Survivorfest week 3

Jerry is shipped out!


Back at camp, Timbera reflects on the blindside of Candace. Erinn, who spent a lot of time hanging with Candace, realized that she might be in an awkward position and tried to distance herself.

Erinn: "Just because I spent a lot of time with Candace doesn't mean I was actually WITH Candace. I didn't trust her so I had to hang with her to keep an eye on her." Uh huh.


Coach was having none of it: "She has completely insulted all of our intelligences!" Just hearing him say that made me lose six IQ points.

Does anyone else think that Sierra is dressed like Beetlejuice?


Jerry is sick. Evidently the beans didn't agree with him. Welcome to the club, pal.


Back at Jalapao, the tribe used their fishing equipment to catch some fish.


Joe: "That fish tasted like victory!" Sure, if victory was yellow and slimy and filled with parasites.


Reward challenge was a blindfolded group led by a caller. The blindfolded were to be vocally led through a maze to get buckets to fill with water to fill a larger vat. Then the buckets were to be filled with corn to complete the challenge. Winner would take pillows, blankets and tarps.

Brendan and Jerry were blindfolded and paired and were not taking much direction from Deb. They wandered off into the forest. Seriously, guys, do you know what "left" means?

Jalapao took a big lead on the bucket-finding and water-filling. They quickly made the corn run while Timbera was still trying to fill their first water bucket.


Timbera seemed to be a case of the blind leading the blind. The blindfolded couldn't seem to hear Deb (which was a surprise because I think I could hear her with the TV turned off) and Deb couldn't see what the blindfolded people were trying to do to in order to give direction.

Jalapao won by a landslide.


Brendan was chosen to go to Exile Island again and he selected Taj to join him. That raised some eyebrows. Somewhere in Tennessee Eddie George started to make a few phone calls.

Coach strikes me as one of those guys who talks a big game, consistently underperforms and then freaks out when he loses. Which seems to happen a lot.

After losing the challenge he screamed. "I let out a scream. A primal scream. Which was about one-quarter of what I felt."

Back at camp, Deb stepped up to take the blame, although I doubt she could have yelled much louder. Probably not a good strategy to offer to take the heat this early in the season.

Tyson: "Coach is one of those guys who isn't the best, but likes to think he is..." Hey. I think I just said that.

Coach decided to let Tyson be his "assistant coach". Tyson couldn't have been more thrilled: "If I get moved over to the other tribe I want...I will DEMAND that they call me coach!" I'm starting to like this guy.


At Exile: Taj and Brendan got the choice or urns again. Taj got the clue this time. She walked away from Brendan to read what was on the paper. It said "The person you are with is a criminal...there is a revolver hidden in the crook of a nearby tree. Shoot him and the bomb attached to your leg won't go off". Oops. Sorry, I just released the plot for the next Saw move.

The idol is hidden back at camp, in some woods. Taj shared the clue with her partner.


Back at Jalapao, the tribe was waking after a good night's sleep.

Sandy spoiled it: "I know I'm a sex kitten in the morning!" I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.


The immunity challenge was to roll crates, in paris, over a finish line. When completed, the teams would stack the crates to form a staircase spelling the tribe name on the side.


Coach is wearing soccer socks. What a dork.


Jerry looks like he's dying.


Timbera finished moving their crates just ahead of Jalapao. Erinn took charge of ordering the placement of the crates. At some point, however, the rest of the tribe decided not to listen to her and they fell behind.


Jalapao completed the staircase and took fish...I mean victory again.


Jerry: "I'm through...I'm finished."


Back at camp Erinn was pretty happy to tell everyone else how sick Jerry was.


Coach was appalled. "Did you see that smile of hers?!?" Demonstrating, he looked a bit like the Grinch. "I am unable to exist around people that are dishonest." He went on to explain that the rest of that rabble was probably used to it, but he was truly above dealing with such scum.


Erinn: "I don't want to be all 'Hey, Jerry's sick', but hey, Jerry's sick!" You're a mean one...Mrs. Grinch....

Tyson suggested to Jerry that he might want to suck it up and at least pretend that he was getting better. Jerry only seemed to manage to roll to an upright position and laugh his goofy laugh.

Tyson: You gotta be strong...you gotta just stick it in there!"

My wife: "That's what SHE said!" Is there any question why I love her?


In the meantime Brendan went to look for the idol. He found it hidden in the skirt of the tree-mail idol. Hidden idol points for Brendan!


Tyson: "Erinn would be fun to watch get blind-sided. I love seeing people cry when I crush their dreams!" I wonder how often he gets to do that...

At tribal council, Probst asked Tyson why Timbera was struggling.


"We got arrogant." When did this happen. Why and how did this happen? Don't you have to win or be good at something to be arrogant?


Erinn explained her role in the crate placement "They didn't listen to me and then things started falling apart." That's a good strategy. The old "if they hadn't been so stupid and if they'd have done what I told them, everything would have been fine" bit.


Jerry indicated that the tribe needed a leader. Got one? Brendan. You could almost see Brendan swallow his tongue when he heard that.

Coach begged to differ: "If Brendan wants to be leader then he needs to take the reigns...I was out there telling people what to do with my eyes!" With his eyes! Imagine what he could have done if he'd used any other part of his body.


Further: "It's not about ego...I'd rather be a good follower! I was just saying how I'm the best leader." I just don't see this guy making it to the end. I think making the jury is a stretch.


The votes were tallied and Jerry was out!


Next week, Tyson gets even wackier!


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