# Survivor 4/2/09 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2009, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833 "2009-04-03T10:28:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/21 "2009-04-04T22:42:02Z")
Coach wins the douchebag award another week. Shouldn’t ruining everyone’s dinner be a shooting offense out in the wilderness? Pretty (and generic, IMHO) blonds do seem to have a pox on them the last season or two. Last season there were two fair ladies (Jacquie and Kelly) who a) people here mostly couldn’t tell apart, and b) were voted out relatively early. And now we have Debra and Sydney this season. Of course there was still blond Sugar last time, but she’s far from generic. And this season we still have blond Sierra, but she’s been lucky enough to be on the more winning tribe. > [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I have a feeling that he won’t be around much longer. Not only is he a physical threat and his closest ally was just taken out, but he doesn’t understand that if you are on the wrong side of a 6-4 merge, just sticking together doesn’t work. Not to mention that his closest ally was the prettiest girl on the tribe, and he was trying to make points with the brunette from the other tribe. It makes one wonder what part of his body he uses to think strategically. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/22 "2009-04-05T00:14:57Z")
Does anybody know what kind of spiders those are? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/23 "2009-04-05T00:52:33Z")
I’m still (patiently) waiting for someone to tell me in what part of the episode they showed the spiders. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/24 "2009-04-05T00:57:16Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I’m still (patiently) waiting for someone to tell me in what part of the episode they showed the spiders. The very end. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/25 "2009-04-05T00:58:11Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Pretty (and generic, IMHO) blonds do seem to have a pox on them the last season or two. Last season there were two fair ladies (Jacquie and Kelly) who a) people here mostly couldn’t tell apart, and b) were voted out relatively early. And now we have Debra and Sydney this season. Of course there was still blond Sugar last time, but she’s far from generic. And this season we still have blond Sierra, but she’s been lucky enough to be on the more winning tribe. As they should because I can’t think of a single generic blonde that actually did anything in the game. And I think Sierra is exempt from pretty generic blonde status because she has a tinge of goth in her (just look at the black and grey striped shirt/dress) and because she’s a snarker. Generic blondes don’t snark, they bitch. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/26 "2009-04-05T02:40:30Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > just look at the black and grey striped shirt/dress Actually, this brings up something I’d noticed – the two teams are color-coordinated this season. Jalapao is warm/earth tones, Timbira is black and blue. The producers seem to have provided appropriately colored clothing for the cast. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/27 "2009-04-05T08:54:28Z")
Or the tribes were split based on what they happened to be wearing on the truck into Brazil. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/28 "2009-04-05T13:36:25Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Actually, this brings up something I’d noticed – the two teams are color-coordinated this season. Jalapao is warm/earth tones, Timbira is black and blue. The producers seem to have provided appropriately colored clothing for the cast. I noticed that too. It’s really helped me tell everyone apart this early in the season. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/29 "2009-04-05T18:05:18Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > Or the tribes were split based on what they happened to be wearing on the truck into Brazil. So the clothing colors the cast members happened to be wearing on Day One just happened to split the cast into two tribes with the same number of members? Sorry, I’m not buying it. The producers clothed them, or told them what colors to wear for the premiere episode. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/30 "2009-04-05T18:14:50Z")
What’s nice is that when they merge now we’ll be able to easily remember who came from what tribe. Also, if they do merge next episode, this will be the first season since Palau without any sort of tribe switch. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/31 "2009-04-06T00:09:25Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > The very end. :eek: Oh Holy Jesus–why did I seek that out?! At least it was brief! ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/32 "2009-04-06T00:40:42Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > :eek: Oh Holy Jesus–why did I seek that out?! At least it was brief! If it was brief why does it play out for hours in my mind’s eye? ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/33 "2009-04-06T01:14:20Z")
So what kind of spiders were those? C’mon—this is _the Dope_, for God’s sake. Somebody’s gotta know. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833/34 "2009-04-06T01:56:03Z")
It looks like your typical orb-weaver, but the web looks too messy. It also looks like some sort of widow, but the web looks too neat. Not being an arachnologist, that’s about all I can say. I don’t know why they would be in a big writhing mass, sort of like when you’re lying on the couch and you get one of those tickles and you think there’s a bug… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-4-2-09/491833.md?page=1)