Let’s Talk About This Crazy Moment from ‘Survivor’ For a Second

We’ll admit that we haven’t paid much attention to Survivor since its penis-promoting premiere, but to our knowledge, last night’s episode marked the first time that unadulterated hatred was broadcast in HD.

In the show’s season finale, the final tribal council voted to give nerdy Bob a million dollars, but not before insane jury member Corinne had her turn. Corinne laid into finalist “Sugar” (who the show’s chyrons helpfully identified as a “pin-up model”) for the deeply egregious, untenable habit of weeping over her dead father who just died of lung cancer. The nerve! While it’s not quite up there with Sue Hawk’s famous, first-season “rats and snakes” monologue as far as sheer hillbilly eloquence goes, we admire Corinne’s adherence to one of reality TV’s key tenets: if you find someone terrible, you must point it out in a manner so incredibly cruel that it eclipses the original offence. Corinne, your self-awareness had to die so that this CBS franchise could live.

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