Survivorfest week 4!

Yasmin has been evicted!

After voting Ben off at council the night before, Jaison seems to have a tough time letting things go. He still fumed about Ben: "I can't stand people who use terms and phrases meant to hurt on a very basic level. Coming here was the worst decision of my life!"

So, the prospect of getting tossed onto a remote tropical location with twenty strangers from all walks of life who wish to star in a reality TV show didn't provide a hint that you might have to deal with an occasional ass or two?

Shambo returned from Foa Foa where she felt she had created "a following". She still groused about the lack of productive camp work at Galu and seemed to look forward to the tribes merging. She seemed to be working under the assumption that Foa Foa would have anyone left after losing all challenges to date.

Erik took Shambo aside with the intent of drilling her for information on the hidden immunity idol for which she must certainly have received a clue. He seemed to be getting somewhere when John came along and butted in and started asking the same questions. Stupid meddling rocket scientists!

Well, Shambo wasn't shy about telling them all she knew. She blabbed everything.

"Sharing knowledge can only help me going forward...Or maybe it could hurt me." Way to think that one out, Shambo.

Tree mail came and the leaders were to choose two people to accompany them to some type of event. Mick took Evil Russell and Natalie, Russell took Danger Dave and Shambo. Evidently he wanted brains and firepower. I'm not sure which he thought was which.

Anyone else think that Danger Dave has an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Spacey? It's starting to get distracting. I am beginning to believe that he has actually entered Survivor to work on his "method" acting to train for an upcoming role as a sociopath deserted on a tropical island. You heard it here first.

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The six players met in a large ring in a clearing. And sort of stared at each other for a while. Probst was a no-show, so they really didn't know what to do.

On one side of the ring was a chest, on another was a crate of chickens. Naturally Shambo went straight for the chickens.

When they opened the chest they found instructions for a sort of bocce ball challenge. Closest ball to the wicket would get to bring the egg-layers back to camp.

I suspect that Probst was absent because he was accepting his Nobel Prize award in Stockholm. Seriously, couldn't they find someone else to fill in? Maybe Jonathan from the past couple seasons. I don't think he has much work since Down Periscope 2 - Back in Hot Water fell through.

Shambo put the chickens back in the pen and they started the game. Foa Foa took a quick lead and had the wicket circled with their balls. It came down to one last toss for Danger Dave. He nailed it, dropping his ball right on the wicket. Chickens and eggs for Galu!

Curiously, that was the dying phrase uttered by Mahila Sur, the mad prince of Toga in 1823. See, history does repeat itself!

Foa was quite discouraged by the sudden loss. Particularly since they were celebrating pretty prematurely. Mick put it succinctly: "we can't even pull off frickin' bocce ball!"

Back at Galu, while his tribemates were winning little nuggets of cholesterol, Erik was searching feverishly for a hidden idol. And he soon found it!

"I knew it was in this tree! Yes!!" Hmm. If that's the case, why did you look around the rest of camp for the past hour?

Danger Dave played it cool when he returned to camp. He wanted to stay centered even though he was thinking "I won chicken today, what did you do? Nothing! Peace!"

I think he's a couple of weeks away from starting up his own colony of half men/half animals.

At Foa Foa, Evil Russell decided to refine his alliance with Natalie. He felt he needed a tighter bind after Ben was voted off and he was losing faith in Jaison's will to stay in the game.

He insisted he was going to take Natalie to the final two with him. She could rest easy with that knowledge and "ride him like a horse". Yeah, I think I threw up a little in my mouth as well.

Natalie is buying it all: "I'm kind of like a wing man you might say." I wouldn't have gone with that phrase. Nope. More like a meat sandwich, where two escaped Gulag refugees take a weaker third person with them so they don't starve in the Siberian wasteland.

Catastrophe at Galu! One of the chickens managed to outsmart Shambo and escaped!

"Escaped chicken!! 911!" You'd think after being in the Marine's that Shambo would have some cooler phrases to blurt out.

Erik tried to help corral the chicken, hoping to accidentally kill it so he could eat it. In his haste he was clotheslined, ironically, by the clothesline.

The chicken managed to find safety in a nearby tree. Shambo: "I didn't know they could frickin' fly!"

Russell: "You a country girl! How could you not think that something with wings could fly!?!"

Back at Galu, Yasmin watched while Kelly chopped at a coconut. "Watching you is making me sleepy."

My wife asked "Isn't Yaz a birth control pill?" Probably not relevant, but worth mentioning.

The challenge was a net run with players carrying blocks. The blocks would be stacked in a column, then the players could continue over a rope bridge where they would make another block column. First to finish would win immunity.

Galu finished stacking their column slightly before Foa Foa. Foa got screwed as Probst finished Galu's count to five to verify that the tower would remain standing, and then started Foa's count late.

Nevertheless, Foa managed to catch up marginally on the rope bridge when Monica decided to take a little break part way over. They used this break to their advantage and managed to complete their tower first, winning the first immunity for Foa Foa!

Monica muttered: "Gotta keep our head held high!" Well, after that rope bridge performance, I don't think you should be tired...

Back at Galu, the tribe finally have to decide who to vote off.

The leaders to be cast off seem to be:

Shambo: "Shambo's colossal screwups are a shot to the team's morale. She lost a chicken!"
Yasmin: She does nothing at camp
Monica: She totally sucked in that challenge.

Russell is insistent on removing Monica. He believed they need to concentrate on challenges and Yasmin has been a decent player. In theory. I haven't really seen it.

I think the majority of the camp wanted to keep Monica, however. No one said anything in particular, but I think they're worried about voting off too many hot chicks this early in the season. Plus Yasmin does nothing at camp.

Russell: "These people are gonna listen to me or there's gonna be some serious ass kickin'!"

At council, Yasmin wore dress shoes with heels so that she would look fine for Jeff. Nice touch.

Yas was asked about her lack of work ethic at camp. She had the nerve to be offended: "I haven't been working? I can't believe you're bringing this up now! All you had to do was ask!"

She reiterated her awesomeness in challenges. I find it amusing how everyone thinks they bring so much to a team event...that they lost.

Monica, when asked about her role in sucking at the day's challenge, thought she started slowly, but then did just fine. I wonder what challenge she was thinking of.

The voted came in and Yas was cast out in a landslide. As she was walking off of the platform she nearly fell off of her fancy heels. Good stuff, and perhaps something of a metaphor. Whatever that is.

Shockingly, Russell changed his mind and also voted for her. I wonder how that came about?

I guess we'll find out next week on...Survivorfest!