Previously on And You Thought They Were Obnoxious The First Time: Fighting. No fire. Fire. Crying. Shark bites. Falling in the water. Tonight, a cavalcade of material that wasn't important enough for you to see it the first time, as well as a fascinating treasure trove of stuff that you've already seen, some of which aired as recently as a week ago. Try to contain your enthusiasm.
Credits. You know, it occurs to me that we aren't even rid of half of these people yet. I seriously don't think I'm going to make it.
But we must forge on, in the great tradition of clip-show viewers, trying as hard we can to ignore the fact that we are now watching for the second time something about which we felt vaguely dirty and by which we were intensely bored when it was on the first time. I, for one, intend to get through it the old-fashioned way -- with tequila. At any rate, do you remember how all the boats came, bringing all the old contestants? Remember how there was the suggestion of military involvement, perhaps in the form of commandos ready to swipe in at a moment's notice to arrest the ruthless spoiler-hunters hiding in the trees? Remember how much better-looking Boston Rob was before he grew all that ridiculous facial hair and went from being merely greasy to actually acting greasy? There were three tribes, and very limited supplies -- at first. The water had brain parasites in it, and without fire, you couldn't get rid of them by boiling it. Starting a fire without supplies turned out to be exceedingly difficult, and rather an extended metaphor for the efforts of most of these individuals to extend their fame as former reality-show contestants into some area or other besides "former reality-show contestant." Hatch believed he could start the fire "without even blinkin'," which was only one element of the transformation of Hatch from Vaguely Amusing Con Artist to Intensely Irritating And Sort Of Creepy Clown.
Rudy and Rupert created an Self-Described Honorable Men's Alliance and agreed to stick together forever, while Boston Rob and Amber were busy "making a connection." She understandably wasn't sure whether to take him seriously, but he insisted he was serious. And her flowered bikini was completely serious. B-Rob and Big Tom also created an alliance, and B-Rob led Big Tom to believe that Amber was an after-the-fact pickup just taken to shore things up. Big Tom interviews that, obviously, he doesn't exactly trust B-Rob, which means little other than that Big Tom did not literally fall off a turnip truck. B-Rob interviews that he thinks Big Tom sees their alliance as primary, while to him, it's secondary to the one he has with "Amb-ah." For one thing, Big Tom isn't any good at cuddling, and when he says, "You're so warm," you can't understand him anyway.
At the three-way immunity challenge, Saboga got screwed by its own ineptitude, while Mogo Mogo and Chapera were safe. Had I only known at the time how much of a pattern that was going to be, I would have made a macro.
In one of the few significant pieces of new footage, we see that on the night of Saboga's first tribal council, the members of Chapera amused themselves by putting on a skit in which they all play the members of Saboga heading out to the big vote. Amazon Rob is playing Probst, complete with a blue shirt which, as one of the Eagle-Eyed Forum Posters pointed out, he seems to have borrowed from Alicia. "Jeff" introduces Rudy, played by Sue with blank gruffness. Sue is no actress, I fear. He introduces Ethan, played by Boston Rob, complete with some kind of getup that's supposed to represent Ethan's hair, but actually makes him look more like Rupert. I believe it's seaweed on his head, which means that B-Rob is really willing to go quite a long way for the laugh. That actually seems like another good way to get brain parasites. Big Tom emerges from the water with a dive mask, so he's playing self-appointed fish guy Rupert. "Jeff" introduces Jerri, played by Alicia, who enters stage right, chattering about how all she wants is to pour chocolate all over some guy's fabulous bod. Hmm, familiar. He introduces Tina, played by Amber, with big fake boobs made of...something. I shudder to think what those are made of -- although I sort of shudder at what real fake boobs are made of also. And finally, "Jeff" introduces Jenna, played again by Sue (who's doing double duty). "Jenna" bounds up to "Jeff," jumping up and down about how excited she is to be there and how much she loves everyone. Heh. It's hard to be the only happy and chipper girl in a crowd of grumps. Amber interviews unnecessarily that Chapera had a good time playing Saboga.
A-Rob does his best Probst: "Here we are...day three...," which is very good, actually, as that certainly is practically the only way Jeff ever starts a tribal council. He asks the group what's going on, and directs the question to "Jerri." "Jerri" protests, with really nothing to peg the comment to, that she doesn't deserve such horrible treatment. That would have been funnier if she had added something in the sense of context. Everybody knows Jerri can be sensitive, but just to start yelling incoherently isn't that skilled, comedy-wise. Alicia, in the form of herself, then interviews that the first time she played, things stayed pretty serious. But this tribe is pretty silly -- a bunch of comedians. "Jeff" asks "Rupert" about coming right back to play after Pearl Islands -- which you will recall Jeff actually did -- and Big Tom does a pretty good Rupert voice in dodging the question and answering that someone messed with his spear. "Rudy" jumps in and insists that he didn't touch the spear.
"How's my hair, Jeff?" asks "Ethan." B-Rob interviews that he enjoyed playing Ethan, because he likes to make fun of Ethan's "Jheri curls." Again, that's what interferes with my liking of B-Rob -- he seems kind of witty, and then he passes up the opportunity to mock Ethan's personality (which is thoroughly mockable) in favor of mocking Ethan's hair, and I lose the love. With every member of Saboga called out for his or her most identifiable annoying trait, "Jeff" announces that it's time to vote. "Jerri" votes for "holy roller Tina," for having already "stabbed [her] in the back once." Again, that's surprisingly accurate as to how Jerri's vote actually went. "Ethan" votes for Jenna, completely with smarmy little "sorry, babe." Heh. That's surprisingly accurate, too. The only thing he forgot was to mention the size of her butt. "Lord, please forgive me for the language that I am about to use, but miss Jerry Manthey, I am votin' for you! You were a bitch the first time on Survivor Australia, and three years haven't done ya any good, you're still a bitch! Mah vote is for Jerray!" says a surprisingly animated "Tina." Who knew Amber was a little bit funny? I mean, not very funny, but at least she has a personality. B-Rob interviews that he actually thought everybody was funny. At their faux-council, they wind up voting out Jenna, and A-Rob uses an improvised snuffer to snuff out an improvised torch. As "Jenna" walks off, Chapera starts singing the traditional Music of Doom from the end of tribal council, which I thought was especially funny. As she leaves, "Jenna" turns around and flips them off.
At the actual tribal council, which was substantially less entertaining, Tina was voted off, due to "the stigma of being a former winner." In a bonus interview, Tina says that she knew she was in trouble, and basically reiterates that she was voted off for being a winner, and knew they'd keep Ethan for challenges. "It's been a blast," she says. Yeah, okay. I'm glad she went early, because I have never seen a Survivor contestant so unrelentingly boring in all my life.
In more new footage, it turns out that as of Day 4, Colby was...chafing. To the point where he was walking around rather oddly, as a matter of fact. Kathy and Hatch sit around the campfire discussing how Colby is gradually becoming more and more incapacitated by all the chafing. Colby is then subjected to possibly the most embarrassing interview ever, short of the ones about how the pooping is going. "My gait, if you will, is my attempt to get a little air flow goin' in there, and hopefully, with a little time, everything's gonna heal," he says. Until then, there's no choice but to be "as bowlegged as a bull rider." He wraps up thusly: "It hurts. Somethin' fierce." I'll bet. Lesson of the week: one good luxury item might be baby powder.
If you will recall, locked boxes arrived at each camp, leading to a lot of speculating. (They don't show my favorite part, which is when Jenna Morasca thought there might be an animal in the box.) When Saboga won a log-fetching reward challenge, they were put in the position of choosing between blankets for themselves and fire for everyone, and they chose fire for everyone. The tribes finally managed to get fire, and Rupert danced in a very too-much-information fashion in which we learned that Colby is not the only one trying to get a little air flow going through the downstairs area, if you see my point.
We now learn that Chapera has spent some time on the problem of "understanding Big Tom." Not in a psychological sense, but in a simpler linguistic sense. As they all lie around on the beach, Big Tom says something like, "We ain't gonna get a maid among us," and B-Rob asks if anybody understood what he just said. Quick "no"s all around. Amber interviews that she finds Big Tom terribly amusing, even if she never understands what he says. As B-Rob and Amber lounge on the beach with Big Tom, he unleashes an entire line that makes no sense at all, and B-Rob calls for a translator. "I have no clue what you just said," Amber laughs. B-Rob interviews that it is indeed very difficult to understand the big guy. There's a wonderful scene where Big Tom and Sue are heading past B-Rob, and Big Tom says something or other. "Huh?" Rob says. Big Tom repeats it. Rob, even more baffled: "What?" Big Tom repeats it again, more slowly, and facing B-Rob. Big Tom even gestures off into the distance, offering some elaboration on his comment that is just as unintelligible as the comment itself. Giving up on ever understanding this particular remark, Rob just says, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." Big Tom walks away, and B-Rob makes a hilarious "Wow" face. He picks up some logs and starts walking back toward camp, mumbling to himself in his own version of Big-Tom-ese. "Nuh-muh-nuh-muh-muh...what?" Now he understands what it's like to recap certain episodes ofThe West Wing.
Anyway, at the immunity challenge, Saboga sucked again, some more. Chapera finished first, with Mogo Mogo second. No immunity for them. At Saboga, Rupert promised to be loyal to Rudy, despite the fact that Jerri and Jenna made a case that he needed to be banished for the good of the tribe, which was getting whomped in challenges pretty consistently. Rupert applied his own brand of justice and refused to go along, because he knew that everybody else was going to do the dirty work and he didn't need to. In his bonus interview, Rudy blames Jenna for not telling him he was going ahead of time. Why he's more angry at his non-ally for not informing him what was going on as opposed to Rupert, who was supposed to be his ally, I don't know. Maybe he didn't realize at the time that Rupert knew and didn't spill. "I'm going to keep doing this till I win," he says. Ah, well. I'm sure they'll run five more All-Star editions, considering the incredible success of this one...zzzzz....
And then Hatch got menaced by a foot-long shark. He milked it so hard that it's not surprising that we wound up with an overdose of cheese. Shii Ann found it "Hemingwayesque." Somebody needed to give Shii Ann a dose of Demigod Antidote before she started building shrines to Hatch, topped off by pictures of his naked ass and encircled with purloined shark teeth.
And then there was the shelter-building challenge. So much for limited rations and difficult conditions -- have a big box of tools! And rope! Ring bell for service! Amber got understandably hot and bothered watching Boston Rob build the Chapera shelter, while over at Mogo Mogo, Jenna M. was thinking about her sick mom, and didn't have her head in the game. At Saboga, Rupert insisted on building the shelter down into the sand in order to maximize the odds that it would collapse in the middle of the night and kill everyone, and when Jerri objected, Rupert treated her like she was such an idiot that he could barely bring himself to bother talking to her. Ethan called the idea "a little ambitious," but the contractor who visited them later basically called it a disaster waiting to happen. And not waiting very long, either. In other news involving shelters not built on foundations of insanity, Mogo Mogo's treehouse shelter was a tiny bit shaky, while Chapera's Rob/Tom collaboration was rock-solid. They got the win.
At the immunity challenge, Jenna M. quit to go home and be with her mom. But nobody tipped her off, no sirree, just an instinct she had. A little feeling. A little voice in her head. At hearing her difficult news, most people gave her hugs, but others (Rupert, primarily) handed out some judgment for "quitting." And eight days after she got home, her mom died. So, you know, it seems like she did the right thing, whether or not she did it because the game was kicking her ass.
Then, there was a horrible storm, and Saboga's shelter did just as badly as one could have suspected, in that it essentially burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp. Chapera's, however, held up just great. Which is a good thing, because an intrusion by rain would have gotten in the way of the Amber/B-Rob snugglefests that were just starting to take wing. Because the members of Chapera are not blind, said snugglefests did not escape the notice of others.
At Saboga, as the storm raged, Rupert admitted the stupidity of his "let's live in a sand hole" idea at last. The day, Saboga was in the unfortunate position of having to build a new shelter, and Jerri, having been treated poorly before, was in no mood to help. Ethan interviews that she "wanted nothing to do with" the process of rebuilding. And then when we finally do see her start to contribute, it's with none too pleasant an attitude. We watch the rest of Saboga work on building the shelter while Jerri, with a cool detachment born of having been treated badly just the day before, looks on semi-critically. She and Jenna disagree over how the roof of the new shelter should be constructed. Rupert -- absolutely determined to turn this around on Jerri and prove as quickly as possible that once again, it is all about how unfair and unreasonable everyone else is -- doesn't help solve the problem, but goes off to pout on a log. There is more passive-aggressive behavior in this scene than in a thousand dysfunctional Thanksgivings. He interviews that he used to be "very fond" of Jerri, but that after he treated her like crap, refused to listen to her, and talked to her like she was a recalcitrant three-year-old, she oddly wanted nothing to do with him. Go figure. As usual, Rupert transforms his own rude behavior into something that's supposed to make you feel sorry for him, claiming that "it makes [him] feel inadequate" that Jerri won't be friendly to him. Does he think that using magic therapy words transforms being a snot into being a victim? I think maybe he does. I also have to wonder whether he tried apologizing to Jerri -- not for the bad shelter, but for the rotten, rude way he talked to her. I doubt it. I mean, he doesn't seem to get that when you treat people poorly, sometimes this is the consequence: sometimes you have to put up with them not liking you for a little while, and you have to give them some space to get over it.
At the reward challenge, Chapera rolled through the Concentration-style challenge, and they wound up with the last key to their box of rice as well as the "Survivor bathroom," as it was euphemistically titled. Again with the really devastating conditions for these not-at-all-coddled All-Stars. Back at camp, Chapera enjoyed a group bath out in the water, and B-Rob scrubbed Amber's back for her. Very generous, that boy. Always thinking of others. They also unlocked their box of rice and, of course, booze. Every time I think this show already resembles a college psychology experiment as much as it's ever going to, they find ways to emphasize the resemblance a little bit more.
At the blindfolded puzzle-building immunity challenge, Chapera was out in the lead after the blindfold stuff, despite some setbacks including Big Tom's being flattened like a big old hick pancake more than once. But when it came time to assemble the retrieved blocks into a puzzle, Chapera couldn't get it done. They were passed by both Mogo Mogo and the sad-ass Saboga, and they were forced to go to their first tribal council. A-Rob tried to form an alliance with B-Rob, and he hoped for the best, but when it came time for a torch to be snuffed, it was A-Rob taking a walk. In a bonus interview, A-Rob says that as a big fan of the show, it was thrilling even to be invited to play on an All-Star edition, and that's what really matters. Thus does he hand himself the only consolation prize available. Of course, he also takes the opportunity to lament not getting "a fair crack" at the money, which...he did, of course, but it's not like contestants ever understand that "a fair crack" doesn't equal "winning." He also badly needs a new shirt. Because that is an abomination. I mean, it's not literally an abomination -- it's literally a shower curtain. But it amounts to an abomination.
At the reward challenge, the first "twist" was revealed: in addition to the winner of the challenge picking up the reward, the last team to finish would be dissolved and sent to the other teams. This particular challenge involved improvised bamboo rafts, and Mogo Mogo's incredibly lazy raft did very well, while Chapera's more complex raft did slightly less well. Sad little Saboga -- riding a raft Rupert designed and promised them would carry them to victory -- predictably got its ass kicked, as usual, and Jerri and Ethan went to Mogo Mogo while Jenna and Rupert went to Chapera. Jenna and Rupert were pleased to arrive at Chapera and learn that at least someone had food and shelter. And the ability to build a raft that can travel faster than the current.
Moreover, it turns out that Jenna, Alicia, and Amber worked on making necklaces for Chapera in order to show team unity. (These would be the necklaces I commented on a couple of episodes ago.) We certainly do come closer and closer to cheerleading camp. They made the necklaces out of shells, and gave one to every member of the tribe. Amber insists that they will have no shame in wearing their shell necklaces -- they will show their team pride, though others may mock them. Well, sure. If people had surrendered their individuality just because the world mocked their jewelry, there'd be no Ivana Trump. There'd be no Zsa Zsa. There'd be no Mr. T. The arrival of the necklaces, by the way, made Rob the most extravagantly bejeweled player in Survivor history, I think. Jenna interviews that when she was at Saboga, she didn't really understand the Chapera magic, but now that she sees the bonds between the members of her new tribe, it all makes sense. Or something. Plus...unity jewelry! "We're going to take [Mogo Mogo] down one by one," Amber says. And how are they going to do it? Necklaces, people. I'm telling you. They are not to be trifled with.
In the immunity challenge, it was time for beam-walking and the occasional grudge match over water. Ethan almost picked up a permanent dent in his skull when he beaned himself on the edge of the pool. What pisses me off enormously about this segment is that they very specifically do not show what Hatch did to Sue, though the Probst voice-over vaguely alludes to a "close encounter." They specifically cut away right before he smacks his crotch into her, and it irritates the crap out of me that they didn't show it, considering that it takes about five seconds and was worth about an episode and a half worth of story. That starts to look extremely disingenuous and ass-covering to me, and it really bugged me that they seemed intentionally to try to avoid showing what it was that made Sue so upset. They don't show Hatch saying, "Want some," they don't show the two consecutive intentional contacts...it's very hard for me to understand how they'd justify that decision. But anyway. Chapera won the challenge, so Mogo Mogo was forced to go to tribal council. And debates raged for two weeks, and the rivers turned to blood, and blah dee blah. Hopefully, somebody at least learned the lesson that direct-contact challenges should perhaps not be performed naked. A radical notion, I know.
Back at Mogo Mogo, although the original plan had been to take out Ethan, Colby shifted gears and went after Hatch. Jerri tattled to the Great Naked One, who tried to rally some support from Kathy and Shii Ann to get rid of Colby, but in the end, it wasn't enough. Hatch was sent on his way, much to the relief of many of us who were beginning to find his routine thoroughly irritating. Hatch tried to put on a happy face on his way out, but nobody was buying. He hated losing, and it showed. He interviews that he really hopes that there's a lot of "sophisticated game-playing" that resulted in his ouster. But he doubts it. Every time he opens his mouth, I like him less and less, I'll tell you that much.
The morning, Chapera realized that Sue was taking her contact with Hatch very hard. (No pun intended.) Amber and Alicia tried to comfort her, while B-Rob and Big Tom were sort of scratching their heads. "Nobody knows what Sue's thinkin' except Sue," Rob says, hesitant to believe her but hesitant to announce that he doesn't believe her. At the reward challenge, Sue went right over the edge, yelling at Jeff that the experience "dehumanized" and "humiliated" her, which Kathy thought was sort of funny. Sue walked right off the beach and out of the game. When she was gone, the teams decided to play the challenge anyway, and Mogo Mogo walked off with a bunch of food, including steak kabobs.
Back at Camp Chapera, they all vowed to stay true to their alliance. Oh, and they sang and danced around because it was so funny how Sue left under a pall of feeling like she'd been assaulted. That really is pretty hilarious.
The day at Mogo Mogo, we now learn, Lex and Shii Ann decided to work on taking advantage of the new stash of coffee beans that they won the day before. They mixed up a pot of extremely strong coffee, and everyone in the tribe dipped into it generously. They all commented on how wired the coffee made them feel, which I personally think was true, but exaggerated because of the group setting. It sort of reminds me of fifteen tenth-graders drinking two swallows of beer apiece and then talking about how incredibly drunk they are. Coffee will make you wired, but it won't make you freak out the way these people are doing, in my experience. Colby tries out his cartwheels on the beach. Ethan and Colby try to make little funnies back and forth at each other, and just...no. Colby interviews that introducing coffee into the camp made a huge difference. Speaking solely for myself, I wish they had later been informed that due to the health concerns of feeding caffeine to people who haven't been eating, they had been given decaf. Now that would have been really funny. The remains of Mogo Mogo sit around making funny faces and funny noises and oh my God, I GET IT. They're wired. Seriously, these people just aren't that funny. When Colby is the funniest person in a group of six, you have an issue you need to address, and the issue is that none of you is very funny. Kathy claims that the caffeine cured her vision problems (har har!), and then we see some kind of speed-walking thing that she and Colby are doing down the beach while going to get water. Watching this segment, it occurs to me that I could use a little coffee myself. It's not always easy staying awake.
At Chapera, we see that B-Rob is snuggling quite a bit with both Amber and Jenna. "I got two beautiful women, and they want to make a sandwich outta me. What am I gonna do? Would you say no?" he asks. Jenna rationalizes in an interview that she's friends with Amber and Rob, so they all just kind of "sleep connected." I'm not sure that's even worthy of an "is that what the kids are calling it these days?" remark. She says all the intertwined sleeping is done "as friends." She presumably means on her part, it's done as friends, because if she's lying on top of B-Rob and doesn't realize that he's practically licking Amber's neck, that is unfortunate. Amber interviews that she's "definitely conscious of Jenna hanging out with Rob a lot, and I think it's definitely a good thing...it takes some of the tension off of me and Rob hanging out together." She goes on to insist that she will not "get jealous of any of her hanging on him or doing anything like that." Convincing, except not at all. She says that she has Rob wrapped around her little finger, and I believe that's probably true, but I ain't buying that Jenna's being snuggly with him isn't bugging Amber. When you say something is fine with you, you can say it's "definitely" not bugging you, but you can't say "definitely" twice, or you become less than credible, as far as I'm concerned. B-Rob assures us that there's "strategy to everything," including his contacts with Amber and Jenna. He hauls out the "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" routine, and closes with his usual "I'm here to play" line. "At the end of all this, hopefully Amber and I can be having some fun together, and we'll be spending my million. Worst-case scenario, we'll be spending hers." And he grins. Yeesh. Sleeeeeeaze.
At the challenge, the tribes learned that it was combined reward/immunity, and that the winning tribe would take somebody from the losing tribe with them to the reward, avoiding tribal council. The challenge started out close, and Mogo Mogo built up a lead, but Ethan lost the lead in the woods, and then Mogo Mogo came back, only to blow the lead again with incompetent paddling. Before you knew it, Chapera had taken home yet another challenge to put in their "win" column, and had earned themselves a day of relaxation and barbecuing. Chapera selected Kathy to come on their yacht trip, which was a good thing, because she was close to falling apart as a result of her sadness over losing the challenge. She was so devastated, in fact, that she took fully fifteen seconds to warm up to the idea of the food and drink and waterfall bath, and to be suckered by Chapera into believing that she was their new favorite person.
Elsewhere, Ethan and Colby quietly plotted to rid themselves of Jerri. They cranked the gloating up to a steady roar, tempting fate so badly that, indeed, their alleged ally Lex decided to stage a revolt and begin the shift of power away from the Colby/Ethan axis. He rounded up Jerri and Shii Ann to dump Colby at that night's vote. Obviously, convincing Jerri was not difficult. Shii Ann was a little bit more difficult, because she really wanted to vote off Jerri for being even more useless than Shii Ann herself (not likely). Ultimately, much to Colby's (and Ethan's) surprise, Colby took the boot at tribal council, much to Jerri's amusement. In his bonus interview, Colby argues that he was the noble and brave one who stepped forward to get rid of Rich, and that this made him a target. This is why this show needs a Trump -- it needs someone who will tell these people from time to time that there are other reasons they don't advance other than how virtuous and noble they are. Colby is cute, but he needs to get over himself, as is unfortunately quite common in this demographic.
Once Colby was gone, Ethan realized that his time at Mogo Mogo was likely limited. He was shocked to have been blindsided and left out of the planning by Lex, and he realized that he had completely failed to form friendships of any kind with anyone at camp other than Colby. And, of course, that single friendship had suddenly dropped in value substantially, what with Colby's being out of the game and everything, and thus kind of an ineffectual ally.
At the challenge, it was all about log-rolling, and not in the "abuse of legislative process" sense, either. Chapera fell behind early, but then threw Mogo Mogo in the water a number of times. As a reward, Chapera walked off with the opportunity to loot items from Mogo Mogo. Jenna was in charge of the looting, and she brought home the fishing spear. This excited Rupert, because he didn't understand that he was better off being the only guy who could catch two fish with a stick than one of three guys who could catch fifteen fish with a high-tech spear.
Rob and Amber got down to the smoochies. Man, this all happened so recently...do I really have to recap it again?
The day, Rob and Rupert broke out in a fish-off with the spear. Rupert apparently believed that he was going to take over the provider role, but Rob stepped on that idea pretty quickly by bringing back just as many fish as Rupert had. Rupert didn't like Rob all that much anymore, surprisingly enough. I happen to believe these people get too happy about fish to begin with, but that might just be my personal bias coming through. I'm more of a shrimp person.
The immunity challenge was all about aim, and Chapera had almost none, but Mogo Mogo had even less. When Jerri couldn't land an arrow in the target to save her figurative life, Chapera went home safely while Mogo Mogo headed for yet another tribal council. Lex decided that, once again, he would ignore one of the basic lessons of Survivor and tell Ethan ahead of time that he was getting the boot. Ethan reacted predictably, except for his level of vitriol about Jerri, which seemed a little excessive, even for Ethan, and even about Jerri. Ethan tried to get together with Kathy, and although the ultimate proposal from Ethan was to oust Jerri, it appears that he actually first tried to get Kathy to boot Lex. As of tribal council, Ethan was still hoping that Kathy would come around and work with him to boot Jerri, but that was not happening, and Ethan left.
As if Ethan needed to look more like a brat, his bonus interview includes the following gem: "I have the title of Survivor Africa champion, and no one can take that away from me, no matter what I do from this point on, for the rest of my life, I have that." Well, yes. And when you're seventy and you're telling chicks that you're the Survivor Africa champion, nobody will be able to argue with you. Just a hint, though? By then, there are going to be an awful lot of reality-show winners. It's not so much that your title can be taken away as it is that your title constantly drops in value. I'm just saying.