Episode Report Card Sara M: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
By Sara M | Season 18 | Episode 5 | Aired on 03.12.2009
Reward challenge time! Tempura sees that Sandy was voted out last night, and Douche feels the need to mutter "only a matter of time" under his self-satisfied breath. UGH. Can this PLEASE be the episode where he gets voted out? Please??? Probst explains today's challenge. One tribe member sits on a rotating platform while the other pulls a rope, thereby spinning the platform and making the person sitting on it dizzy. Once the entire rope has been pulled, the dizzy member must walk across a balance beam and cross a finish line. The first tribe to cross the line wins a point. First tribe to get three points wins a trip to the Charmin Café, where they'll get coffee and pastries and a toilet filled with Charmin toilet paper. Methinks the contestants are much more excited about the food than the TP. Both tribes agree that this is worth playing for, like always, and Tyson looks like an overgrown schoolboy with his hands clasped across his tiny little shorts. Probst then gives everyone the big "fuck you" of the reward -- whoever the losing tribe's Exilee picks from the winning team to go to Exile will miss out on the Café.
For the first round, we have Joe pulling Taj for Jalapeño and Brendan pulling Tyson for Tempura. I see that Douche has once again elected to stay as far away from helping his team out as possible. Joe and Brendan reach the end of their ropes at about the same time, so now it's a race between Taj and Tyson, who both look very dizzy. Taj tries to get on the balance beam immediately, while Tyson tries to clear his head and un-dizzy himself first. His strategy seems to be working, as Taj falls off her beam several times. Even so, it's still a pretty close race to the finish line when he wins one point for Tempura.
Second round: Stephen is pulling Spencer while Douche is pulling Erinn. How can he do that when he's too true to be near her? I'm so confused. Both men pull their ropes, and Spencer appears to be attempting to minimize his dizziness by keeping his face pointed forward as much as possible. I wonder if he took figure skating or dance lessons growing up? Once the ropes have been pulled, Erinn's got a hilarious windswept look to her hair. Spencer approaches the beam and tries to shake off the dizzies. He seems to have this round, but then he falls off towards the end beam and has to start over. Erinn blows her chance to help Tempura out when she falls off soon after. Spencer almost falls off the beam the second time, too, but manages to get across the line and win a point for Jalapeño. He makes a comment about "beer goggles" that the editors make sure to put in so his parents can yell at him for admitting to underage drinking.