SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV

At the Detour, which was a choice between "Under Water and Over Water"--picking up and delivering market goods by boat to a series of addresses, or rowing out to and picking up 30 pearl baskets in the bay and delivering those--the brothers chose "Under Water" and, like all the other teams, did not do very well with the rowing of the boat. But they did manage to gather all 30 baskets, and checked in to the pit stop in fourth place. Not bad, but you could tell they were a little disappointed. Also, and this is totally unrelated, but Peter may be the creepiest guy to ever run this race.

Previously on "America's Next Top Model" the house rejoiced when Monique was eliminated, and Melrose was relieved that she could now sleep well knowing her duvet cover would be sullied by stinky panties no more. Perhaps we should restate that: she could lie in her clean bed, but sleep would be more of a struggle. Seems old lady Melrose isn't quite the party animal the other girls are, and she had no problem complaining to them about it.

At an exercise/training session Stacey "Kinda Frightening" McKenzie told the girls they'd be utilizing their edgy sides and doing some "extreme editorial poses." A contortionist demonstrated some of the self-fellating poses they might be expected to hold during a fashion shoot, and Melrose, having recently taken up yoga, had confidence she could pull it off. Basically, the exercise turned into a badly dressed pilates class. When Anchal did better than Melrose, Melrose started ragging on how much Anchal eats. Well, Anchal did eat four eggs for breakfast, but it was still a catty and needless thing to bring up. Back at the house, when Anchal overheard Melrose continue to bad-mouth her, she broke down into tears. A.J. comforted Anchal and joined the Melrose hate train.

At a dinner with special guest Twiggy, Melrose gushed and dominated the conversation, much to the chagrin of the rest of the girls. (Except for Anchal. She was too busy eating to notice...KIDDING!)

At the challenge, designer Bao Tranchi told the girls they would have to put those contortionist moves into action as they modeled her new collection in a series of art installations--and they would be the installations. Some girls did better than others, but the winner was Eugena, and she won all the jewelry that was worn during the show, $32,00.00 worth! Afterwards Melrose went on and on self-analyzing what she had done wrong and why she didn't win.

Back at the house, Tyra dropped in for one of her "I am so smart I have my own show I know more than you listen to my fierce wisdom" rap sessions. The topic was fear, and Melrose spoke out first about how she feared that she had put so many things off in her life, and now she was 23, and old. Anchal confessed that she had overheard Melrose talking about her, and it really hurt her, and Tyra yammered about the importance of standing up for yourself. Group hug. And..scene.

The photo shoot was a circus theme and all of the girls were dressed up as freaks. Appropriately, Melrose was a woman with an old face and a young body and she posed with a rubber elephant, and A.J. was a cannibal dining on the flesh of a hunky young man. They both seemed to do pretty good with their photo sessions.

Judgement day! A.J.'s photo was pretty great; really creepy and sexy. Melrose's old lady face/hot body photo pleased the judges, and reminded us of Madonna. Yeah, we said it! Since they both had good photos, it goes without saying that both A.J. and Melrose are still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model, (although we're finding it harder and harder to actually root for Melrose). Poor little rockin' Meg, please pack your things and go.

Finally, on "Survivor"....Last week, Yul was still sitting pretty, not making any real enemies, and still in possession of the secret immunity idol. Could he keep it up?

At the reward challenge, the teams were divided into pairs, and had to hold up increasingly heavy bags, with one arm each, for as long as possible. Yul teamed with Jonathan. After several minutes, Yul and Jonathan were holding on to thirty pounds. While Yul seemed to be doing better than Jonathan at holding up the weight (and looked a lot better doing it. Talk about guns!), he was ultimately the first one to lose his grip, and they were eliminated. Eventually, the rest of the team dropped out, and Raro won reward. They also voted to send Jonathan to Exile Island, where he continued to search fruitlessly for the immunity idol.

Back at the Aitu camp, Yul tried to lock in a five person alliance while Cao Boi, Ozzy, and Flicka went off to explore an island across the lagoon, where they found...the Raro tribe! Needless to say, Raro wasn't too happy having to play host and listen to Cao Boi yammer on and on about something involving a giant turtle.

The immunity challenge featured water, platforms, and balancing on poles. We can't give you any more than that because it was actually a really long and tedious challenge that ended with each tribe having to cram all of its members on top of a very narrow platform.

And Aitu won! Yul could hold on to that immunity idol for another week!