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thoughts after the jump:* It’s not helping tether me to Survivor that so far this season seems dominated by some unpleasant characters; and not fun, amusing unpleasant, as we’ve had several seasons, but ugly, unlikable unpleasant, as in Survivor: Thailand.* Nonetheless, CBS has been playing up Russell in its promos for all he’s worth. His icky demeanor aside (he has a chilling glint in his eye, like some overgrown evil leprechaun), I’m not convinced he’s actually a good player. Yes, he can manipulate people. But I think he needs to pace himself. First, by focusing on eliminating threats so early,http://www.supratksocietyvip.com/, he may end up decimating his tribe, then going down outnumbered at the merge. And by making so many alliances so early on, he seems bound to get caught out as a triple-dealer too soon. That said, using meta-evidence, I have to guess he’ll be around for a while, or CBS wouldn’t be pinning so much on him in its publicity.* I understand Jeff Probst’s getting cheesed off at the contestants’ brutalizing each other in the challenge last night. But here’s an idea, Survivor producers: if you’re disturbed by dirty pool and ugly play, how about you stop designing challenges in which you encourage contestants to beat the holy hell out of each other? There’s been a lot of this in recent seasons, and while it makes for exciting clips for the ads, and, usually,[url=http://www.supratksocietyvip.com/]supra tk society[/url], plenty of pixellated skin, these usually aren’t the most entertaining or exciting challenges anyway. (Not to mention that they give a big tribal-council advantage to beefy players, who usually have an edge in early voting to begin with.)We’ll see how long I stick with Survivor: Samoa this season. There will be a part of me that will be sad if I drop it after so many years, but I’m only one man. Any Tuned Inlanders still standing by it?The Morning After: To Catch a ThiefNBCThere are a lot of things to love about Community, but as I wrote back when the second season debuted, for me it boils down to the sense that everyone involved simply has such a fantastic time at their jobs. Individual episodes have their ups and downs,[url=http://www.supratksocietyvip.com/]supra skytop[/url], but there’s an amazing level of craft to the show that goes beyond simply writing the jokes, delivering the lines, and collecting a paycheck. The scenes are so densely packed with information and detail—the visuals, the backgrounds, the callbacks to previous episodes—that it rewards close attention and repeat viewings the way that shows like Lost and Arrested Development did. I don’t exactly know how else to put it besides: Dan Harmon and company just make the hell out of this show.A case in point is a blink-and-you-missed it scene that I won’t describe until after the jump in case you haven’t yet watched last night’s “Cooperative Calligraphy.” But if you have watched the episode, then click this link, please. And then read on for a bit more about the scene.Awesome, right? I will admit that when I watched a screener of the episode, I completely missed the theft of the pen, right in front of my eyes. In my defense, NBC delivered the screener online, so I was watching it in a tiny window on my laptop—but who am I kidding: I doubt I’d have noticed on my big-screen TV either.There’s a kicker, though, which I learned only after posting the link to that animated gif of the scene on Twitter. Not only did the makers of the episode go to the trouble of depicting the heist under our collective noses, but, as creator Harmon tweeted back, it was the actual monkey—a.k.a., Annie’s Boobs—who snatched the pen on camera. Twoth Harmon:Can I just say, that is the ACTUAL actor in question, who did two takes of that grab? … and we used the first take. The crew carried that little genius out on their shoulders. Should’ve seen Chevy scowling.What says it all for me is that, on the face of it, there is no reason you needed to actually have the monkey lift the pen. You can barely see the paw; surely there were ways of just

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it was the actual monkey—a.k.a.