# Survivor: Cook Islands Ep. 3 - "Flirting and Frustration" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505 "2006-09-28T16:27:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/1 "2006-09-28T16:27:39Z")
Apropos of nothing, I had a dream about Survivor last night, and to take up space before the spoiler box, I will tell you about it: I was a castaway, and **Draelin** and **jayjay** were there, which is particularly impressive because _I have no idea what either of those other posters look like._[sup]\*[/sup] Our season was set at Niagara Falls, and we were the Final Three, and one of the rewards was an Amazing-Race-style over-the-falls barrel ride, where we were all hooked up to harnesses and stuff. The traditional “gross food challenge” involved [Hot Pockets](http://www.hotpockets.com/) and [Genesee Cream Ale](http://www.geneseecreamale.com/). Instead of announcing the winner on a set in NY or LA, the entire Reunion Episode was filmed at center ice during the second intermission at a Buffalo Sabres game. It was all _very strange_, and I don’t even remember who won. I have decided it is time to cut back on the Benadryl at bedtime. So, from our friends at [Yahoo! TV](http://tv.yahoo.com/), a description of tonight’s episode: Parvati tries to manipulate the men; Nate has a successful bout of spear-fishing; another castaway must leave the island. At this point I have nothing to add, except: thinking ahead to any potential merge(s), what color buffs are they going to use? They’re using primary colors for the individual teams now – is black or white just too obvious, considering the racial-division twist for this season? [RIGHT][sup]\*[/sup] = In my dream, we were all gorgeous, just like IRL, no doubt. Except I was about 6’ tall, which … I am not so much.[/RIGHT] ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/2 "2006-09-28T16:32:27Z")
I try to stay commercial/spoiler-free, but I thought I heard something about a merge already(!)? ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/3 "2006-09-28T17:09:44Z")
**thinksnow** , all I know is what is in _my_ spoiler box. But that’s the first I’ve heard of what you’re saying. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/4 "2006-09-28T17:17:13Z")
Regarding previously spoilered spoilers … (info gleaned from commercials seen this week, no hunted-down tidbits) It’s merge week. I’m guessing we’ll end up with two tribes, but I’m really sick of the schoolyard pick’em hooey. And **rockle** , I am, naturally, gorgeous as you dreamt, but I can almost guarantee you’re taller than me, no matter what. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/5 "2006-09-28T20:28:10Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] And **rockle** , I am, naturally, gorgeous as you dreamt, but I can almost guarantee you’re taller than me, no matter what. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Probably not, but who knows. I’m 4’ 11½" … in shoes. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/6 "2006-09-28T21:46:52Z")
Cool! I Final-3-ed Survivor: Niagara with **rockle** and **Draelin**! It’s like winning Powerball, with more snark! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/7 "2006-09-28T21:55:15Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Probably not, but who knows. I’m 4’ 11½" … in shoes. [/QUOTE] Oh. Well, then, I win by a quarter of an inch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/8 "2006-09-29T00:03:49Z")
_SunnavaBITCH_. Satellite’s out. I’d blame George Bush for this, if I could figure out _how_. Global warming, mebbe? Anyway, someone’s going to have to fill me in later on what’s happening. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/9 "2006-09-29T01:25:41Z")
Yeah, so … never mind the recap. I only lost a few minutes. And I have to say, for whatever it may be worth, that this much strategy talk so early in the game makes me _really_ squirmy, and I hope the perpetrators feel swift and powerful retribution quickly. Because, listen: there are still 30 days, people. Yes, the object is to win a million dollars, but _you have to put yourself in the position where you are still one of the available options first_. And if you stick your neck out like _that_, so _early_? Might not happen. Because everyone knows who the “power players” are now, and you’re making yourselves targets. And now, with the vagueness and the “threats” out of the way, my additional useless comments (proudly true-spoiler-free since Week One!): [ul] [li]Whale! _Oooooh!_ That shot was _awesome_.[/li][li]As we all pretty much predicted, Ozzy is a _lot_ sexier when he shuts the hell up. And he seems so much smarter, too. Love his hair. Frizz is the new black, don’cha know?[/li][li]Is Parvati _really_ that cute? I don’t understand her appeal, but I’m not a flirty, giggly kind of girl, so I guess I’m not supposed to get it. I think Candice and Cecelia are much more attractive.[/li][li]I think I am beginning to hate Jonathan, and I _definitely_ hate his hat.[/li][li]What happened to the chickens this week? Have we switched from poultry to _pulpo_?[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/10 "2006-09-29T01:33:26Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] [li]Is Parvati _really_ that cute?[/li][/QUOTE] OOoooh yes. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/11 "2006-09-29T02:19:52Z")
This episode could have been so much greater. Picture it: Jeff: “And you now get your first look at the new Aitu tribe with Billy voted off.” Candice: “NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! NOT BILLY!!! I LOVE HIM!!!” ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/12 "2006-09-29T03:50:37Z")
It took me a few times to realize that Jeff was saying “Parvati” instead of “poverty” with some weird accent. See, in my head I’ve been pronouncing it “par VAT y”… Yeah, the new Red tribe looks to be riding for a fall. At the very least, Jonathan has been so blatant and heavy-handed I can’t help thinking the target on his back is not just glowing but flashing neon. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/13 "2006-09-29T04:01:26Z")
I just want to say that I really like Alan Alda’s hat. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/14 "2006-09-29T04:07:04Z")
Thank God for the semi-merge. This is so much better! Man, how stupid is Jonathan? He almost blew it with his oblivioiusness about Flika. He needs to spend less time talking and more time listenning. Yul is definitely the man. He dodged a bullet tonight and now his alliance is set. Best line of the evening: That’s a lot of meat! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/15 "2006-09-29T04:08:05Z")
I love’s me some early back-stabbing. Ditching Blondie to Exile Island didn’t work too well, though. If Parvati was any more blatant with her flirting, she’d need a streetcorner and a red light. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/16 "2006-09-29T04:12:38Z")
I forgot to record it, so…, spoilers? What tribes merged? What was the challenge? Who left? Who backstabbed who? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/17 "2006-09-29T04:33:24Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] I forgot to record it, so…, spoilers? What tribes merged? What was the challenge? Who left? Who backstabbed who? Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE] It was a total shuffle. They really mixed them up. The two current tribes are each made up of people from all four of the original tribes. Although one of the new tribes has most of the beefcake. The challenge was the “Chase Each Other Around The Course With 15 Pound Weights” thing they did back in Palau. The Beefcake Tribe caught up with the other tribe and the winner got to send someone to Exile Island. Tribe Beefcake unanimously sent Candice (mostly to keep her safe from eviction and having to spend the next month with Billy in Stalker Lodge). The losing tribe had !!Intrigue!! with Yul and Becky joining forces with Candice and Jonathan (before the challenge…they didn’t know that Candice wouldn’t be at TC), and Jonathan promises to deliver his friend Flicka, who, like any good horse being led to the glue factory, shies away from the plan to evict Cecelia. Especially since Ozzy had already manufactured an alliance with everyone who wasn’t young & Asian or Jonathan to oust Becky. Jonathan really tries to work Flicka and Yul really tries to work Cao Boi, but we’re left unsure just how successful they are. At TC, it turns out that they are successful. The tribe votes out Cecelia instead of Becky, and Ozzy get a disgruntled look on his face like the universe somehow took a wrong turn because he didn’t get his way, the sneaky bastard… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/18 "2006-09-29T04:34:41Z")
Incidentally, the other tribe is Tribe Beefcake because the only real beefcake on the Other Tribe is Yul. Ozzy’s a skinny bitch. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/19 "2006-09-29T04:55:06Z")
Cool! thanks ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505/20 "2006-09-29T05:02:00Z")
Tribe Beefcake (new Raro) - Nathan, JP, Adam, Parvati, Brad, Rebecca, Stephanie, Cristina, Jenny. Other Tribe (new Aitu) - Jonathan, Yul, Cao Boi, Ozzy, Sundra, Candice, Jessica (Flicka), Becky, Cecelia (now out). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-cook-islands-ep-3-flirting-and-frustration/374505.md?page=2)