[Ghoulish Delight]

And I continued to hate the season through the end.

I guess Todd deserved to win, though in a "At least he wasn't as retarded as everyone else" way. But as dumb and panicky as he was through the whole thing, I will give him credit for the best final tribal answers in the history of the show. He definitely got that part right. I personally thing Amanda played a better over all game, but she completely fell apart at the end, lying to Denise ("I won't write your name down") and giving the most pathetic, stupidly apologetic answers at final tribal. Weak.

So, Denise had already lost points with me for playing the pity card. Courtney's "sucks at life" comment was obviously bitchy and rude, but I agree with the underlying sentiment...the game is simply not about your personal circumstances, it's about playing the game period.

Well, for those who haven't heard, the story has had an interesting twist. So, she continued her sob story on the post-game show where she revealed that, far from going back to her lousy $7/hr. lunch lady job, she got demoted to janitor because of the distraction her celebrity was causing to the kids and had to work night shifts, losing out on time with her family. Mark Burnett, feeling sorry for her, gave her $50K.

Except that the superintendent of her school district had a different story. Turns out, before going on Survivor she applied for, and received, a promotion to custodian, which paid better with better benefits. She was granted a leave from that job to go on Survivor and was allowed to go back to the job no questions asked.

Denise has confirmed this. Her CYA response is that what she really meant was that she wanted to go back to being a lunch lady, but they wouldn't let her. Riiiight. Meanwhile, after initially saying she wasn't giving the $50K back, now she's saying she's donating it.

That's pretty pathetic.