Water Cooler Talk from Two Guys Wearing Sweaters
- Week 6 -
Ok, right off the bat we have to say that Ogakor's loss at the Reward Challenge wasn't Amber's fault. We blame Jerri. In fact, we're planning to blame everything on Jerri just for kicks, including the earthquake this week in Seattle. So there. More 'bout that later.
This week we sponsored a large party at our personal residence, and our bash was covered by our local CBS affiliate, KDKA, Pittsburgh. We want to extend our thanks to David Highfield for coming along, and for giving our neighbors yet another reason to think we're nuts (it's not every day someone in our neighborhood has a news van with a 30-foot-tall mast parked in our driveways).
Check out the cake we had at our party! Nobody could bear to eat Amber's head, though...
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At the beginning of the show, Jerri and Amber talked about the fact that they were hungry for chocolate. Jerri noted the similarities between chocolate and sex, and that she hadn't had either for some time. And she mentioned that it would certainly be fun to combine those two elements, although we prefer not to elaborate on that suggestion. Suffice it to say that Colby assumed that he was being viewed as a chocolate bar.
Over at the Kucha Tribe, they decided to start chowing down on chicken feed, even though they still had an actual chicken available to them. We learned that if you heat chicken feed over a fire, it will turn into popcorn. We'll keep that in mind in the event we ever appear on Jeopardy.
Kucha dines on chicken food.
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Alicia wondered out loud if eating the chicken feed would cause her to "grow eight nipples and start laying eggs." They may have ample food and nutrition at Kucha, but they definitely need more sleep.
Back at Ogakor, believe it or not, there is tension developing between Jerri and Keith. Tina eventually threatened to put them both in Time Out (or would that be "Time Outback?") for a while.
Tina threatens to put Jerri & Keith in Time Out.
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Time for the Reward Challenge! This time the tribes were fighting for the Ultimate Prize, Mountain Dew and Doritos. Coincidentally, this particular reward is an important staple of our diet in our office place!
All but one member of each tribe had to be blindfolded. The remaining unblindfolded person had to guide the rest of the tribe through a series of challenges.
Well, the teams were pretty close there for a while, but Jerri did a terrible job of guiding her teammates, and she completely mislead Amber at the end of the competition. That's our story, and we're sticking to it!
Jerri screws everything up. At least that's our story.
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After a commercial break, we were treated to another parental advisory, because something icky was coming up. The last time we saw a similar warning it was due to the fact that Michael was whacking the smitherines out of a pig, and it was disgusting. This time it was Michael who was the victim of something the Spanish would call "El Disgustomundo."
Apparently Michael was hanging out at the Kucha campfire when he inhaled some smoke, and passed out straight into the fire. He made a really gross mess out of his hands, and dove for the water. We saw the Survivor rescue crew come to his aid, and helicopter him off to safety.
Somewhere there is a pig out there getting the last laugh...
Michael burns the heck out of his hands.
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The whole incident could clearly have been avoided if there had been adequate warning signs attached to the camp fire, as required by most of our state laws: "WARNING: DO NOT INHALE THIS FIRE AND PASS OUT INTO IT."
Well, the silver lining was that there was no need for an immunity challenge since the Kucha Tribe lost one of their members. So it was a rather wishy-washy ending and everyone felt miserable about the whole darn thing.
Michael's tribemates show their concern.
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Did you notice that the Ogakor Tribe showed instant and genuine concern about the whole thing, even though they had no idea exactly what had happened? Would Kucha have acted the same way? Um, no. Even as it was, Jeff was bad-mouthing Ogakor right to the end. Jeff is rating higher and higher on our annoy-o-meter nowadays...
Next week -- the big merge!
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