My Highlights,

This week was the mid-season recap show and I must say I was impressed. Usually you just get a bunch of stuff you saw before plus some new stuff that obviously wasn't good enough to include in the regular episodes. But the new footage this season was actually interesting, and there were plenty of great moments worth seeing again. Let's recap the recap!

You just knew this dude was kooky.

Great moment: Robb swinging on the vine. You just knew he was going to be a nut.

We get a longer look at John's time on the island and he looks even worse. He was bossy from the start regarding the fire and really annoyed Clay. It's no surprise at all he was the first to go.

Great moment: Robb yelling, "Let me see your hands!" at Shii Ann. The guy really cracked me up.

We see Ghandia blow the first Immunity Challenge again. It's hard to believe her image would actually get worse after this point.

Another added sequence was Ted shaving his head every three days. No big deal. Then we see Sook Jai working on the hut with Jed and Stephanie not helping.

Great moment: Helen saying she wanted to shoot Jan after they got lost together. Helen says, "That's why I don't carry a gun."

Puchik! Kuchew! Other dumb noises!

We see Ghandia posing like a model and Ted pretending to take her picture including lame camera sound effects. Another non-big deal.

Tanya is voted out because she's sick. It's too bad for her, but that's how Survivor works.

Infamous quote: Ghandia saying about Ted, "It's kinda like my husband's here with me chilling." You could feel things would get uncomfortable in the Ghandia/Ted relationship.

Sure enough, we had the Grind Incident. They show Ted's sincere apology again and Jeff says she accepted it, "at least for a little while."

Next is the Best Challenge Ever! I will always think fondly of the words, "Robb, you were not in the Attack Zone when you grabbed Clay around the throat."

Great moment: Sore loser Robb calling Clay a whiney little punk and saying he "wanted to spit in his face."

Ghandia then tells the women what Ted did and the situation blows up. "The only part that I think I left out is that he apologized," she reminds us. This is followed up with the yelling and rock-throwing followed by the he said/she said and the she said/he said/he said. Ghandia looks really bad on this show.

Erin says Sook Jai is "ready to get rid of some people," and when Jed can't win the Immunity Challenge puzzle on his own, he's voted out.

The Chuay Ghan men get lazy and Brian gives his first of many sexist dissertations. Chuay Ghan gets stumped on another mental challenge and Helen joins the men in voting off Ghandia. Helen should get CG MVP as this is the turning point for her tribe.

Popeye he ain't.

In a hilarious new scene we see Jake trying to use their leaking canoe. It fills with water, and he sinks, stumbles, cusses and kicks his hat. Not Jake's finest moment.

Ted is saved from his biggest blunder when they show CG's missing boat without mentioning who was to blame.

Great moment: Robb getting bit by something and screaming. Shii Ann calls him a baby.

Chuay Ghan wins the (rigged?) fish sorting challenge and Stephanie is voted out. Robb confronts Ken about it and they have an F-bomb dropping contest.

Robb dominates the cool sling-shot/ball/basket-on-a-stick challenge and Sook Jai partakes of a feast.

The next Immunity Challenge is mental, but without Ghandia, CG prevails. Robb gets emotional around the campfire but gets the boot anyway.

Next is the great twist where they merge but don't merge. Jan and Brian get drunk, and Shii Ann now says she's "on board" with CG. We get treated to the look on her face when she finds out Sook Jai is still a separate tribe and her goose is cooked.

Take cover, Erin...

...Clay likes what he sees.

News flash: Clay is a dirty old man. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and say it could have been editing that made it look like he was drooling over Erin and Brian's wife, but we get proof that it was legit. Jan says, "Clay, he's an ass man apparently," and Clay says, "Erin's a neat girl and isn't she a bubaloo." We then see a sequence of him ogling her backside every chance he gets. The clincher is saying in front of the group, "I'm telling you right now, Erin, you've got the prettiest ass around here glowin' in that fire." Somewhere ol' Tom is smiling.

We see that the Survivors had been given snorkeling equipment and Brian had failed in his attempt to spear a fish. But his practice pays off as he wins the snorkel challenge and Immunity for his tribe. Clay loses his favorite fantasy object that night.

In another new clip, a big rat is seen crawling among the sleeping castaways and huge buzzing bugs wake up Jake and Brian. A medium-sized deal.

We have the merge for real and Brian wins a chance to see all of his video from home. We miss out on his wife's booty shaking this time around.

Clay tells Jake they're going to vote out Ted. Clay whups up on Ken in the Thai number/map Challenge. Jeff says, "Clay had mislead Sook Jai" and Ken is gone.

Clay chooses to help Brian over Ted to win a Reward Challenge and Brian chooses Clay to go with him on an elephant ride. Brian is afraid of their ride and it farts a lot. They couldn't leave that out.

Penny turns on Jake by snuffing out his torch first in the elimination Immunity Challenge, but Helen ultimately wins. Penny's disloyalty gets her voted out but she cleans up real nice in her post-Tribal Council interview.

The winner is coming from this group??

Next time on Survivor: Clay confronts Jake about Jake's Tribal Council speech about voting off people based on their work ethic. Helen comments that it was a valid statement because Jake does more work than Clay. Then there's "a reward with a twist" which causes Helen (but no one else) to freak out. Could it be the presence of a family member?

There are only 6 Survivors and 3 episodes left. Brian seems to be in the best position and Jake looks like he's in the worst shape but a lot can change. Who will be the source of the next case of chaos?

May all your Moments be Great:
Scott

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