Water Cooler Talk from Two Guys Wearing Sweaters
- Week 7 -
The week of the Big Merger! Close votes! Hanging chads! This week's episode had it all!
We're in a particularly good mood while writing this because, although the tribes have been combined, we're faithful to the Ogakor alumni (Amber's former tribe, naturally). Kucha's plan to pick the Ogakor members off one by one has been thwarted. More 'bout that later.
This week's episode opened with the Kucha tribe discussing their intention of "eating (Ogakor) up and spitting them out." They even had the order all figured out, starting with Jerri (obviously!), and working their way down to the non-annoying people.
Meanwhile our pals at Ogakor were expressing their concern for the folks at Kucha upon learning about "the accident." Since they only knew there was an accident, and didn't know the specifics about Michael's little fire-inhaling episode, they could only speculate about the problems at the opposing camp. Jerri suggested perhaps Rodger had a stroke, which nearly gave Tina a stroke.
The girls meet the girls.
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Everyone apparently assumed that the merger would work exactly like the merger of Survivor I. In the first version of the show, the tribes each sent a representative to the other camp, and together they decided where they'd move.
Well, this time around, tribes got Tree Mail telling the Kucha Girls that they would travel to the Ogakor camp for a "Girls' Night Out," while the Ogakor guys got mail to let them know about a "Boys' Night Out." So everyone was pretty surprised that the girls were meeting up with the girls and the guys were meeting up with the guys.
Nick anxiously awaits the arrival of Ogakor Babes. Sorry bucco.
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The guys were especially surprised when Keith & Colby showed up at the Kucha camp, since their guys were ready to dazzle some Ogakor babes with some good eats, and perhaps even some shampoo. Colby noted that he forgot his skirt, which is probably a good thing. Jeff mentioned his desire to "lather up the women" when they got there. Perhaps he & Jerri would have gotten along quite well, assuming the lather consisted of chocolate.
The guys dined on a fine meal of chicken, which was probably a tremendous treat for the Ogakorians, considering their repeated losses at Reward Challenges have kept them pretty hungry.
Amber learns that the Ogakor guys are eating chicken.
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Meanwhile, the women were lucky to eat anything at Ogakor since Keith thoughtfully kept the matches in his pocket. Jerri whipped up some of her special flour tortillas with some tomato sauce that she got from who-knows-where. Apparently canned tomato paste grows on trees in Australia. Everything is backwards down there, you know.
Once again Jerri's conversation turns to food. Jerri reminds us of Homer Simpson. Instead of "Mmmmm donuts," it's "Mmmmmm chocolate" for her. Poured all over Colby, of course.
Amber sure could go for some good food! We thought it was interesting that CBS used the same reaction shot of Amber twice. The second time they used the shot, they simply made a mirror image of it.
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Both groups talked about moving Ogakor to Kucha, but those plans are thwarted when the tribes learn that they're both moving to new digs. They had 15 minutes to grab all the stuff they could before moving to their new home. Both tribes scrambled to grab as much stuff as they could before taking the 3-hour hike to their new home.
Thus is born the Barramundi (meaning "Beer on Monday" we believe) Tribe. The new tribe color is glow-in-the-dark bright orange.
The new tribe was welcomed with a nice big box of fruits, cheese and wine. Even Tina, who doesn't drink, decided this would be a fine time to start.
The combined tribe gets some good eats.
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Everyone seemed to be having a good time and were getting along pretty well, but the scheming quickly began. Jeff noted that the Ogakor folks were already starting to point out their first victim. Ah, so he saw all of those fingers pointing at him!
The first individual Immunity Challenge was called "The Perch." Ironically Barramundi is actually a fish commonly referred to as a "giant perch," not that anyone cares. "Beer on Monday" seems more cool. Each person had to stand on a pole in the water. The last person remaining on the perch won immunity.
Jeff digs peanut butter. Really.
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Jeff Probst, reprising his role as The Devil, brought out some food to entice some folks off the poles. The allure of food worked quite well for Rodger, who is really doing quite well despite his stroke & everything.
Jeff was next to take the bait, and decided that the most appropriate way to eat peanut butter is to dip your arm into the jar clear up to the elbow.
Later Jeff Probst offered some ice cream with hot chocolate to anyone who would abandon their post, and before he got the whole word "chocolate" out of his mouth, Jerri dove off her perch, quickly followed by our Amber. This was actually a pretty good strategic move for Amber, we think. This is probably not a good time to show people how strong you are, since doing so will pretty much paint a target on you (sponsored by Target, of course) for future voting.
