Should be an interesting episode - no need for any RI coverage as there is only one person there. There is a very small chance that Cochrane will quickly see that Hantz is crazy and be able to mine him for information that may be helpful to his old tribe. If he finds out, for example, what the pecking order is on Coach’s tribe, they could go to the #6 player (Edna?) and present their case. All they need is for one person to swing, assuming they want any part of Cochrane.
The one thing that Ozzy’s group has going for them is that they have most of the brainpower in their tribe, with the ambiguously gay marijuana peddler and the ambiguously black dating coach.
It looks like both Dawn and Whitney saw the writing on the wall and voted out Ozzy too. How many times has Ozzy been voted out now? I feel like it might be a record.
It was nice of them to compress two Pagongs into one episode. Saves a little time.
And it was pretty crappy of the majority to treat the minority alliance at the second immunity challenge as entertainment for their meal. And then Brandon gets all huffy when Dawn said as much (in a fairly oblique way). Jerks.
The roomie said that there’s no conflict between a person wanting to stretch the challenge so that others can eat, and feeling bad because she wasn’t able to share in the food. (To me, sacrificing for the good of others is a sign of humanity.) I asked her, ‘But how could Brandon have misinterpreted Dawn’s statement, with his intellect? Oh, wait…’
I was praying that Jim, Dawn & Whitney would do a fast rock paper scissors right before the challenge to decide on a winner, then throw the challenge instantly just so the rest of those smug bastards didn’t get a bite.
Yes, there was a chance he’d have pulled it. But odds were that someone on the other team would have. I’ve bet money on worse odds in Vegas. The roomie used to be a paralegal. She said that based on Cochran’s performance, she wouldn’t want him as a lawyer. He certainly crumbled at the first sign of trouble last week when Coach confronted him. Hell, I’d deny having the idol if I was caught naked with it hanging from my short arm!
I didn’t quite understand that. Granted, Jim’s speech imploring everybody to vote out Cochran was highly unlikely to change any minds, but just on the off-chance that anybody did get swayed, Dawn and Whitney’s votes would have un-done any potential benefit to the Savaiis.
I enjoyed Ozzy’s blurred-out ballot: “Coc{censored}” Real mature, Oz.
(I do kind of wonder what he wrote, though, since “Cock-train” made it past the CBS S&P folks a few weeks back.)
*There hasn’t been this much will-it-or-won’t-it-happen anticipation since Brian Doyle-Murray bet the Bushwood shoe-shine guy $50 that the Smales kid would eat his own boogers in Caddyshack. *
I’m pretty sure it was the obvious slur that would go there. I don’t think Ozzy is homophobic, per se…I don’t really remember any incidents in his previous two seasons or in this one that would point that way. But it’s easy to be unthinkingly homophobic, when words like the one in question and “gay” and “fag” sort of dissociate with their concrete meanings and become generic, abstract insults. “I’m not insulting homosexuals, because I’m not implying that this person is a homosexual to insult them. I’m just calling him a ‘cocsuc**’, or ‘gay’.”
Yeah, I caught that similarity, but Cochran now seems more like the Toadie character from The Road Warrior to me. Kissing ass and looking foolish, and likely to also get hit by a boomerang.
