Water Cooler Talk from Two Guys Wearing Sweaters
- Week 4 -
This week we took in a party at a bar/restaurant called Thursdays in Beaver, PA (Amber's hometown). It was fun to watch the show with a bunch of other people so we could see how people reacted to various portions of the show. Of course we all yelled any time Amber was on the screen, which still isn't often enough as far as most of us were concerned!
This week we saw more little mini alliances come and go. It's barely worth trying to keep track of all of them, because it seems that every little alliance is really wishy-washy. It doesn't seem like anyone is trustworthy enough to form a strong alliance like the infamous Rich/Rudy pact (not in a homosexual way, of course).
A bunch of folks showed up to root for Amber at Thursdays restaurant in Beaver!
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This was not a good week, again, for our pals in Ogakor. Not that Jeff Probst is showing any bias or anything, but he noted that "Kucha is kicking your ass!" There's a vote o' confidence from the host if we've ever heard one!
Early on we saw the Ogakor tribe lose a Reward Challenge to Kucha. The teams had to manipulate a giant version of one of those annoying sliding puzzle thingies in order to find a map. The map led the winners to some chickens, which didn't exactly delight resident vegetarian Kimmi.
Kucha wins chickens (which also double as early morning alarm clocks!) in Reward Challenge.
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It certainly seems like the CBS folks are doing their best to drive Kimmi to the point of throwing herself off the waterfall. First there was the "eat something disgusting" contest that Kimmi refused to do in her first round, now the chickens... then The Pig.
Kentucky Joe helped out with the ceremonial Whacking of the Chicken, and they all enjoyed a nice meal of, well, chicken.
Ok, onto the real "meat" of this week's show. Michael, who seems to be prone to homicidal rages, went all nuts on a pig. The scene was even preceded by a parental advisory, which only makes us want to watch more, of course. Some of the folks at the party speculated that maybe they were finally going to show Jerri completely naked, and that was the reason for the warning.
They could have just said "If you don't like watching bloody pig guts, this scene ain't for you!"
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Michael would have made O.J. Simpson proud. WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! It seemed like that pig had been good & dead for quite some time before he finally decided it was thoroughly and "totally dead" as opposed to just sorta dead.
We all dug the expressions on the faces of the Kucha tribe when they got the pig. Elisabeth looked surprised, then mortified, then happy as a clam when she got to eat the sucker. Of course Kimmi looked as though she was going to spontaneously combust. Jeff was surprised and delighted. Suddenly the chickens didn't seem too exciting.
Mike digs the pig.
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A couple weeks ago the tribes were wishing for fire, and this week they learned to be careful what they wish for. There was a lot of hype about the forest fire in the promos for the show, but there wasn't a whole lot said about it. It was like, "Hey, let's go pig hunting! And by the way we could all wake up as charcoal tomorrow!"
Tonight's immunity challenge involved brains this time around (using them, rather than eating them), so maybe it's lucky we didn't get chosen for the show! The game was called "Survivor Knows Best," and involved a variety of survival-oriented trivia questions. As usual, Amber held her own quite well. So far we haven't seen her screw up anything in either the Reward or Immunity Challenges!
Amber shows her brains (not literally).
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Unfortunately, after a tie-breaker, Ogakor bit the big one again. Off to their third Tribal Council. We got to see not only one tie vote, but two. Keith and Mitchell each garnered three votes the first time around, and then they held a re-vote to choose one or the other.
Keith and Mitchell were each given an opportunity to state their cases as to why they should be kept on the tribe. Keith didn't say a whole lot that was compelling, but Mitchell basically said, "I'm drained, Keith is stronger... ya may as well ditch me!"
Surprisingly, the re-vote also ended in a tie, so they relied on previous Tribal Council votes to determine the outcome. Since Mitchell had one earlier vote and Keith had none, Mitchell was given The Boot.
The Ogakor tribe is dwindling a bit! Before long it will be Amber versus Kucha!
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