Episode Report Card Sara M: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Nobag Is Gabon Spelled Stupid
By Sara M | Season 17 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.13.2008
For the next hole, Kota and Fang's drives are both pretty good. Fang's second shot gets really close to the hole, making it an easy putt. Kota's shot lands close, but not as close as Fang's. Ken takes the third shot for Kota, but does not make it in the hole. That means Matty's got an easy third shot for the win, but hesitates before taking it, yelling at Charlie to stand a certain way. Charlie protests, but Matty snaps at him and Charlie relents. Despite the tense moment, Matty makes it in the hole, tying the game up and giving Charlie a reason to hug him. By the way, I love how Sugar has spent this entire game standing near her team, but doing absolutely nothing. Such participation!
So now it's time for the third and final hole. Both teams drive well, and Fang's second shot gets a nice roll close to the hole. Kota's second shot gets close to the hole, but not close enough to almost guarantee they'll make the third shot. Kota takes the third shot, and Ken misses the hole by inches, shooting over it so that the ball rolls down a hill, making it a difficult fourth shot. Matty misses the hole as well, but he misses short, so now Fang's ball is basically touching the hole, giving them an easy fourth shot. Kota takes its fourth shot, and it misses. Charlie's thrilled and can almost taste the Gabonese village food. But then Fang lines up to take its shot and Randy decides he's the boss, even though Matty's the one taking the shot. He tells Charlie to extend his arms as far forward as possible so that Matty can basically drop the ball into the hole. He starts telling Matty what to do, earning him a "SHHHH!" from Matty. Chastened, Randy adds a "please" onto his orders. "How can they blow it?" Probst asks. Matty tells them to put their arms down and reset, and Randy decides that he should be the one to take this last shot. Matty refuses with a "simmer down, Randy." "Simmer down?" That's amazing. Matty is my third grade teacher, except without the weirdly tanned skin and beehive hair-don't. Randy orders Matty to drop the ball in the hole. Matty shushes him again. Charlie decides to play peacemaker (even though the perfect person to do so would be Sugar, as she's not doing anything else. But she doesn't want to break her streak, so she remains inactive. I think that was my favorite thing about this challenge, by the way) and says he wants to win this reward happy and calm. But Randy keeps nagging Matty, who's getting really fed up. Although Matty expresses his frustration by laughing maniacally, because he's either cool or insane. And with that, I was expecting Fang to totally blow it, but they don't. Matty kind of waits until Randy isn't paying attention and lightly shoots the ball into the hole. "This should be a fun afternoon!" Probst says, possibly sarcastically. Fang celebrates, except Randy is still really angry and kicks the slingshot. Even Corinne is being more pleasant than Randy, as we see her at the beginning of the course, jumping up and down and forgetting about Marcus. Matty tries to hug Randy, and Sugar even puts in a "why are you mad?" Randy throws Matty off him in order to explain why the way Matty took the shot was wrong, even though IT WENT IN THE HOLE and WON THEM THE REWARD. "Randy, whatever. We won. Chill out!" Sugar says. She's just glad she isn't going to Exile. This would have been an excellent time for Crystal to hit Randy back with a "wah wah wah," but she doesn't. I hope she's saving it for the perfect moment.