This week was the recap episode, but before we get to that, let's dip into the neglected Dang Fun Mailbag.

Ry-Dog wrote in after Episode 8 to say Dave didn't get a fair shake in the Immunity Challenge. "Obviously, Dave was the next to go. Everyone knew that. Yet, he had no possible way to save himself. The game gave no rewards to the people who got the questions right. Dave was what, 3-4 or something like that, but he still got the axe." An excellent point, Mr. Dog. The whole point of Immunity is to give players a chance to control their own destiny. But the rope-hacking challenge is the one game where the object isn't to win, but to force others to lose (this backwards concept is the same as the American Idol voting process, but that's another complaint for another time). If enough people want you not to get Immunity, you have no chance. Perhaps they could adjust the challenge to where you could only chop the rope of someone who got the question wrong.

Thanks to those of you who wrote in to point out that I gave Butch too much bug-eating credit. The final four in the gross food challenge were Matt, Deena, Alex and Christy. If Christy is going to eat ten coconut worms, she deserves recognition for it.

Finally, Linda writes in to share that she caught Shawna on the Howard Stern show a while back. To no one's surprise Howard offered her money to take off her top. The bidding got up to $3,000 but she declined. The other interesting tidbit was that Shawna revealed that Survivors aren't allowed to "fraternize" with anyone on the show until one year after the season finale. That doesn't sound good for any Alex/Shawna coupling in the near future.

Thanks to everyone for writing!

Now back to the recap show. Since you can re-live each episode right here at DangFun.com, we'll just cut to the new stuff.

It's a chance to see the Survivors before they were dirty, hairy, and hated.

Early on while Jabaru was in chaos, Jeanne and JoAnna found a pineapple. There was much rejoicing. But they never mentioned it again, so maybe it fell out of cameraman's lunch box.

On Night 6 the ladies heard a bunch of animal noises. There were some bats and menacing glowing eyes, and Heidi was afraid to go pee.

They had short little interviews with cleaned-up losers that didn't say a whole lot. Dan noted that he'd never been camping before and he'll never do it again.

It was interesting that Rob thought he was going to be the third person voted out of Tambaqui. He figured Dave, Roger, Butch and Alex were tight, and they'd keep Matt around to catch fish. Did the merge save him?

After JoAnna was voted off, Jeanne got some revenge. She was in charge of cooking the grain and concocted a tasty treat: "I opened the lid on our container of manioc and it contained pink fuzz, green fuzz, I saw white maggots, ants, skinny little worms…" All that went into little manioc balls and into the stomachs of her tribemates. Yum yum!

After the merge Christy taught her tribe some sign language. This should've been in the original edit as it explains that hand gesture New Tam was using: the sign for "team fish."

You'd think we'd have every great Rob quote, but he was saving some. Not surprising, they're all on his favorite Survivor:

"Heidi has an amazing body. She has both natural and man-made beauty."
"This is the hottest girl I've ever talked to, even though she's wearing a retainer all the time."
"It's very exciting for me to have a chance to be in such close contact with this girl and not have to have a handful of singles."

Roger is a little more humble post-ousting and admits his bossiness did him in. "I should've bit my tongue and laid low," he says.

Rob may be ruining the game but at least he's funny.

We saw Dave trying to work his magic for Deena's vote in the tubs, but he also flipped on the charm with Christy. He spent part of one night teaching her to swing dance, but Christy knew his motives and didn't fall for it.

And that's it. We also had the exact same preview for next week that we saw last week. The plot line is simple: Alex, Jenna and Heidi on one side; Matt, Butch and Christy on the other, with Rob smack dab in the middle. The choice is his, and early indications say he sides with the man-made, non-singles-needing, retainer-wearer.

Recapping my anger,
Scott

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