# Survivor: Fiji - Ep. 3: "This Isn't Survival ... It's 'Thrival'" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262 "2007-02-22T19:13:22Z")\ **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:** [February 22, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/1 "2007-02-22T19:13:22Z")
Previously on Survivor: Stuff happened, but not much yet. First there were nineteen castaways, and there were bats and fish and sea snakes, oh my! And mangos and coconuts – but nobody was banging two halves of a coconut together, that we saw. One tribe got to live in luxurious splendor, with hammocks and silverware and a roof over their heads, and the other tribe got banished to the far uncharted backwaters of some other island, where they lived in the Bat Cave. There were challenges, and some people got along, and other people didn’t, and two people were voted out, and hopefully this enough blahblahblah crap for the mouseovers. You can read the previous weeks’ threads [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=407607) and [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=408627). This week on Survivor … more stuff will happen. From our Friends at [CBS.com](http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor14/): • After a fall during the Reward Challenge, one Survivor struggles to catch their breath, causing an emergency visit from the medical team. Can they overcome this unfortunate situation or will they be forced to leave the game? • On Exile Island, one Survivor realizes the importance of finding the hidden Immunity Idol if they want to stay in the game. Will they be able to dig up the Idol without their other tribemates finding out? • In the Immunity Challenge, the Survivors are forced to eat foods off the Fijian menu, including fish eyes and pig snouts with hair still on them. • One extremely dehydrated Survivor makes a desperate attempt to start fire with their eyeglasses. Will they get a flame or just burn out tired and frustrated? And also from [TVGuide.com](http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/survivor-fiji/285451) (not as much of a spoiler as last week, and not really anything all that different than above): A member of the Moto tribe experiences serious health problems and the Ravu team attempts to start a fire with a pair of eyeglasses. The tribes also take part in a food-eating challenge. At tribal council, the third person is voted off of the islands. Jeff Probst is the host. WILL Moto continue its domination? WILL Ravu finally get themselves together? WILL these people continue to do and say really stupid things for fame and fortune? WILL there be monkeys this week? Tune in tonight! I’ll have popcorn, if you want to stop in and visit. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/2 "2007-02-22T20:56:02Z")
How long has it been since we had a food challenge? Seems like a while, maybe the baluts (sp?), but the survivors gobbled them like candy. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/3 "2007-02-22T21:05:57Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] How long has it been since we had a food challenge? Seems like a while, maybe the baluts… [/QUOTE] I think that was the last “gross food challenge” we’ve seen. I’m kind of afraid of what they’re going to come up with this time. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/4 "2007-02-22T21:23:12Z")
I will be keeping my eyes on Dreamz. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/5 "2007-02-23T01:28:10Z")
Yea! Best episode of the season!(so far) (OK, I generally don’t find the first episode of a season of Survivor to be all that enjoyable. And I found last week’s episode to be more depressing than enjoyable.) But this week has already had a reward challenge . . . [spoiler] so the “winning team” kept winning, and got to pick their reward. But at least the “losing team” managed to create enough fire to be rewarded with flint to help them keep their fire going. So now they should have fire and water, and I shouldn’t have to watch them whine.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/6 "2007-02-23T01:39:20Z")
Ohmygodohmygodohmygod! _Best. **Effing.** Challenge. **EVER!** _ **!!! Survivor !!! Slip-N-Slide !!! Skee-Ball !!!** Hells _yeah!_ ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/7 "2007-02-23T02:07:50Z")
That was well spent TV time just to watch Rita run down the slip-n-slide. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/8 "2007-02-23T02:16:04Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] That was well spent TV time just to watch Rita run down the slip-n-slide. [/QUOTE] Yes, Rita is much cuter that I first thought she was. Her natural smile is so much prettier than the fake one in her CBS bio picture. Those Verreos [kids](http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor14/survivors/rita.shtml), [they](http://nickverrreos.blogspot.com/) have excellent genes! Also, Stacy is also quite lovely. This gross food challenge wasn’t as gross as other ones have been, but I couldn’t watch Lisi and … _whoever_, I forget already … eat those peanut worms. They had _faces_, and teensy little worm _teeth!_ _Ewwwwww!_ ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/9 "2007-02-23T03:02:59Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Yes, Rita is much cuter that I first thought she was. Her natural smile is so much prettier than the fake one in her CBS bio picture. Those Verreos [kids](http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor14/survivors/rita.shtml), [they](http://nickverrreos.blogspot.com/) have excellent genes! Also, Stacy is also quite lovely. This gross food challenge wasn’t as gross as other ones have been, but I couldn’t watch Lisi and … _whoever_, I forget already … eat those peanut worms. They had _faces_, and teensy little worm _teeth!_ _Ewwwwww!_ [/QUOTE] Rita is cute, and where has Stacy been up till now? I just hope for more challenges that involve Rita running. Run, Rita, run! I believe the other peanut worm eater was Mookie. Now I wish I had DVR, I missed the teeth. I’ll have to wait until it’s available OnDemand. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/10 "2007-02-23T03:09:23Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] I will be keeping my eyes on Dreamz. [/QUOTE] Having been homeless, I am sure he has eaten much worse. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/11 "2007-02-23T03:14:59Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] Now I wish I had DVR, I missed the teeth. I’ll have to wait until it’s available OnDemand. [/QUOTE] Well, it’s _possible_ that I _imagined_ the teeth, but I stand by my assertion that they were photographed in such a way as to make it _look like_ they had faces, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/12 "2007-02-23T03:23:39Z")
Did Moto get new team members that I’ve _never seen before_ for this episode? I swear, half those people weren’t on the island last week. Mookie seems to be operating on the “vote the person who pissed me off most recently” strategy. I’m not saying it’s the _worst_ plan anybody’s ever had (alphabetical voting, anyone?), but I kinda like Mookie, and I hate it when the people I like are stupid. And I have a problem with Michelle. I like her at camp, starting fire, etc. But what the _hell_ happens to that girl when she gets to TC? I hope she doesn’t think her rapier wit in the voting booth is cool. I guess that was just the big hate-on she’s got for Sylvia, but I like Michelle a lot better when she’s not trying to be smart. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/13 "2007-02-23T03:51:24Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Stacy is also quite lovely. [/QUOTE] She was in the yellow bikini right? I liked the yellow bikini girl.But her running technique wasn’t as good as Rita’s. > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Frostillicus > Quote: > Originally Posted by MadTheSwine > I will be keeping my eyes on Dreamz. > > Having been homeless, I am sure he has eaten much worse Don’t get me started. I think it was a mistake voting out Sylvia,I was hoping they would vote out that pansyass Anthony.He didn’t even try to eat the pig snout,his lack of spirit may cost them later in the game. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/14 "2007-02-23T04:08:35Z")
Oh, Rita, Rita… why? You are certainly attractive, and seem pleasant and intelligent, and your running style is a thing of beauty… So why did you have to go and ruin it by being stupid at Tribal Council? Your vote is the only actual tool you have; every vote you cast in this game should be toward a particular end. Why use it on Earl? You have now set yourself up as an outsider, one who can’t be trusted and who will be perceived as having no loyalty to your (admittedly loose) alliance (actually _having_ loyalty is stupid, but letting other know that you have no loyalty is even stupider). And to what end? Your vote for Earl accomplished nothing in game terms, other than letting you make some sort of obscure statement that even I don’t understand. Your tribe will vote off Anthony next, because the wind seems to be blowing that direction (although Rocky’s loyalties seem to be determined by mood ring, or something). And after that? Well, why not pick off the girl who doesn’t seem interested in working with us strategically? Who goes her own way? Who has shown herself Most Likely to Swing Over to the Other Side in the Event of a Merge? Oh, Rita… Why? ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/15 "2007-02-23T04:30:43Z")
My TiVo cut off the last ten minutes, just as TC was starting. Who got voted off? Did they whine about it? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/16 "2007-02-23T04:49:11Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] I think it was a mistake voting out Sylvia [/QUOTE] Did you not see the first challenge? Sylvia moved like she had the rheumatism. And that challenge showed just how foolish it was to vote off Erica last week. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/17 "2007-02-23T04:55:43Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Did you not see the first challenge? Sylvia moved like she had the rheumatism. [/QUOTE] It wasn’t the rheumatism that got me–it was the way that once she was down and had no momentum, she spent quite some time flailing around like a turtle on its back (even though she was on her _front_, which makes it a bad simile, but it’s late, cut me some slack) when she should have just _gotten the hell up_. I wasn’t totally on board with the dislike for Sylvia until this week. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/18 "2007-02-23T05:24:53Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Did you not see the first challenge? Sylvia moved like she had the rheumatism. And that challenge showed just how foolish it was to vote off Erica last week. [/QUOTE] Yeah I saw it.The one with Rita running.Don’t remember much else about it. 😛 Seriously though,it was funny as hell seeing her swim in place,but that was for a reward.Anthony’s blunder was for Immunity,he gave no effort whatsoever and then pissed and moaned cause his mouth was dry as an excuse,although right before he approached the dinner table Rocky handed him a canteen which he took a big swig from.Anthony is a whiney momma’s boy and a pantywaist.As I said before, he is gonna hurt his team further unless they vote him off. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/19 "2007-02-23T12:32:02Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Did Moto get new team members that I’ve never seen before for this episode? I swear, half those people weren’t on the island last week. The way that both challenges were set up certainly did give individual team members a bit more screen time, and I couldn’t believe how many unfamiliar names I heard–for both teams. Now admittedly, I refuse to even try to remember the names of the teams, and individual player names are often hard to keep track of until there are fewer of them, but still. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262/20 "2007-02-23T13:10:57Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] I think it was a mistake voting out Sylvia,I was hoping they would vote out that pansyass Anthony.He didn’t even try to eat the pig snout,his lack of spirit may cost them later in the game. [/QUOTE] Why would you have kept Sylvia? She _sucked_ in the Slip-N-Slide Skee-Ball challenge, and in the Gross Food Challenge, and in every challenge before that. She was kind of an _albatross_, just hanging around Ravu’s neck. It’s not unreasonable to expect that the challenges are going to get harder and more physical each time. Makes sense to me to keep someone who is more physically useful – and less annoying – than the skinny old bossy broad. It’s not like starvation and dehydration are going to _improve_ Sylvia’s performance. And while I won’t argue that Anthony stank up the joint with the snouts, he is not _solely_ to blame for Ravu’s loss. Three other people tanked on that challenge too. The fish eyeballs? Could have been swallowed whole, _which is exactly what Alex did_. No chewing, just down the hatch. Mookie ate _worms_ – not something I usually do for fun, but less volume and way less disgusting than pig snouts, _uncooked_-looking, with _hair still on them_. It’s easy to blame Anthony for what happened, but _nobody knows_ whether anyone else would have done any better. For all we know, Papa Smurf could have gotten his snouts all the way eaten except for one little bit, which caused him to gag and hurl, and then Anthony would have won. (As further proof that I know entirely too much about this game show, but to give you an example that you can’t make judgements based solely on challenge performance, you know who kind of really sucked at challenges? Ethan Zohn.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-fiji-ep-3-this-isnt-survival-its-thrival/393262.md?page=2)