Episode Report Card Miss Alli: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Get A Room
By Miss Alli | Season 16 | Episode 2 | Aired on 02.13.2008
Seriously, this is a really good plan. Mikey B has really, really thought this through. But the response of everyone else is that it's too complicated -- TOO COMPLICATED! -- and they all start to get squirrelly and nervous. Hey, that guy is doing too much thinkin'! Joel, who isn't smart enough to follow this because he was chosen for reasons other than his brain, tells us that "it confuses [him]," all this talk about these ways to guard against possible contingencies! Despite the fact that the plan Mikey B is laying out accomplishes precisely the outcome that Joel wants, Joel is still suspicious, because smarty-talk makes him frustrated. Joel says that his initial thought was to get Chet out, but now Mikey thinks he has things figured out, and Joel no likey! But what really makes Joel upset is that Mikey is taking control of laying out the plan and "having the entire tribe voting the way he wants." OH MYGOD, you moron, this is all in service of accomplishing exactly the same thing you want. This is literally, like, "This guy is better at protecting my ass than I am! He must go!"
Commercials, and then it is Day 6 at Airai. Joel is whispering secretively to Erik that Mikey is trying to run everything, and that he thinks Mikey might stab them in the back. This becomes...really funny, once you realize how sound the plan is and how it protects him specifically, since Joel would be a likely target for the other three, as the biggest guy and also the biggest jerk. Joel interviews for our information, some more, that Mikey is trying to be all in charge, so Joel has to put a stop to it. It's basically like...you're trapped in a burning building, right? And a guy comes in the window, and he's from the fire truck, and he's like, "Come on, I'm here to rescue you!" And you say, "Dude, I really think the only way I'm going to survive here is to make my way on my own. I'm just an independent-thinking kind of guy."
So anyway, now Joel is obsessed with getting rid of Mikey, or with cutting off his legs -- and by "his legs," we mean "Mary." Erik at least has the decency to admit in an interview that the reason he's behind the idea of going after Mikey is that Mikey is so smart. He does ask Joel why they should take out Mary instead of just taking out Mikey directly, and Joel says that Mikey will be more useful in challenges (a.k.a. "is a boy"), so it makes more sense to take out his hired muscle instead of the actual guy. Erik feels that. As much as an ice-cream-scooper feels anything, except maybe taster's remorse after he foolishly samples the bacon-avocado.