Water Cooler Talk from Two Guys Wearing Sweaters
- Week 8 -
Alicia got her toned butt kicked out of the tribe, Amber showed her expertise with a boomerang and got to eat a good meal. And Jerri was still annoying. Time for our Week 8 commentary!
Rodger opened this week's show by becoming The New Richard. Not in the sense of being gay, fat or naked (so far as we know), but in the sense of providing fish for the tribe. Now if he starts walking back to the tribe and saying things like, "Tonight we're gonna have some PROTEIN!" we'll start wondering more about him.
Kentucky Joe tries his hand at becoming "The New Richard."
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In an early-in-the-show use of the popular foreshadowing technique, Alicia remarked that the former Ogakor tribemates could now pick off the Kuchans one at a time. Come to think of it, they could wrap up the show a lot quicker if they just cut to the chase and voted them all off in one episode. Alicia suggested that the Ogakorians "better be really nice" to them anyway since if all the cards fall properly, the Kuchans would have more voting power at the final Tribal Council when the show is whittled to the Final Two.
Jerri was feeling like an outsider, and perhaps realized that maybe she's a little vunerable, what with the annoying thing and all. Perhaps she could give up on being picky about the rice, for example. Jerri is apparently rather particular about how she likes her rice. If we ever have her over for dinner, our motto will be "NO MUSHY RICE!"
Don't mess with Jerri's rice, or Jerry Rice for that matter.
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We're starting to wonder if Jerri is any relation to San Francisco 49ers star Jerry Rice...
Some Kuchans came to the amazing realization that Jerri might be annoying, too. Elisabeth, who noted that Jerri and Keith "have issues," started to bet on the fact that maybe someone from Ogakor would abandon an alliance to try to get Jerri booted.
So the first half of the show can pretty much be summarized by saying that everyone, probably even the camera crew and nearby wildlife, is annoyed with Jerri. Not to brag, but we knew that Jerri wasn't getting the boot because it was too obvious that Mark Burnett's gang was really leading us to believe that her head was on the block this time around.
Amber throws a mean boomerang!
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Time for the Reward Challenge -- a boomerang accuracy contest! We never realized that those things actually work... any times we have attempted to throw one, we had to follow it up with a funeral for a favorite pet or relative.
We must say that everyone did a pretty impressive job, especially as Colby nearly managed to chop Keith's head off during his attempt.
Jerri managed to get her boomerang impressively close to the mark, and Amber (go girl!) came in close enough to necessitate a measurement to determine the winner. Jerri was named the winner, and she chose Amber as a companion for a fancy meal consisting of appetizers, smoked salmon, shrimp, grilled chicken, pasta medley, Greek salad and rolls with butter and some sort of dessert.
Alicia mocks Amber. She's doomed.
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Meanwhile, the rest of the Barramundi tribe talked about Jerri & Amber. Keith realized that something was different at camp that night: "The Wicked Witch of the West isn't here!" It's a shame he doesn't just come out & say what he thinks about Jerri.
Alicia made a condescending remark about Amber, mocking her facial expression when Amber learned that Jerri was picking her to be a meal companion. You know what happens to people that make fun of Amber? They get THE BOOT! Ha hahahahahaha cough cough cough.
Amber contemplates her next move at the challenge.
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Remember that game you probably played in the car when you were a kid where you draw a bunch of dots and then connect lines to make squares, and the person with the most squares wins? Wait, maybe that was actually a sobriety test. Whatever the case, the Immunity Challenge was a life-sized version of this game.
Amber claimed quite a few squares, but not enough to catch Keith. The Michigan chef may as well have the Immunity Talisman fitted for his neck since he always gets to wear the stupid thing.
See, they're confirming what we knew all along... Amber is a "10!"
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At Tribal Council, the alliances held true as Alicia got axed by a 5-4 margin. This was a pretty slick move on the Ogakorian's part considering that they could gang up on Jerri next time and still have an advantage over the Kuchans.
We'll have to wait two weeks to see who gets the boot the next time. Another Wednesday version of the show next week will feature "Never Seen Footage!" "Secret Conversations!" "Hyped-Up Crud That Didn't Make The Cut The First Time Around!" Bah.
As a PS, we wish to thank "rjammrjam" (perhaps not his or her real name) for gently pointing out that we may have had some technically incorrect information on this page earlier. For example, we had earlier noted that next week's episode would air on Wednesday due to "NBA Playoffs." Mr. or Ms. Jam pointed out that it is not the NBA at all. We now realize that the show has been moved to Wednesday as the result of the demands from evil aliens hailing from the planet Woombawoomba.
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