Gummo

So when did Terry from Reno 911 change his name to Mitchell and start designing clothes?

Game over. Season over. Just given Tony the damn million and let's get on with our lives. Last night was the last chance to chip away at Tony's idol armor before the end-game and they blew it because Kass just has to feel like she's in charge. Geez, what a vile excuse for a human being. And not nearly as smart as she thinks she is. The Jersey cop has outmaneuvered her at every turn. There's no one left in the final group I like, but Tony deserves to win (can't believe I'm typing that). He's been playing hard, hustling, while Woo wanders around going, "Wha'?", Kass preens in the reflection of her own magnificence, and the stars would have to align in unnatural ways for Spencer to reach the end. Trish is smarter than her 'dese, dem, dose' persona suggests, she reads people well and made some crucial moves early on, but no one will remember that at FTC, only that she was Tony's lapdog for most of the game. I hope Tasha wins FF.

The return of Whining Rachel is like the return of an old frenemy! I'll be satisfied with a Leo/Jamal or even Brendan/Rachel win -- just not Team Sanctimony (Dave/Connor) or Team Suck-Up to Sanctimony (the Singers). If I have to hear one more time about how playing by the rules of the game is immoral and the work of "less than quality" people, I'm going to throw something thru the TV screen. And Dave? Yeah, we all know your age. If you think that merits special treatment, maybe you should have taken up shuffleboard instead of The Amazing Race. All in all, an amusing episode leading to a rather uninspiring Final Four.

Oh, Dave & Connor, you've committed the ultimate sin - you've given me a reason to root for Brendan & Rachel. Really, Dave is such an entitled, sef-righteous, smug, hypocritical, petty, smarmy little diva, with the maturity level of an overtired 4-year-old. Ugh. I'm actively rooting not just for him & Connor to lose, but to lose with the biggest, most humiliating meltdown in Race history. When he gets bluffed in poker (to use TWOP's Ms. Alli's famous analogy), I bet he overturns the table, scattering chips all over the room, whining about how could anyone bluff a poor, helpless 60-year old man! Then he takes his ball and goes home, but not before mocking his opponent with "funny" faces and imitations of the way they walk. My preferred final 3 at this point would be Brenchel, Afghanimals and Cowboys. Get rid of Diva & Son and their "right kind" of friends, the useless Country Singers (and if you turn over that "right kind of people" rock, all sorts of slimy things slither out, so let's not go there, shall we). I felt so sorry for Big Easy's donkey.

Really, I don't mind it either -- it places Survivor on a direct line of game shows going all the way back to radio, when something like Queen for a Day was nothing BUT product placement!

Hello! My name is Gummo and I'm a TWOP refugee. Thanks for letting me into your home! Kass is a stupid, emotional person who thinks she's smart and logical. Not to mention arrogant and insecure. I am not a lawyer, but I've worked in law firms for many years and you do not want to have anything to do with her type of lawyer -- she strikes me as petty, vindictive and convinced that she's never wrong. And boasting that this kind of childish maneuver is how she works professionally? I hope all her clients take note. I admit it, I like both Woo and Spencer, though Spencer's "estrogen" line did make me wince. I did like how immediately afterwards the editors showed Kass saying she plays "from her gut", practically confirming Spencer's sexist remark. (I know, I know, "estrogen" and "gut" aren't the same, but I think that was the intent.) And I had no problem with Wood picking up Spencer's pants and finding the clue, but grabbing it and running back to camp with it? DUMB! Read it, memorize it and put it back! Then look for it on your own. I saw that more as a strange kind of panic move than anything else. And I was relieved when Spencer found it anyway, especially with Clueless Kass supposedly looking on. I'm from NYC so I understand how Tony's goofy yet pushy yet funny Jersey persona could either grate OR charm. He gives the impression of being a pretty damn sleazy cop but as a Survivor player, I enjoy watching him - as someone on that "other board" said, he loves the gameplay but there's no Hantz-style rank sadism in him, so that takes the sting off. And if he melts down next week, that should make for fun viewing. I don't think Jefra is just there, I think she's playing an excellent social game, and that her "chain" line at tribal was a part of that. Pretty transparent, but the best she could at the moment. Kass has shown she's very touchy and has to handled gingerly and her ego stroked constantly. Jefra was just trying to accomplish that. Really hoping that Tasha and Spencer somehow make it far -- they've been dealt a bad hand almost since the beginning but have fought every step of the way. I like'em both.