Episode Report Card Miss Alli: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Rubbing Out of Amazon Rob
By Miss Alli | Season 8 | Episode 4 | Aired on 02.18.2004
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As Chapera comes home, Sue and Alicia talk about how frustrating the challenge was. B-Rob laments, as they all sit around camp, that it always seems to be this way -- something comes up to keep you from having "just a really good day all day long." He interviews that because this is their first trip to tribal council, it's really the first time they're having to play the game very much, and it's already Day 12. Back at camp, A-Rob tells B-Rob how bad he feels for him over the fact that they were all taking such hard "body shots" and getting thrown on the ground. B-Rob -- looking oddly adorable as he stares down miserable and shirtless -- says, "Tough challenge, man." In an interview in which he looks like a complete dweeb with his buff tied on like a headband in an Olivia Newton-John video from 1983, A-Rob adds that the crew they had working on the puzzle was "not our best puzzle-building team." He hypothesizes that if he had been there, they might have won. Eh, maybe. He says that he's hoping the tribe concluded that they need him. I don't know. Tribes on this show don't have a great history of treasuring their most wily players.
Out in the water, Amber has a chat with Big Tom. She tells him that she sees an ultimate alliance between herself, B-Rob, and Big Tom. She suggests the booting of A-Rob. Big Tom agrees that "little Rob" (meaning A-Rob) has become smart. "He's too smart, that's why we need to get him out of here," Amber says. Big Tom listens, but he interviews that he's not sure voting A-Rob off leaves the strongest possible team, because he thinks A-Rob would have been an asset in, for instance, the challenge today. So he's basically going with the lesson A-Rob wanted him to learn, as he guesses that A-Rob's mind would have worked out the puzzle better than the people who were working on it. "I think Rob C.'s brain is better than Alicia's," he says. ["Though, as Glark pointed out, if what you want is to ditch your dumbest player, I don't know how it happened that Sue's name never came up." -- Wing Chun]
Alicia takes her turn guessing about what's going to happen. She says that she loves A-Rob and thinks he's "a great guy." On the other hand, she thinks he's well aware that he might be on the block. But, on the other-other hand, there hasn't been much talk about the boot, and the fact that she hasn't heard much is making her nervous. Ah, yes. The dreadful silence of no scheming going on around you. Unsettling, indeed.