Survivorfest week 2!

Shannon is out!  Let the blindsiding begin!

Fresh from tribal council Hollie is feeling on the outs since she more or less had an alliance with the hapless Wendy.  Seems kind of early for that, doesn't it?

Jill decided to pick up some protein by eating snails.  Hollie decided that she looked a bit loopy, so the snails must be poisonous.  She got irritated when Jill wasn't, in fact, poisoned and took them away, storming off.  Jill went back to tell the group, who decided she might be a little wacky.

She noticed that Dan appeared to be laughing at her, so she plotted vengeance in the form of stealing his $1600 alligator shoes.  Dude brings a $1600 pair of dress shoes to an island and thinks she's crazy!?!

Hollie filled the shoes with sand and deposited them in the ocean.  After Dan freaked out about someone stealing his shoes, she realized how loopy it was and fessed up to the tribe.

Tyrone broke the ice on this season's Survivorfest Hall of Fame Quote:  ""I'm gonna keep one eye on her and one on my shoes!"

Hollie told the tribe that she wanted to be upfront and honest because that's how she really was.  You know, after backstabbing her first alliance mate, walking off with someone's lunch and then stealing a pair of shoes.  All within the first, what, 48 hours?  I think even Russell would be proud of that.

Evidently Sash (who I mentioned in my pre-season bio profile was not gay) is bi-racial.  He expressed interested in having an all-minority final vote.  Down with whitey!  Is it racially insensitive for me to say that?  I'm white, but it feels wrong.  Not sure what the etiquette is here.

Over at Camp Kiddie, Naonka was having some footwear issues of her own.  Unable to find one of her socks, she accused "someone" of stealing it.  Who on earth would steal one sock?  Of course I have some theories:

Chase - because he might need something resembling a condom for his island date with Brenda
Jud - because he seems like he is really into sock puppets
Kelly B - Because - duh! - she only needs one sock!

Unable to determine the culprit, Nay decided it would be a good idea to steal someone else's socks.  She chose Jud's because she didn't like him and that is almost always a good enough reason to take something that doesn't belong to you.

Jud was thoroughly confused as to where his spare pair of socks went.  When someone told him that Nay was wearing them he said "Is she?  That really makes me mad!"  If someone told me at this point that Erik the ice cream scooper got plastic surgery to change his appearance so that he could get back on the show I would not be surprised.

When he walked over to confront her, she jumped down his throat before he had a chance to say anything, effectively confusing him and putting him on the defensive.  Well done!  Bullying 101.

Hollie took Jimmie aside and confessed that she might be losing it and that she thought maybe she should leave the game.  Jimmie, acting as tribe psychologist, got her head back on straight and sent her back with a better attitude.

At the immunity challenge, Camp Kiddie came in with some kind of Nazi march.  I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what they do for next week's challenge.  Maybe cartwheels?

The challenge was to find four balls hidden in hay piles, and then flip the balls to partners to deposit in a barrel.  First to four balls in the barrel won immunity and reward of a tarp or fishing supplies.

Team Alzheimer elected to use the Medallion of Power, which took away one of their balls.

The teams started out pretty evenly until Hollie had trouble finding her ball.  This gave the younger tribe a head start on the ball passing portion and they took a quick 2-0 lead.  Benry then missed three consecutive short tosses in a row, allowing the older tribe to complete the challenge.

The oldsters elected to take the fishing supplies and the kiddies went back to camp to prepare for tribal council.

The tribe seemed split into two factions:  anti - Shannon and anti - Brenda. Shannon was aware of Chase's interest in Brenda and effectively told him "bros before ho's".

Chase, confused, went running to Brenda to ask her where the hose was.  Brenda easily manipulated him:  "so why do you need Shannon?"

"Um, I don't."

"So why do you hate me so much you want to kill me?"

"Um, no, I think you're neat..."

"So you want to see me voted off because you need Shannon to make you a real man?"

"No!  I don't need Shannon...he's outta here!"

Or something like that.

At Camp Oldster they found a hidden immunity idol in the fishing gear.  The tribe quickly figured out most of the clues.  Jill came up with the last one, and told Marty.  Marty, Don and Jill searched until they found it.  Marty owners get points for finding the hidden immunity idol!

I must say, this tribal council was the most entertaining I have ever seen.  The only thing that would've made it more tense would have been a knife fight.

Shannon almost immediately called Chase out for aligning with Brenda.  Chase said he really didn't like Shannon that much anyway.  Shannon got really irate.

Jud:  "Shannon, don't make enemies, man."
Shannon:  "Fabio, you idiot, they're going to try to vote me off!"

Probst actually tried to settle things down a little, but there was too much gasoline on the fire.



Sash said something to further irritate Shannon and he replied with "Let's get this out there...are you gay?"

He then went on a rant about all the gay people in New York.  I have to stop here and say how ironic it is for a homophobe to be named Shannon.  Just saying.

At that point the kid gloves were off and Naoka wanted to get it on with Jud:  "Fabio over there thinks I'm dumb or something!"

Jud (trying very hard not to think):  "What?"

This is the first council where I heard someone actually begging Probst to let them get to the vote.  Good stuff.

The votes went in, and Shannon's wild rant cost his a few votes from his fragile alliance.

Next week:  Does anyone in Camp Kiddie like anyone else?  No, they don't!  I can't wait to see who drags who off into the jungle for a well-deserved beating.

Next week on...Survivorfest!