Fretful

Followed by a "untie underwater balls, throw them in a basket" challenge. At last!

Count me in as one of the people who don't get the Ryan and Chrissy dislike. I see them as my favorites- along with the surprise inclusion of Devin, who seems like someone I would dislike, but actually comes off very sweet and thoughtful. Lauren and (gasp) Joe are growing on me- he seems pretty self-aware regarding his actions and behavior. JP has the qualities Ben wishes he possessed, although Ben definitely has the bigger personality. I liked Dr Mike at first, but he's not as interesting when he's playing from the bottom. Ashley needs to step it up. And I think we all agree that Cole is a tool.

David Krumholtz had thyroid cancer. The weight gain is a result of the treatment. I understand he's already lost quite a bit of it.

I know it's smart to wear sensible shoes, but RuPaul's were so distracting. I kept wondering what was wrong with his feet.

I think that Sam used rum because he would have had to ask someone for Milk of the Puppy, but there's always plenty of drink around.

If Nicole and Cory stopped for one minute, they would have realized that the finale instruction on the triangle was "multiply by 12" All they had to do was keep trying multiples of 12. They would have hit the answer in 9 tries. Even if it were a larger number, they knew it had to be 3 digits, the very worst scenario would have given the answer in about 80 attempts with each attempt taking just a few seconds, they could have been out of there in 5 minutes, The problem wasn't that they couldn't do math, it was that they couldn't see any alternatives except to keep trying what they were doing.

Floyd grabbed a blue bag at the luggage store, and opened the blue bag in the cab to find the Express Pass. Becca had a grey bag and it was still on her lap, unopened.

One advantage to Phil driving you is saving the cost of taxi fare

I can't stand him (and I'm a middle-aged woman, so I should be his demographic). There are so many examples of him being a bully (The fishing expedition, the shark's head that brought rats to the camp, the water reward where EVERYONE else wanted to take a shower but he outvoted them). What a jerk. How he ended up on Heroes on the HvV season remains a mystery to me.

I remember Simi and Opie struggling with a kayak water polo Face-Off.

I don't understand how Joel/Ashley and Rita/Yvette ended up so far behind the 3 lead teams. Even before the longer roablock (and the twins' speed bump) we never saw all 5 teams together, and they all flew from Cuba together. Maybe the Coast Guard Rescue was only 3 teams at a time, but they still should have arrived there together. Did I miss something?

This happened on TAR Asia in season 2, as Paula and Natasha had to wait five hours for Henry and Terri.

I think everyone believed that Barb ran away- which is why they stopped worrying about her. The deputy said that "State Troopers" found her car at he bus station.

Ooooh, that sneer Alyssa Milano threw to the guest judge who said she would be criticized for looking like she gained 10 pounds . Worth the price of admission.

According to the Season 28 thread, are all returning

Johnny Bananas and Paula Walnuts (or Bananas and his girlfriend Hanah Teter). I wonder if they have MTV exclusve contracts.

One of my favorite pieces was the way Jeremy handled Keith's potential idol. He convinced Keith to vote for Spencer. So Jeremy was in the perfect position. If Keith has an idol- Jeremy is safe because Spencer is out. If Keith doesn't have an idol- Keith is voted out and Jeremy doesn't have to turn on his core alliance. It's these kinds of subtle moves that defined Jeremy's season and demonstrated (to me anyway) that he really was in control fo the game and deserved the win.

I wonder if the reason they decided no to use Woo and Joe in the RC was because they were concerned that they might have to sit out the IC (as the extra person from each "over" tribe).

Regarding Jaime and the ship, didn't Cersei ask Oberyn to give Mycella a ship as a gift? I seem to remember him agreeing to it in season 4. I also think (spitballing here) that Doran is in on the plot to kill the Lannisters. How easy would it be to make them feel like Ellaria is a rogue agent, when actually that was the plan all along?