I thought for sure Ford City's Chet Welch would be voted off CBS's "Survivor" last week, so sure I started taking notes in anticipation of having to write a blog post about his dismissal.

"Chet is distraught and weak and horrible for morale around camp," said one teammate. "Chet is gone."

But like a cat with nine lives, he survived. Can he do it again this week?

"My head is in the game, my mind is in the game, but my body is out of the game and it's not my choice," Chet said last week.

But it seems like it was his choice to be lazy, floating on a raft while others worked around the camp in recent episodes.

In tonight's episode, Chet is lassoed to the bully Joel, who pulls him through a competition like he's a child's doll.

Later Joel compares Chet to "a wet rag or a ball of goo," adding, "I think if we went back to medeval times we'd kill him ourselves."

Because Chet, 48, is gay, some people will hear homophobia in that comment, and violent homophobia at that. But Chet has been lazy and unhelpful from the start. It's no surprise he gets picked last when tribes are reorganized tonight. And even he acknowledges, "I felt like I was in trouble from day one of this game."

So is Joel displaying a homophobic streak or is he simply a jock picking on the class weakling? Viewers will decide for themselves.