CBS treated us to the typical Thanksgiving Day leftovers...no one voted off but some additional video and background information on what has come to pass thus far.
Mick and Russ started out getting the "leader" targets placed squarely on their back. We all saw what happened to Russell. Mick manage to stay out of harms way by becoming particularly inept at any form of leadership. When asked for advice on simple tasks he turned into Boomhauer from King of the Hill.
Evil Russell appeared to know the way to any girl's heart is through her thin, bony frame. He figured that by acting as a snuggle-bunny to Ashley or Natalie to ward off the cold that they would consider him whipped and want to keep him in the game. Visions of an Evil Russell sandwich dance in my head. I wish I could quit them.
Evil Russell really has this game by the short hairs. He's found some papaya to feast on while most of the rest of his tribe is feeding on small scraps. He even had a nice long conversation with Danger Dave while wearing a hidden immunity idol. Evidently it was too dark for Dave to see it or he just hadn't woken up yet.
Shambo believes Danger Dave is a complete and utter moron. It turns out he feels the same. I get the feeling that Dave's had about enough of playing nicely with Shambo. Things could get interesting between them shortly.
The Battle Royale that ended up with Ben getting benched was interesting. Evidently Jonathan was laying into Jaison pretty good and Jaison didn't like it. He protested to Probst. As a former water polo player, a physical competitive sport, I can't believe Jaison was whining so much. He's a fricking pretty-boy rocket scientist for gosh sakes. Get in there and do some damage, cupcake!
"The chicken affair" as it shall now always be known was resolved. After Shambo let the chicken go Erik made it his personal mission to retrieve it. The low point (or high point for the chicken) was when Erik clotheslined himself chasing it down.
After that Erik went a little Lord of the Flies. I suspect his obsession with catching the fowl might have led to him getting blindsided as he seemed to be spending more time worrying about the chicken mocking him than the rest of the tribe having an impromptu "let's get rid of Erik" meeting right in front of him.
Eventually they were able to lure the poor bird under the fishing net and re-captured it. Erik was beside himself with glee. "The chicken that has mocked be for 10-12 days...caught!" That's a really long time, dude.
I think he was really looking forward to eating the chicken. That might explain why he was so angry at tribal council. The chicken had escaped him again.
Brett was baffled by the decision to blindside Erik. It really did shed some light on the bizarre, unplanned decision making that's led Galu to it's current, shaky state. No wonder Jonathan was so frustrated last week.
Turns out Evil Russell couldn't contain himself about his financial success and told Mick he was a millionaire. Is there any secret he has kept in this game? Wait for him to start making up stories about who he's slept with at camp. That should be fun.
Shambo had a little breakdown over a sister who died twenty years ago. Laura looked like she wanted to be anywhere but there. I kept waiting for her to say "Sham, I'm sorry for your loss, but your tears are blocking the sun I'm trying to tan with!"
Laura did use an interesting phrase to describe Shambo. "Self-paranoid". Redundant, yet remarkably reasonable-sounding.
Natalie is clearly hoping to ride someone's (anyone's) coattails to the finals in this game. I don't really get the people who glide along and let themselves be brought to the finals and then they claim they "played the game well" when they are inevitably voted out. Wait for it...she'll use that line.
Next week things should heat up as Evil Russell gets back to old tricks in letting the chickens loose again!
See you next week on...Survivorfest!
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Survivorfest - week 10!
Laura blindsided, Galu in shambles!
Probst indicated at tribal council that the hidden idol will be put back into camp once again. I think this is the first Survivorfest where we've seen so many points getting lumped into that category, especially for one person.
Evil Russell claimed: "It's like a Picasa [sic]! It might be my best pieces of work I ever done!"
He finished up with "It was almost as great as my kids being born!"
Rarely ever has the word "almost" kept someone in the running for Father of the Year. Whew. I've got money on him there, too. Unfortunately they don't give out immunity idols.
Danger Dave, who provided the best comic relief with his looks of utter shock during the last two blindsides, gave Evil Russell his props.
Laura growled under her breath that they should have known better than to assume that he didn't have another idol. My wife pointed out that Monica did and they poo-pooed her.
Shambo cackled like a deranged hag and chortled that only her and Russ knew about the idol maneuver. I wonder why it was that she wrote down his name anyway...was she hedging her bets that he wouldn't play it or trying to make things look good for her team in case any of them can count.
The next morning, Evil Russell was at it again, doin' what he do.
Shambo sat back and groused about Laura, calling her, among other things, the viper queen. She kind of took a page out of Coach's book, propping up someone so that when they went down she would look like the Dragonslayer. Remember that one? Yeah, good stuff. Hope to see Coach again in the next Favorites season.
Speaking of Coach, he called out the use of the word "ridonkculous" in the CBS blog: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/community/blogs/blog.php?key=0. I think you know who took his shots at that abomination of the English language, thank you very much. So very last week, Coach, so very last week.
The reward challenge was much like a care flight experience. One player would lie on a board tied with ropes. The other team members pulled the player to and fro to pick up flags and stick them in assigned slots. Reward was a Palm Pre placement commercial. I mean, a picnic, a plane ride and a Palm Pre placement commercial. I suspect if I type "Palm Pre" enough that I will get an ad out of it. Palm Pre Palm Pre Palm Pre...ah, there we go.
Jonathan was placed on the platform for one team and Natalie took the other.
My wife Kathy thought that Natalie would be okay as her silicon implants would likely cushion her from any damage. The wife was on fire this evening, let me tell you.
Whoops. There's one of those implants now! I hope CBS isn't paying for the blur machine by the minute or this little escapade might not be worth the fine they'd get hit for letting it go.
Natalie was quite gifted at this challenge, hanging halfway out of her cradle (and her dress) to reach the flags. Her team was also adept at moving her around and won the challenge handily.
Natalie, Brett, Dave, Laura and Evil Russell were headed for reward. Again, I think the other team suffered from too much Fao Fao.
At reward, the group was given a clue to the idol. "A rolling stone gathers no moss" to which Natalie replied "a rolling stone gathers no what!?!" Indeed. Is there more than a handful of adults on this earth that couldn't complete that sentence?
Back at camp the remaining Fao Fao members tried to flip Monica. She wasn't having any of it and tattled on them to her former Galu pals.
On the return of the rest of the tribe, the hunt was on for the hidden idol. Danger Dave took after Evil Russell, assuming (with good reason) that he was the most likely to find it.
Evil Russell took off on a run and soon lost Danger Dave. I am aware how much this sounds like a bad Saturday morning cartoon. Russell looped around once he had lost Dave and circled back to the spot he wanted to search. Bingo. Evil Russell had found an unprecedented third hidden idol. "This is getting way too easy!"
Evil Russell hid the idol and, for once, managed not to blab to everyone that he had it.
The immunity challenge was a series of tiles that each player got to throw a rock at. If one of the player's tiles was broken, they would receive a spear for a crossbow shot in the next leg of the challenge.
Right now I am calling out that Shambo would miss miserably with her throw.
Yup. There it went. You can ask my wife, I called it.
Laura went first and missed. Shambo laughed and laughed. Um. You missed too, idiot.
Brett broke two of his tiles while Jaison, Mick and Monica each had one of theirs broken.
Brett went first and hit the target. Jaison missed. Monica hit, but was further than Brett from center. Mick hit the target closer to center and moved into first place. Brett took his last shot and wasn't able to improve.
Mick wins immunity!
Back at camp the former Galu members conspired to vote Evil Russell again assuming that if he had the idol that they would at least force it out.
Jonathan was getting tired of it and insisted on voting Natalie since Fao Fao wouldn't expect it. "It's pathetic how poor the analytical skills of Galu are." He had a point. If Russell was going to play the idol, you still take out a Fao Fao person when he does it.
Monica thinks that she can use Fao Fao's attempt to flip her into convincing them to vote for John. She was way too eager sounding. I can't believe anyone would have bought her act.
My daughter thought of an idea that I really like. A Jeff Probst action figure. When you pull the string it will say his usual catch phrases like:
Wanna know what you're playing for?
Got nothin' for ya!
Bring me your torch...the tribe has spoken.
I'm going to need another million for next season, Mr. Burnett.
At council Evil Russell opted not to play the idol and they went to a vote. It ended in a tie between Natalie and Laura. They would have to vote again. Evidently, and I didn't know this, if there is a tie all the players draw stones to see who is voted out, not just the two involved in the tie. I wonder if that would include Mick, owner of immunity. Or if Russell would be allowed to play his immunity idol at that time.
The point was moot as Jonathan realized that a one in ten chance at getting knocked out was worse than Laura getting the boot, so he rolled over on her in yet another surprise ending.
Next week we find out that Shambo is wearing a powdered wig and Evil Russell is actually a Nazi!
See you next week on....Survivorfest!
Probst indicated at tribal council that the hidden idol will be put back into camp once again. I think this is the first Survivorfest where we've seen so many points getting lumped into that category, especially for one person.
Evil Russell claimed: "It's like a Picasa [sic]! It might be my best pieces of work I ever done!"
He finished up with "It was almost as great as my kids being born!"
Rarely ever has the word "almost" kept someone in the running for Father of the Year. Whew. I've got money on him there, too. Unfortunately they don't give out immunity idols.
Danger Dave, who provided the best comic relief with his looks of utter shock during the last two blindsides, gave Evil Russell his props.
Laura growled under her breath that they should have known better than to assume that he didn't have another idol. My wife pointed out that Monica did and they poo-pooed her.
Shambo cackled like a deranged hag and chortled that only her and Russ knew about the idol maneuver. I wonder why it was that she wrote down his name anyway...was she hedging her bets that he wouldn't play it or trying to make things look good for her team in case any of them can count.
The next morning, Evil Russell was at it again, doin' what he do.
Shambo sat back and groused about Laura, calling her, among other things, the viper queen. She kind of took a page out of Coach's book, propping up someone so that when they went down she would look like the Dragonslayer. Remember that one? Yeah, good stuff. Hope to see Coach again in the next Favorites season.
Speaking of Coach, he called out the use of the word "ridonkculous" in the CBS blog: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/community/blogs/blog.php?key=0. I think you know who took his shots at that abomination of the English language, thank you very much. So very last week, Coach, so very last week.
The reward challenge was much like a care flight experience. One player would lie on a board tied with ropes. The other team members pulled the player to and fro to pick up flags and stick them in assigned slots. Reward was a Palm Pre placement commercial. I mean, a picnic, a plane ride and a Palm Pre placement commercial. I suspect if I type "Palm Pre" enough that I will get an ad out of it. Palm Pre Palm Pre Palm Pre...ah, there we go.
Jonathan was placed on the platform for one team and Natalie took the other.
My wife Kathy thought that Natalie would be okay as her silicon implants would likely cushion her from any damage. The wife was on fire this evening, let me tell you.
Whoops. There's one of those implants now! I hope CBS isn't paying for the blur machine by the minute or this little escapade might not be worth the fine they'd get hit for letting it go.
Natalie was quite gifted at this challenge, hanging halfway out of her cradle (and her dress) to reach the flags. Her team was also adept at moving her around and won the challenge handily.
Natalie, Brett, Dave, Laura and Evil Russell were headed for reward. Again, I think the other team suffered from too much Fao Fao.
At reward, the group was given a clue to the idol. "A rolling stone gathers no moss" to which Natalie replied "a rolling stone gathers no what!?!" Indeed. Is there more than a handful of adults on this earth that couldn't complete that sentence?
Back at camp the remaining Fao Fao members tried to flip Monica. She wasn't having any of it and tattled on them to her former Galu pals.
On the return of the rest of the tribe, the hunt was on for the hidden idol. Danger Dave took after Evil Russell, assuming (with good reason) that he was the most likely to find it.
Evil Russell took off on a run and soon lost Danger Dave. I am aware how much this sounds like a bad Saturday morning cartoon. Russell looped around once he had lost Dave and circled back to the spot he wanted to search. Bingo. Evil Russell had found an unprecedented third hidden idol. "This is getting way too easy!"
Evil Russell hid the idol and, for once, managed not to blab to everyone that he had it.
The immunity challenge was a series of tiles that each player got to throw a rock at. If one of the player's tiles was broken, they would receive a spear for a crossbow shot in the next leg of the challenge.
Right now I am calling out that Shambo would miss miserably with her throw.
Yup. There it went. You can ask my wife, I called it.
Laura went first and missed. Shambo laughed and laughed. Um. You missed too, idiot.
Brett broke two of his tiles while Jaison, Mick and Monica each had one of theirs broken.
Brett went first and hit the target. Jaison missed. Monica hit, but was further than Brett from center. Mick hit the target closer to center and moved into first place. Brett took his last shot and wasn't able to improve.
Mick wins immunity!
Back at camp the former Galu members conspired to vote Evil Russell again assuming that if he had the idol that they would at least force it out.
Jonathan was getting tired of it and insisted on voting Natalie since Fao Fao wouldn't expect it. "It's pathetic how poor the analytical skills of Galu are." He had a point. If Russell was going to play the idol, you still take out a Fao Fao person when he does it.
Monica thinks that she can use Fao Fao's attempt to flip her into convincing them to vote for John. She was way too eager sounding. I can't believe anyone would have bought her act.
My daughter thought of an idea that I really like. A Jeff Probst action figure. When you pull the string it will say his usual catch phrases like:
Wanna know what you're playing for?
Got nothin' for ya!
Bring me your torch...the tribe has spoken.
I'm going to need another million for next season, Mr. Burnett.
At council Evil Russell opted not to play the idol and they went to a vote. It ended in a tie between Natalie and Laura. They would have to vote again. Evidently, and I didn't know this, if there is a tie all the players draw stones to see who is voted out, not just the two involved in the tie. I wonder if that would include Mick, owner of immunity. Or if Russell would be allowed to play his immunity idol at that time.
The point was moot as Jonathan realized that a one in ten chance at getting knocked out was worse than Laura getting the boot, so he rolled over on her in yet another surprise ending.
Next week we find out that Shambo is wearing a powdered wig and Evil Russell is actually a Nazi!
See you next week on....Survivorfest!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Survivorfest week 9
Kelly is voted out...whoever she is.
Back at camp, fresh from blindsiding Erik, Evil Russell's spidey sense was going off. He's upset with himself for using his idol needlessly and thinks he may be next on the chopping block.
Early the next morning, Natalie happened upon a helpless rat and decided to beat it to death with a stick. I guess. From the way it looked I'm not she actually killed it herself or if she just bonked it lightly on the head while talking to it. It's possible that the rat took his own life. If you heard her, I think you know what I mean.
She stuffed the corpse in a coconut shell and headed back to camp and proclaimed: "I killed something, y'all!"
I did a quick search on that phrase in Google and it turns out:
1. It's uttered in the beginning or middle of all the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies
2. And in 45% of non-cartoon Disney movies
3. It's the opening phrase of all NRA meetings
Jaison couldn't have been more proud. "She's come a long way." Yeaaahhhh. You'll notice that she didn't ever actually touch the rat. Or skin it. Or cook it. They all did gather around to eat it. The thing was the size of my fist; it couldn't have been very filling.
The reward challenge was fairly complicated. Two groups were chosen at random. Each would have to carry a skewer of black and white colored coconuts to a rack and arrange them to form a four digit number. The team would than have one blindfolded member dial up that same number on a raised pattern wheel using their sense of touch.
Since there was an odd number, Natalie ended up sitting out, but she was able to choose which team she thought would win and would join them on reward if she was right.
One team was comprised completely of Galu members. And Natalie chose the other team (mostly Foa Foa) to win the reward. Anyone else get a sense off where this is going?
Shambo is a useless appendage at most of these challenges. She spent most of her time trying to catch up with Danger Dave, who spent most of his time trying to get around her.
Galu jumped out to a quick advantage and soon had their combination. Monica struggled briefly with the combination, but she completed it. Dave, Shambo, Jonathan, Kellie and Monica went on reward to a natural rock slide and a feast.
Monica: "These donuts are redonculous!" Can I take a moment to mention how much I hate that word? We have eighteen thousand adjectives in the English language and probably a few others in other languages that we can fall back on...why make up and use stupid sounding ones? Ginormous is another one. Urgh. Someday these words will probably be adopted into Webster. I can only hope that I die first.
The group on reward also received a clue as to the whereabouts of another hidden idol. They decided they would only share the clue with other Galu members.
Does Kelly confuse anyone else? When they show her (which is infrequently) I think one of three things:
1. Who the heck is that?
2. Man, Natalie looks different...
3. Boy, that little headband thing looks stupid
Back at camp, Evil Russell considers the possibility that another idol might be hidden at camp. He spent the entire day digging around for it and he found it. Again!
Like him or (more likely) hate him, this guy really knows how to play this game.
A quick aside on Evil Russell: My seven year old sat with me for a few minutes while I was catching up on last week's episode. After a minute and a half she said "I don't like Russell".
I asked why not. She said "I don't like his...face." Yup. When a seven year old with no real life experiences knows that you're up to no good just by glancing at your face, you really think the adults should be catching on as well.
Shambo still seems to trust Evil Russell implicitly. Seven year old doesn't like her, either, but it's because of her ridiculous hair. Just saying. I explained to her that not everyone is lucky enough to have wonderful hair. Ahem.
Evil Russell decided that he would keep the news of this idol all to himself since the last time he told too many people. That little bit of self control lasted about five minutes. He HAD to tell someone how smart and clever he was to find another idol!!!!
So he told Shambo. And then Jaison. Heck, I think he told the rest of the remaining Foa Foa folks. If he had a cell phone he probably would have told his entire extended family.
The immunity challenge was to take a grappling hook and pull in a bag containing pieces to a Perfection-like game board. First three to get both bags of pieces would move on to the board.
Mick and Shambo (who finally found a challenge that she couldn't choke on) got their bags first. Evil Russell and Laura were neck and neck in pulling in their second bags. Right at the end Evil Russell lost his grip on the bag and Laura moved on to the next round.
At the Perfection board, Shambo took a quick lead. Then her capacity for sucking at challenges came out. Remember what I typed just above about finding a challenge she couldn't choke on? Never mind. She is the New York Mets of choking.
Laura got into a rhythm on the board and didn't look back. She won immunity for the second straight time. Only her gal pals seemed even a little happy about it.
Back at camp the former Galu folks got together to figure on who would go next. They decided on Russell. That led to this exchange.
Monica: "What if Russell has another idol?"
Danger Dave: "We can't worry about that!"
You know you're in trouble when Monica is the voice of reason.
Evil Russell happened to be walking by and heard a little of their whispering. He heard Natalie's name and began to wonder if she was next and not him. He began to doubt whether he should play the idol that night or not.
He didn't want to be the "dumbass" who played two idols needlessly. Of course he didn't want to be the "dumbass" who went home with one in his pocket. Right now James is shifting uncomfortably in his chair at home.
At tribal council we got our first look at Erik. Strangely he didn't clean up at all. And he looked to still be wicked pissed.
Probst got the tribe to discuss their thoughts in blindsiding Erik at the last council. Erik was so mad he could barely see straight. It was killing him that he wasn't allowed to talk. Or run over and strangle Dave.
Wouldn't it be a fun twist to allow one jury member back into the game? Think of the havoc!
The votes went in and Evil Russell decided to play the idol again. The looks on the Galu faces was priceless. The reaction seemed like how I pictured this exchange from a few years back:
Secret Service agent: "Mr. President, I'm afraid Jenna was arrested for underage drinking, firing a revolver into a crowded bar and driving a speedboat into a mall. And we think she slept with P Diddy."
George Bush (making the face): "Again!?!"
Since Laura had immunity, the Foa Foa remainders threw their votes on Kellie and, subtracting the votes for Evil Russell, she was out. I can't remember someone getting voted out so late in a game that we knew almost nothing about. Unless Brett gets voted out next week.
Interestingly, Shambo voted for Evil Russell as well. Looks like her ties to Foa Foa might not be that strong after all.
The idol is being sent back to camp and next week we'll have a scavenger hunt to see who can find it!
See you next week on...Survivorfest!
Back at camp, fresh from blindsiding Erik, Evil Russell's spidey sense was going off. He's upset with himself for using his idol needlessly and thinks he may be next on the chopping block.
Early the next morning, Natalie happened upon a helpless rat and decided to beat it to death with a stick. I guess. From the way it looked I'm not she actually killed it herself or if she just bonked it lightly on the head while talking to it. It's possible that the rat took his own life. If you heard her, I think you know what I mean.
She stuffed the corpse in a coconut shell and headed back to camp and proclaimed: "I killed something, y'all!"
I did a quick search on that phrase in Google and it turns out:
1. It's uttered in the beginning or middle of all the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies
2. And in 45% of non-cartoon Disney movies
3. It's the opening phrase of all NRA meetings
Jaison couldn't have been more proud. "She's come a long way." Yeaaahhhh. You'll notice that she didn't ever actually touch the rat. Or skin it. Or cook it. They all did gather around to eat it. The thing was the size of my fist; it couldn't have been very filling.
The reward challenge was fairly complicated. Two groups were chosen at random. Each would have to carry a skewer of black and white colored coconuts to a rack and arrange them to form a four digit number. The team would than have one blindfolded member dial up that same number on a raised pattern wheel using their sense of touch.
Since there was an odd number, Natalie ended up sitting out, but she was able to choose which team she thought would win and would join them on reward if she was right.
One team was comprised completely of Galu members. And Natalie chose the other team (mostly Foa Foa) to win the reward. Anyone else get a sense off where this is going?
Shambo is a useless appendage at most of these challenges. She spent most of her time trying to catch up with Danger Dave, who spent most of his time trying to get around her.
Galu jumped out to a quick advantage and soon had their combination. Monica struggled briefly with the combination, but she completed it. Dave, Shambo, Jonathan, Kellie and Monica went on reward to a natural rock slide and a feast.
Monica: "These donuts are redonculous!" Can I take a moment to mention how much I hate that word? We have eighteen thousand adjectives in the English language and probably a few others in other languages that we can fall back on...why make up and use stupid sounding ones? Ginormous is another one. Urgh. Someday these words will probably be adopted into Webster. I can only hope that I die first.
The group on reward also received a clue as to the whereabouts of another hidden idol. They decided they would only share the clue with other Galu members.
Does Kelly confuse anyone else? When they show her (which is infrequently) I think one of three things:
1. Who the heck is that?
2. Man, Natalie looks different...
3. Boy, that little headband thing looks stupid
Back at camp, Evil Russell considers the possibility that another idol might be hidden at camp. He spent the entire day digging around for it and he found it. Again!
Like him or (more likely) hate him, this guy really knows how to play this game.
A quick aside on Evil Russell: My seven year old sat with me for a few minutes while I was catching up on last week's episode. After a minute and a half she said "I don't like Russell".
I asked why not. She said "I don't like his...face." Yup. When a seven year old with no real life experiences knows that you're up to no good just by glancing at your face, you really think the adults should be catching on as well.
Shambo still seems to trust Evil Russell implicitly. Seven year old doesn't like her, either, but it's because of her ridiculous hair. Just saying. I explained to her that not everyone is lucky enough to have wonderful hair. Ahem.
Evil Russell decided that he would keep the news of this idol all to himself since the last time he told too many people. That little bit of self control lasted about five minutes. He HAD to tell someone how smart and clever he was to find another idol!!!!
So he told Shambo. And then Jaison. Heck, I think he told the rest of the remaining Foa Foa folks. If he had a cell phone he probably would have told his entire extended family.
The immunity challenge was to take a grappling hook and pull in a bag containing pieces to a Perfection-like game board. First three to get both bags of pieces would move on to the board.
Mick and Shambo (who finally found a challenge that she couldn't choke on) got their bags first. Evil Russell and Laura were neck and neck in pulling in their second bags. Right at the end Evil Russell lost his grip on the bag and Laura moved on to the next round.
At the Perfection board, Shambo took a quick lead. Then her capacity for sucking at challenges came out. Remember what I typed just above about finding a challenge she couldn't choke on? Never mind. She is the New York Mets of choking.
Laura got into a rhythm on the board and didn't look back. She won immunity for the second straight time. Only her gal pals seemed even a little happy about it.
Back at camp the former Galu folks got together to figure on who would go next. They decided on Russell. That led to this exchange.
Monica: "What if Russell has another idol?"
Danger Dave: "We can't worry about that!"
You know you're in trouble when Monica is the voice of reason.
Evil Russell happened to be walking by and heard a little of their whispering. He heard Natalie's name and began to wonder if she was next and not him. He began to doubt whether he should play the idol that night or not.
He didn't want to be the "dumbass" who played two idols needlessly. Of course he didn't want to be the "dumbass" who went home with one in his pocket. Right now James is shifting uncomfortably in his chair at home.
At tribal council we got our first look at Erik. Strangely he didn't clean up at all. And he looked to still be wicked pissed.
Probst got the tribe to discuss their thoughts in blindsiding Erik at the last council. Erik was so mad he could barely see straight. It was killing him that he wasn't allowed to talk. Or run over and strangle Dave.
Wouldn't it be a fun twist to allow one jury member back into the game? Think of the havoc!
The votes went in and Evil Russell decided to play the idol again. The looks on the Galu faces was priceless. The reaction seemed like how I pictured this exchange from a few years back:
Secret Service agent: "Mr. President, I'm afraid Jenna was arrested for underage drinking, firing a revolver into a crowded bar and driving a speedboat into a mall. And we think she slept with P Diddy."
George Bush (making the face): "Again!?!"
Since Laura had immunity, the Foa Foa remainders threw their votes on Kellie and, subtracting the votes for Evil Russell, she was out. I can't remember someone getting voted out so late in a game that we knew almost nothing about. Unless Brett gets voted out next week.
Interestingly, Shambo voted for Evil Russell as well. Looks like her ties to Foa Foa might not be that strong after all.
The idol is being sent back to camp and next week we'll have a scavenger hunt to see who can find it!
See you next week on...Survivorfest!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Survivorfest week 8!
Erik is blind sided by the hapless Foa Foa members!
Sorry for the delay with the blog. I was off visiting my brother in North Carolina losing little white balls in big pools of water.
Fresh from voting off Liz, Foa Foa re-examined their feebleness. Evil Russell suspected a merger is on the way. He does know this game.
Laura's voice is annoying. Not nough that you immediately hate her, but more like the 'if I have to listen to that shrill little whine for one more day...'
She was whining in rare form since someone (Shambo) forgot to bring her canteen back from the challenge. She and Shambo got into a nice fight over it, which is always fun to watch.
Erik enjoyed the show as well: "We know that Shambo is crazy..everyone knows that. If Laura's fighting with her, then who's really the crazy one?"
The two tribes got their tree mail and met on the beach with no Probst in sight. I think he was accepting the runner up award for the Nobel Peace prize.
The tribes merged! A feast ensued along with lots of girlish squealing. And Erik kept hugging Mick in a way that made me feel very uncomfotable for him.
Danger Dave and Natalie had a nice chat about the relative merits of eating hermit crabs. Dave: "These hermit crabs are great, but after 7-8 days I never want to eat another one". I halfway wonder if there's going to be a sudden and mysterious run on the little guys at the local pet store.
Sorry for the delay with the blog. I was off visiting my brother in North Carolina losing little white balls in big pools of water.
Fresh from voting off Liz, Foa Foa re-examined their feebleness. Evil Russell suspected a merger is on the way. He does know this game.
Laura's voice is annoying. Not nough that you immediately hate her, but more like the 'if I have to listen to that shrill little whine for one more day...'
She was whining in rare form since someone (Shambo) forgot to bring her canteen back from the challenge. She and Shambo got into a nice fight over it, which is always fun to watch.
Erik enjoyed the show as well: "We know that Shambo is crazy..everyone knows that. If Laura's fighting with her, then who's really the crazy one?"
The two tribes got their tree mail and met on the beach with no Probst in sight. I think he was accepting the runner up award for the Nobel Peace prize.
The tribes merged! A feast ensued along with lots of girlish squealing. And Erik kept hugging Mick in a way that made me feel very uncomfotable for him.
Danger Dave and Natalie had a nice chat about the relative merits of eating hermit crabs. Dave: "These hermit crabs are great, but after 7-8 days I never want to eat another one". I halfway wonder if there's going to be a sudden and mysterious run on the little guys at the local pet store.
The new tribe names Aiga. I think it's Samoan for "agony of defeat".
Evil Russell started in on Laura. He showed her his idol and tried to take charge. "If you get me to the top seven I'll give you the idol!" He then tried to dictate how the votes should go next. Laura wasn't having anything to do with it and pretty much told Evil Russell that he was her bitch.
Predictably Evil Russell didn't appreciate this and went off with just about everyone else and tried the same routine. Laura was now on his list.
Evil Russell compared himself to Babe Ruth in that he struck out more than anyone but also had lots of home runs. Not true. Babe wasn't anywhere near the top ten in strikeouts.
His plan worked with Shambo. She now trusts him "implicitly".
The immunity challenge was a game of Survivor T-ball. Immunity would be won by one man and one woman.
Each player attempted to hit a ball into a zone set up with different points. There wasn't much baseball skill involved...if anyone hit the ball too hard the ball would fly out of the zone and they'd receive no points.
Probst asked Danger Dave is baseball was his sport: "Making love is my sport!" I wonder how one would go about getting a scholarship...
Jonathan won immunity for the men and Laura won for the women. Another Galu victory and points for people who had them!
Back at camp Erik wanted to flush the idol out from under Russell. He knew he had it because Laura ratted him out.
Erik dressed down the remaining Foa Foa tribe members and essentially told them that they were done and might as well vote as they're told and maybe they could spend a couple of more miserable days in Samoa. I think that was foolish as it left them little choice but to combine their votes.
Several of the Galu folks seemed to think the same way. Jonathan told Shambo that Erik was on the outs and she honestly said "Who's Erik?" Yup. Quite the leader, that one.
At council Erik reiterated his belief that Galu members were inferior and the Foa Foa dregs would find a way to lose.
The joke was on him as all the rest of the players with the exception of Shambo, who is eternally clueless, voted him out.
Evil Russell opted to play his idol since everyone knew he had it anyway and he wasn't sure how the vote was going to go. No one wrote down his name, but at least he played the stupid thing!
Erik went out and took his hidden idol with him like so many before him. He represents our first jury member and extra points will be awarded.
See you next week on...Survivorfest!
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