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!