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The dingoes of war | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Like he needs a reason.
The segment ends with shots of fat black pigs rushing through the trees.
- - - - - - - - - - - - The Ogakor is even hungrier. Kel tried to catch fish, but the group dumped him last week. "I find myself craving food," Tina says. "Doritos. I want a bag of Doritos more than anything in the world." How ... coincidental. Doritos is a sponsor of "Survivor." The reward challenge promises an outback fishing kit. The contest is really complicated. Each team picks its strongest member: Rigid Mike for Kucha, dim but hunky Colby for Ogakor. The pair stand in a lake on little pedestals with massive yokes across their shoulders. A series of balance beams stretch out to the two of them. The challenge sees the team members, each bearing their own yokes, carrying buckets of water along the balance beams out to the workhorses. The Survivors race to load up the other team's guy with the buckets. It's fun watching some of the Survivors slip off the beams and hit the water. Once all the buckets are used up, the game is to see who can stay standing the longest with hundreds of pounds of water buckets breaking their backs. The contest gets to that point; it's stressful to watch. Both men strain and grunt under their loads. It sure looks painful. And silly, kinda like late-night ESPN where steroid kings pull tractors with their teeth. Colby grimaces, "This suuuucks." "Mad Dog" Maralyn is the 51-year-old retired cop. She shouts out to the Texan: "We'll take care of you tonight, Cowboy." A look of fear flits over the Texan's face. Suddenly, the big, fat yoke snaps across Michael's back. It's a great scene. The Ogakor cheer, but it's obvious it wasn't Michael's fault that it broke. So there's a tie-breaking challenge, a simple race to get the most buckets to the platform. In the end, the Ogakor win and get the fishing supplies. They whoop and high-five. "Let's get out of here," says Michael. "I don't want to hear them scream any more." Michael's not a very gracious loser. Maybe he should have brought that What Would Jesus Do? bracelet instead of his pagan war paint.
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