I haven't watched the whole episode yet, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what Tyler's end-game is. He's allied with the blue collar tribe, but he's gotta be on the bottom of that totem pole. If he switched back to the remaining no-collars + Shirin, he might get higher up in the finishing order, but still…

Now that I've gotten to the end of the episode, that shot in the preview of Will falling like a dead seal was maybe the highlight of the night. (Dan! Wrong! Again! is also in the running.)

The weekly answer to the question "hey, I wonder what Mike's gonna eat!?" has been one of my favorite things this season.

Rodney's attempts (I guess) at being passive-aggressive are just hilariously bad. If I were out there, though, I'd probably give real thought to forfeiting any prize money just to punch him in the face.

This just made my morning.

Quality episode tonight.

Poor Mike. Never had a chance to fulfill his dream of winning Fear Factor, forced to eat bugs and snakes on Survivor instead.

I did Columbia House once but mostly just signed up multiple times with BMG using fake names. "Joseph Smith" was one of them. Strong creative work, 12-year-old me.

Whininess is probably the number one thing I wouldn't want to deal with out there, and Nina seems like a pro.

This episode in particular felt a lot like Real Housewives of Nicaragua. I'm ready to have the tribes mixed up.

Of all the music I liked back when I was old enough to buy my own CDs — around 11-15, probably (thanks BMG!) — Aerosmith is one band that stands out as being bad enough that I can't even enjoy it nostalgically anymore.

I'm putting the over/under on the number of times Vince gets punched in the face each year at 4.

Nina kinda went Full Dawn for me this week. I'm sure it's tough and it's easy to say this from my couch, but come on lady, it's only been 4 days AND you've those strikes against you. You gotta keep it together.

Camp disasters are the best disasters. I also liked the tribe that built their shelter below the high tide line (Cook Islands, maybe?).

He might not like the quitters, but he does seem to get pretty excited about getting to be Talk Show Probst again. Plus he gets valuable screen time to lecture the quitter — two of his favorite things.

I imagine his cult would be comprised almost entirely (fine, entirely) of morons. Based on what we've seen on screen, Vince's biggest problem appears to be that he can't handle having people around him who know that he's full of shit.

Damn. I'm almost 34 and Vince seems way older than I imagine myself to be.

Surely.

He kinda looks like the love child of Fred Durst and Vanilla Ice.

Joaquin even asks her if she has the story straight. Any lie that needs that kind of planning is doomed from the start.