Yeah that was definitely one of those situations where you just let the insanity run its course. It's not like Dawn could have massaged the anger away like Probst did.

Yeah, Cochran is a nerdy little horn-dog, but he strikes me as someone who bats at least 50% with the ladies. Lawyer/Survivor Contestant is a pretty good status.

I'd love to see some more creative challenges- I watched a few episodes from the first season on Hulu recently, and one of the challenges was to make the best "HELP US WE'RE DYING OF STARVATION" signal on the beach. I'll take that over shuffleboard any day.

Phillip is entertaining, but how many points did he really have to begin with?

@JudgeReinhold:disqus Exactly! Well said.

Don't they usually throw an impromptu challenge at the newly swapped tribes? It seems like a wasted opportunity to me, especially considering that the contestants weren't given an immunity challenge last week.

As soon as the vote count went, "Julia, Julia, Dawn," I knew the rest of the votes would be Matt. That may just be because I've watched an unhealthy amount of Survivor seasons during this cold Chicago winter, though.

Totally agreed. The only two Survivor players I follow on Twitter are Malcolm and Cochran (okay, and Rupert), and they seem to have a good rapport with each other. I know some guys like Malcolm, and they're extremely adept at befriending regular bros, but their allegiances generally lie with smart people. He's just…

At this point, I'm almost looking forward to Eddie sticking around for a while. He's not annoying, he's just shallow, and the editors are going to pick out every soundbite they can to reinforce it.

Joe Strummer said it best:

Yeah, Farewell Transmission was the first song I heard by him that really grabbed me. Ugh.

I'll take this opportunity to say that Rupert was the bartender at a hipster dive bar in Indianapolis when I became old enough to drink. He obviously stopped working there after Survivor, but when we'd see him around town, he was gracious and kind to everyone.

At least you got the line "he's like a filipino gollum" out of Malcolm tonight.

Sadly, my favorite bit from tonight's episode was the preview for next week. Has any returning player changed more than Brandon? Cochran is more self-assured (in his game, as well as his perviness), Phillip is pretty much the same aside from thinking he's Boston Rob, but Brandon has clearly been coached by his uncle…

"Christgau-level" has to be one of the most damning insults I've heard around here in a while.

I was almost expecting another tie. Would they have to make another vote, only for the two remaining? The outlier wouldn't be given a vote either, I'd guess.

Phillip's confessional made me laugh. He has the perfect lack of self-awareness for this show.

But what about Obama?

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this already, but seriously if you're trapped in some kind of horrible-image-torture chamber with tube TVs why don't you just turn the fucking things off? I guess Marnie is the type of person to overlook the common sense approach to most bad situations, though.

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