Hooked on Survivor – Again
Darn you office pool!
This is the first season in a while where there were no locals in the mix, so for a brief moment I thought perhaps I’d simplify the recording process and mark it off an already swamped Thursday.
(“Ugly Betty” back next week, with “My Name is Earl” and “30 Rock”).
Then Ann Tatko Peterson walked by with the office pool and I was hooked again. I remember telling her, “Just don’t let me pick Chicken.”
I didn’t. I got Ashley. Which almost looked like my 5 bucks was going to be sailing right out the door after the WWE wrestler got sick and couldn’t perform. Even Ash thought she was a goner at tribal council. But in the end, Chicken and his passive-aggressive style got him booted out.
My girl Ashley:
ASHLEY MASSARO, 28 of East Northport, N.Y.
Professional WWE Wrestler
This is the 15th installment of “Survivor.”
“Survivor: China” began not on an island, but in urban Shanghai before moving to HuangPu Mountain’s Mi Tuo Temple for a Buddhist ceremony where they were instructed to leave all of their worldly possessions behind.
The castaways were then be marooned with the clothes on their back at two separate islands on Zhelin Lake (translation: the Land of 1,000 Lakes) located in the Jiangxi Province.
They split into two tribes, Fei Long (translation: Flying Dragon) and Zhan Hu (translation: Fighting Tiger), and given a copy of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War for tribe motivation and assistance throughout the game.
This time there will be a not-so-Hidden Immunity Idol which may save someone from elimination at a future Tribal Council. The idols will be in plain sight, although the castaways won’t realize it at first.
Each week, the winning tribe of the Reward Challenge will be allowed to kidnap someone from the losing tribe. The person who is kidnapped will receive a note from host Jeff Probst before departing for the enemy camp and will be instructed to give it to one member of the enemy tribe (the kidnapped victim will decide who receives it) in private.
The clue will inform this person of the Hidden Immunity Idol located somewhere at their camp. This person must then decide if they wish to share the information with their tribe or keep it to themselves. The kidnapped victim will return to their original tribe at the following Immunity Challenge.
Chicken Out:
CHICKEN MORRIS, 47 Marion, Va.
Chicken farmer
For pictures of all the “Survivor” competitors, search “Survivor” on the blog for the June entry.
daphne johnson said,
September 21, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I am not a mammary phobe (I’ve got two myself, and really, who is mammary phobic?) but Jeez Louise, (I mean Susan) what’s up (and hanging down) with all the breasts prominently displayed on this season’s “Survivor”?
Was wearing a size 50EE bra a requirement for women for acceptance as a competitor? Did the cameramen say they would not work unless chest protrusions were huge and displayed prominently? Did producers hang out at plastic surgeons’ offices and pass out application forms to appropriate “after” patients?
Is this how they’re trying to, well, uplift the sinking ratings for the show?
Please call Jeff Probst and demand an explanation!
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