Kenzie

The first thing the new (young) manager did at my favorite restaurant was to crank the music volume up to decibel level, "Eye Socket and Tooth Vibration Mode". When the volume reached a level that made my entrée look alive while shimmying across my plate I gave up and picked a new favorite restaurant.

And I think Jeff's always thinking about production costs (to the viewer's detriment). Half a merge means forking up only half the food money. Not staying in one place, elaborate challenges, village visits and luxury spa get-a-ways are no more. I really miss old survivor.

The unrelenting pounding background noise and headache-inducing music is my biggest gripe against Survivor. I get sick of rewinding too and usually watch the challenges on mute with closed captioning because Jeff's non-stop banshee screaming makes me want to kill.

Sigh. Yet another couple of airheads who haven't done their homework and want to start a business in a tropical country already completely saturated with holistic "healers", spas, "life counselors" and yoga gurus. The realtor knows it's a doomed project but smiles and goes along for what is probably a very familiar ride - renting homes to half-baked dreamers.

It seemed like he was always playing to the camera. Bhanu acted as if Cecil B. DeMille was personally filming his screen test.

I would love it if Hunter won. I'm tired of winners like Yam Yam who might be funny around a campfire at night but would die in a week if actually marooned on an island. It's really nice to see someone athletic, smart and castaway-capable for a change.

It's tragic really. I don't care how talented a tattooist may be, the final result is beautiful skin covered in doodling. And the lady with the nose bull-ring - it's not doing her any favors.

This actually would have been a very clever idea. The solid parts of the inside bucket blocking the holes in the outside bucket. Being able to carrying one, now full bucket would mean each player could rest between buckets.

I think he could have made a small save by suggesting to his partner that they at least use the remaining time to collect firewood or coconuts so that they didn't arrive back at camp empty-handed. But that would never occur to him. He was just a sore loser - smashing the timer proved that.

Although in real life Tristan spent the war in North Africa tending to military horses, mules and camels, it's much more fun to think of him sashaying through Paris just as you described!

I wish Gordon had addressed the cook constantly wiping his sweaty, greasy, bald head with his sleeve. Ugh.

It's amusing how many players through the years have been legends only in their minds. The only two players that I can think of who were actually running the show quietly behind the scene were Richard from Borneo and Brian Heidik (who I disliked) from Thailand. Brian said in an interview that every night at bedtime he would run not only his best options and next moves, but the best moves for everyone else so he could cut them off at the pass.

Poor kid. My eyes still ache from rolling so hard when I heard that name. Mom should have consulted a dictionary first. Havok (destruction, devastation) does not carry a positive connotation. But she thought it would make him "strong". It made me think of that old Johnny Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue" where the father gave him the name Sue because all the teasing he would endure would make him strong and a fighter. Nice enough lady I guess, I just felt she was trying a bit hard to be Oh So Quirky.

I liked this house except for the location of that massive refrigerator. It stuck out 2' beyond the counter front and from the dining room side it had only about 12" of side wall screening it. I kept wanting to shove it backwards. It was an entity.

Utrecht I liked this couple. They were nice to each other and fairly reasonable in their wants. Anybody else pick up shoe fetish vibes from him? His eyes glazed a few times when talking about his collection, especially when he was lining up the shoes in the closet and tenderly nudged one shoe a half inch into place. 😃