"Appendicitis? What's that?"

This week's Survivor was epic!

Over at the Orange tribe, Colton and Alicia are complete jerks to Christina.  Like, actually terrible.  They tell her she's next to go and they won't even give her a spot in the shelter to sleep in the night.  It's all to her face, and it's all awful.  I don't think I've ever seen two people on Survivor be so completely vicious to another contestant.  It's not fun to watch at all.  Colton even calls her a dumb/stupid f-word at the reward challenge, which Blue totally dominates.  He then tells her to jump in a fire and get med-evacuated to go home faster....

Which is ironic, considering how Colton got med-evacuated shortly after.

 Wait, what?

Yes, Colton starts getting very weak and dehydrated, and Tarzan assesses that he had appendicitis.  No one listens to him until Colton essentially collapses, alone, in the jungle.  Jeff and the medical team rush in to figure out what's going on.  Then the doctor determines that Colton has acute appendicitis and needs to be flown to a hospital ASAP for surgery.  And that means Colton is out of the game!  I do feel a little bad for him, but I'd feel a lot worse if he wasn't a complete jerk to everyone.  As one contestant points out, Colton got a big taste of karma. 

 Needless to say, he cried a lot.

Before he leaves, though, Jeff summons everyone over and asks Colton if he's going to give away his hidden immunity idol.  Not surprisingly, he decides to keep it as a souvenir.  And Alicia is TO'd.  She says in one of the interviews that she's upset about Colton leaving just because he didn't give the idol to her.

First of all, why would he give it to her?  He barely knows her!  And he's too selfish to let anyone else have his precious idol.  But the real takeaway here is that Alicia doesn't care at all for her new BFF's wellbeing.  It just goes to show how terrible of a person she is.  And normally I don't make that big of a judgement call about a person's character based on a TV show, or I at least don't write it here.  But it's pretty clear from watching her reaction that she's pretty awful.

 I feel bad for her students.

Anyway, both Orange and Blue get treemail that tells them they all have to go to Tribal Council.  Once there, Jeff tells them that the two tribes are merging!  This means Alicia, who was on the chopping block, dodged a major bullet (unfortunately) now that she can reassimilate with her old alliance. 

Now we'll find out which alliances will last - will the old men/women dichotomy come back, or will people be loyal to the newer Orange and Blue?  We'll have wait till next week to see.

Project Runway All Stars Winner!

The finale of Project Runway All Stars aired last night, and the winner is Mondo!  I personally liked Austin Scarlett's stuff better, but Mondo did a great job.  Congrats!

Muahaha!!

Click here to see the finalists' collections.

Project Runway Winners: Where Are They Now?

Project Runway's website has a bunch of info on all the past winners, all the way back to season 1.  Click here to see all the cool updates!

 Looks like they're having fun!

Pokerap!

I love the Pokerap from the original show.  I'm pretty sure there was a point back in the day when I knew most/all of it.  My favorite part is when he says Wartortle.  Listen for it!

Oops.

I haven't posted anything in a week because I'm super lazy.  And there's not much going on with TV lately.

Oops!!

"Hoombas - Human Roombas."

Jonah Hill was on SNL last Saturday.  Here's his monologue:

 

 J-Pop Fun Time Now!

Oh. Liza Minelli.

A Digital Short!  Not the finest, but still.

Some great Weekend Update stuff, like Paula Deen!

And STEFON!!!!!

 

That's it.  I don't think there's going to be a new episode for a little while.

"It's, like, Greek gods versus peasants."

Finally, a minor Survivor shakeup!  Before the reward challenge this week, the tribes got randomly mixed up.  Now there's a semi-equal amount of guys and girls on each tribe.  At the challenge, the new Blue and Orange tribes competed for, mainly, the right to live at their camp - the losers had to move to a new beach and build a new shelter and stuff.  The new Blue tribe won, mainly because they luckily had most of the strongest men and women on their tribe.  They got to strut on home while the new Orange tribe had to relocate.

Everything is awesome at Blue.  Kim, one of the women we haven't heard much from yet, found the women's hidden immunity idol.  And of course, she made the stereotypical stupid move of telling someone about it.  We'll see how that goes.

This is her, apparently.

But Orange is an entirely different story.  My two least favorite people, Colton and Alicia, are on the same tribe now, and it's no surprise that these two like-minded (mean) people get along pretty well.  Part of the tribe switchup overall is the confusion of alliances.  Will the women still stick together till the merge, or will these new, mixed-up tribes be the alliances we'll see later in the game?  It seems from what most of the contestants said that it's still men vs. women.  Alicia, though, doesn't seem to get that.  Instead, she plays right into Colton's trap, believing that he's aligned with the women, and listens to every strategic decision he's making. 

 Why?????

So when Orange loses the immunity challenge (no surprise), things start getting weird.  Colton tells Alicia and the guys to vote out Monica, the only person on their tribe who has her act together, because she's a physical threat.  Really, though, Colton just wants to get rid of all the girls and is using the "physical threat" excuse to sway the women to his side.  Not that he really needed to - there are four men on his tribe, so they could vote out whoever they wanted.  And they do.  Monica gets the boot, and Colton is victorious once again.

Too bad.  She was one of the few people this season I liked.

That's what I don't get, though.  Why is everyone listening to him?  I get that he has an idol, but he's so arrogant that he would never see any votes coming his way, and it's unlikely he'd play it.  The guys in his alliance can't win the whole game by riding his coattails.  Besides, he's not that nice of a person, so I don't see why the people in his tribe put up with him.  I know I wouldn't want to play the game with someone as mean as him. 

So now I'm rooting for the guy who said "bumpuzzled" last week just because it's an arbitrary silly word and hopefully he'll say more of them if he sticks around.  Also, Troyzan is mildly amusing.  But I don't have a clear favorite like last season.  It makes watching a lot less fun.

Project Runway Fail

In the latest episode of Project Runway All Stars,  my favorite designer of the season, Kenley, got eliminated.  I can see the judges' complaints about her dress, mainly that she didn't line up the seams of the dress with the pattern on the fabric, but it really wasn't that bad...

I'd still wear it.

What really irks me is that this dress won:

What is that?  A sack?

Mondo made this dress in the latest episode.  I normally like what he makes, but I thought this dress was a total mess.  And the judges picked it to win the challenge!  It's like the judges have some sort of skewed perception of reality, and that makes me annoyed that Kenley went home on a week when the judges were so weird. 

I guess now I'm rooting for Austin Scarlett in the finale.

Design images from mylifetime.com

"We have a black President!"

Last night's episode of Survivor was pretty crazy!  I'm too burnt out from midterms to get into an all-out review, but here's the gist: after the women win the reward challenge, Leif tells Bill that Bill was on the chopping block at the last Tribal.  Once the men win the immunity challenge, they learn that Leif gave that insider info to someone outside their alliance, and they all mutually agreed to literally give their immunity to the women so they could go to Tribal Council to vote off Leif.  Yes, this is incredibly stupid, but it gets worse.

 They look so happy here... what happened?

 For one thing, they all met beforehand because they had to all unanimously agree to go to Tribal.  Why would Leif agree to go to a Tribal where he was next to go?  That randomness tips a good Survivor fan off to what's really going on here: Colton still wants to get rid of Bill, so they're using the Leif thing as a pretense to get Bill to agree to go.  And that's pretty much what happens: everyone votes for Bill, and he's sent packing.  But that happens after this very heated Tribal Council discussion:

It's far to crazy for me to just describe, obviously.  Colton is seriously looking like a jerk who's just sassing his way to victory with an idol in his pocket.  Everyone else is following him because they're too scared of what he'll do with the hidden immunity idol.  Was it a good idea for Colton to get rid of Bill?  Strategically, probably.  But giving up immunity to do so is nothing short of idiotic.  I won't get into the nitty gritty of all the incriminating stuff Colton says here, so I'll let you be the judge of that.

Jeff took it well.

This season is definitely getting better, but I'm still not too pleased with it.  Yes, the idiotic moves are fun to watch, but some of the personalities are really irking me.

Consider yourself lucky I didn't talk about any of your shenanigans from this episode.  And for Pete's sake, cover your boobs!

Batman and Robin Running Away from Things

Apparently, people like to make little clips of old-school Batman and Robin running away from random things.  Here's one of them:

You can find more at this Tumblr.

New Colgate Cribs!

Here's a new episode of Colgate Cribs!  If you're interested in making videos like this, join CUTV!

"Pregnancy should be a magical time... like Mardi Gras."

Lindsay Lohan was randomly the host of SNL last night.  She did an OK job overall, but most of the skits were just so-so.  A few of them were actually pretty hilarious, though!

This was my favorite.  So clever!!

 

Another Scared Straight skit!

 

 This was pretty random, but I thought it was funny.

 

 Other than these, the funny stuff was on Weekend Update:

 

And how could they not talk about Snooki's pregnancy?

 

That's it.  Not the best episode, but not terrible, either.  Jonah Hill is gonna be the host next week, which should be good.  

"One World is Out The Window."

This week's Survivor was a lot more interesting than it was last week.  The gist of this episode is that a big storm leads the women to ask the guys for lots of stuff and everyone gets aggravated with each other.  The guys think the girls are asking for too much without offering anything in return, but the women think the men are being rude or something.  Honestly, the living situation this season is getting on my nerves.  Why are the men and the women fighting so much with each other?  Can't they just work together like rational adults and share resources?  Apparently not. 

Anyway, the women are finally not completely awful anymore!  They won the reward challenge, where they had to memorize patterns of items, by a landslide.  And then they made a major comeback during the immunity challenge and won! 

But not without stumbling around in blindfolds, confused, for a painfully long amount of time.

That means the men had to go to Tribal Council for the first time.  We've seen a bit of their strategy before, mainly with the "Misfit Alliance" formed by Colton when the guys outside the main alliance learn he has a hidden immunity idol.  This week, they got another guy to join their alliance, bringing their numbers to 5 (I think).  But when Matt, the mastermind of the macho alliance, starts butting heads with Troyzan (not to be confused with Tarzan, who is also on their tribe), they decide Matt is too big a threat to keep around.  Plus, he's kind of a jerk.  So, after Colton announces at Tribal that he has a hidden idol, the guys blindside Matt.

Your muscles won't save you.

Things are finally starting to move along in Survivor.  If this episode is any indication, this season is going to get a lot better.  The best thing that could happen now is if the women vote out Alicia.  She's bad news.