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[Moley]

The PMS Story: The Worst Three Days You Can Imagine

Couch Passportatoes! Survivor could use a good dose of the Learning Channel tonight. So let's marshall up our favorite daytime shows and help these gals and guys out. They are not doing well out there in the jungle with no TV and no Ty Pennington and Amy Wynn to build their huts. So let's look in on these bad three days and see who had the worst case of The PMS Story. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

The Bedding Story

It doesn't get any better this week for the Women of the JumbleDew Tribe. They have made no progress on their shelter. Pouring rains threaten their fire. They have no food except for burnt "maniac flour" as Jenna the Swimsuit Model calls it. Meanwhile the men have an acceptable roof over their heads and are clearly winning in tonight's episode of the Bedding Story. Their tree limbs are tightly bound and raised from the ground, while the women's platform is sagging in the middle. Yep,that goes along with a really bad case of PMS. So what's to look forward to in the first reward challenge?

The Baiting Story

Soggy JumbleDew women and high and dry TopBookie Men gather round Jeff as he tells them what they are playing for in this very first reward challenge. Will it be a Thai style feast? Will it be a nice flock of chickens and their tasty popcorn feed? Will it be a hot shower and seeing your Mom over dinner on a yacht on the river? Unnh-uhhh, this is a big reward! Tonight, Mark Burnette, producer of Survivor, is pulling out all the stops and offering up a jar of bait. Good old fish entrails replaces the nachos and Mountain Dew of old Survivor episodes. Will this PMS story never end?

The challenge consists of blindfolding all the survivors except for one 'guide' who will shout out instructions for their team to go fetch giant puzzle pieces in the brush. Joanna is chosen for the JumbleDew Women and Butch the motivational principle is chosen for the TopBookie Men. They're Off! Joanna's voice is loud and clear as she herds those sistahs through their paces and brings it on home. Butch is struggling with names and that is pretty bad when "Hey You" fits most every guy in a blindfold. He does shout out the 'hey you' in a very cheery voice, however. The women gather their pieces and put them together before the men can say 'great big gobs of greasy grimy grouper guts.' Mmmmm doggies, take home the bait, girls. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Trading Faces

Now that the first challenge is out of the way for tonight, it's time for the really good stuff of fights, intrigue and who can be the dumbest by ticking off the most people. Back at the TomBookie Tribe Roger is debating with fellow straight guy Alex about gay people. Who knows how many gay people are looking on in their tribe while they are doing this? Rob comments on camera that he is looking for possible alliances against Roger. Aha! I knew Rob was scheming to get all the 'leaders' out of his way. The men's debate pales in comparison to the PMSing over in JumbleDew.

Joanna's loud and clear guide voice is now keeping everyone awake at night as she freaks out over the Immunity Idol and its sacrilegious implications against her faith. We now know Joanna is watching Friends instead of Survivor each week or she would have known an idol was involved before she tried out for the show. While Christy tries to catch up with the nighttime chatter, she doesn't know Joanna is walking by when Jeanne tells Christy about the Idol Gossip. Christy exclaims, "That's so stupid!" And Joanna hops over to her faster than a tree frog on a blue tail fly. She immediately raises her loud and clear guide voice to even higher decibels and just in case Christy's aid isn't picking up that sound, she waves a large hand in Christy's face. That did it. Christy starts shouting back and it is a clear verbal mud rasslin' moment.

Junkyard Bars

Just when you think Christy's boat is sunk, fate steps in and plants something at the bottom of the women's crate. The Mystery Item we all saw in previews is *gasp* a Granola Bar!



One of my best chuckles from last week was when Lil Marcie Mouse said maybe Kel from the Outback sneaked into camp and put it there! The sight of even a smidgeon of carbs sends the JumbleDew clan into a frenzy. They blame and deny and interrogate and spy. Jeanne plants the notion that Janet must have done it. One of them grabs the wrapper with tasty granola gummy still inside and throws it on the FIRE! What are they thinking?! [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] They're hungry and the only meal to date has been burnt maniac flour and an eighth of a goldfish. Richard Simmons would not be proud of this carb burning effort.

Full Mental Challenge

Tree Mail reveals that tonight's immunity challenge will be a game of recall. The humbled men, with two big L's emblazoned on their foreheads, trudge into the challenge with two losses behind them. The women don't look like big winners all muddy and cranky. Jeff tells them they have two minutes total to go into a mock-up of an Amazon native village and memorize as much of the surroundings as possible. When time's up, Paige comes out to reveal Hildy has covered all the walls with grass. Oh, oops, sorry, wrong show.

When time is up, Jeff starts into ten questions about the village. A member of each team comes up and has to answer on their own with no help from their teammates. The men take the lead by knowing how many pigs and how many rungs on the ladder there were. The women never catch up, even when they can show they know how many hammocks there were and how many maniac cakes were fryin' in the pan. TopBookie wins the Immunity and the women get to go back and think about who they will send packin'.

Trauma

Just when Christy is safe as all suspicion is on Janet for the Great Granola Sneak, she starts in with annoying all her tribe again. She decides to get busy when the others are taking a break and then accuses them of being lazy. This makes even Jeanne and Deena mad at her. And Jenna and Heidi, who really are lazy, are really steamed.

Christy's Bad Day continues at Tribal Council when Jeff asks her to speak out and the poor, foolish girl really does. She says she feels excluded all the time, making Jenna really defensive because she truly has excluded Christy all the time. Finally, the meow mix subsides and the vote begins.

While You Were Voted Out

The typical Survivor tease commences so that we see the written vote of Christy who votes for Jenna. We see Joanna has voted for and misspelled "Krystie." We see Janet hold up her accuser Jeanne's name and Heidi selects Janet. So we know 4 people got at least one vote apiece. It could be any one of them. Do any of the rest of you wonder how it is Jeff picks the exact votes we just saw on camera as the first votes out of the pot? He's better than Penn and Teller! It comes as no great surprise that the Granola Packin' Granny has to go packin' herself. Janet gets 3 more votes and out goes her torch. Jeff says grimly to the women, "I hope tomorrow brings a much needed change."

With Janet and Ryan now gone we have to say goodbye sadly to the Couch Passportatoes who traveled along with them. [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img] (Psssst, Janet45, sweetie, that's your cue). Although we will miss all y'all so much, we know you will be out there at the Amazon Hyatt Regency burning up Jeff Probst's Visa card for all of us! And maybe you can even have lunch with Jeff himself. We'll call that the -

Yeah, Baby Story!



Kisses! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[ 02-21-2003, 12:05 AM: Message edited by: Moley ]

[Janet 46]

Passporter Survivor Standings - Week 2

Sorry to say that we have to wave good-bye to Hidden Mickey and Chesire as Janet gets the boot out of the Amazon.

That leaves us with:

Alex - SarahJ/All Ears
Butch - TiggerTim/Heidi
Christy - Fortissimo
Daniel - Pattyc.
Dave - Mypasttimes/Moley
Deena - Bozrah_Disney_Fan
Heidi - Grumpygal
Jeanne - Waterbug62/Sher'ee
Jenna - AliciaG
Joanna - Janet45
Matthew - TINKN/LilMarcieMouse
Rob - Aurora1429
Roger - Sandar/BuzzNWoodyFan
Shawna - CRCrazy/DisneyNutMary

Moley, you did a great job as usual. Kudos on your re-cap. I was kind of hoping Joanna would get the boot, even though that would mean that I would be gone, too. Her 'idol' speech in the middle of the night really got under my skin, and then her treatment of Christie put me over the top! Can't wait for next week!

[4disneyorbust]

even though i got the big ole boot, i still loved your re-cap! keep up the good work [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
Laura

[DebiDebiDebi]

Moley, your recap was great...especially the Jeff Picture....ahhhhhhhh.....JEEEEEEEFFFFFFFFF...... [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[All Ears]

Wow... this season is all about the drama, is it not?!
Joanna is quickly taking on the role of "villainess" quite well. I sooo wanted to smack my big ole' hand right across the back of her head for acting like such an idiot! Can't we all just "play nice?"
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Roger. Will people ever learn?! Hello mouth, insert foot.
I did not know who to root for. The men or the ladies! Can't the "tribe speak" for two people this week? One from each tribe?
Michelle

[HiddenMickey]

Good job Moley! And byebye to me....I hope I'm getting some comfy bed sleep and yummy food in my tummy while I wait for the rest of the 39 days to pass by! I'm sure I hit the showers first thing! -HiddenMIckey

[Belle*]

Oh my Gosh!! Great recap! I love the TLC refernces. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I felt bad for Christy with the whole Joanna thing, obviously she didn't know she could be overheard. (That and I agree with her opinion. [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img] ) She sure stuck right up for herself though! But she dug herself a big hole with her lecturing and pouting. [img]graemlins/pout.gif[/img] I hope she can rebound because we're rooting for her on the women;s tribe and Alex on the men's. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[LilMarcieMouse]

The show is edited so I belive Jeff has tallied them and put them back in the pot for reading putting one of each vote on top. thats my geuss anyhow, Great recap Moley

[AliciaG]

Great job on the recap, Moley! I, too, loved the TLC references.

Now if these people can just learn to play this game. There is so much drama going on with the women. They've realized that a lot of the times the leaders get picked off early, but somebody's got to take charge of their living situation, and get that shelter built. IMO, it's gonna get ugly over there.

We didn't see too much of the men this week, which makes me wonder if it's gonna be a woman going out again next week, but the men definitely seem to have the potential to have a big fallout there too.

I picked up on Joanna's dislike for the idol last week. When they were getting ready for their first IC...Jeff presented the immunity idol to both tribes, and let them touch it. He actually asked something about whether Joanna saw it or not, and she gave this weird look, and passed up touching it. I wondered then if she took offense to the idol. I do admire her conviction, but if she keeps putting her hand in peoples faces...she's not gonna have to worry about that idol one bit. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[TINKN]

Marcie's right. Jeff tallies the votes first and rearranges them to provide maximum suspense when they are read.

Great job Moley!

[Fortissimo]

Great recap, Moley!

Do you guys think Christie was being treated unfairly, or did she have an attitude problem?

Oh, another question - Do you think that when a leader does come forward in the "JumbleDew Tribe" will she be looked at as a leader or a witch?

[ 02-21-2003, 11:37 AM: Message edited by: Fortissimo ]

[TINKN]

I seriously think that Crystie would not have an attitude if she were being treated fairly. Kudos to Jeanne for at least trying to communicate with her. I just wonder how often she will have to sit our of a challenge because of a communication problem. If there are two blindfolded stunts in a row then what?

Does everyone think Janet really brought the granola bar? I think so. She looked pretty guilty when it was found.

[4disneyorbust]

Janet was on the early show this morning categorically denying the granola bar was hers. she said bring on the lie detector. lol

[DisneyNutMary]

Great job Moley, and thanks....just as I was booting up the computer I found out that the tape my DH set up last night to record Survivor taped all static as he had it set up wrong [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img]

Your re-cap brought me right up to date [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[aurora1429]

Moley, as usual, a recap better than the show!

I'd like to say I'm rooting for the woman but they sure are not doing our sex any justice.

I also liked Joanna until last night, she needs to come down from her high and mighty stand. I also think that it was Jeanne who had the granola bar and she was just looking to pin it on someone else.

Looking forward to next week!