Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Removal Of Rudy
By Miss Alli | Season 8 | Episode 2 | Aired on 02.04.2004
Meanwhile, odd, lazy-hillbilly-style music starts. Hatch is strolling around the beach naked, unsurprisingly enough. He prattles dully about enjoying the rain and hoping it lasts for a while. Lex interviews that Hatch's nudity doesn't bother him, because he just finds it funny. Hatch continues strolling around with nothing but his trusty post-production blur to cover him, and he condescendingly tells the people who are under the shelter staying dry that they'd be warmer if they just got out in the rain. Naked, presumably. There's an uproariously funny shot of an uneasy Colby unable to stop peeking at Hatch's package, even though he keeps trying not to. He really is very cute and silly. ["I am glad you are on board." -- Wing Chun] "The bad part is," Colby says, "the rest of us are becoming comfortable with it. That's what's even spooky. We got an overweight, gay, naked man walking around, and no one seems to let it bother 'em." I'm not sure a skinny straight man walking around naked would seem very much more natural to me ["no, Lex, that's not an invitation for you to test that theory" -- Wing Chun], but I understand what he's saying. I just find Hatch's routine, among other things, to be very tiresome at this point...I mean, the nudity is there to make other people uncomfortable and to get camera time, and I would really prefer to see the many other things undoubtedly going on in this tribe that do not directly relate to Hatch's ass. Colby also remarks that he thinks Hatch wants everyone else naked too, and Colby doesn't see that happening. Eh, killjoy.
Elsewhere, the surprisingly happy and functional Chapera is flat-out loving the rain. "We got some waaaa-tah!" Boston Rob is singing, joined by some of his tribemates under the shelter. Even the often sour Alicia is having fun, but Boston Rob and Amber are so happy they're actually wiggling. It's kind of cool -- I love the part of a show like this where borderline insanity sets in, and they're getting to it nice and early. Amazon Rob -- in an interview in which he is wearing a large and comical wide-brimmed hat that I think he may have stolen from an old lady right in the middle of weeding her vegetable garden -- says you would have thought the rain was champagne from how excited they were to get their hands on it. The tribe hangs out under the shelter -- well, everybody else hangs out while Big Tom dances in front of them -- singing a very, very bad, very tuneless, almost entirely lyric-ignorant version of "Have You Ever Seen The Rain," which is probably one of the most endearing things that has happened on Survivor in several seasons. Big Tom continues his happy dance, which has a very Woodstock feel to it, what with the rain and the closed eyes and the strong likelihood of chemical mood alteration. The rest of the tribe continues singing, and there is actual happiness in the camp, even in the face of the very difficult conditions. Buffoon tribe, indeed.