Survivor Week 3: "Un-RAVU-ling Quickly"

Check out the increasingly green excel spreadsheet here.

Supv Producer "TK" had her first episode of the season, so we were excited for this one. This means TK wrote, edited, and had primary responsibility for the story of this epsiode. Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, we praise thee for excluding her from our pool!

This week, I watched the episode twice in a night, in honor of TK. The Fear Factor eating stunt played well from the living room of Fear Factor’s executive producer, Matt. Rocky (Matt) swallowed his meal during the eating challenge, like his namesake from the movies chugging an egg smoothie. He killed it.

There was forshadowing to the night. As I pulled up to Matt's house Tyler was running out for a “work emergency”…60 minutes later one of Tyler’s peeps would be run out also.

Last week eneded with Moto up 9-8 and Boo's slapstick physical comedy a coming attraction for this week's greased slide challenge... Boo (Ashton) found his jockstrap and was 100% less goofy then last week as he skated through the skee-basketball reward challenge. Sylvia (Tyler) thought she was walking on broken glass.

Make that 2 people: Both Ramsey Brothers suck at greased skeeball. Yau Man (Ashton) and Silvia (Tyler).

Balls: Sylvia digging in front of the tribe, which I think Detective Yauman, who last week did a grope/inspection of Sylvia, might have spied her digging. There was a shot of his telescoping eyes spying Sylvia digging to China, ...or from where they are in Fiji, digging to West Virginia?? (TK, was that intentional?)

Crazy Monkey Says: Why did Moto re-send Sylvia to Exile? First vote-off Jessica has said online that during Sylvia’s initial tribe selection, ““everybody could see that Sylvia and Cassandra were bonded. And I think some people were afraid that we weren’t on Cassandra’s team, because we thought she might stack the odds.” In the case of a tribe merge/swap, were Cassandra/Moto trying to steer the idol towards someone sympathetic, or at least know where it is, by sending the same person over and over.

Crazy Monkey Now Says: Whoever walks in to Exile Island next is getting a crazy gift. Presumably Sylvia didnt tell anyone else about the clues, so she takes the golden info on its location "to the grave". The next exile-ee will win the lottery so to speak.

The Votes Split:

• Voting Against Sylvia: Stacy, Yau Man, Anthony, and Earl
• Voting Against Anthony: Sylvia, Mookie, Rocky
• Rita voted Earl

LT got as many votes as Sylvia (4, split between Anthony and Earl) Too bad we cant vote him out of the pool for that.

Mookie and Rocky are on the outside of the voting circle, for Rocky it is the 2nd time. Maybe they were just trying to flush out the idol from Sylvia and Anthony would have been an adequate rebound victim if she had it.

We head in to this week with Moto up 9-7. On to week 4 ....and the "next on" shows more proof that 50 lbs of gut fat are still not enough padding for Papa Smurf's ribs. Tony Roma's endorsements forthcoming.