Episode Report Card Sara M: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Race Wars
By Sara M | Season 22 | Episode 10 | Aired on 04.20.2011
What is going on with the Product Placement Player of the Week? It sucks even more than usual, giving us the choice between Matt, who is on Redemption Island and hates being here and has done nothing except come in second, Mike, who is also on Redemption Island and has done nothing except build an eight-foot-high tower, and David, WHO CAME IN THIRD OUT OF THREE AND THUS ISN'T EVEN PLAYING THIS GAME ANYMORE. So I'm going to vote for him.
The tribes return to camp to cook and eat rice in separate groups. I have no idea where Onomatopoeia is storing their rice, by the way. They never told us. I think they should steal the treemail box and put it in there. Julie smiles over how much rice her puny alliance gets and says tonight's vote is easy for them. They're voting for Phillip, and hopefully two people from the other alliance will flip and vote with them. When Onomatopoeia walk away from cam, Julie marches over to the clothesline, grabs Phillip's swimsuit, and buries it in the woods. She says if Phillip wants to call this game a war, then she'll fight it like one. And that means burying his shorts so he'll have to walk around in his pink panties for the rest of the game. I hate that sabotaging people's belongings has become commonplace in this game now, especially since Julie's actions have consequences to people beyond Phillip. Like her fellow contestants, who have to look at him. And the viewing audience, who has to look at him. Uncool, Julie.
Phillip returns to camp and looks for his shorts. He asks all the contestants if they moved them, and they all say no. Phillip figures that someone stole and hid his shorts, and he is pissed. As Ashley makes faces at him behind his back, he mutters that things can get "real fun and exciting around here." Can they really? Because I would very much love it if this season somehow became fun and exciting. Ashley interviews that everyone in camp is "over Phillip," who makes several speeches about stolen items and how he can play that game, too, and asks if people are from "the Big House," whatever that means. He isn't yelling at Ashley, but she's probably more annoyed by it than anyone else. "Crazy Phillip who wears feathers and pink underwear," she racists. And now Phillip is saying that if he doesn't get his shorts back tonight, he's going to "go off" on someone. "That's kinda scary," Steve says. Phillip tells him he should be scared if he thinks Phillip is so crazy. "This ain't the NFL. In the NFL they got rules," he says. Ashley and Natalie giggle. Steve interviews that Phillip "made a total ass out of himself" and owes everyone, especially Steve, an apology for his behavior. Instead, Phillip is standing around striking poses wearing very little clothing. Steve catches a glance and hurriedly turns away. He concludes that he hopes Phillip has alienated enough people to get voted out tonight instead of someone from Zapato. Yeah. Sure.