Water Cooler Talk from Two Guys Who Look Alarmingly Similar
Week 6
Who would have imagined that Richard Hatch would be coming under fire for allegedly "sexually violating" a woman? A farm animal... a kitchen appliance, perhaps... but a woman? Who would have thought?
Tonight's episode began, yet again, with an ominous parental advisory. Like last week, we were deeply concerned that Janet Jackson's breast could come floating onto the shore, but nothing that incredibly shocking ever happened. And there really wasn't much this week that was shocking enough to bring out ye ole advisory, either, in our opinion.
Apparently ever since the Super Bowl, CBS has felt the need to post a parental advisory for just about everything. By the end of the season, we'll probably see parental advisories preceding Tylenol commercials. By the time Survivor 12 (currently slated to be filmed in Punxsutawney, PA, around Groundhog Day) comes around, virtually the whole hour will be consumed with advisories, interspersed with tiny scenes of shivering, heavily-clothed contestants.
Even the fish were yawning as the tribes blithered on and on about who was going to catch fish.
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The show began with a really thorough dissertation about the Chapera tribe's effort to catch fish. Rupert can catch fish. But maybe someone else can catch fish. Big Tom thinks he can fish. Sue catches snails. Quite frankly, this may have been the most boring five minutes of Survivor we've ever witnessed. Apparently CBS had to fill a bunch of time with something since there was no Tribal Council.
Over at the Mogo Mogo Tribe, Colby explained that he didn't respect people who were "coasting" through the game. Shii Ann came back with a clever rebuttal, in the form of saying "blah blah blah" over and over again.
Later we had the opportunity to hear Jerri make an imaginary grocery list of things she'd like to eat, to which Shii Ann offered another clever rebuttal: "blah blah blah." She does indeed have a way with words.
Sue copes with her anger by making sand angels on the beach.
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Back at Chapera, the gang wondered who might have been axed at Mogo Mogo's recent Tribal Council. They all had a nice laugh wondering whether Rich might have been sent home with his little friend. Sue seemed pretty cool with the conversation, and you could almost see a big mental dollar sign appear above her head as she began to think about taking legal action against him. After all, you can't spell "Sue somebody" without "S-u-e." We'd say that she was considering suing his pants off, but that probably would have been hypocritical.
Ok, we'll readily admit that Rich was clearly out of line with his little performance at last week's challenge. We'll also admit that we'd probably feel somewhat violated by him even if we met him fully clothed.
We're frankly having a hard time deciding which side to pick on this issue, though. After all, Sue could have certainly put a quick end to the situation with just one quick, well-positioned kick to Rich's blurry area. So, we're a little torn about the whole thing.
Sue officially loses it.
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After a several hour clip of the Mogo Mogo tribe doing some extremely compelling and interesting fishing (yawn), it was time for the Reward Challenge.
Jeff Probst, the Master of Opening Cans of Worms, opened the Motherload of Worm Cans by coming right out and asking if anyone happened to have any comments on Rich's actions. And, to everyone's surprise, Sue had a thing or two (or 50) to say about it. During her rant, she muttered something about the fact that maybe she couldn't go on with the game.
Remember when Jenna left the show on Episode 3? Even though Jenna had an extremely compelling reason to leave the show, Jeff dwelled on the issue for quite a while, asking the opinions of everyone present. They all debated the issue with most people sympathizing with Jenna's decision while others offered criticisms. It seemed like Jeff dragged out her decision to leave for quite a while.
Finally, CBS began offering subtitles when Tom spoke.
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This wasn't the case with Sue. Jeff said something like, "Did I hear you say you wanna quit? GET THE BOAT! C'mon! Hurry!" And just like that -- whoosh! -- she was whisked away to a Hatch-free environment.
The tribes were given a big decision. They could either mope around and feel bad about the whole Sue thing, or they could continue the challenge as scheduled. After several milliseconds of feeling bad about the Sue thing, they moved ahead with the Reward Challenge, which offered the winning tribe a nice evening of Shish-ka-bobbing.
The goal of the game was to use a little see-saw to bounce a sack into a laundry basket thing. Whoever got the all of their sacks into the basket got to eat the shish-kabobs along with the stuff they flung into the basket.
Tom offers his sincere sorrow about Sue's departure.
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Ultimately, the Mogo Mogoans won the reward, and they headed back to camp to enjoy their feast. The Chaperans headed back to camp, hanging their heads as they felt just horrible about the whole Sue thing. Ok, that might be a slight exaggeration, unless singing "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" can be construed as an expression of sympathy about the Sue incident.
The remaining members of Chapera seemed like they were going to somehow manage to make it without Sue. As Shii Ann undoubtedly would have eloquently put their feelings into words if she had been on their tribe, "blah blah blah."
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