The Survivor producers will never introduce a twist worse than that stupid Outcast thing. I feel dirty even bringing it up.

I think Dr. Jeff is just filling the void left after Aras and Vytas were voted out, because man, was he into that one. We get it Jeff: they're brothers. And they kind of like each other.

I want to enjoy this season, but in every episode there's some small part of the game that gets blown up into Sophie's freaking Choice and I just end up annoyed for the rest of the hour.

Wow. I gotta give credit to Hayden for pulling off one of the better 11th-hour saves I've seen in a long time. I wouldn't be surprised to see him parlay that into a win. Tyson has some competition.

Regarding the challenges: Laura's maybe-not-but-it-sure-seemed-like-it cheating rubbed me the wrong way too. Hopefully she loses next time. Besides, the producers have pumped the Laura/Ciera well dry by now; time to move on to more interesting things.

God this is bad. Not Slate Level Bad, but close.

Aside from a handful of choice moments (Laura B making her case for densest player in recent memory; Tyson refraining from killing Monica and/or himself, etc.) I thought this was one of the weaker episodes…then we got to the Gross Food Challenge in the next episode teaser! I don't care how base it is; I love it.

So what happened, did Rupert and Laura have a Survivor strategy session before the season started or something? Good lord, words fail me.

Kat, honey, there's a ton of reasons for Hayden to break up with you. None of them involve your Survivor gameplay.

The bugs are a dealbreaker for me. I went on vacation to Central America and got so many bites that I had to go to a questionable pharmacy and got Prednisone to deal with them. Ended up with pneumonia when I got back. Never again.

Monica seems like the type that could do some serious damage at Crate and Barrel.

Agreed, and it redeemed him to me quite a bit.  The worst of the Survivor contestants are the ones that get duped or blindsided and refuse to let it go.

If it were me, I would make it my business to make Culpepper as tremendously uncomfortable as possible once he showed up.

If there's a CBS network exec with more than two brain cells to rub together, he'll get Gervase and Tyson signed up for a hilarious buddy comedy by tomorrow morning.  The coconut bandits bit was a fantastic little interlude.

Didn't Colton allude to his family having money the first time around? I don't have any reason to think Caleb's a golddigger, but if you're looking for a reason to explain an odd couple, that's always a good one.

Maybe he's getting tattooed for the job he wants, not the job he has.

Wikipedia tells me that Brad is a trial lawyer these days (I know, right!?), and I don't think there's been any reference to that fact thus far.  It doesn't look like he's put himself in a very good position right now, but it might be a little early for everyone to write him off.

@JudgeReinhold:disqus An AD reference?  That's basically cheating around here.  I'm hitting the Like button, dammit, but I feel so cheap and easy for doing so.

I'd argue that a significant amount of Gervase's likability is due to his bad decision making.

"The guy is the worst kind of wimpy gay stereotype imaginable…"