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  1. You know, no matter how many times an ousted player brags that, "if I hadn't been voted out, I would have won," it never gets any less stupid.
  2. I think Maria is overrated by the rest of her tribe. They all seem to want to be allied with her and think they are. And it's hard to tell because until last night we've seen so little of anything besides the Yanu clown car, but Maria doesn't seem like a particularly good player. As you mentioned, burning her extra vote for one thing, but also, it's day 11 or whatever, you know a merge is coming within a day or two, so why would you side with the guys who are all pretty likeable and who could be seen as threats to the others instead of with the two more or less goaty women. Maria's now in an alliance that, after the merge, is probably going to be targeted, whereas, had she stuck with Jem and Moriah, she'd have allies who no one is worried about. And I don't think she needs strong players as shields, since once she's in with a bigger crowd, her own threat level is going to decrease. She'll have less social influence, and she's shown a couple of times that she's not a physical threat. But her doing what she did was good for me because I don't care about Jem, but I've grown to love Ben. I thought the constant Spicoli-esque, "these things rock, these things are a bummer" narration was going to bug, but I just find him so much fun. It was so funny that he took a hammer along with him to defend against Jem's machete and him refusing to let go of it long after their conversation was done put it over the top with me.
  3. Someone posted all ten episodes of the Little Monk web series on YouTube. These are also on the Best of Monk DVD.
  4. They started letting them have more clothes about four or five seasons ago. The show got some bad press about forcing the players to live in one pair of underwear for the entire season, which resulted in several players ending up with UTIs, some so severe that a couple of them had to be hospitalized.
  5. As bad as this season is, we need to remember the real victim: Jess, who was stuck for a time at Ponderosa with only Jelinsky and Bhanu.
  6. I'm with everyone who's suspicious that Bhanu was putting on an act. Survivor was an audition reel for him so that he can have something on his IMDb page other than a list of fake credits of when he appeared as an extra in a crowd scene. At the same time, a little psychiatric intervention wouldn't be the worst thing for him. When Tiff said, "I'm going to be honest with you, I'm writing your name down," I thought there was a 50-50 chance he might flip out and try to murder her on the spot. "I take no joy in keeping your flint, but I am going to keep your flint HAHAHAHAHAHA." The worse these casts get, the more of a magnificent bastard Jeff becomes.
  7. Most eyeglasses won't start a fire. They have to be magnifiers. Either glasses for someone who's farsighted, which is much less common than nearsightedness, or they have to be the old type of bifocals with a convex bottom half of the lens, and not as many people wear those anymore now that progressive lenses exist.
  8. Bhanu saying he didn't care about winning a million dollars, he cared about winning a million hearts gave me a terrible flashback to Dan Foley saying, "I want to be REMEMBERED," which we do because he was so heinous. I wish people would stop going on this show thinking it's going to be a jumping off point for celebrity status because that has rarely happened and probably not at all for the last two decades.
  9. Yeah, now I'm thinking it's probably not Spike, if Henry said it was in a later season. Also the thing about fan mail doesn't make sense because he was only in four episodes spread over three seasons. It could be Billy Warlock because he came and went in later seasons, but I've never heard anything bad about him either. That was one of his early roles though, so maybe he wasn't used to the attention and got a big head over it, but later grew out of that. I wouldn't expect Henry to be negative about anyone though, at least not by name. Baio is a good example; I'm sure Henry's been appalled by his scandals and many of his personal opinions, but he and Ron Howard have always been really supportive of him as a friend.
  10. If it was the character who was replaced by Chachi, then it must have been Spike, Fonzie's other cousin. He was played by Danny Butch and was only in a handful of episodes, the last one being toward the end of season 4. Scott Baio started at the beginning of Season 5.
  11. The first part of this video is from the moment Bhanu screamed at Jess during the challenge. I did a screen grab of right before the blocks dropped. Jess is trying to hold up four blocks by herself. Kenzie, Tiffany, and Q are on the other side together holding up five blocks and they're in the wrong order. Bhanu is trying to place an S, which would be wrong on either side. Jess is the only one not being completely useless there.
  12. I wish I had a tenth of the self-esteem that Liz has, but only a tenth because that woman is seriously deluded about her own appeal. "No man could handle being married to someone like me who's wealthy and doesn't need him," as she trundles around in her sweater of a thousand colors. Too bad she and Jelinsky weren't on the same tribe so they could talk to each other about themselves in the third person. The trash talk at the challenge was good, but I loved Jeff taking out a knife and cutting Nami's buff off the idol. He's so done with all these fools and it shows. A lot of crying and mean-girling this episode on more than one tribe, and no one is emerging as particularly likable. Maybe it will get better, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
  13. Jeff's welcome-to-the-game speech is why I will never hate Jeff. "Right now you think you have a 1 in 18 chance of winning. This is not true. Some of you would not win no matter who you were sitting next to at Final Tribal Council. Some of you suck. Think about that. Think about your terrible personalities. We really only cast you because it's hard to get 18 decent players. Now, who's ready to play the first challenge?"
  14. Just rewatched the entire series on Peacock and still think it's great, although I had a little anxiety watching the Covid episodes. They got so many true-to-life things right -- the mad dash for toilet paper, the occasional customer who would refuse to wear a mask and scream about her rights. It reminded me of how uncertain and perilous everything felt in those first few months of the pandemic. One complaint I have about the streaming episodes: in the series finale, they edited out the scene where the raccoons left the store for the very last time. I remember that I got a little teary-eyed over that the first time around and wanted to see it again, so i don't get why they'd omit it. The store raccoons were one of the great things about the show, along with Service Goat and the one-time Christmas appearance of the reindeer eating apples in the produce department.
  15. I think it's just that when Monk saw Natalie had left Watson in his apartment he smiled a little, so the assumption is that he's going to keep him. And maybe we just want him to have a dog since everyone else is leaving again.
  16. Fun fact about Mr. Monk and the Dog: In that episode, Natalie gives him a pooper scooper called the Shapoopie, which is a real device invented by Tony's brother Dan. It's no longer on the market, which ... well, you can kind of see why:
  17. All the players and former players seem to follow each other on social media, so I find it very hard to believe that Dee didn't know he had a pregnant girlfriend. I don't know why, but I find it hilarious that Wendell posted an apology, then took it down. Someone posted this photo of them together at some nasty looking party in December.
  18. I'm pretty sure it's over or, probably more accurately, never even got started. In their exit interviews, when Dalton Ross asked Dee if they were still together, she said, "you won't like my answer" then spouted some nonsense about how they were keeping it "low-key." When he asked Austin, Austin essentially said he wanted to keep it private and didn't want to answer questions. If they were together, I would think at least one of them would have said, "we're together, but we want to keep it just between us right now" or something to that effect. Also during FTC when Dee was asked if it was real or a showmance, I noticed that she was already talking about it in the past tense. Her whole vibe was that she made it to FTC so she was done with him. I thought Kaleb yelled out "Jake" before voting too (and then thought it was cruel since he didn't actually vote for him), but according to social media, he was yelling out "J" as a callback to when he voted for J Maya and she went out because his SITD cancelled out 10 votes against himself. As a joke, it doesn't make much sense without J being on the jury to hear it, but you can't get on reality TV unless you crave attention. I like Kaleb a lot, but that was sad. Katurah has been a terrible player all along, so her vote switch away from Dee at F5 is perfectly in keeping with that. And then to try to justify it by saying Jake should have told her he was playing the idol for her? What good what it have done if he had? If she already didn't believe him when he said he was voting for Dee, I don't see why she would believe him if he also said he was playing his idol for her. Argh, I was rooting for Jake, but he did try to make too big a move with his idol. If he had kept it a secret, used it for himself, and idoled out either Julie (his original target) or Dee, I don't think it would have changed anything in terms of jury votes, but as it played out, it presented as another swing and a miss for him. Although his furious, "why did you make me swear on my nana?" was a bright spot.
  19. That's a confusing episode because Fonzie goes to their house on Christmas Eve and it's already dark out. But at the end of the episode when they're eating dinner, it's clearly the next day because it's light outside and the Cunninghams are wearing different clothes. So I always wondered, did he spend the night? Did he go home and come back? (Since this was the last episode with Chuck, my friend's theory is that Fonzie spent the night and had a liaison with Chuck, who then regretted it and left town, never to be seen or heard from again.) Also, why was everyone so worried about him being alone on Christmas Eve when he was also going to be alone on Christmas day? Anyway, I love that episode and if there weren't a million other things to eat on Christmas Eve, I would eat ravioli out of can in honor of Fonzie's original plans.
  20. I wish they had set the movie earlier in the pandemic and mined the "everyone is Monk now" angle rather than the way they went with him so desolate. I saw this article the other day, and it seems like if they do make more movies, they feel like they have to figure out new ways for Monk to be miserable. I don't know that I like that too much; what I loved about the series finale was that he seemed to finally find some happiness. Not sure what the fans want is for him to feel utterly hopeless for the rest of his life. The other interesting thing is that Tony's wife Brooke didn't want him to do the movie. The article doesn't elaborate on why, but it does seem like he's had a lot of other work, especially in the last few years, and I know when Mrs. Maisel ended, he said there were still new things he wanted to accomplish in his career, so I can see why both of them might not necessarily want to revisit this character.
  21. I just finished watching a few minutes ago, and I'm not crying, you're crying. All the teams were lovely people. Anyway. Since there's some debate about whether it was a mistake for Rob and Corey to do the trapeze first and then work their way back, I live here and I can say it wasn't. The Space Needle, where they started, is just north of downtown, the glassblowing place and the grunge place are in downtown, and the trapeze place is about 3 miles south of the grunge place. Since this was filmed in July and it was late enough to be dark, there wouldn't be that much traffic. At that time of day, probably a 10 minute drive. Not knowing what was coming after the scramble, I was initially worried that Rob and Cory might have put themselves in a worse position, but since the kayak place was in Kenmore, which is 15 miles north of Seattle, it really didn't matter in which order they did the scramble tasks, since they all had to go south to finish the scramble then north again. Someone upthread said the trapeze place is closer to I-5, but this isn't accurate. Both the trapeze place and glassblowing place are just a few blocks from I-5 on-ramps. And I do think it worked out better for them to be at the trapeze place alone and not potentially having to wait out another team finishing. As an aside, I've probably driven past that trapeze place a hundred times, and this episode made me want to try it. I won't, but I briefly considered it, which is the main thing. I have always disliked grunge, and this episode did nothing to change that. Those singers -- my god, pick a key! I did think it was nice though that the one singer was able to sign, "good job!" to Rob.
  22. Jake's plan to force a tie then a flip on the revote was going to be a longshot, but at least he's trying. So of course Katurah runs back to Dee like she always does and tries to ruin it, not knowing that Dee was already down to vote Drew. I do think Jake is in a decent position now. Unless he tries to do something big with his idol and it backfires, he can play it on himself and be guaranteed F4, and then it's a pretty safe bet he'd have to make fire to get into F3. But if he actually gets to F3 with any combination of the rest of them, I could see him winning. With that jury, there's going to be resentment against Dee, Julie, and Austin, and Katurah has never been a factor.
  23. I'm seeing 90 minutes, 8 to 9:30, followed by one episode of Ghosts UK instead of the usual two.
  24. Survivor has had two deaf contestants, Christy in season 6 and Nina in season 30. Christy was completely deaf, but Nina had cochlear implants and some hearing, but she said she missed a lot of the conversations out there. Nina was voted out fairly early but Christy made it almost to the end. The biggest challenge for Christy was at night when people would have conversations around the fire. There wasn't enough light for her read lips, and it wasn't until there was a tribe shuffle and her new tribemates would hold the lantern near their faces while talking that she could participate. I believe they had an ASL interpreter offscreen for Tribal Council and for when Jeff was explaining the challenges.
  25. I was so hoping there would be one of Randy's nutty theories, and that one didn't disappoint. People on twitter like to wish celebrities a happy birthday and post how old they are now, and I die a little every time. As for this movie, it was Ted Levine who seemed to have aged the most, although he's not the oldest. And even though I've seen Tony Shalhoub in projects he's done recently so I know how he looks, it was strange to see Monk as so much older. Hector Elizondo, OTOH, looks pretty much the same to me. I agree; it was really true to where Monk would see his place in the world, especially with Molly getting married. It makes me so sad for this character who I love so much. Yes, there's no way they could realistically get the gang back together on a permanent basis, but having him work with the new captain would be good, maybe also teaming up with a now (really) retired Stottlemeyer. I don't know that I'm actively hoping there are more movies, but I would certainly watch if there were. I had mixed feelings about the ending. When the series ended, he wanted to retire and spend all his time with Molly. She convinced him that he was needed by all the other victims whose cases would otherwise go unsolved. This was a repeat of that; he wants to quit (I assume; otherwise he would have gone back to work earlier) and be with Trudy, but she convinced him otherwise. (I confess to a moment of panic when Trudy said, "Adrian, I'm not alone," because I had the brief but wildly stupid thought that she had an afterlife boyfriend 😬.) He's tired of life, but he feels obligated. It killed me when Molly asked him to come to New York with her and he said he wouldn't because he loved her. He knows he has to settle for being alone. Well, except he has Watson now. And a second bowl!
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