Survivor: Caramoan - Episode 9

Cut Off the Head of the Snake

By Ben Willoughby

April 11, 2013

All he needs is Wilson the Volleyball to complete the effect.

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After the break, we see the reward winners about to rappel down the waterfall. Cochran says that “I rarely leave the apartment, I rarely leave Twitter." “Please follow @JohnMCochran,” he might as well say. He is ahead of fellow Survivor nerd Rob Cesternino who has a whole website, but way, way behind Jenna Morasca.

Reynold tries to appeal to Cochran by standing behind him and saying “King of the World!” Why am I not surprised that Reynold is the only person since 1997 to find that amusing? Even when James Cameron did it in his Oscar celebration he wasn’t totally into it. But, the rappelling. Reynold mistakenly compares himself to James Bond while Cochran tries to embrace it and doesn’t quite succeed. “I loved it,” he says without any passion whatsoever.

Once they are all at the bottom of the waterfall, they all dig into their sandwiches. Cochran thanks the guys for picking him – presumably he was last picked over Sherri – and they all toast to “men” with their iced teas. In interview Reynold celebrates the “simple and pure...locker room mentality” at the reward.

Mike is the first to make a pitch, saying that the first Fans vs Favorites was dominated by women and “how cool would it be if it was dominated by guys?” Well, not these guys. Reynold proves this point by saying “Hope’s gone so there’s nobody worth [blurred mouth]ing anyways”. Like he said, nothing is so simple and pure as a men’s locker room. Cochran looks around like he’s about to be given a swirlie, but Mike presses on with talk about “Seriously Cochran, three warriors, three united votes."




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Reynold seems to think this was a great pitch. He interviews “let’s take the muscle to the end. Let’s bro down, let’s get these scheming women who keep flirting with us out of here and let’s take the strong guys to the end.” Doesn’t Reynold realize that his “muscle” pitch isn’t going to have any sway with a guy who was afraid to take off his shirt in his first season? Reynold is as delusional as Phillip.

Anyway, Cochran interviews that Reynold, Eddie and Michael aren’t very good at seeing the obvious. He says “emphasizing the testosterone and unity between us, you know, 'we’re men, we’re men and we hate women, and we’re going to snap each others’ towels in the locker room and chug beers.' That doesn’t work with me, that doesn’t appeal to me at all.” Cochran’s probably having flashbacks to all the atomic wedgies he got in junior high. “I won’t be engaging in any sort of masculine tomfoolery with these numbskulls,” he declares. I see his point, but I also see why he was so disliked in high school.

Back at camp, Malcolm is ambivalent about having lost the challenge because he’s with the people he needs to be around anyway. His logic is that he, Sherri and Dawn are at the bottom of their alliance, so they’d be the easiest to flip over to his side. No Brenda? Does everyone think she’s some Survivor fan-girl who just turned up on the beach and likes hanging out? No one actually remembers the Nicaragua season, so this is a plausible scenario.


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