Episode Report Card Sara M: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Everybody's Crazy!
By Sara M | Season 21 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.22.2010
Probst has to put a hand over his mouth to hide his obvious delight at what is sure to catapult this season into awesomeness. Sash claims he's straight by saying he's had more beautiful girlfriends than Shannon. Well, Shannon's been married since he was like 19, so, yeah, probably. Sash says he doubts that Shannon would go over well with pretty girls in the big city of New York. "New York's full of a bunch of gay people," Shannon says. Even Probst can't believe he's hearing this. "New York is full of gay people?" he asks. Shannon says there are a lot of gay people in New York, and many more than there are in Louisiana. Jud again begs Shannon to shut up. "We're on the same team for the next two, three weeks," he says. For this, Probst tells him to get his head out of "the trees," saying "this is a tribe completely divided, and if experience means anything, it's gonna be tough sailing for you guys." Which is why Jud would prefer it if they stopped fighting and making it even worse than it is.
Probst asks Alina if she thinks she can trust someone after just six days. Alina says it's "foolish" to trust someone, adding that she thought she could trust Chase. So I guess she's foolish, then? She says that people are saying they can't trust Shannon, but he hasn't lied to her thus far in this game, and Chase has. Probst then turns to Ben, whoever he is, and asks if he's surprised that trust would become an issue this soon. Of course he is, because he's clearly never watched this show before. Probst asks Brenda why she thinks she's a target. She says she's guessing it's because Shannon wants to take out a strong girl, although she doesn't see herself as that. Shannon then decides to call out the rest of his allies, saying that he wasn't the only one who wanted her out, and they originally wanted NaOnka to go home first but then decided that Brenda was "the bigger threat to the other girls that were in our alliance."
Probst asks NaOnka if she's surprised to hear her name. NaOnka says she thinks she was a target because she didn't do the challenge, as opposed to the fact that she's an awful person and impossible to get along with. She says she really thought they were going to win today because they were "tight like a unit." Probst points out that they clearly aren't tight at all, and if she thinks they are, then she can join Jud up in the trees. Of course: "Oh, I don't wanna be in that tree." "So you don't like Fabio?" Probst asks. "Nope," NaOnka says, seemingly proud of her inability to keep her feelings to herself. Probst asks why, and she says that Jud has "something smart to say" to everything she says, and she thinks he treats her like she's dumb. "I'm not afraid to say how I feel about Fabio. Fabio: I don't like you," she says, punctuating that with a head toss. Meanwhile, Fabio is just sitting there with no idea what her problem is. He says she's had this attitude with him the entire game so far, and he's having a tough time keeping his cool and basically being the bigger person. "He don't try hard enough," NaOnka says, as if she's made any effort whatsoever. Jud throws up his hands at this point, because there really is nothing he can say.