Traditionally, female Survivors look significantly less hot at the reunion. Someone always shoots them with Homer's makeup shotgun before the cameras roll.

@JudgeReinhold:disqus Even if she was eating crackers?

I don't see that.  Corrinne dictated the Vanilla-Julia vote in similarly irrational fashion, because Dawn and Cochran were willing to humour her too — but when she tried to force the next vote as well, she was gone.  I don't think anyone's running the show on that majority alliance — which is fascinating.

As someone-not-playing-and-therefore-impartial, I third Adam B's motion.

Cat Stevens' "I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun" is the perfect combination of toe-tappingly catchy, absurdly on the nose, and utterly cringe-inducing for this show.

If they did that song, I'd watch.

You're not the real Burl!

Newhart, "the Gleeless Club" from season 6.  I actually have almost no memories of this episode, but I want an excuse to talk about that show, because goddamn did I love it.

Alcoholics deserve courtesy too.

Bacon wakes up.  "What a crazy dream!"

You should ask him out for highballs and balut.

I love slices of banana on toast.  Sliced, slightly underripe, on heavily-buttered multigrain or rye bread — quite yummy.  Mashed bananas on toast sounds gag-worthy, though I don't know why mere mashing would make such a dramatic difference.

Unfortunately, Philip's reaction would never be as satisfying as Dawn's, or any other normal blindsided player.  I have no doubt he would immediately metabolize it into a deep compliment, and validation of his self-regard.

My wife called it (about two minutes before the reveal).  I was embarrassed not to have twigged.

"Eskimo."

The vanilla monologue made me feel bad for Julia, but Cochran's breakdown of Phillip's thought process when he claimed to have thrown the challenge — that was inspired.

I haven't seen them all, but I doubt Top Hat ever got topped.  It's the platonic ideal of Fred & Ginger movies.  Was Swing Time the one with the blackface number?

What about that kid, sitting down, opening a book right now in a branch of the local library and finding pictures of pee-pees and wee-wees in The Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers. Doesn't he deserve better? Look, if you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is…

@avclub-a5fdfa672284da6bf4f4326e2b3698bd:disqus Russell's FTC speech that season is a monument to blind arrogance.  And reportedly he was epically lazy and abrasive around camp. So, yeah: I'm glad he lost, because I hate the little troll (and he's indirectly responsible for Brandon's casting to boot), but he easily cou…

@avclub-0c5bbcfff0edb0dee7693ee7f8f09369:disqus I would move Dawn into WOULD BEAT for sure.  And Michael into MAYBE BEAT (just assuming the jury's stacked with vets who would vote one of their own).