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Previously, there were these images of Brandon omitted from earlier recaps:


Mmmm.


MMMM.

Oh right, last week. Apparently it was the negativity of Margaret that was weighing on New Knackered. The editors have Judd repeat for the umpteenth time, “[Margaret] just can’t grasp the fact that the old tribe is not coming back.” Why do we have to hear this every 20 minutes?

Jif doesn’t mention it, but did you notice how Danni beat Steph in their Big Ball matchup? LakeLady was inspired to produce this pictorial representation of the marvelous Danni!



She’s a real skeletal terror! (Danni, not LakeLady!)

My favorite part of the Challenges was not when BJ & Jamie shrieked at each other like gorilla-men, or even when Brandon popped a blood vessel straining hard to move the giant ball; it was when Blechenie got herself squished into a tree! Thanks for replaying that, Editing Staff!! That proves she isn’t going to win. Or it better. Maybe it means Steph makes Final 3 with Danni and Judd (caught between a stick and a big ball.)

New Knackered won the Reward of food & booze and we don’t seem to relive Judd terrorizing his tribe other than me reminding you now. Rafe won the first individual immunity thanks to help from Judd of all people.

Jif says Brian tried to rally, and Brandon repeats that Brian and Amy were the weakest physically and the most in danger of being voted off.

“Judd’s brain never works but his mouth doesn’t stop.” I think it was Cindy who said that but she isn’t important enough to show onscreen. Her butt is the first thing we see of her in the Opening, don’t forget. As Margaret was voted out after a heated TC, Judd’s grin was nasty. Good thing we’re reshown it so we won’t forget how horrible he can be, since he’s so quiet this episode.. Rafe got to sit in on Yaxha’s TC while his pants dried after he peed himself during Judd’s browbeating. Brian was voted out.

Opening The snake has an interesting tongue, which reminds me: Brandon is hot, have I said?

Ad break. Rob and Amber are touring Canada. Them being interviewed at 11 of this particular Thursday night is the big news story in Toronto, which is kind of sad in its way.

New Knackered, Night 15. Mayan temple. Ants working at night. A mouse eats, then jumps at the sight of its own shadow. I wonder which of the Knackered is represented by that Mouse.

Judd babbles his thanks because his bite is worse than his bark. Or something. The guy’s a spud. He DR-explain/rationalizes his treatment of Margaret. Basically, she had it coming because she mothered the other guys, not him. He says he’s not a loose cannon, just a walking time bomb. Margaret is better off at home making chicken wings.

Jamie DR-explains that keeping Judd is a good idea because he scares the others. The only problem with this plan is Jamie can’t stand Judd.

Yummyville, Day 16. It’s early morning. The light is weird and we look at the camp in some kind of night vision. The fire is burning brightly but Amy declares she is so cold. That’s our first clue that Amy leaves – she already talks as if she were dead.

BJ hurt his shoulders during the big ball challenge and we watch him peel off his shirt. He helpfully DRs that his shirt was pasted to his body in case we didn’t understand the visual. He says it’s okay because there is gold at the end of the rainbow. You know, there is actually a lot of reference to rainbows and it’s not always a good thing.

Brandon is hurt too!! Oh no!!! Those scrapes look painful; more than a couple layers of skin removed. If someone had capped this scene, I still don’t know if I could have brought myself to include it. Don’t like to dwell on the negative where Brandon is concerned. Amy wonders if she has any scrapes like that and Brandon says, “Yeah. There’s one on your face. Makes you look tough.” She beams.

Brandon DRs he has open festering sores but that once he gets into the next challenge he’ll forget about the pain. “I prolly won’t even feel it.” Neat segue to …

Reward Challenge. Jif advises that Brian was booted, and Rafe earns his SAG card by acting stunned. Jif announces in bleat-o-vision what is needed for this challenge: “Teamwork and dexterity.”

It’s a new challenge but really stupid to explain. 4 players wrap 30 ft of material off a pole and onto their body. The 5th person assists with the winding. The catch is the first person wraps only around himself; the second person connects to the first and wraps the second swatch of material around both of them. The 3rd and 4th people follow that procedure. Once all the material is off the pole and onto the team, they then have to unravel and run to the finish mat.

What they’re playing for: chocolate and a zipline canopy tour through the jungle. Oh sure, Jif makes a huge meal out of tying it all into a Mayan achievement / discovery / development, but basically, they’re playing for chocolate.

Rafe says it’s worth playing for. Too bad for him, eh. Judd sits out. Amy and Jamie are winders. Jif makes his usual banquet out of calling the play. The vid-caps are much more interesting than his blah blah.

Here Amy does her winding job, while BJ and Gary fight for who gets to touch Brandon. I like the nipple shot. Whom do I thank for ripping that damn grey singlet out of the way?


When Danni joins the fray (in what must be her ugliest photo ever!), it looks like BJ has declared his ownership of Brandon. Bobby Jon sure is copping a good feel of Brandon.


But here, Brandon appears to be trying to get away.


BJ has to find solace in the arms of another man...


The tribes take turns being in the lead, and Lucky Jif gets to utter his favorite phrase of all time, “It’s dead even.”

Here are the Knackered about to rewind. That masculine arm gripping Cindy’s boobs doesn’t belong to Rafe, I’ll you that now. Funny how it doesn’t seem out of the question it’s Blechenie’s, but in fact it’s Lydia the fishmonger who’s built like a Tonka truck.


The unthinkable (snerk) happens: Blechenie chokes and drags her team down once again!



Or maybe she really wants Rafe in that way.

For his part, Rafe has never been in such close proximity and such a suggestive position with a woman before in his life! Look at his face – the poor cardshark is a quivering mass of spaghetti jelly. I wish he’d throw up right here!


Yummies win reward! Brandon leaps adorably into the air to celebrate. Danni exclaims excitedly about winning “this big reward.” Jif tells Knackered they panicked, fell down and he has “nothing” for them. Blechenie displays her usual disgusted face at her team’s loss. Ads.

Reward. We return to clouds, birds and reasonably cheerful music at Yummyville, with Bobby Jon DRing, “We needed momentum on our side and we got it. It’s amazing to get out of camp.”

The Bobby Jon fans have been patient and deserve a reward. Their boy sure is getting cute:



The Reward for Brandon fans is coming up shortly!

Amy wonders what will happen if she gets stuck in the middle. She seems a little afraid and mentions a fear of heights. At the ziplining, a big ape watches them. Amy is tearful as she zips. BJ gives encouragement. The ape howls encouragement too. A guy waits to catch each of them. “Once in a lifetime experience,” exults Amy, foreshadowing nothing I tell you, nothing!

On his turn, Bobby Jon describes it as majestic, “Like in the movies.” Gary’s turn is unremarkable. Brandon really enjoys the experience. “I had no idea you could even do that – god it was cool.” He probably capitalized “god” in his mind, but to do so would be against everything I stand for. Brandon receives a rainbow, because he IS the pot of gold! I don’t have a picture of him at this reward or it would be in here.

Once everyone is across, the tribe discovers the motherlode of chocolate. Chocolate cake pralines, cookies, strawberries for dipping into chocolate, cacao beans. I think they’re even drinking chocolate milk! Danni has placed a flower in her hair. It just kind of appeared so I’m throwing that information in to keep you up to speed. You can buy me a Cadbury’s Dairy Milk to thank me later.

Brandon says he pigged out. “I ate more chocolate this afternoon than I’ve ever eaten before. The muddy ground looked like chocolate and made me feel nauseated.” LOL. How can anyone not love Brandon? He says he’ll remember this day as the day “I ziplined and ate the most chocolate ever.”

The gang decides to take back as much as they can carry. Brandon stumbles away from the table barely able to haul his gorgeous bod, never mind carry anything with him. “God, I hope I can hold it down,” he murmurs.

New Knackered. They’re in relatively good spirits all things considered. We learn that Rafe is artsy-craftsy. He has fashioned a full deck of cards out of leaves and paint. Cute. Also, resourceful. You know, we learn things about Rafe every so often, the kind of things that make you wonder about his longevity in the game. He’d be the first entertainer type to win it all, wouldn’t he?

The Yummies decide to paddle over to Knackered’s camp to invite them back to their camp for a pool party in honor of Danni’s birthday. Knackered hear their name being called and wonder in their usual stupor what’s going on. Danni explains to them the reason for the invitation adding via DR that she is big on birthday parties.

The ungrateful Knackered wretches hit the DR to complain: Jamie pouts, saying, “I aint goin’ to their pool – these are our enemies.” Cindy says it’s too hot and why fraternize with those whom you intend to boot out. So that they’ll vote for you when they’re on the jury? Anyone being made to look an idiot can’t be the winner, can they?

Danni says, “No buffs, no game talk, just fun and a few little birthday treats.” Blechenie finally says she’ll go and the rest of the ungrateful Knackered grudgingly come with.

Jamie is still muttering he doesn’t like these dudes. Cindy whines-over this is an unnecessary expenditure of energy. It’s a long paddle.

Once there, hugs and greetings ensue. Blechenie wonders how the Yummies could possibly even have extra chocolate. Perhaps the fact that Judd the pig isn’t on their tribe? Blech DR-explains the main reasons she came were for the pool and the chocolate.

How about this vision of loveliness? She must be gay if he wasn’t a good reason for the visit:



Mmm – I’m so there in that pool right now!

Bobby Jon DRs that in Mayan times, the chiefs would meet, sit and smoke, and then be at war later on. Jif would be proud of BJ!

We overhear Steph telling someone her oldest brother is 39. Jamie takes the opportunity to DR-worry about Steph getting along too well with the other tribe.

Judd as usual has to ruin everything:



Judd the spud is such a pud
And yet he thinks he’s quite the stud
He’ll be loyal like flies on crud
But I sure do wish he’d kept his pants on, man.

IntoThinAir encouraged me by providing a bunch of words that rhyme with Judd. :) I hope he’s not too ill to read the ditty after viewing the illustration!

And on that note, Jamie declares it’s time to head back, since they have to cut firewood and prepare food and curse and scream and make whiny DRs. Rafe, Lydia and Blech are vocal in their thanks for the invitation. Jamie DRs it made him sick they were getting along too well. He sure is hot when he’s mad:



A fight erupts while rowing back. Jamie declares, “You can vote my ass off.” Blech DRs she doesn’t get where Jamie’s head is and there could be a clash “between he and I.” And there was me, about to start calling her “Steph” again and she blew it with the grammatical error.

Ads. Mr. AMAI complains that Brandon didn’t bring anything back with him from the Reward, “He just ate and walked off, the bum. Couldn’t he have brought a water pitcher or something?” Mr. AMAI doesn’t understand that Brandon needs only to appear onscreen to satisfy some of us.

Big croc, followed by birdies eating worms from each others’ beaks.

At Yummyland, post-party, Bobby Jon is in the water, minnows eating at the open sore on his shoulder.


The funniest part is when Bobby Jon tries to eat one of the minnows and almost succeeds.

Amy & Gary powwow, Amy recognizing for the umpteenth time that they need to win immunity and Gary recognizing that Amy is most at risk. Amy gives Gary a hard time about the pro football thing. She wants people to give her their word. She insists she’ll kick his ass if he’s lying to her. The funny thing is she revealed in her post-boot interview that Danni had already told everyone he was in pro-ball and no one cared.

Gary has a long DR in which he chuckles that she’ll never find “Gary Hawkins” in Grand Haven because “Gary Hawkins” doesn’t exist. And she’ll never watch the show or work out who you are and where to find you, either, right, dipstick? People often forget that this show is going to be on television.

Amy reads the doggerel that has come with a large Frisbee. Wait, that can’t be a Frisbee. It must be an archaeologist’s excavating tool. The doggerel is the usual blah-blah about win this challenge or fry a member. Bobby Jon reiterates they’ll be in big trouble if they lose. He figures out the Yummies will be outnumbered by 2 if they don’t win this IC. Not just a pretty (hairy) face, our Bobby Jon. “This is bigger than anything,” he concludes like he’s just solved the problem of world hunger.

Immunity Challenge. Jif says this challenge will test their ability to work as a team while solving a puzzle. 3 tribe members need to find the buried puzzle pieces. Each of the three needs to make one attempt to get a piece, then they may proceed in any order. After all pieces are on the mat, two other players put them together. Lydia sits out, naturally. It’s her calling in life.

Brandon, Bobby Jon and Danni are the diggers for Yummies, while Judd, Jamie and Cindy handle that chore for Knackered. At the outset, pieces are easily seen and fairly easily trundled back to the tribes’ mats. It’s fairly uneventful until Jamie throws a piece towards his mat and hits Blech in the shin. His apology does not sound heartfelt.

When both tribes have 9 pieces, all the pieces on the surface have been retrieved and the last few pieces have to be excavated. Is it me, or did it seem like Knackered’s pieces were closer to the surface? Brandon has trouble finding the last two pieces for the Yummies, and Knackered get a head start on puzzle assembly. Why is Brandon looking on the other side of the dig site? He finally finds the 11th piece and BJ finds the 12th and final piece.

Gary & Amy do the puzzle for the Yummies; Steph & Rafe do it for Knackered. Although the Yummies catch up somewhat, the extra time needed to retrieve pieces has set them back too far and Knackered win immunity. Jif has a whole speech for them about how well they worked together unlike at the reward challenge. Crap. That felt rigged. Clearly somebody in management was afraid Blechenie wouldn’t make jury, which is pretty much the goal of this season – making sure the Returnees make jury, at least.

Ensuring we received our Recommended Episodic Dose of Ugly Blechenie Faces, Jif hands the immunity idol to Cindy, who was quite the champion in this challenge. Blech’s pissed-off face is difficult to read. Is she upset because Cindy did well, because Cindy French-kissed the idol or because Blech doesn’t know how to enjoy someone else being the center of attention?

Yummyland. After ads, there are clouds and plinky music. A raccoon-like creature. A leaf eater. These images!! I’m kind of fed up with them.

Brandon looks despondent. I can’t quite bring myself to post sad pictures of my boy.

Amy voices over about her uphill battle if they didn’t win the IC. She asks Danni if she has any shot, and Danni kind of hints that she should talk with BJ & Brandon. Amy says that physically she’s not going to be a threat – her big plus is she could outwit others. I have to say, this is not how to sell yourself to anyone in your tribe as you approach the “each man for himself” part of the game. Danni says she’d hate to vote out BJ.



Amy thinks her shot is to get Danni and Bobby Jon on her side. Gary says he needs to show loyalty, but that if she can get Danni and Brandon on board, then he’ll be onboard too. Amy hopes for a miracle and they vote out BJ.

Bobby Jon tells Brandon it feels worse than Palau. “So close but just ain’t there.” Bobby Jon interviews that nobody gets 2nd chances but here he is with one. Making the jury would be “a dream come true.” LOL. “I don’t want to blow it.” I’m sure Blake has a different story to tell.

Danni says it’s the hardest decision and she goes to talk with Brandon down at the pool. In the rain. “Hey cowboy,” she calls and I’m instantly suspicious about this rendez-vous in the rain. I think some hot lovin’ got left on the cutting room floor. There’s a curious jump in the footage if you ask me. I’m not too jealous because I like them both! If Danni isn’t hot for Brandon she must be gay or something. I’d provide a blow-by-blow description, but how many of you are into that kind of erotic recapping? Long bony arms wrap around gorgeous manly shoulders, taking care to avoid the soft tender injury on the shoulder. Not too much kissing because neither has had the use of a toothbrush in a while. The salty smell of dried seawater on skin mixed with sweat and desire is heady and intoxicating. They’re both hungry for love all of a sudden. They were careful not to give anything away during the Winding challenge, but now! Now a probing lovemuscle seeks out and finds soft wet pliant clam – and yes! We have touchdown!!!

You can see who looks spent and who looks infused with a potent love potion here!


Post-coital discussion about alliances and voting out someone who deserves to be here more than Bobby Jon is meant to take the place of a cigarette. Maybe Gary & Amy deserve to be here. Maybe we could have another round? Brandon says it’s the most complicated spot he’s been in and it’s taking a toll. He DRs, “It doesn’t say in the rules you don’t have to cheat or anything – it’s like you’re selling your soul for a million dollars.” How can this delicious boy not be in the final 2? Every other time he speaks he utters a Game Defining Quote.

Tribal Council. Jif starts up, “So, Danni, it’s day 18. 7 people are gone and you’re still here. Gotta feel good to be here.” She says it sucks. Ya boo, take that, Jiffy.

Gary explains this group is so tight and the energy and the attitude after competing so hard and going thru good & bad times, it’s really tough to kick anyone out.

Amy adds she’s gone through things she’d never go through anywhere else. “I love these guys,” she says with heartfelt passion.

Jif wonders how much more Brandon found it difficult than he anticipated. Brandon looks so unhappy:

as he explains the hardest part is deciding: “Keep who is deserving, or who is in the alliance?” Bobby Jon looks up, alarm painted all over his cute monkey face. Danni figures she’s safe for certain.

Danni knows it’s about giving one’s word but keeping that word is hard. And how about if you’ve had hot loving in the rain, Danni? What kind of an alliance is that and how long is it good for?

When Bobby Jon doesn’t want to vote someone out, he looks at what kind of deals he made on day 2, day 3, day 4. I wonder where an alliance made while peeing fits into that structure.

Voting, etc. Bobby Jon votes for Amy, calling her the “strongest, most real human I’ve met in my entire life. Won’t meet anyone more real, ever.” Amy votes for Bobby Jon but doesn’t have any words for him at this juncture.
We don’t see anyone else’s votes. Jif does his usual with the vote reveal and the summarizing and Amy is out in a unanimous tally. She hugs everyone and makes the devil finger gesture over her shoulder as she leaves.

Jif is convinced that this tribe has really bonded. Thanks for that crumb, Jiffy. Then he drops a bomb. “You four are about to embark on a new challenge. You’re not going back to Yaxha, but straight to Nakum’s camp.”

Yes, it’s the most lackadaisical merge ever! Their stuff will be carted over, hopefully including the pool, and also hopefully not just dumped in the middle of the Knackered camp. Jif tosses a bunch of buffs at them and tells them they have to come up with a new name.

Next Time, Knackered awake to a big surprise. Tempers flare. Jamie & Judd argue. Yadda yadda, neither of them is likely leaving if they’re given a whole spotlight in the Precrap.

Amy’s Final Words: She is so proud of herself for getting this far. She learned so much about herself and intends to go on learning about herself once she’s home. I’d make jokes but she earned my respect for how she never quit playing on a hurt ankle and doing really well while she was at it.

Thanks again to Trixiego & Ramona Balboa for the MESS Hall Play-by-Play at Sucks.

This week’s discussion at Red Herrings is entitled Fudd Herrings & Staphy Wickets

Thanks to djork04, kohot2000, quartzeye, Pizzathetic, Roadfinder, Warrior and SuperJude™ for the various pictures! Your vid-capping abilities are very much appreciated.

Thanks to all for reading and especially to those who post comments!

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