Survivorfest week 10!

Corinne falls victim to another "awesome plan"!

Evidently Bob was very unhappy with how much Sugar enjoyed Randy being fooled by the false idol at the previous tribal council. In fact, back at camp he laid into her pretty good. Based on how much people hated Randy, I'm not sure what he thought would happen...Anyway, it showed some character that has sadly been missing from the contestants this season. He's still no Yau Man, but I give him props.

Right after that Sugar and Corinne got into it. Sugar didn't like how Corinne liked to talk behind other people's backs, to which Corinne responded: "If I tell people to their face what I think of them it wouldn't work out very well!" Duh, Sugar.

Corinne also added this Survivor Hall of Fame quote: "I'm nice to the people I like!" Heck isn't everyone? Well, maybe not Randy.

The reward challenge was a puzzle challenge. The contestants divided into teams of two, trekked through a muddy field to reach sprocket-shaped puzzle pieces and then return to put them together to form a set of gears to raise a flag. Winning team would compete against each other in a slide puzzle for reward.

Reward in this case was a video message from loved ones. Jeff shared a snippet with each of them. About the only one who didn't start blubbering hysterically was Susie. You can tell she's a wife and mom. Heck this is probably the closest thing she's had to a vacation in years.

Biggest shock of the day: Sugar cried.

No Exile Island for this challenge. Makes sense. I think everyone knows that Sugar found the idol and that there's no more to be had.

The teams selected rocks at random and Crystal and Susie were chosen to be team captains. They played rock-paper-scissors to see who would go first. Predictably, Susie won. Crystal can't even win a kid's game.

Susie took Matty and Kenny. Crystal took Bob and Sugar. Corinne was left out. She believed that it was team related. I tend to feel it was competence related, but that doesn't really explain Sugar.

The teams went into the mud and after the pieces. I kept waiting for Probst to tell them it was leech infested. Alas, it wasn't.

Susie's team was the first out of the muddy field, but it turns out that Kenny still isn't all that good at puzzles. Bob finally got it together and worked it to completion.

Bob, Sugar and Crystal squared off at the slide puzzles. Bob finished in record time to win reward.

Bob got pizza, beer and an extended version of the video message from his wife. Part way through the message his wife appeared behind him. My daughter asked "how did she do that?" Gifted. Huh.

Bob brought his wife back to camp, where she got to meet his fellow players. She seemed to know everyone. I kept waiting for her to ask "where's that rat bastard Randy?"

The rest of the loved ones came around the corner shortly after and much more blubbering ensued.

Kenny took his sister aside to explain to her how he was ruling the game: "Sugar and Crystal owe me cause I saved their asses...Everybody trusts me."

He followed it up with a vow that if he made it to the final three he was going to win the game. You heard it here first.

Sugar's sister brought their dad's ashes to sprinkle in Africa. I wonder how she got 'em over there. I pictured the following discussion at customs:

Man: "Anyting to declare, Miss?"
Sugar's sister: "I'm carrying my dead father's ashes in my pocket."
Man: "Your father had more dan one ash? How deed he seet?"
Sugar's sister: "Ashes, ashes!"
Man: "...we all fall down?"

It kinda goes downhill from here, I'm afraid.

Matty decided this would be an opportune time to declare his undying love for his girlfriend, present her with the ring he made and ask for her hand in marriage.

A. He loses major man points for all the blubbering.
B. If you turned off the video you would think that you were listening to a porn video

Matty: "Ohhh, baby I just want to be with you forever!"
Matty's gf: "Ohh, yes, baby, yes!!!!"
Matty: (moaning noises)
Matty's gf: "Ohh, baby!"

This, too, goes downhill from here.

After the family and significant others left, and CBS had Matty's part of the camp washed off, we were back to the game.

Bob took Corinne aside and concocted a plan where he would start a rumor that Marcus palmed the idol that everyone assumed was thrown away weeks before. He would then make another fake idol and flash it around. The final objective was to get people to blindside Matty.

Corinne: "Good plan! Awesome plan!" Hmm...where have I heard her say that before...Oh yes. Last week. We'll see if it turns out any better.

Immunity challenge was a trivia contest. Each correctly answered question resulted in winning a ball that would later be tossed from a deck to a circular target below. Closest ball to the center won immunity.

Sugar was the best at the trivia, answering all the questions correctly. This did her no good however as she was still fairly incompetent at anything physical. Bob fairly easily won the challenge.

Back to camp to implement the master plan!

Corinne spun Bob's plan out to Kenny and he appeared to buy it hook, line and sinker.

Corinne: "This plan is a long shot, but it would be awesome if it works!" I'm sorry, but that's not a good basis for a plan.

She followed it up with "I can't believe it's working! This shows you the incompetence we're dealing with."

My wife noted: "I think the level of incompetence was shown when you had your entire team voted off from under you."

Bob showed his new fake idol to Crystal who also was excited to be part of the plan. She and Kenny made one good decision...hedge their bets. Enough votes to remove Corinne, and if she had the idol, enough to blindside Matty.

Crystal: "The mental part of this game is kicking my ass."

My daughter added: "Which part of this game isn't?" Well said.

I'm getting really tired of seeing that smug look on Crystal's face. If she wins this game I'm going to be physically ill.

The vote went in, and Corinne went out. Her punishment was that she would now have to room with Randy for the remainder of the show.

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