This week in Survivorfest thinking:
Back at camp, Amanda was still in shock from losing her meal ticket. I could tell because she wasn't grinning and goofing around like an eighth grader.Parvarti tried to get back into James's good graces, but she'd done too much damage. James returned to a theme he used last season: There they were in the Garden of Eden (a good plan with a solid path to having the people they wanted in the final four) and Parvarti had to go and be an "apple chewer".
From what I can tell, you don't cross James and expect him to get over it. Despite Parvarti's best BS and flirting, James would not budge. For future reference, I think James would be happy to keep playing the game on the island until his opponents grew old and died.
Mark, a former Survivorfest player who is taking this season off, made a prediction that the women's alliance will fall apart before it ends with five females being the only remaining players. Duly noted and something to keep an eye out for.
Probst hosted a Survivor auction, where the players bid on a covered "mystery" dish. After they win it, they get to see the prize. Cirie won the first plate, a delicious hotdog platter. She even tried to stiff Probst on the payment. She definitely gets style points for that.
Erik won the next dish and was given the opportunity to pass in favor of another dish. He took the second dish. The first was a jar of raw octopus (yum!) and the second was a plate of nachos.
Erik: "Woo!!! Nachos!" I figured that was what he usually said when he sees nachos.
Natalie won the next bid and ended up with a nice pot of bat soup, complete with heads. CBS must have some kind of PETA-related death wish. Natalie declined the delicacy, no doubt offending any Micronesians who might be watching. James stepped up to the plate, literally, and had a go at the soup.
"You gotta peel da skin off," he explained.
The next dish was not covered. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Amanda dropped $280 for the privilege of eating the PB&J, setting the modern mark for a simple sammich. I only have one thing to say:
It's peanut butter jelly time!
peanut butter jelly time!
peanut butter jelly time!
peanut butter jelly time!
peanut butter jelly time!
peanut butter jelly wid a baseball bat!
I will now throw myself off of a tall building and attempt to land on the Buckwheat Boyz.
In all fairness, Alexis was also bidding for the PB&J, and I think Amanda might still be miffed about the whole "new friend for Ozzy" thing. Are we seeing an early crack in the women's alliance?
Natalie won the next item, which turned out to be a bottle with a note. She would choose one person to head to Exile Island and get to keep that player's money. The kicker is that since Ozzy didn't play the hidden immunity idol, it was replaced with new clues.
Jason begged to be spared, but Natalie chose him anyway. Probst got in a little dig "Jason, an opportunity to get your hands on a real immunity idol." Ouch!
With the remainder of her money and Jason's, Natalie purchased the last dish...a huge chocolate cake. The kicker was that she could choose three friends to join her and they only had 60 seconds with the cake.
Remember when I said this season was a fetishists dream? Case in point. The girls gorged themselves, stuffing huge chunks of cake into their maws. I actually believe that Natalie unhinged her lower jaw in order to stuff in a fist-sized piece of cake.
Erik called out from the sideline "I'll pay $20 to get to lick the cake off of someone's fingers!" When asked if he was serious, he upped the offer to $40.
Cirie was game, and Erik...well, I'll leave the two their privacy.
I think CBS is missing a great eBay opportunity here: Lick the dirty fingers of one of the Survivor women! Urgh. That's twisted enough to make even me stop this thread right here. I'll add an extra period just to be sure..
James weighed in with a Survivor HOF quote: "There's somethin' wrong wit dat boy!"
Natalie reflected on her decision to send Jason to Exile. She didn't know why he was so upset..."Bitch has two days of sunshine and the idol!" At that point she started getting more and more angry about Jason getting the idol. Um...you sent him, Natalie!
On Exile, Jason quickly found the immunity idol. Remember when the first 2-3 people who went to the island couldn't/wouldn't find all the clues? For some reason Ozzy and Jason could find them in about 15 minutes.
I was bitterly disappointed when Jason didn't try to replace the hidden immunity idol with another fake. I can't tell you how much I would have enjoyed that.
Back at camp, Natalie hatched a plan to get Jason voted off. The plan was to assume he had the immunity idol, but convince him that they were gunning for James and hope that he wouldn't use it. Seemed like a stretch to me, but Natalie was sure that Jason trusted her. As she put it, "he'd have to be an idiot not to!" Good point. He probably is and probably will.
It's Erik's birthday today! He's nine years old. Just kidding. Twenty two...geez, I have underwear older than that...and frankly, I'd put them up against Erik in a battle of wits.
The immunity challenge was a complicated series of tasks that were taken from previous challenges. Winners of each stage would continue on to the next.
The first stage was a throw-the-rock-break-the-plate deal. Erik, James, Jason and Amanda broke theirs first, moving them on to the next stage.
Second stage required the players to dig up a key to unlock puzzle pieces that would form a wheel to turn to drop a heavy bar.
James and Erik won this challenge to move on. Amanda never did find her key. I have a theory that she was trying to dig a hole to get back to Survivor China.
The last stage was to place two planks on a rope bridge and crawl across. James rushed out early and fell, having to start over. Erik took advantage of this to take a lead which he didn't relinquish. James made it very close at the end, but the newly 23-year-old pulled it out to win immunity.
Back at camp, the girls began openly plotting to blindside Jason. Strangely, the guys had nothing to say, even though they knew that they were likely going home next. Natalie waited until Jason left for a while and rifled through his bag, finding his idol.
Afterward, not only did he agree with their plan to vote off James, but he insisted that he could trust Natalie. I wonder where he was when this happened to Ozzy? Oh, yeah...sitting right next to him!
James couldn't believe Jason would be silly enough to not use the idol: "No way dat dummy is not gonna play it tonight!" James, meet Jason. Jason, James.
James seriously needs to work on his play strategy. He was mad at Parvarti, I get that. But sometimes you have to play along to get along.
And I can't figure out why he didn't try to mess with the girl's strategy...If he and Erik went to Jason in private and warned him the girls were going to blindside him, they could have outvoted the next highest tally (James) and gotten rid of one of the females. Jason might not have believed him, but it would have given him something to think about.
All it would have taken is "Dude, the last bunch of guys who had the immunity idol, me included, got nailed the week before they thought they'd have to use it..."
Natalie, is slowly turning into one of the queen witches of Survivor: "I'm going to be flossing my teeth with [Jason's] jugular!" I'm not entirely sure that she was speaking metaphorically.
At tribal council, Ozzy joined the jury, pausing to flip his former tribemates the sacred Micronesian parrot, a.k.a. "the bird". Guess he didn't appreciate the clever gameplay. He's going to make sure that whoever screwed him last week isn't going home with a million bucks.
I'll make a prediction right now, that unless the only people left at the end are people who screwed Ozzy, that none of them will win. Mark it down. Of course, this is a prediction from a guy whose only remaining player is Cirie...
Probst offered to let Erik "do something crazy" and give up immunity before the vote. Maybe if he said "do something stupid" he would've had him. We'll never know.
When Probst asked if anyone wanted to play the hidden immunity idol, Jason probably should have been alarmed that everyone turned around to look at him. He was an idiot to tell Natalie he had it (even though she knew) but even he should have wondered why they all looked at him so expectantly.
Jason was blindsided, leading me to wonder, has anyone who found the hidden immunity idol ever used one!?! It's like the kiss of death.
Next week: family visits, another immunity idol is hidden for someone not to use and James's finger hurts but Ozzy's works just fine!
1 comment:
Well just think...of the three people at Ponderosa, two had real idols and didn't play them and one had a fake idol she did try and play. Sadly, I knew who got voted off before I saw the show so I knew (1) I was out of the game and (2) Chip's 22 year old pair of underwear is smarter than Erik AND Jason combined. When do I make my picks for the next Survivorfest?
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