'Survivor' season finale recap: Million-Dollar Babe

So even with everyone throwing arrows at Parvati, Amanda still couldn't capitalize — again. I feel sorry for the girl. Maybe it's just because she hot. Who knows? As for the reunion show, well, I'm still bummed that Probst no longer delivers the votes from the foreign locale via hang glider or some other ridiculous means of transportation. Those have always been the funniest moments of Survivor finales, and I beg the producers to start doing them again. It's season 16, for crissakes — have some fun with it! Have him and the votes be delivered on the shoulders of giant fire-breathing, break-dancing robots. I don't care. Just do something! My other initial thought upon seeing the contestants at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City was that Amanda and Parvati must have just come straight from some sort of tacky-earring convention. I was secretly praying for a 4-4 tie just so we could see what the hell the tiebreaker would have been. Were they going to have to make fire right then and there on the stage, and if so, exactly how many New York City fire codes would that have broken?

If you tuned out after Parvati won the million bucks, you didn't miss much. Fairplay tried to get Probst to hug his infant daughter, Chet gave Probst crap for giving him crap, and Joel kind of looked like crap with his new buzz cut. Ozzy forgave Parvati, James won $100,000 as the viewers' favorite contestant, and I swear I saw that Baba Booey guy from Howard Stern in the audience.

Okay, guys, it's late, and I'm out of pistachios. A few notes before I sign off for the season. First off, we will be doing Survivor Talk installments with Parvati, Amanda, Cirie, and Natalie, so look for those on Tuesday. (Our interview with Erik is already up.) Doing Survivor Talk was a blast, and I hope you guys enjoyed watching it as much as we did shooting it every week. While I'm doling out the thanks, thanks again for reading and playing along here on the Survivor TV Watch. You guys have made this one of the liveliest and most entertaining boards on the entire site and...well...I...oh, jeez, I think I'm gonna make like Amanda and start crying if I keep this up. You get the point. Have a great summer, and I'll see you next fall for Survivor: Gabon. If that season is even half as good as this one was, we're all in for a treat. And hey, it can't be any worse than Fiji, right? C ya!

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