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Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 1:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
So we're back to watching latest bootees Dawn & Whitney battling Ozzie at RI. Last week's recap was fun, but it's nice to get back to the game!

Survivor: South Pacific

Cult Like

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
A rather ominous title.

It's kind of funny to see all those pictures with blue frames in the banner and Cochran in the middle with a red frame. One of these things is not like all the others.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 5:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
How funny Jimmer! They're in alphabetical order but by the luck of the draw Cochran is precisely in the middle. I hadn't caught that until you pointed it out.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
And on tonight's....Survivor!

Te Tuna, Night 27

Coach tells us they have eradicated all former Savaii members, seemingly unaware that Woody Allen is still there. Edna is worried because she thinks she might be the target; Woody talks about being worried at TC and he's aware that "the family" (Gawd) could take him out at any moment. "I mean, gosh. Helter Skelter." I guess this means he expects to be the next Sharon Tate, but significantly less beautiful and not married to Roman Polanski. Unless Roman Polanksi has suddenly developed an affection for nerdy guys in their 20s, which, given Polanski's history, might have actually happened.

And really, how ridiculous is it that they are calling themselves "the family"? These people are frighteningly banal in their mythobiographies.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
That "family" business is just dumb. It's a reality contest, no one is family they will cut each other off for dead to get ahead.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Felt sorry for Dawn, not so much for Whitney.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Te Tuna, Day 28

Woody talks about wanting to change his social world when he was in 5th grade and that he wondered how sex worked, so he'd call up girls and tell them he wanted to trade sperm with them, which must have been a hit with the 5th grade girls. Sophie doesn't know that anyone will take him to the end. She previously thought people were unnecessarily mean to him, but being around Woody makes her understand that....yeah, he's annoying.

Woody says there is a cult like quality to the tribe and that it's almost like the Manson family. Then they say prayers and Cochran worries about being Sharon Tate (nailed it!). He wants to be saved for one tribal council and not be voted off until after his birthday three days from now. Rick looks at him with bewilderment because it's the dumbest possible thing he could have said. Albert says that he doesn't have much to say, but defends the possibility of keeping Woody, as do Coach and Sophie. You know they're just angling to keep him there because he'd be an easy person to go into the final three with, though, so they'd just come up with another excuse to keep him even longer.

Truel at RI: Ozzy, Dawn, Whitney

Stacking dishes. Last person left standing goes on, those defeated become 3rd and 4th members of the jury. Can they have a non-balancing challenge anymore? They've had like 10 so far this season. "Dawn went to yawn and it almost cost her this game," is perhaps the lamest Probst line ever. Small plate...large bowl. It's a Crate and Barrel challenge, my kind of truel. But the large bowl sends Dawn's stack tumbling, and they take out the cutlery and sever her from the game. Small bowl. Whitney has a look of satisfaction, but she starts to wobble. And Whitney is out of the challenge and the game. Ozzy continues his quest to stay in the game.

Dawn says that her lesson is that anything's possible, which is a nice lesson she might have learned on greeting cards, but she takes it further by insisting that kids should follow their dreams--again, a greeting card lesson--seemingly unaware of the fact that it DIDN'T become possible because, hello? you didn't win. Whitney has similar homilies to share and gets teary; Ozzy heads back to RI and says he's even more excited to go into these duels so he can vanquish his enemies because that's the way he wants to play this game. By getting voted off twice and beating people in challenges, or something like that.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Albert's laziness and attitude issues are on full display this evening. Oh dear.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
RI: Ozzy swims and fishes. He can get strong on RI and this is how he's playing his game. There's no one better suited to be there than him, according to Ozzy.

Te Tuna, Day 29:

Edna is washing clothes. Albert says the game isn't outclean, outorganize, and something else, so he's going to leave the housework to Martha Stewart. I'll be your domestic servant, Albert!

Brandon caught something with teeth and Woody is holding it, thinking it might be revivified and bite him, but he's willing to risk life and limb in service to the tribe. I think he's being sarcastic, but holding a fish with teeth might really be something he considers a fright.

Albert lets the fire go out and receives Edna's ire because, while she's doing laundry and people are fishing, he doesn't do anything "for like literally two hours," and then proceeds to say literally literally three times in the next 15 seconds. Rick speaks! He says they call Albert "Prince Albert," which is an interesting piercing (Google it), but not an accurate description of my beloved Albert.

Coach, under pressure from Edna, says in the confessional that keeping Edna and Cochran would be the best thing for him in the long run because they'd never vote him out, but he's not sure what to do.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
I'm suspecting Tish will be volunteering to perform that massage. It's just a feeling I have.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Gracious - Albert is working the jury vote. Good for him (and I hope someone gives him food LOL).

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Te Tuna, Day 30

Coach is going to center Woody with Tai Chi, saying he needs one student to teach and Woody might feel empowered with all the learning he's getting at the feet of the master. The Tai Chi made all the stress leave Woody's pores and he's ready for the challenge. All of this means he's bound to fail as miserably as he typically does.

IC:

A repeat challenge? Seriously? Bean bags, followed by coconut targets. The winner gets a spa afternoon. You know it's going to end with the winner picking someone else to go with him or her.

Tossing beanbags first. Too annoying to recap this, but it's just interminable. Albert moves to final round, joined by Rick and Sophie, who is a challenge monster.

Coconut slingshot now. Albert gets one target, Rick gets one. Rick gets two. Sophie is sucking at this. Albert hits second target. The beautiful Albert wins immunity. And a massage and shower. I'll be right there to massage you, Albert! I can work out those kinks.

Albert gets to pick someone else to go with him. He chooses Coach. And he gives his reward away! To Woody! Awwww. Albert is a mensch. Woody is looking forward to a massage--"I look forward to being on the receiving end," he says, echoing my sentiments about Albert.

Woody sees this as a possible farewell gift. And it's a SMART play by Albert to curry favor from those voted off. Coach, surely, must recognize that and it probably has him steaming.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
GAL, I've become too predictable! LOL

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Coconut. Sling. Shot. I've probably played that once or twice, but with different rules. And with different tools.

That was cool of Albert to give up his reward, even if he did have ulterior motives.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Do you think Woody's going to try to drink the coconut oil? I probably would at this stage of the game.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
LOL - Cochran's nose filled the face rest and the television screen when Coach was carrying on about his young warrior. He looked like a cartoon character.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Brandon's starting to fracture.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Te Tuna

Coach narrates the scene: everything is laid out for "Cochran and I" and I have to tell you I hate it when people say "I" instead of "me," thereby making grammatical messes of sentences. And it's sorta gross watching this because I know Cochran is getting off on these "beautiful South Pacific women" massaging him. Coach calls Woody a "warrior" and Woody says, "wasn't I a student before?" but Coach assures him he's a "young warrior now."

Woody reveals to Albert that Rick calls him "Prince Albert," but honestly, if you google the term, he bears no resemblence to that whatsoever. Albert says he'd like to see Woody go further than Rick, and how can you really disagree? The man barely speaks and that mustache?! Edna, an outcast, is now conferring with Cochran, another outcast, with pipe dreams about getting rid of Rick first. Woody then approaches Coach, who pretends to consider it. Or to actually consider it. I can't tell.

Coach, in another fit of megalomania, says that whatever his decision tonight determines the direction of the game and then starts misquoting Shakespeare. Seriously, the guy can't tell when to say "I" or "me" in conversations and then he solidifies his inarticulateness by misquoting Shakespeare.

TC:

Whitney comes in smiling because she's been taking Keith for a test drive since her elimination.

Coach blah blah. Woody talks about collecting a debt, but they edit it strangely, so I think he was referencing Brando's speech in Apocalypse Now. Lots of talking, Edna saying she feels unequal to the others in the group. Edna calls the whole thing a "publicity act" and, as usual, Hantz 2.0, silent up to this point (amazingly) says that Cochran is going tonight followed by Edna. He's the worst game player in history. And then Hantz 2.0 does another one of his spiels about everything is black or white and temptation and tears and other foolishness. And really he's in some kind of religion-induced stupor. Woody says that talking strategy with Hantz 2.0 is like talking to Probst about shirts that aren't blue. Probst smiles.

Woody poses the question: what happens if Edna wins immunity? Sophie: "then it starts."

Woody comes to the realization that if he gets voted out tonight, he will have done worse than if he had stuck with his original group. So accept that you screwed up, Cochran. Rick votes and says sarcastically, "Cochran, thanks for making the big move when you made it. Happy birthday." (Oh--Cochran revealed in confessional that his birthday was actually 6 months ago and that the birthday thing was just a ploy to buy himself more time)

Votes:

Cochran
Rick
Rick
Cochran
Cochran
Cochran

Cochran is excited that Probst snuffed his torch: "It's unreal!" Coach smiles and says "see ya, Cochran."

Longbeachbbfan
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Longbeachbbfan a private message Print Post    
What does nickname Prince Albert mean?

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Next time on....Survivor!

Edna talks about integrity and honor and Hantz seems to be on the outs.

Cochran asks Ozzy whether he has a chance to win a challenge against him. Ozzy says, "you have a chance." Then confessional: "He doesn't have a chance."

Cochran says that Upolo used him (d'uh! He just now realizes this?) and it's insulting to him. I have a hard time with him blaming Upolo, though; he should have taken off the blinders a few weeks ago.

That's it for tonight. Have a happy one. On to Modern Family.

Csnog
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07-18-2002

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 7:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Csnog a private message Print Post    
I don't think we had to hear Brandons' voice until Tribal.

Reenie
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06-24-2006

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 7:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reenie a private message Print Post    
Thank you Tishala...always great!

Holly
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07-21-2001

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 7:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Hallelujah, he's gone. I got the willies again, watching him (and his back acne) being massaged. That poor woman!

Good spoiling, as usual, Tish. And LOL at Ozzy's last confessional.

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Prince Albert is a tobacco brand. Just made a catchy phrase when they wanted to label Albert as idle around camp -

What else did Cochran say as he left TC? There were several phrases - sentences? - that I didn't catch!

Shenanagon
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07-28-2009

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 7:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shenanagon a private message Print Post    
Thank you so much Tishala!!!