The standard Alicia glare. She's very angry here.
The 115 Funniest Things to Ever Happen on Survivor
#85. Alicia Breaks Character
Australia - Episode 4
This one is great. It is one of my all-time favorite Australia moments,
and I am particularly proud to add it to
this countdown because I don't think very many viewers even remember
it. And
I'll admit right up front that it's more
"cute" than "laugh out loud funny." You might not even think it is
funny at all. But I do,
and I'm glad they recently released Australia on DVD. Because that
means I finally get to show you a frame by
frame screen capture. I think you will enjoy it.
One of the toughest female characters we've ever seen on Survivor was
Alicia Calaway from Australia. She was
a bodybuilder from New York City, she was tough as nails, and she also
happened to be absolutely ripped. She
had muscles that could rival any of the men, and for that reason I
think the other players were a little frightened
by her. Oh, she may have been small in stature, but Alicia carried
herself like a pit bull. She looked mean,
she had a quick temper, she didn't take shit from anybody and... worst
of all... she had this scowl on her face
just about every single minute of the game. Alicia Calaway just wasn't
a
person who smiled very often. She was
a very intimidating person to be around.
The standard Alicia glare. She's very angry here.
Alicia's happy face.
Alicia's giggly face.
Alicia having a long pleasureful orgasm.
All throughout Australia I thought that Alicia was simply playing a
character. There was no way anybody could be
that pissed off and tough all the time. She had to be playing a role
for the cameras, I just knew it. In fact
I always sort of compared her to Mr. T. Because if you've ever seen Mr.
T off camera, you have seen he is the nicest
guy around. In real life he is sort of a goofball. But once the cameras
roll, he
turns on the "Mr. T" character
and out comes the sneer. That's when he finally gets into character. So
all throughout Australia, I figured that
Alicia must be doing this too. I knew she was playing a character, but
the only problem was that you could never
actually catch her. She was too good and she never slipped up. So I'd
be sitting there watching Australia, and
I'd be telling myself "I know you're going to break character sometime,
Alicia. You can't keep this up for
39 days. You may be good... but you're not that good. So when are you
going to crack?"
Well, it finally happened in episode four. Alicia finally broke
character. And it happened so subtly that I don't
think people noticed. Just watch the vidcaps below. Watch as the real
Alicia finally peeks out from behind the
mask. It's actually sort of cute.
It's day eleven, and Kucha is enjoying a feast. You see, they have just
won a reward challenge, they received
three egg-laying chickens, and the first chicken was immediately put to
good use. The tribe killed it, they cooked
it, and now they are enjoying the meat. Well, everyone but Kimmi
anyway. Kimmi doesn't eat meat, so she
took off. But the rest of the Kuchas are enjoying their first bites of
protein in more than a week.
The Kucha tribe feasting on chicken
Alicia is sitting in the back of the shelter, looking pissed off. She
doesn't appear to be joking around like
everyone else. She's just sitting there, arms crossed, scowling,
sneering, doing Alicia things. It's the same
stuff she always does. She's totally into character right now.
Alicia in the angry zone
But that's when it happens. That's when her teammate Nick cracks a joke.
Referring to his piece of chicken (as well as his own skin
color), Nick jokes that "Once you go dark meat,
you don't ever go back."
Nick chuckles at his own joke for a second, but there's no reaction
from anybody else. Especially from behind
him. As the other minority member of the tribe, Alicia doesn't appear
to have even heard.
But then, her eyes quickly dart over towards him...
And she smiles.
And then she finally cracks.
In the world of comedy, that is what we call "a joke grenade." It just
took a few seconds for the punchline
to kick in. And look at the grin on Nick's face. He can't believe he
actually got Alicia to break a smile. See,
we knew it was all a big act!
This is one of my favorite moments from Australia. It might not be as
laugh-out-loud funny as some of the others
on this list, but it never fails to make me smile. Mainly because it's
so darn cute. After all, who would have
thought we would actually see Alicia bust up laughing? She was normally
so
good about keeping her poker face. In
fact this moment may have been the only time she actually broke
character during Australia. And I'm glad I finally
have the screen captures now to prove it. Thank you, Australia DVD.
P.S. I'll pay $10 to anybody who predicted that Nick Brown would
actually show up on this list.
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