Survivor Redemption Island-

Again it's dissension over rice as Phillip scoops some of Zapatara's rice, they won't miss it because they are flushed with rice and living large with only three tribe members. When Ometepe goes to check their rice, it's covered with maggots from a leak in the bottom of the container. Phillip ask Steve if they could put their good rice in with their's to which Steve says no. Play nice! Immediately Phillip and Steve get in a heated argument with Steve ending up calling Phillip "crazy" to which Phillip takes as a racial slur. Yes, we all know Phillip is crazy and has won the second highest medal in the military. What is the second highest medal? I'll have to look that one up.

I loved tribal when Jeff was trying to sort out that argument and really made some sense from both sides. He's such a diplomat! It's all in the perspective. Jeff, will you marry me? Redemption Island challenge between Matt, David and Mike, David is odd man out and gets to be the first member of the jury.

Rob wins the immunity challenge and he and his tribe are considering taking Phillip out since he is getting on everyone's last nerve, especially now that Julie stole his pants and he has to walk around in his pink BVDs. Yikes. But at tribal, Ometepe comes to their senses, letting Phillip go would be the end of Ometepe, keep the diversion on Phillip I say and they send Julie packing. Not sure what their rational was for that, I would have sent Steve home. He seems like a big challenge threat. Hillbilly can't do much of anything, but Steve can pull out the challenges. Still rooting for Boston Rob. I like him!

Celebrity Apprentice-Omaha Steaks

The dwindling men's team is down to four and lord help them, Gary is project manager for the Omaha Steak challenge. John Rich can't decide if Gary is a saboteur because no one is that crazy for real. He must be making up things just to sabotage the men's team. Nope, Gary is really that crazy. He likes to say that he escape death when he had that motorcycle accident in the 80's where he describes himself as floating above his body for hours. Well, I say he didn't come out of that accident unscathed, something happened with his brain, seriously. I needn't say anymore about this episode, except that Gary was fired for being "unfocused" and just plain crazy. No more drama that's for sure.

Amazing Race-Freudian Schintzel and Chim Chimney

It's off to Austria for Schnitzel and Freudian therapy couches. I love Austria, it's so civilized and the beer is fantastic. Teams have to chose to either eat Schnitzel or move couches. Tempting to eat schnitzel but who knew it would be a giant plate not even a man can finish. Again the cowboys chose the wrong flight and get in 30 minutes behind the other teams-dumb! Kent and Vxysin need the therapy couch because they are constantly fighting in the first half of the leg. Turns out their fighting was the only interesting thing on this leg of the race. The challenges were pretty mild, eating Schnitzel or moving couches and chimney sweeping, how easy was that? The pit stop is the lovely Villa Von Trapp which we didn't get to see when we were in Salzburg. We chose to go to the ice caves instead, which I do have to say were amazing nonetheless, but next time it's the Trapp house I want to see. Austria snowy and beautiful.

Winners of this leg won two Ford Focus cars, which Zev and Justin manage to win. Nice going!

Old Salzburg, Austria

Survivor Redemption Island-Double Elimination

Where would this season be without Boston Rob and Phillip? Boring that's what. Rob has decided that no one on his tribe is to be alone with the other tribe. Everyone is to buddy up, which is probably a stroke of genius, so no one can be swayed over to the other side. I know Rob wants to keep hold of his cult leader status by separating the tribal sleeping areas and eating times, but not to let his clan have the fish? Come on, nothing like starving your tribe into dissension. What's a little communal breaking of bread with the enemy? Grant goes over to the other tribe like a starving dog taking a small bite of the forbidden fish.

Phillip has become the tribe spokesperson, watch dog and all around Kung Fu master of the silly speak. You just have to giggle what comes out of his mouth. You almost hold your breath that he doesn't say anything that will sabotoge his tribe, he has a habit of revealing too much and he calls himself a secret agent? I really do hope he makes it with Rob to the end. Wouldn't that be something?

Matt gets sent back to Redemption Island for a second time, and as he says, get voted out once, shame on them, get voted out twice, shame on me. Guess it's God's will. Challenge one, Phillip comes sporting a feather headdress saying that it will bring strength and luck to the Ometepe tribe and that it did, with Grant winning the challenge and sending Mike to Redemption Island, strategy there would be that he would be able to oust Matt from his semi-permanent home. Next challenge Ashley wins the immunity, you knew women were better at that challenge sending David, the brains of the Zapatera to join Mike and Matt at Redemption Island. Should be interesting next week at Redemption as the population doubles.

Celebrity Apprentice-Golden Girls

This episode Gary Busey insults the women execs of Australian Gold Suntan products when they are talking about how the products make people feel fun and good and then Gary Busey says makes him feel sexual. wtf? Gary puts his foot in it again by telling the execs when they come to see the glass box displaying their products, that Gary loves the products so much that they can use him as a pitchman for cheap. I think that did in the guys for the Australian Gold and the women walk away (barely) with the win. Mark McGrath has to open his Joan of Arc mouth by saying to Trump that if they lose, then he would be the one to take the blame, never mind that Gary is spouting off handed comments and talking gibberish. Where would this season be without Gary Busey? John Rich hit it on the head in the board room by saying that in the board room Gary is all focus but outside the board room his focus is nil. The Donald ask Mark to bring in two others back into the board room but Mark only chooses to bring back Gary since he was put on the hot seat from his fellow teammates, you know those inappropriate comments. Mark tries to undo the damage with is martyred comments, but of course the Donald grabs onto what Mark says and of course has to fire him leaving Gary to amuse us for another episode. Where would we be without his comments like "Did you see Big Wednesday?" "That's what my girlfriend calls my apparatus". More like little Thursday in my book, eh?

And now from the Celebrity Apprentice game: Who said "Gary Busey is like a one legged cat trying to bury a turd on a frozen pond, just spinning."

Celebrity Apprentice-Meatloaf Meltdown

Meatloaf has a break with reality. He thinks Busey who calmly asks him (Meatloaf) in Michael's if he is buying stuff for him (Busey) to use. Odd question, yes, why would I be buying your stuff? But ok, that's Gary for ya. Once back at the studio, where everyone has to create some art to sell, Meatloaf can't find his bag of paints. Basketball yes, paints no. He toddles over to Busey's table where Busey has his stuff all nicely arranged and starts screaming at Busey that he stole his stuff. Screaming every MF word this and MF word that and MF you come near me and I'll MF you up. It was like pre school for adults. He stole my paints! I expected all of them to start throwing paint at each other. Gary during all of this remains unnaturally calm. Weird, since he's the one that is so erratic and unpredictable. Richard Hatch is smirking and John Rich is trying to get them to focus only not on each other. Later Meatloaf is apologizing to Busey and Busey remains like David Carradine in Kung Fu, grasshopper it is ok because to forgive is to F forgive, O others, R rage, G given, I in, V vulnerable, E exceptions. Or something like that. The man speaketh in riddles I tell ya.

Both sides open their gallery, the girls had much better art to sell, with LaToya donating a tee shirt from Michael Jackson and designing a baseball cap with his signature sparkle glove. This challenge was about raising as much money for the celebrity art work. Everyone is pulling out their roledex, except for Richard Hatch, as he tells the Donald, he spent 4 years in prison, guess he doesn't have a lot of friends with money, only with criminal records.

John Rich calls in his posse of friends, in the pack a little guy named 2 foot Fred, ok, cute, cute. John was like, his posse is going to drop at least 1/2 mil. Must be nice to have friends with money. The girls on the other hand look like they are off to a slow start. In the boardroom, the Donald's states that more money was raised in this one episode than during any entire season, ever, so that has to be a lot of money. I was sure the guys were going to win with John Rich selling his painted guitar and boots. The guys come up with 600+ thousands which is an enormous sum. So then, George says the girls total was 986,000! Holy Cow! I was glad the women finally won one. Then Donald says to the women, it's your call, but maybe the guys shouldn't get eliminated because they did great as well. Well, that's a nice howyado. Marlee was taken aback, but pause only for 30 seconds to confer with her team to say, they worked hard for this and yes the guys lost and yes one of them needs to go home! Good for you! And with that Richard Hatch was the only choice for the guys since he raised the least amount of money. Richard you're fired!

Survivor-Redemption Island

If anyone can take Matt off Redemption Island it would be Stephanie. But first she has to list her food cravings which is probably driving Matt crazy, since the only thing he can converse in is God speak (not that that's a bad thing!). The challenge is the memory pictures which I thought Stephanie would ace since she's pretty smart, but alas that was not the case (she must be still thinking about that peanut butter sandwich) and Matt comes up a winner again. Next episode it looks like he might be headed back to tribe and everyone else better watch out, because it really does look like he has God on his side.

Phillip is not trusting Rob since he withheld the clue and because of that Phillip wants to CRUSH him. No problem for Rob, because he knows the more Phillip talks the more he'll get himself in trouble. Meanwhile, Sarita and David are going at it because David is lobbying for strong players not loyal players which in the end proved to be his winning argument (he's a lawyer you know) as they send Sarita to Redemption Island and no match for Matt.

I was cracking up with that whole cripsy rice argument when the girls wanted to keep some for Rob and Phillip hearing that tries to get some just to be annoying. Funny stuff. I'm kinda hoping Phillip wins just to annoy us all. But then again, I do have a soft spot for Rob!

Celebrity Apprentice-ACN Video Phone

Hey wait a minute, am I watching a re-run? I'm confused? Didn't they already do this? This ACN thing? And what they are still in business? The ACN video phone. Maybe the execs wants some more free publicity. I'll have to re-read my post on that previous season, but wasn't that when Joan Rivers was on it and won? Don't remember anything about that ACN episode so it must have been a sleeper. This time around, ACN execs say they want an ad that appeals to the emotion and heart, so the girls go after a 30 second spot featuring Marlee Matlin signing to her daughter over the video phone. The guys on the other hand driven by Lil Jon wants to add shock value with Jose introduced to the parents of his gay lover over the video phone. So much for emotion and heart. Typical guy thing. The dad is played by the ever so eccentric Gary Busey, who is totally off his rocker, parading around in a bathrobe with nothing underneath, hoping that his pecker would fall out. I so thought it was going to be way too crass for the conservative ACN execs, but everyone in their audience loved it, especially when the execs heard the word "viral". Nene got all emotional in the board room. Everyone pretty much said Dionne was the weakest player so when Trump asked her who should go home, she said well I guess I should, to which Trump said, You're Fired.

Celebrity Apprentice-ACN Launch-Previous Season's ACN

This episode's task is a launching party for ACN's new videophone. Someone at my work sells those, I'm just wondering do you have to have ACN as the phone carrier? I would love a videophone but I'd always have to wear lipstick, never know when you would get a call!

Again Joan is gone away for some event leaving Claudia (the model from Deal or No Deal-she's a celebrity?) as PM with Brian McKnight as PM for the guys. At least this challenge doesn't involve generating money but instead the teams will have to use their creative ideas for the launch. Clint Black and Dennis Rodman get into a heated verbal, over what I'm not sure. Clint last week was sporting the little man syndrome (I know someone at work with that!) which rubbed Dennis the wrong way. Dennis gets all in Clint's face and it was ugly. Dennis has some serious issues. Hey Dr. Phil, ya busy? After the spat, Dennis removes himself from the group, probably to find comfort in booze and broads or dudes (whatever he's into). The ACN execs want an emotional appeal for the promotion. Jesse James suggest right off that he has a contact out at West Point and they can shoot a video there, no matter that it's a two hour ride there. The girls get sidetrack with Claudia and Melissa's tongue wagging war. Melissa tries to volunteer ideas since she does this kind of thing, um like yeah, but Claudia sees it like she's being obnoxious and bi!chy. Claudia's vampire nails come out even further bashing Melissa's semi frozen face and says Melissa scares her because she doesn't know if she's happy or upset. Careful Claudia, I'm seeing plastic surgery in your future, you are a model aren't you?

I'm wondering which one on Athena decided on that whole stage actor vignette thing because I knew having actors interspersed with video would be corny.

Clint looks like a wet puppy with nothing to do on KOTU as Brian prepares to be the center of attention by performing a song. So that's two guys on KOTU with nothing to do, Clint and Dennis who finally shows up but Brian won't give him a single task. Dennis and Clint both act like spoiled brats. Maybe they should scoop up Melissa and all three could be a team.

Joan makes it back on time, private jet and all at 4:00 am. Got to give that old lady props for having so much energy to do that and still look fresh the next day to give her stand up routine. I know, who can tell when she's tired after all that plastic surgery. The best line in Joan's stand up for the videophone, was now all she had to do was to call her gyno. Funny stuff. Joan's still got it!

The guys presentation was really good. They didn't have all that corny crap that the girls did and going second really worked in their favor.

In the end, the Donald said by a landslide, the group liked the guys show better. Everyone love Brian McKnight. I wasn't unhappy that the ladies lost, eventually the weaker ones will have to exit and this week it was Claudia. She tried to throw Melissa under the bus for her big mouth, I'm the greatest thing since foil act, but the rest of the team said Melissa saved their weak presentation by taking charge of the production. Mama Joan came out swinging at Claudia. Don't mess with mother and her cub. In the end, Donald Trump could see that Claudia was clouded by her dislike of Melissa and was sent to pack her bags and take her model self back to Deal or No Deal to bring out another money suitcase.-Single D

Amazing Race-Tea and Sympathy

Teams get their next clue and no you are not leaving China just yet. First you drink tea. Little do they know they will have to remember what it taste like. From there they get their next clue and it's off the the land of the many, India. The Detour takes them to a tea house where they will have find the same tea they drank in China. Do we remember what it taste like? A tea of mangoes and papaya. Actually sounds delicious. The table looks like they have a thousand tea cups on it. Ron is the first to find it, he had a leg up on everyone since they asked in Chinese what kind it was. Everyone finds the tea after drinking cup after cup except for Luke. He starts bawling. I'm like why? No sympathy here. Come on it's just tea! Smell the damn cups! And why are you moving so slowly? If you can't find the right tea cup, then I would have been taking tea cup after tea cup to the guy in rapid fire, although I would probably would have had the need to use the bathroom first. Luke is down on his knees saying in his muted way, "it's too hard", he even had the Indian servers sympathizing with him. When he finally found it after doing the smartest thing all season, was to take a tray of cups with him, he finally found it, the Indian servers practically carried him off the field or in this case around the room. You would have thought when they finally catch up to the Globetrotters in the paint the pink Ganesha roadblock they might of have a chance in staying in the game. But that was not the case, and mother and Luke are eliminated.

I have to say, the people of India are so friendly and nice. Maybe I might have to put this on my bucket list somewhere towards the bottom.

Survivor Redemption Island-Beauty Queens and the Red Headed Step Child

Or at least that's what Secret Agent man calls himself against Ashley and Natalie who are constantly grooming each other and cutting and picking skin off from under their armpits. Yuck! I don't know what is grosser, Phillip in his pink BVD's or Ashley and Natalie's spa habits that puts grooming monkeys to shame. Stephanie tries to make an alliance with David who is realizing the virtue of having a strong player, Stephanie over the weak Sarita. Sarita who is about inert as a piece of wood now has some sort of tooth ache because she was cleaning her back teeth with a dirty stick. You're in the jungle, last thing you want is a jungle infection.

On Redemption Island, Krista and Matt bond over the God thing and after Matt of course wins the challenge, God's will, Krista gives Matt her luxury item, a Bible. Andrea who witnesses the whole thing, instead of saying, aw how nice instead says he can't be trusted since he befriended her so quickly. Am I'm sensing a little jealousy?

The immunity/reward challenge is something like Beach Squash. Rob's teams wins easily and gets to have a picnic on an amazing hill over looking the ocean. Rob and Grant steal the clue. they could never be spies, hidden under the plates, but not before Phillip comes around to join them. Maybe he does have some secret agent powers of observation?

There was a slim glimmer of hope that Sarita would go home, but Stephanie was sent packing to Redemption Island and I'm thinking she'll be a force to be reckoned with against Matt, as Matt prophetically says maybe his time is up.

Celebrity Apprentice-Camping World

Cast of characters:

The men-

Meatloaf

Gary Busey

Jose Canseco

David Cassidy

Richard Hatch

Lil John

Mark McGrath

John Rich

The women:

Star Jones

Nene

Marlee Matlin

Lisa Rinna

Nicki Taylor

La Toya Jackson

Dionne Warwick

Hope Dworaczyk

Missed the first two episodes where I guess "I think I love you" David Cassidy and I have too much silcone lip injections, Lisa Rinna were eliminated. Shucks and I like those two!

When I saw that Marlee Matlin was on, I was like how is she going to get a "word" in with all those women? I could just see her hands flying and the other women telling her to shut up. This season's line up is perfect, leave it to the Donald. There's a few questionable quasi celebrities, like Richard Hatch, aren't you supposed to be in jail somewhere? And Hope whats her name model fame, obviously not a super model. How he landed La Toya and Dionne, love them! It's the battle of the black diva's between Star Jones and Nene of Real Housewives of Atlanta. Nene reign in those breast please! Humm, there'll be no mincing words between those two, tell it like it is, girl! There's John Rich, no mistaking that pompous cowboy hat which he never takes off, because that would make him only 4 foot 3. Then there's Jose Canseco, twitching and grimacing, who said steroid use has no side effects? Hasn't he heard of botox. Freeze those facial muscles! Poor guy. But the funniest, oddest character there who looks like a freezed dried mummy is Gary Busey, which the Donald kept calling him a genius. Yeah, a genuine lunatic! He's like "we're a team" T-E-A-M he spells out, T for together, E-for each, A-for achieves, M- for more, together each achieves more. Corporate America can use that phrase. He's full of odd insightful riddles wrapped in an enigma. What does that mean?

I just want to watch because it's a train wreck and laugh out loud good time.

Nicki Taylor graciously fired herself for losing the camping challenge. Class you can take to the bank. Glad that the Donald finally changed the format with the challenges not having to be about the money all the time. It's just fun to watch celebrities make fools of themselves.

Amazing Race-Dolls, Basketballs, and Double U-Turns

Still racing in China, teams train it to Kunming, City of Eternal Spring. Kent and Vyxsin have time to make up especially now that they have a 30 minute penalty at the end for not catching the required flight the first leg. Is that a razor blade bandana Vyxsin is wearing?

The sleeper train was stacked 3 beds high, never seen that anywhere. The clue says something about Golden Arches and not the McDonald's kind although there are plenty of McD's there. When they were waiting at the train station, Globetrotters struck up a game of basketball putting on a free show. This leg has the threat of a double u-turn so all teams are hyped up. Racing through either a doll challenge or putting together a solar tube panel. I had to laugh on how Globetrotters memorized the doll order, mop head, red head, blue rag head....Luke and Margie make quick work of the tube challenge which was surprising and arrive first at the u-turn, opting not to turn anyone. Kent and Vyxsin make it before the cheerleader, by the hair of Vysxin's bandana and u-turn them right before their eyes. Dismayed, the cheerleaders decide to u-turn Globetrotters, who were not happy. I would have u-turned Christina and Dad since they have the Chinese speaking advantage, which didn't work out too good anyway, since their cab driver took them to the wrong place. Putting the Dinosaur together looked hard and was finally the undoing of the cheerleaders having to do both challenges. Margie and Luke are showing that they are coming on strong having finished the tubes and putting the dinosaur together in quick time, who knows maybe they have a chance to win this time around.

Survivor Winners-Where Are They Now?

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Survivor Redemption Island-

Instead of calling this season Redemption Island, it should be called Mosquito Island. Kristina and Phillip are covered in a skin of mosquito bites. Yikes, can you get malaria from that? Just looks so nasty. Spending 40 days on an island has to wreck your skin. You'd come back with bites, brown sun spots and wrinkles. That's why I could never sign up for that. Plus the fact I need my pillow and soft bed and warm clothes. Love paradise, but it better be in a resort. Rob and Grant and Stephanie and Krista are sent to redemption island to watch the duel between Kristina and Matt. This time it's building a cube out of heavy blocks. Not fair since Matt will have the advantage of strenght to carry those things. On the other hand, I thought Kristina would have a chance at this since she's pretty smart and was ahead of Matt in setting up her blocks when he knocked his down to start over, but she couldn't pull it out, let alone move those heavy pieces. Stephanie takes the opportunity to tell Rob and Grant that her and Krista are up for grabs now that Russell is gone and they would be willing to join them once they merge. I'm sure Rob is hoping that would be the case since he could convince those two to do anything for him. I'm sure those two would be survivor groupies to Rob's celebrity.

The challenge is the blindfold challenge to collect puzzle bags with Rob as the caller and puzzle maker and Stephanie for the other team. While Rob dumps his puzzle pieces on the table a piece falls on the ground, but thankfully he sees it. Whew close! I knew this was going to be a shoe in for Rob because he can do two things great, solve puzzles and build things. Who knew he could also be crazy devious. When his tribe won reward, Grant and Rob notice a clue in the coffee, which Rob quickly takes, runs to where his hidden immunity idol is buried and switches the clues on Grant. As Rob says, the first clue was clueless, "under a bush, in a tree, on a branch", or in other words anywhere and everywhere.

I kinda felt sorry for the two Manson (Russell) followers, Krista and Stephanie since no surprise here, they are on the chopping block. Everyone is faulting Stephanie for not being better at puzzles, when it was Sarita who chose her to do it, so why isn't she on the chopping block?

Guess the tribe decided to keep Stephanie because she's the stronger of the two players, and I have to hand it to her, the girl's got gumption. Hillbilly Ralph can't spell for nothing as he writes Krista's name as Krasha. Maybe if Hillbilly wins he can go back to school.