Survivor Panama - Exile Island: week 6

Here's some highlights from last night's Survivor highlights show (with 17% brand new, never-before-seen-on-TV material!!).

• Courtney trying to open a coconut with a machete, and proving that she didn't watch Survivor Vanuatu, where the technique was demonstrated repeatedly.
  
• Shane declaring, "I like odd people!" Lucky for him Danielle picked him for the new Casaya tribe (bet she's regretting that now), because it's full of odd people.
  
• Misty getting absolutely grilled by the rest of her tribe about whether or not she really found the Individual Immunity Idol.
  
• Bruce insisting on using some of the Older Men's last half bottle of drinking water to wash his hands, despite his team's vehement opposition, despite all the water in the ocean being only a few feet away, and despite the rain pouring down outside.
  
• Courtney trying to cheer everyone up during a thunderstorm by singing. The trick worked every bit as well in Guatemala as it did in Salzburg in the 1930's, only they weren't quite a tuneful as the Von Trapp kiddies.
  
• Aras talking Shane into staying during those early days when he wanted to quit (bet he's regretting that now).
  
• Casaya tucking into a meal of roasted snake, and someone actually being surprised that it tastes like chicken. Everyone knows that every kind of meat you can't buy at a butcher tastes like chicken. Except human flesh, which apparently tastes more like pork.
  
• Casaya singing the most funereal version of Happy Birthday I've ever heard to mark the occasion of Shane's son Boston's 13th birthday. More noteworthy was the cheer at the end, which could have been either a genuine good wish for Boston, or relief that the singing was over. I cheered too, so it was probably the latter.
  
• Bobby tricking Danielle into taking care of the fire. She dragged him out of bed to help, so he played dumb and pretended he didn't know what to do. Cirie was in on the joke well before Danielle burst out "Oh, just let me do it!" Mission accomplished, Bobby headed straight back to bed.
  
• The soap scene. As we know, Casaya won Olay soap as well as the Charmin toilet paper. The girls quickly snagged one bar for girls' use only (the boys have two bars on which they are allowed to leave black hairs) and headed out to sea to clean up. Someone cried out "Thank God for that bar of soap!" It may have been Danielle, but I suspect it was a camera man or someone in the editing suite, because they suddenly had an excuse to show a very close-up shot of Danielle washing her lovely decolletage. In order to get a good view of the Olay logo (to keep the sponsors happy) they had to zoom in so tight you couldn't even see Danielle's head for once. Gee, sorry about that Danielle. Fortunately we didn't get such a close-up shot of Shane washing his butt and telling the girls he was doing it with their soap.

Probably the most noteworthy aspect of the show was that all the amusing footage came from either the initial four tribes or Casaya's camp. La Mina's only contribution was the dramatic counterpart when Sally confessed to Austin that her parents won't speak to her any more because she got a divorce. I felt bad for her, but I also felt bad for the producers that all the boring people ended up in the one tribe so now they have to create an episode like this to correct the balance between how much footage Casaya gives them and how much they can cram into each episode without it getting a little unbalanced. Bring on the merge!