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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