach. I think the girls soccer team that Coach coaches probably goes without a win most seasons. I feel like he doesn’t understand life. Go do some more sissy dance moves on the beach and contemplate that one, Benjamin.
At Tribal, I learned something else new. Dawn might possibly be a future member of PBEC. I never really noticed that before. They aren’t as piercing as Sophie’s, but still quite bright in the night. Before she ended up being voted out (but, hey, at least you walked away with a lifetime membership to the PBEC where we have no benefits, but still quite an achievement, kind of like Cochran’s flip to Upolu), Dawn made a great point to Probst and the rest of Say Tuna when she said that it seemed the 5th, 6th, and 7th members of the old Upolu tribe (it’s 7 now because of Cochran) were content with losing and staying in the 5th thru 7th position. She said it would have benefitted them much more to flip and align with Dawn and Whitney, because that would then position them greatly in the game. I’ll take it further than what Dawn said and say that if they had decided to make that move, it would have been BRILLIANT for their game. Think about like this. You have three members of one alliance moving over to a dead-in-the-water two person alliance. You are leaving behind a 7-person alliance where your best hope was to finish in 5th place. Now, you automatically are in the top 5 as you can just pick off the 4 members of your old alliance since you now have the numbers. Ok, now when you’re down to the final 5, you have the numbers, because you have your old three person alliance from Upolu where you can now take out Dawn and Whitney since they only have two votes. See…now you just went from 7th place to the final. But, hey, I don’t go to Harvard Law, so I guess this wouldn’t work. I only thought of this in 15 seconds, I guess someone who has nothing to do all day but think about things couldn’t exactly come up with that. Seriously, where do they find these idiots? Well, I guess we are talking about Rick, Edna, and The Coch here. One likes to watch squirrels f*ck each other and then relive the noises they make in his head. The other’s main talent in life is making hats out of paper mache. And, the last one is just a sweater-vest-wearing moron, who pops his collar even though that was NEVER in style. God bless the CBS casting department.
Anyway, highlight of the night when “DON” got voted out!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I can’t even imagine how stupid you have to be to think that “Don” is the way you spell “Dawn.” He has met a Don before in his life or heard about anyone named Don, right? And, he did realize it was a man? Honestly, come on, Loco, I want to hear that you wrote that because you thought she looked like a dude or something, because I can’t imagine you actually convinced someone to marry you at this point! You’ve done enough this season that I have to believe what you are doing is an act and you can’t actually be like this in real life. I’m still laughing over here. Goodness. Don. I wish they’d give us reactions of the people voted out to how their name was spelled. Also, if I was Probst, I wouldn’t have counted that vote just out of share ridiculousness. Too funny.
The big twist that Probst promised us was that this season is SUCH a bore that they are, again, voting off two people in one episode. This time, they weren’t even going to leave Tribal, and were just going to have the challenge right then and there. Well, it came down to Pretty Eyes and Prettiest Girl Left, and I was actually pulling for Whitney to pull this one out, just to see the Upolu tribe squirm with no chance to talk strategy and vote one of their own out, but in the end she just couldn’t get it done. One day she’ll write a country song about the crabs that got her voted off Survivor.
I’m guessing the next truel will be something more physical-based (meaning, they’ll have to drink something and spit it out into a cup knowing how this season has gone), so Ozzy should win with ease over Don and Whitney. I’m also guessing they’re going to have at least one or two more Tribal votes before they let Ozzy back in the game off of Redemption. Although, I think the best thing for the show would be to keep Redemption until the very end. Have that be how the third person for the final is determined. When it gets to the Final 3, they vote one person out, then they go and face Ozzy (or whoever is left at Redemption) and whoever wins goes back into the Final 3 for the chance to win $1 million. Just an idea. Probably the best one CBS could use, but won’t.
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P.S.S. Next week is just a recap show, so I won’t be posting a blog about it since it will just be going over what we already know. I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving holiday and enjoys their Black Friday shopping. With an infant daughter, I don’t think I’ll be doing the type of early morning shopping I used to do, mostly because I can’t imagine how she’ll react to waiting in two-hour long lines to buy toys for HER Christmas! I would end up being one of “those” parents that everyone is talking about in the store. No thank you.
I really enjoy reading your recaps each Thursday!! I will have to disagree about this season being boring. Compared to the last two seasons I think this one has been pretty good. I like the charecters and don’t really find anyone really annoying… although not classic Survivor either. Hopefully it will start to get a lot better now that it’s down to the seven… who knows though.
Supposedly the recap episode will be new scenes and storylines. I don’t normally watch the recap episode, but I might watch this time around.
Yeah, they typically throw about 3 minutes worth of unseen scenes, but not worth sitting around for an hour, watching them replay all the dumbness that has been the season.
I’m not saying this is the most boring hour of television, but compared to past seasons, this is pretty bunk. They show about 3-4 people each episode, mostly because nobody else is doing anything. That makes it boring to me. I want to see a season where we get a great perspective of how everyone is playing the game, but I believe that most the people out there just aren’t “playing.” They’re just sitting on their asses because they’re so comfortable in their alliance of 6 (or 7 if you count Cochran) and it makes it boring. I don’t even think Coach is really “playing.” They just show him because he’s the only one who talks and says semi-interesting things to the camera.
I think you might be misunderstanding his use of the words ‘ginger sips’ (or maybe I am…) but I took it to mean he was ‘gingerly’ – carefully, or cautiously taking sips…like he didn’t want to go all in, but ‘drink enough of the koolaid’ that coach would be convinced he was all in.
I love love love community (and I did see last weeks episode, but I can’t quite recall the koolaid quote – I’m really curious now). Abed is my favourite though…gotta love the geek. Maybe I identify with his character…just a little…
Well, we will just have to ask Cochran one day what he meant by that. I just don’t think he would say “Ginger sips” if he meant I’m “gingerly taking sips.” I am guaranteeing he meant ginger in the red-headed style. I could be wrong, though, but hardly ever am. 🙂
The quote from Community was when Troy and Abed changed their bedroom around to be Annie’s room and Abed said something like “You can teach us how to get Kool-Aid stains out of shirts.” And Troy goes, “We already know the opposite color Kool-Aid doesn’t work.” That is the epitome of my style of humor. I almost pissed myself.
What is your e-mail address Scott? I need to give it to my lawyer – you have abused and in a flagrant show in lack of ethics used my acronym of Pretty Brown Eye Committee (PBEC). I am requesting you immediately discontinue abusing PBEC or your in big trouble. Just saying.
I remember that now – i could have not quoted it though.
how much did you love the community episode with the 7 alternative timelines – the chaos theory one? I think that was my favourite so far. Most creative sitcom episode i’ve seen in a long time. And the DD episode – along with the paintball ones. And the one where they filmed it all in one room – the bottle episode. Oh, they are all good.
Haha, it is so sad when the highlight of the episode was Brandon writing “Don!” H.i.l.a.r.i.o.u.s.
These people need to get a clue. They needed to join forces with Whit and Dawn! Coach is gonna win the whole thing, and it’s like they just want to give him the money!!! Frustrating!!!
susieduck, there is just no competition when it comes to brown vs. blue eyes! Whereas I do like brown eyes on girls, there is just something majestic about blue eyes that shine in the light!! 🙂
Cndgirl, when Annie’s gun fell out of her purse and shot Pierce in the leg, I swear I almost pissed myself. That show is truly perfect. It’s sad to me that it will eventually lose the battle with NBC and get axed, but I’m going to enjoy it while it’s still on. If you didn’t watch last night’s episode, you need to because I fell off my couch laughing at one particular part involving Jeff/Dean!!
And, Jacklyn, this has been the MO of Survivor the past few years…everyone stands around as one person just wins the money…it’s why I think Survivor has run its course. 23 seasons is enough now…
If Cochran is in the final three he needs to take, Brandon and Edna. Next vote will probably be Edward or Sophie, vote one of them out then the nerd herd three will have the majority to vote out Coach and Edward/Sophie and go to the final three! None of the three would probably win against anyone else. I’m brilliant and slightly nerdy.
You mean when Jeff turned into the dean and the dean turned into Jeff and kicked him off the set and Jeff had a meltdown. Brilliant. “some flies are just too awesome to stay on the wall.”
I try not to think about it getting cancelled, but ‘the word’ is that because Sony actually owns it, they will let the show go on for one more season because then there will be enough episodes for syndication (where they can make a lot of money) so let’s hope for that. Maybe you should start up a Community blog. It’s been more fun to talk about community this week rather than what seems like a predicable survivor game
Am I the only one who thinks Coach is trying to play the exact same game as Boston Rob did last season? It struck me when Brandon was talking to Coach and was saying, “I thought we weren’t supposed to be talking to them.” That is exactly how Rob ran the show last season. I am just surprised the producers found another bunch of mindless sheep this season. Although you could argue the Redemption Island concept would only work for the returning players if this was the case.
Maybe I’ll do a Community blog in my Comments section each week! I FELL OFF my couch when the camera panned over to Jeff as the Dean!! I had to pause the TV, because it was just that funny to me!! I haven’t laughed that hard for quite some time.
As for Coach playing the same game as Boston Rob, that’s a slap in the face to Rob!! I did think it was weird how Brandon said that to Coach, but I don’t think Coach has the ability to run the table like Rob did last year. Rob handled his tribe genius-ly and Coach is just an idiot who got lucky he’s playing with people like Porn Stache and Paper Mache Hat Creator.
Oh, I didn’t say he was doing it well, “trying” was the operative word there.
hey love reading your blog every week to recap the episode in a humorous way. I am definitely agreeing with you on how boring this season has gotten. They should stop bringing old people back and I feel as tho people idolize the veterans for some reasons as if “hey they deserve to win more than I do.” P.S. noticed how you wrote 2 people had to get voted out this episode again cause of how boring it was but I think you forgot the first two from the truel. This would make it *4 people* getting voted out from the episode. I don’t think that has ever happened. They need to spice things up in this season fast