OMG, the horrible racist is gone from Survivor! I was relieved to have that addressed, it was pretty awful last week.

Jaison is my reality TV Boyfriend. I loooooove him.

Also, Russell continues to show good gameplay instincts by not digging in on booting Ashley once he figured out which way the wind was blowing.

Also, what is up with there just being one challenge per game this season?

My best guess is that challenges are expensive to set up, and tribe drama at camp gets better ratings anyway.

SO relieved that Ben was voted out. I think it could have gone either way until he started out again at TC with his "I'm not racist, I just think people from the ghetto are trash" bullshit. You could really see people's faces go from undecided to "Yeah, he needs OUT."

I was pretty disappointed that only Jaison was willing to call a racist a racist, though. Other white people on that tribe FAIL.

Russell is repellent, but every time he gets away with another scheme, I find myself less willing to root for him to get the boot. The rest of his tribe apparently really is that dumb.

Russell is repellent, but every time he gets away with another scheme, I find myself less willing to root for him to get the boot. The rest of his tribe apparently really is that dumb.

Yeah, that's where I am with this too. He's totally a little evil troll, but is actually (so far) working hard at playing the game.

I was just coming here to post on that. Holy tribal council racial smackdown. I heart Jaison so much.

I kind of feel like Survivor's needed someone with Russell's approach to shake things up a bit. I mean, would be nice if it wasn't actual Russell, but still.

Agree with everyone re: Survivor.

PR: WTF? How did Althea escape the bottom? Both her looks were horribly unflattering. I would have picked Carol Hannah's myself except I didn't like the blues she chose. Too warm for me. I think I liked Irina's the best. Too bad they're not selling that because her holiday dress looks trashy.

And what happened to Matar?

Padma is pregnant.

Pickles & ice cream challenge, anyone?

Both her looks were horribly unflattering.

God, yes. Maybe it was that the problem was the fit rather than the design?

Too bad they're not selling that because her holiday dress looks trashy.

Indeed. The challenge dress is much cuter than the commissioned dress.

Poor Louise. If she'd stuck with subtle for this challenge she would have been better off, some of the things she's done for past challenges would have been great for this one.

Padma is pregnant.

And the father is undisclosed. Hmmm ... any bets on C.J.? (:

PR: I know!

With Louise I was thinking about Trillian. You know, where she says, "If there's one thing the Universe has taught me, it's never to go back for your purse." And sure enough, she's forgotten her contacts and misses out on her big life opportunity. So then she says, "If there's one thing the Universe has taught me, it's that sometimes you should go back for your purse and sometimes you shouldn't. It has yet to teach me which is which." Or something like that.

Anyway, that's what I felt like Louise was doing. Unable to recognize that this was really her time to shine, doing what she does, she failed doing something she doesn't do.

TC:

Hmmm ... any bets on C.J.?

Hahahahaha!

PR - What crack are the judges smoking????

So apparently what they want this season is something boring pretty and wearable, except when they don't because "wearable" is a dirty word and not fashion-forward. WhatEVER.

I mean, I had to rewind to make sure I hadn't misheard when Heidi announced who the highest and lowest scores were. It just made no sense to me.