The
Funny 115 - The Third One
The Monkey's Paw Tale
of Dan Foley - The Most Unhappy Birthday
Felt cute, might send Rodney a belated birthday card later
"Reading this Dan entry and hearing what people
say about
Worlds Apart; it seems the season's major sin was going full mid-2000s
car crash reality TV, in a time when that type of show was becoming distasteful."
This is going to be the shortest chapter, by far, in the Dan Foley entry.
And that's because episode twelve barely features Dan at all. It's mostly just all about Rodney.
Rodney and, also, The Tickle Monster
This is also the episode where Rodney suddenly goes from this...
AHHHHH!
... to this.
wahhhhh
So that's fun.
Oh
yeah, and since I don't have a lot of Dan content in this chapter, I
figured I'd supplement it by throwing in a bunch of different fan
quotes about him instead. So here you go. Pick which one of these is
your favorite.
At this point, after this many years of talking
about him, it's clear that The Tale of Dan Foley has really just
turned into one giant inkblot test.
"I understand why Dan was annoyed/hurt by the edit, but it was pretty
naive of him (especially since he always boosted his superfan status)
to think Survivor didn’t do misleading edits, especially since that has pretty much existed since
episode one. Dan is a cautionary tale of someone who’s too invested in
the show, and that life should not revolve around a reality TV show. It’s not
going to end well."
"In an interview after the season ended, Dan
said he was no fan of Shirin denying Will the letter from home, and he viewed it as the
equivalent of letting everyone else poison themselves for your own personal
advantage. Dan then pointed out that, at one point during the game, he single-handedly prevented Mike from
inadvertently poisoning the tribe. But had Dan used Shirin's logic, he
should have just let them all poison themselves and collected the million
dollar check. Dan congratulates himself for being a hero and not
poisoning everyone. I honestly just can't even anymore with this dickhead."
"Here's
the thing I noticed the most the last time I watched Worlds Apart.
Dan's so animated when he talks, and he moves his head around so much
in confessionals, that I bet it was hard to find two pictures of him
back to back you could use in a writeup. I bet he just blurs more
than most other Survivor players. I don't know if that's a good thing
or a bad thing, I guess it's just sort of a Dan thing."
"I know Dan Foley in real life. I haven't spoken to him about it directly but, according to another
friend of mine, who is much closer to Dan than I am, he was pretty
disappointed overall with the experience. Not surprising, obviously. I
mean, they dragged out the raw footage just to drive home the point
that he's a liar. I think he really expected something different, as his
reputation at home is much more likeable and goofy. He is super
grateful for the friendships he made though."
"I
remember, towards the end of the season, someone joked that Dan would
be an inspirational figure for adopted
people everywhere if he won Survivor. Which I thought was such a slap in the face
to the one true original Survivor adoptee, Tina Wesson. Have we all
forgotten about poor adopted Tina??"
"Good
old
Dan, he's still good for a laugh. I really think the issues
stemming with Mike is that they all had a plan, Mike wasn't part of it,
and he screwed it up for them by winning immunities. So they had to eat
their own sooner than they wanted to. Even though I think Mike's game
is somewhat
overrated, and I don't think he was all peaches and cream, he did
outplay them in every way, and he definitely earned his win. Jenn
said it best at the final Tribal, in how the Special Six treated Mike
towards the end. They were simply taking out their downfall on
him."
"Here's
my takeaway from Dan Foley. I always knew Dan was just trying to
be funny. And he wound up failing so hard at it that it became funny in
its own way. He became the comic punchline of the season, just not in
the way he was expecting. To me, that's even MORE funny."
"Worlds Apart is such a rough season
on your first go, but it gets better on every rewatch. I hope that
someday, the fandom will appreciate it like they do Gabon. I don't get
why people prefer Nicaragua to this. Nicaragua doesn't have half the
character gems that Worlds Apart does, and its game isn't anywhere near as
bonkers. Nicaragua is full of bad passive players. Worlds Apart and Gabon are
full of bad aggressive players and crazy characters like Sugar and
The Danimal. Easy to see which is more entertaining."
"Hey Mario, here are some anagrams you can make out of "Daniel Patrick Foley":
-"Fanatic Doper Likely"
-"Analytic Defile Pork"
-"Operatically Finked"
-"Adopt Fancier, Likely"
-"Adopt Lifelike Carny"
-"Adopt Fiance, Yell, Irk"
-"Adopt? Lie. Life Cranky."
-"Adopt? Cry like finale."
He really is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he?"
"After
Worlds Apart ended, Dan talked to Kass on the phone for four hours,
just so Kass would be prepared for Shirin if they wound up playing
together in Cambodia. Kass is going to tear
Shirin apart now, and he claims it is all because of him. What a
petty little bitch he is. My god."
"I
like Dan. I like reading his interviews. Rather than just bag on him, people
should try and understand what Dan is projecting. He just wants to be
like Rupert the Hero from Pearl Islands (or even Blood vs Water). In his mind, he
prioritizes a few things - love for his wife, love of his job, love of
his family, his sense of humor. And he thinks that those should be what
he is defined by, and not his negatives (being loud, being opinionated,
and so on). Which is honestly what most people want."
"Dan is one of the biggest scumbags in Survivor history, but he's not even the worst Dan of them all. I mean, Dan Barry sabotaging the Space Shuttle Challenger is hard to
beat, let's be honest."
I mean, at least I never took down the astronauts
Oh! And here's even MORE bonus content.
Right
before I was about to post this chapter, a reader of mine pointed out a
secret scene from Worlds Apart that they thought I should watch. The
clip has since been removed by the overlords at CBS (it was still up
when I originally posted this), but it's a minute and a half
long, and here's the basic gist of it.
The Core Four right now is me, Carolyn, Rodney, and Will. We're a tight little family.
I'm apparently running an "Axis of Evil." Everyone considers us to be the four bad guys.
The
important takeaway from this quote is that the players in the game
never considered Dan to be any sort of a villain. And this
is exactly what I keep saying as I am doing this writeup. The
image that the viewers have of Dan Foley is NOT the same image that the
players in the game ever had of Dan Foley. In fact, it's not even close!
I'm
sure Tyler was surprised as all hell when Worlds Apart started
airing on TV, and Tyler didn't get a massive villain edit for all the
shit that he was trying to pull. And I'm sure he was doubly amazed that
the fans came away from the show thinking that Dan was actually one of
the bad guys, and not Tyler.
Anyway, I just wanted to point that out to you.
Tyler clearly lays out who the "Axis of Evil" is in the game, and Dan is clearly not a part of any Axis of Evil.
Let's continue...
I can probably beat any two other members of the Axis of Evil, so I'm not really worried about them.
And WHY can Tyler beat the other three members of the Axis of Evil?
Because I'm in charge of this Core Four Alliance. I've won a challenge already.
People tend to get along with me, and like me. I'm physical.
The minute Mike leaves, all eyes are going to be on me as the biggest threat in the game.
Now,
obviously, this is simply Tyler's opinion. And, as always, keep in
mind that HIS storyline is not necessarily the same as everyone ELSE'S
storyline. Tyler has no idea what Rodney and Carolyn and Will are doing
when he isn't around.
As always, it's smart to take "I
can beat so-and-so in a final vote" opinions on this show with a huge
grain of salt. Because the REAL lesson on Survivor is that no one
player ever actually knows EVERYTHING. The players can only know what
they know.
That being said...
Based on what Tyler is
saying here, it appears that Rodney probably had far less power in this
game than most fans watching at home seem to realize. In fact, the more
you watch the episodes, the more you realize that the only person who
ever claims that Rodney is a strong contender... is Rodney.
Tyler
clearly dismisses Rodney as any sort of a threat to win in this
confessional. He sticks Rodney down at the bottom with Will the Dead
Fish.
Will Sims, ladies and gentlemen. Still working it.
I just thought it was helpful to point that out.
At
THIS point in the game, Tyler was probably the biggest threat to
win in Survivor: Worlds Apart. I'm guessing what he is saying here is
probably accurate.
Oh, and now comes the most interesting part of the confessional.
"If and when Mike leaves this game, the two biggest threats to win will be myself and Dan."
Wait.... what?
Dan?
Dan Foley??
This guy???
Unfortunately, Tyler never follows up on this little tidbit in his confessional.
He just throws out that Dan is the only other person he is worried about right now, other than Mike.
Although he does point out...
"Dan's got this unknown. This advantage. That makes him incredibly dangerous."
So
anyway, that's Tyler's secret scene. The one that points out that Dan
might have been a little more dangerous than any of us might have ever
believed.
Tyler doesn't actually explain WHY Dan would be
considered a threat. But if you'll allow me to make an educated guess
here, I'm assuming it is because the Danimal was always having
quiet, intimate moments with people.
You think I'm kidding about that, but go back and watch the season again. And watch it closer this time.
Dan is constantly sharing moments with people you wouldn't even think he'd be close to.
Hello, Shirin apology scene
Hello, Mama C. Thank you for sharing this adventure with me.
Hello, Hot Rod. You know that I love you.
I'm guessing the reason Tyler considered Dan to be a threat was because Dan was so sensitive.
And Dan often shared personal, intimate moments with people.
Even after all his buffoonery in the game, Dan somehow still had ties with everyone.
EVERYONE.
Even Sierra at times
And yes, potentially even still Mike
Dan still had options in this game. Dan could always swing back to the Blue Collars if he ever wanted to.
Tyler and the Axis of Evil couldn't do that.
The four Axis of Evil members were clearly just stuck on one path.
Tyler was aware of this
So anyway, that's probably why Tyler considered Dan the only other threat in this game, other than Tyler.
I'm
guessing it was because Dan was so social, and because Dan made
personal connections with people. And because Dan still had multiple
options in this game. Options that the other players left in the game
maybe didn't have.
Oh, and I know that fans tend not to consider this, but this was also a factor...
The
way Tyler saw how it was going to play out, there were probably going
to be three Blue Collars sitting there on the final jury
And last time I checked...
Dan wasn't part of the dreaded Axis of Evil
And more importantly...
Original tribes tend to vote for their own
Although...
I have to be honest... Tyler does add one last thing at the end. And
this last thing kind of diminishes the idea of Dan as a Survivor
threat a little.
At the end of his confessional,
Tyler goes on to point out that yeah, Dan might be the only other
threat in the game once that Mike's gone. But Dan is also nowhere NEAR
as big a threat as Tyler himself is. Which means I'm guessing the gap
between number one (Tyler) and number two (Dan) threat was actually
fairly big.
Tyler finishes the secret scene with this...
"My goal now is to build Dan up as this larger than life threat, just so people will target him and not target me."
Which sort of puts everything that Tyler just said into a much better perspective.
Yeah, Dan is a threat. Sure. But he's not really THAT big a threat.
"My goal now is to fool everyone into thinking he's as dangerous as me."
Thus backing up my theory that, towards the end, Dan was largely just Tyler's play toy
Anyway,
I want to thank Twitter user PhakePhresh for pointing out that secret
scene to me. It really does show where the alliances stood (in episode
twelve) now that the game had turned into everyone against Mike.
And as for Dan himself? Where did HIS strategy stand at this point?
Well I believe Dan's plan was to get to the end against Will. And probably also get to the end against Rodney.
And (based on what Tyler is saying here) I believe that Dan probably would have beaten both of them.
Can you imagine a scenario where Winners at War would have featured Dan Foley?
Motherfucker. How did I lose to that guy?
Although here's the big curveball in all this.
The big variable here who no one ever seems to talk about is Sierra.
Who also wasn't part of the Axis of Evil
And who ALSO had the option to go back to the Blue Collars at any point, if she ever really wanted to.
Just like Dan
Unfortunately, no one ever seems to talk about where Sierra stood in the game at this point.
I
have no way of knowing this for sure, but my gut tells me that Sierra
was a MUCH bigger player than the edit ever showed. And that she was
probably in a pretty good position towards the end of the game, same as
Dan. I mean, anyone who wasn't part of the "Axis of Evil" was probably
considered a fairly big jury threat. Oh, and other players from
Worlds Apart have mentioned this to me over the years as well. They all
say the edit REALLY buried Sierra in the edit department.
They all assumed she would be a much bigger TV character than she actually was.
Oh well, maybe one day they'll make me a Game Changer
But alas, Tyler never even mentioned Sierra in his confessional. So I have no idea where she stood.
Even
to this day, there is very little info out there about where Sierra
stood at this point in the game, or whether she was actually a
threat to anyone.
And that's why Sierra will forever be...
Another true purple
Yay, says Kelly, I found a new friend!
And with thaaaaaat, let's get back to the episode.
So at the end of the last episode, Mike bluffed that he was going to play his immunity idol
But he never actually played it.
Ha! Joke's on you, Axis of Evil turds!
And by doing so, he spooked Tyler and Will into voting for Dan.
Just because they thought they'd have to split their votes between Shirin and somebody else.
Sorry Dan, guess you're expendable here
Child, looks like you just got Tyler'd.
Dan didn't go home tonight. Shirin did. But Dan still got two votes from people he thinks are his friends.
You know who I'd never vote for in this game? You. D-Foley's the man.
Also, these aren't the droids that you're looking for
These aren't the droids that I'm looking for
Move along
And
as episode twelve starts up, here comes super sensitive Dan again,
about to have a little pissy fit over those two votes he just got.
Because that's what happens when you THINK you're part of the majority alliance...
But you're not.
Episode twelve, fittingly, starts with an ominous thunder roll
And here comes angry Dan, raging up a storm, just like the thunderclouds.
Fittingly, the first person he blames for the votes is Sierra.
Sierra didn't vote for him, of course. She voted for Shirin.
And that's ANOTHER one of your faults. You make me think that you voted for me.
Oh great Utah god in the sky, not this shit again
But Dan eventually figures out who cast those two mystery votes for him.
He eventually figures out they came from Tyler and Will.
So he confronts Tyler in the dark
And he confronts Will in the dark
And
eventually, after what I'm guessing was several hours of feeding the
Danimal as many horse tranquilizers as they possibly can...
They eventually settle him down.
Here's Tyler explaining what happened
And here's Will explaining what happened.
Shirin is a witch. She cursed me. Shirin did this to you!
And... at the end of the night... Dan eventually calms down.
It's fine, Tyler. It's just that my feelings were hurt.
And remember what I said earlier? That if you start look for them,
you'll notice that Dan is always shown having intimate little
bonding moments with people?
Well here he is having a nice little moment with Will.
Again, Will is another player who I'm guessing he had an especially close bond with.
"Thank you for your honesty, Will. Seriously."
Again, it almost looks like Dan is the one consoling Will over this. It's backwards. It's an interesting moment.
Oh, and then Dan finishes up with this little comment.
Thus backing up my belief that I think Dan and Will were probably especially close.
As god is my witness, Will Sims, Shirin and her witchery will pay for this
And, of course, we end this scene with dueling confessionals.
You know which two players they are going to use.
They're going to pick the two who are most important to the story right now.
Here's a fun little Worlds Apart viewing tip, by the way. At any point
in the game, Dan is almost ALWAYS one of the two people who
is most important to the storyline. That's why he gets so many
confessionals. It's because his storyline somehow intersects with
everyone who is currently important. Watch for it the next time you
rewatch the season.
Anyway, take it away, dueling confessionals.
Where do our relationships stand after the two surprise Dan votes tonight?
"The fact that I got two votes at Tribal gives me pause."
"Will and Tyler DID flinch."
So Dan is wary. And nervous. Exactly as he probably should be right now.
But at the end of the day, he knows that there's STILL a much bigger villain than Tyler in the game right now.
The real killer that O.J. is looking for
In fact, here's Sinead O'Connor tearing up a picture of the enemy right now
And that's why, even though Dan is a little bit wary of Tyler and Will now...
I don't know if tonight's vote changed much.
"Mike is still public enemy number one right now."
But Mike has an idol, and he never loses a challenge. So what can they do?
Also, I'm pretty sure that Mike shot Selena
So anyway, that's one confessional.
Contrasted by the editors, of course, with this other one.
"I voted for Dan once, and I'll do it again."
"I have to do whatever I can to survive!"
And here comes the quote that I started the previous chapter with.
The absolute perfect Dan Foley summary.
"I wouldn't call Dan extremely
gullible, I'd just call him extremely loyal."
"And, you know, in this game, they're
kinda one and the same."
And really, that's about it for the Dan Foley content in this episode.
Nearly everything else, for the next hour, is about Rodney's little birthday tantrum.
Heeeeeeeeeeere come the Ticccccckle Monsterrrrrrrr
Now,
I already did a complete writeup on Rodney's birthday drama. Which is
easily one of the funniest episodes of the season. So if you want all
the details on that part of this episode, go read that entry.
In this writeup, we'll just explore if Dan had any part in it.
Not really. I was just laying there in the hammock, man.
You know what, Dan? Once again, you are WRONG.
You actually DID have something to do with it.
You probably just don't remember it.
Dan!
Was!
Responsible!
And the obligatory...
pew pew
If you don't remember how Dan was responsible for Rodney not getting his little Chucky the Cheese party, here you go.
It happens at the episode twelve reward challenge.
"Today's reward is you will feed your soul. Feed your belly. And change some lives in the process."
Also, winner gets a Tom Brady birthday cake
"Worth playing for?"
Annnnnnd say it with me....
"Hell yeah."
So Dan goes out there, and he competes in the Maypole challenge.
You know spring is here when you see the first Dan Foley ass shot
And at the end of the challenge, Dan volunteers to be the guy who launches all the balls with the catapult.
"Dan, don't jump at full strength! You'll send the balls to Marquesas!"
And Dan actually does really well.
At least, at first.
He quickly gets four of the five balls into their net
But he just can't get that middle one lined up just right.
Come on, Dan-o! Keep jumping!
Dan comes within inches of winning the challenge at one point...
Here is the last ball basically mocking poor Rodney
But at the end of the day, they lose.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
And even though Dan does a great job, he does sort of choke at the end.
Oh fuck you, gravity. The audacity.
And anyway, that's how Dan is responsible for Rodney not getting his birthday reward.
We're... all... gonna hear about this now, aren't we?
Yes, says the wee Rodney. We are.
Oh, and once again...
It turns out you can't beat the team of Holloway and Christ
So that's that.
There won't be a pahty for the birthday boy today.
Birthdays and Rodney are like chicken pahm and tuna. They just don't go together.
Although I do have to point out that... once again... for one rare moment in his life...
Dan flew
And you know what happens next, of course.
The ENTIRE rest of the episode is Rodney complaining about not getting a birthday reward.
Here he is later, complaining to Tyler
Rodney complains about it so much, that Dan even sits down to give an annoyed confessional about the whole thing.
This is one of my favorite Dan confessionals of the season, by the way.
"I understand him being hurt."
"I understand him being upset."
"But even in MY opinion.... that was a bit much."
When even DAN says you are being over the top about something...
I WANT THEM DEAD! I WANT THEIR FAMILIES DEAD!
Um, that should probably tell you something.
This Rodney guy can be a real pain in the ass sometimes
Although I should point out that Dan DOES actually have a nice little moment with Rodney at one point.
Since we're now officially keeping track of those.
Here he is, laughing at Rodney's little temper tantrum
Then he stops laughing. And he shows a little more empathy over the whole thing.
"There's no cooling off," he explains to Tyler. "That's Rodney. That's who he is."
And then he calms the angry Rodney with...
A hug
I'm Temple Grandin, says Dan. And this is your squeeze box.
It doesn't work, of course.
FUCK THEM! I'M GONNA KILL EVERYONE LAST FUCKIN' ONE OF 'EM!
But hey.
At least Dan tried.
And people think I'M over the top
Dan even sits down with Rodney, and he tries to provide him with a little grief counseling.
That doesn't work either
IF I USE HOLLOW POINTS, THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE BODIES!
But again...
At least Dan tried.
Oh, and then Dan finishes with this perfect confessional.
"I really think Rodney is slipping
off into the abyss."
And why is that good for you?
Because they'll just target him and not me at the next vote. So keep whining.
And with that, let's go to the episode twelve immunity challenge.
And... uh... let's just say that THIS type of challenge isn't exactly in Dan Foley's wheelhouse.
In fact, he even explains why to Jeff.
"I can just blame my own fat ass."
So let's just say he doesn't do all that well in the "you have to support all your weight" challenge.
Very quickly... in the words of a very wise man...
Smell ya later
So Dan basically just sits this one out, and he watches all the popular kids battle it out.
He implores Rodney to hang in there and beat Mike for immunity, as always...
COME ON, RODNEY!
But it doesn't really matter in the end.
Because this time Carolyn wins
And with that, we're headed to Tribal again.
With Mama C having immunity.
And scumbag Mike still holding onto a hidden immunity idol.
Ha ha! Suck on that, The Danimal!
That means that Dan is definitely going to be vulnerable at the vote tonight.
And this worries him.
"There's a lottttttttttt of talk in the game right now about my advantage."
"Unfortunately, that makes me an easy target."
Dan then goes on to predict exactly what is going to happen at the big vote tonight.
"One of three people is going home tonight. Me, Mike, or Tyler."
And again, this matches up perfectly with Tyler's secret scene confessional from earlier in this chapter.
Dan and Tyler are saying the exact same thing.
"If and when Mike leaves this game, the two biggest threats to win will be myself and Dan."
So it's going to be Dan, Mike, or Tyler tonight. And everyone knows it.
And since Mike is still holding that hidden immunity idol...
Winning
It's probably going to be either Tyler or Dan.
And Dan is especially nervous about this... because...
"Tyler's a threat, but my name keeps getting written down."
"That worries me."
Carolyn also lays out what is going to happen tonight.
And again, she says the exact same thing that everyone else is saying.
"It's gonna be Dan or Tyler tonight."
And again, this is where we need to clarify EXACTLY how big of a threat Dan really was.
Was
he a threat because he was good at Survivor? And because he had a good
chance to get to the end, and actually win a Survivor jury vote? Or was
he a threat because he was simply holding an advantage that no one else
had?
This is a complicated question. We could probably spend hours debating this.
The first point I'd like to bring up, in Dan's defense, is that Dan was actually very...
"It's not so much that Dan's a threat, you really just want to get rid of
the advantage."
Oh.
Well then, there you go.
Thank you for being so blunt, Carolyn.
You're welcome. Now stop making fun of my facial expressions.
Or I'll cut you.
So
anyway, Tyler is probably the biggest threat in the game right now. And
then Dan's advantage is probably number two on the list. And then
there's Mike. And then a bunch of other random stuff is probably in the
middle there.
And then, much lower, there's Dan.
That is how I'm guessing it ACTUALLY played out.
Correct. And how come you never mention ME as a jury threat?
You did a whole section that no one ever talks about Sierra. But what about me?
I was even on the fucking Second Chances ballot. I was a fan favorite.
I mean, what the hell?
I don't know. I'm sorry.
I'll try to talk about you more in the future.
Tyler wasn't the only player out here, you know.
"One
thing Dan was very clear about in his interviews was
that Carolyn's edit hugely inflated her gameplay, and
that she had no shot of winning. Carolyn, of course, disagreed with
Dan's stance in her own interviews, and she claims she had a very good
chance. Holy shit, reading Worlds Apart postgame interviews is a chore.
It's like they never stopped fighting."
And with that, let's head off to Tyler's final Tribal Council.
It wasn't technically my last one, because I was actually a jury member later
Oh shut up.
*smuff*
So Tyler goes home.
As expected.
And Dan votes for the most horrible villain the world
As expected.
"You have no idea how much this breaks my heart."
Although none of the Mike votes actually count, because he simply plays his immunity idol.
Still doin' the Happy Dance
And with that, Dan has officially outlasted Tyler Fredrickson, the Mastermind.
Next time you see the train coming, T-Freddy, you best get off of the tracks
You plebe
Although Dan does add a very good speech at the end, about why he knows that he's probably next.
Despite everything you think about Dan as a Survivor player, he's actually not as clueless here as you would think.
"It's pretty clear I'm on the bottom of the six, Jeff."
He knows they're coming after him at the next vote, simply because he holds that advantage.
"The actual advantage I have is irrelevant."
"They all just know I HAVE an
advantage."
"And that's enough."
And Dan's right.
Just having an advantage is enough.
And that's exactly why he goes home in the following (embarrassing) episode.
The audacity
"Hey
Mario, one thing I'd like to bring up is that your writeup is missing
maybe my
favorite little foreshadowing scene in all of Survivor. In the first
episode of Worlds Apart, Dan's juggling in front of Mike, and he uses
it as a metaphor for how Survivor works. How you have to (in the words
of Arrested Development) "keep
those balls in the air." Mike's response? "Yeah, but what if I do
this?",
and he throws his hands in the middle of it, ruining Dan's juggling. I
wasn't initially going to bring it up because I saw "dumb redneck
throws a spanner in the works and fucks everything up for everyone" as
a metaphor for the story of the season as a whole, and not
specifically Dan's story. But reading the more recent parts of the
writeup, it's clear it also applies particularly to Dan's storyline. I
mean, in
terms of the season's "jugglers" I'd put Tyler, Rodney, and
Caroline in
front of Dan, but Dan's the one whose game gets most screwed by Mike's
actions. Anyway, just wanted to bring that up because it's one of my
favorite Survivor scenes and I never see anyone talk about it."
He's right. I barely even mentioned this as being a foreshadowing moment. Great point.
Continue on to The Monkey's Paw Tale of Dan Foley - Last Dan Standing