I loved some of the subtleties of Survivor last night — particularly the [scary knife!] sound effect perfectly timed to one of Taj’s best eye rolls, and the utterly random zoom-ins on a giant turtle that looked like it might attack Taj and Erinn in the water. (I had to rewind and make sure I hadn’t missed the turtle "making its move." Nope. Just a turtle. Possible metaphor for Taj and/or Erinn.) Not so subtle last night: The highly amusing Working-On-a-Pole reward challenge. I think Probst, a junior member of the PopWatch writing staff, is at his hosting best when he embellishes the sexual language just for the hell of it. Jump to 2:30 in the clip below for some of his finest narration of the season. "JT, already workin’ on his pole…Everybody’s now workin’ on their pole!…Coach now in on it! Will his pole reach?" It would not. Do you like it when Survivor tries to get cute?
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Oh really Annie. Get your mind out of the gutter!
Does anyone know if the live finale will be in New York? If so, how can I get tickets? Thank you!
Oh good, I’m glad my partner and I aren’t the only ones juvenile enough to be laughing at all the pole-working.
I was a house painted from the time I was 10 until 21, and there were a LOT of pole jokes. So much so, that inevitably as soon as someone would say anything about a pole, someone would say, “pole joke” in the hopes that nobody would try to make one.
Please keep your mind in the gutter. That’s where my mind was when Jeff made those comments…
Hit me with your best shot, Pat Benatar.
The finale this Sunday will be in New York at the Ed Sullivan theater where it has been the past many years in the spring. It usually is in California in the winter. Tickets are pretty hard to come by as many family members are present along with past survivor contestants
@daniel
The show is in NYC at the ED Sullivan Theater. Tix are being sold on eBay.
Thank god I wasn’t the only one.
Loved it! Also loved the “meat festival” Stephen and JT got to enjoy that night. And on a much cleaner note, just watching the Survivors hopping around made me giggle like an immature schoolgirl.
Jeff totally plays that stuff up. He’s a dirty, dirty man and I love it.
“Reality” shows are so dumb.
X-Coach Can Deep Throat a 12″ Pole No Problem. Since X-Coach is Bi Sexual he has swallowed his share of long poles. X-Coach likes to be the Woman or “Bottom” as they say in the Gay World. When X_Coach’s Man is about to bust, X-Coach buries the pole past his Esophagus down his throat so the juice goes into his stomach. Waste not Want Not, X-Coach says. X-Coach is so happy to be back in America, now X-Coach can date more young Boys and teach them how to make a Fire, and snuggle up in a sleeping bag.