Um, EW!!!

Jeff Probst, TMI, dude, TMI. And Dave, really? Because why, man? Just…why?

It’s a toss up as to who I’d rather boot sooner, Dave or John Robert (aka Jim-Bob.) Jim “I have to be warm” Bob groping the women at night was just foul, not to mention incredibly invasive, even for this game. And yet, Dave is just so…loathesome, it’s still a toss up. Which is saying a lot about just how loathesome a guy he is.

The physical challenge for reward wasn’t all that entertaining to watch. Too many people in their underwear on television who should never just be in underwear, possibly even in the privacy of their own home, but now where I have to see them, in sticky hot weather, soaking wet and malnourished…yeah, that’s entertainment right there. NOT. Ew. Squared.

But who do I still love? Sweet James. Not only did he look perfectly fiiiiiiiiine, in his skivvies, his whole dissertation about his Barnes & Noble Survivor research trip? Golden. Ha!!

Zhan Hu, aka the Loser Tribe, wins their first challenge and gets soft stuff to sleep on and a tarp to keep dry (best reward by far in the far too soggy place.) They also get to kidnap Leslie. Which I thought was odd - why not take James away from the other tribe for a bit, make them do their own damn work. Plus, Leslie already knows about the clue, since Jamie gave it to her…hmm…..

Leslie bonds with the happier tribe (well, they just WON, of course they’re perky and playful now) and then, then it happens. My Sweet James love comes to a grinding halt. No. That’s just unfair, Survivor Producers. Can nothing be sacred? James and Jim-Bob, picking on Leslie and Courtney. So wrong and juvenile. I wanted to think him above stuff like that. Of course Jim-Bob? Nothing surprising there. My disgust couldn’t be any greater.

However, yay, Wee Todd! I liked his protective posture for Courtney. And while I’m not ready to see James leave quite yet, I would looooooovvveee J-Bob to be summarily booted out on his please-dear-god-put-a-shirt-on ass.

And then Courtney completely blows the immunity challenge as the most ineffectual player possibly ever (it was to her credit she hung in there, and to their credit they caught up at all!) and now, even I know she should go before a much stronger, if still a total pig, Jim-Bob. So unfair!! And yet, who would you want fighting in the next challenge for you? Ewww, but yeah.

Except they go and vote off Leslie, which, yeah, a definite threat at the merge, but a unifier at the moment, which your grade-school mentality tribe could use a little of. (Look it up, J-B!) On the plus side, Todd is surely happy Leslie shared that HII clue with him, isn’t he?

I would have thought Zhan Hu was the weaker tribe (Dave!) but it’s looking like Fei Long is definitely more toxic. I hope they can turn it around. But at least it seems more balanced this season now. No Pagong-ing, thank goodness. But still with too much Dave and Jimmy-B. The weeks they go home? Most satisfying. Bet on it.

Now, time for fun! SHaQ Attack contest this week asked you to name the winner of Top Chef. Hung took home the victory and a number of Blog Babes wisely threw votes his way. But there can only be one winner, and that winner is…..Darla Ray! Woo hoo!!

Hope everyone enjoys the holiday weekend! Tune in Tuesday for some Dance MAC and a new SHaQ Attack contest!

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