Episode Report Card Sara M: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Stuporbowl
By Sara M | Season 21 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.15.2010
The old people arrive back at camp. Jimmy Fisherman says something unintelligible to his tribe, then interviews that he "can't even think clearly right now." He chalks that up to "the trauma of the challenge," although I think it's because he's crazy. He says it's only Day 3, but he's already exhausted. He also says he's 48 years old, even though he looks a good decade older than that. Marty asks him what he's thinking about tonight's vote. Jimmy T. loudly and without seeming worried about the wrong person hearing him says he doesn't buy that Jimmy Johnson wants to help anyone win a million dollars except for Jimmy Johnson, so he's voting for him. Marty nods and asks someone named "Jill" what she thinks, but before she gets a chance to say anything, Jimmy T. suddenly gets all agitated; "I gotta say this, and I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna not be heard here! I'm not gonna not be heard." Marty's like, "okay, all right," with an expression on his face that clearly says "chill out, Crazypants." Poor Marty. He seems like an asshole and all, but he is one of the only sane people on that entire tribe. And the only people who aren't insane yet are people we haven't had a chance to actually meet, so Yve and Tyrone and "Jill" may also be crazy. "Sometimes stahs blind people," Jimmy T. says with his Massachusetts accent. How did I come from Connecticut, which is right next to Massachusetts, and yet I speak like a normal person? "I gotta calm down!" Jimmy T. says, and heads off to the woods to probably murder someone.
Jimmy Johnson and Holly, meanwhile, take a walk on the beach. Jimmy Johnson says he thinks they need to vote out the weakest player tonight, and that he thinks that player is either himself or Wendy. Mostly Wendy. "Forget about personalities, forget about alliances," he says. If he wants the tribe to vote Wendy out before him, then he should probably suggest that they take personalities into consideration. "You really mean that?" Holly asks. Idiot. Of course, he says he does. Holly interviews that she totally agrees with Jimmy Johnson (or "Coach" as she calls him. That nickname needs to not catch on) that they need to keep the team strong and she now regrets her alliance with Wendy. "I'm just gonna see what happens," she says, which basically means "I'm totally going to stab my trusting ally in the back but I don't want to say that because I'll look like an asshole." Meanwhile, Wendy is starting to realize that she's on the outs with her tribe. She chalks this up to not developing a bond with anyone yet. She invites Holly out for a swim, but Holly declines because she doesn't want to feel bad about voting Wendy out tonight. Wendy says that even her supposed ally, Holly, won't talk to her now. "Heck, what's going on is all I want to know," Wendy says. She does not, however, make any apparent effort to answer that question.