Best. Episode. Ever.
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 09:23pm by MaggieTodd has been unlucky looking for the hidden immunity idol so he enlisted Amanda’s help. He told her he originally wanted to keep the idol secret until he found it, but that he meant to tell her all along. Nice save. Todd also wanted to bring James or Aaron over as a hostage if they win the reward challenge, so they can get the next clue.
During the reward challenge, Peih-Gee had an opportunity to talk to Sherea alone and let her know that Zhan Hu wants to stick together and keep old ties. Sherea wouldn’t even look at her. Sherea REALLY bugs me; she’s just so nasty! And stupid…if she had just played along, Zhan Hu wouldn’t have realized that she and Frosti had defected and probably would have thrown the next challenge too.
Fei Long won, and they took James along. Their prize was lunch at a tea house, as well as baths, showers and a general chance to clean up and freshen up. Miss Courtney had herself a luxurious time!
Can someone reach my 7th cervical vertebra? Someone OTHER than Jean Robert?
Then Jean Robert made the planet dry-heave with his lewd remarks geared toward Amanda and Courtney. Why can’t some people just keep their mouths shut? SHUT IT UP. Ew.
Todd approached James and asked for the clue to the immunity idol. He said if James just trusted him with the contents of the bamboo container, Todd would devise a way for James to survive the next vote. James complied. Todd and Amanda found the idol while Frosti was hanging around, and instead of waiting until later to get it, they totally lost their cool and grabbed it and ended up having to tell Frosti all about it. Later on, Todd gave it to James, and James agreed to throw the immunity challenge and use the idol to get rid of Jaime. Also, James would be going back to Zhan Hu knowing how to find the other immunity idol, which made his face do this:
Meanwhile at Zhan Hu, Peih-Gee, Jaime and Erik spent some quality time feeling quite sorry for themselves.
The immunity challenge was interesting because almost everyone from Fei Long knew that James would be throwing the challenge, but because it was a gross-food-eating challenge, it didn’t quite turn out the way they thought it would. In the end, it was down to James and Denise eating chicken fetuses and James ate his and won the challenge because he just couldn’t let Denise struggle with hers and he didn’t want her to have to be a quitter. So Fei Long went to tribal council.
Right before council, Todd and Amanda suggested to everyone that it’s best to stick with the plan and get rid of Sherea. Of course, Courtney and Sherea actually like each other because they’re both nasty people, and so Courtney fought to get rid of Jean Robert instead. At tribal council, Sherea and Courtney both started talking uncontrollably and I wanted them to shut up so bad. When Sherea went to vote, she made a very clever rhyme using the words “hot” and “not” in regards to Jean Robert. I wondered if she knows what year it is. In the end, Jeff made me so happy when he read Sherea’s name and caused her face to do this:
1. freakgirl said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 8:18 am )
I pushed this post live for you, Maggie, I hope that’s okay. It seemed finish.
The Courtney as Skeleton jokes never get old.
Question: I didn’t think Todd gave James the idol; I thought he just gave him the knowledge of where to get it at his own camp. No?
2. Sara said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 8:24 am )
I love when James smacked Todd on the arm and Todd just about died.
I’m not sure if James had the idol or not. I don’t know why they would have taken it down if they didn’t intend to give it to James.
3. Papercuts! said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 8:44 am )
James does in fact have the idol.
I like how Jean Robert pontificated at Tribal Council like he was being interviewed for a History Channel documentary on his time in The Great War.
4. freakgirl said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 8:52 am )
Man, I do NOT pay attention well.
5. Michael said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 9:15 am )
Yeah, so now he has BOTH of them, right? So he should be able to skate through to any merge and then continue to kick ass when it’s individual immunity.
Is there any way to un-pixelate something? Just wondering.
6. kyle said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 9:23 am )
Michael, Interpol or the CIA or someone used some fancy technology to unswirl a pedophile’s face and ended up nabbing him in Thailand (it was big news in Canada, because he was Canadian, not sure if it was deemed newsworthy in the U.S), so I’m sure someone’s got the technology to unpixelate James’ posterior for you.
The Courtney = skeleton jokes kinda rub me the wrong way – I mean if she was overweight and you were superimposing the Kool-Aid Man or something, would that be funny too?
7. freakgirl said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 9:41 am )
kyle, I was just going to say that, about the unswirlie thing. Crazy!
If Courtney weren’t such a bitch, I’d agree with you. Sorry.
Do you think next week will be a real merge or a fake one?
8. kyle said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 9:48 am )
The fact that they showed the merge in the preview makes me think there’s probably a catch, but who knows – maybe that’s just what they want me to think.
Does all of the merge timing information get decided before the show begins and then locked away somewhere so that the producers can’t be accused of manipulating things (at least in that regard)? Or are they allowed to adjust things in real time?
9. Papercuts! said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 10:08 am )
James does not have the second idol.
Or rather, we weren’t shown him getting the second idol yet. We were, however, shown Eric and Jamie holding an immunity idol — I don’t know which one — in the previews for next week.
And not to be contrary, but the episode of Survivor Fiji where Alex arrogantly played the immunity idol and no one voted for him still stands as MY best. episode. ever. If only for the look on his face alone.
10. freakgirl said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 10:40 am )
So he has one idol and information on where to find the second. I hope he gets it quick before any merge shenanigans, as they could move out of camp or something. Oh, James. I heart you.
I totally agree about when Alex played the idol for no reason. Awesome.
I am really enjoying this season of Survivor; pleasantly surprised, I am. I’m hoping my goodwill extends through Amazing Race as well.
11. Michael said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 10:41 am )
I realize I’m a cliche with objectifying James, but is it just my bias, or does the camera not luxuriate over his back and nipples?
As for a fat/thin double standard, I do think attitude plays a part. Richard Hatch ring a bell? Or maybe that was the constant nudity.
12. freakgirl said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 11:08 am )
Not to mention that there has never been a person on Survivor with the same fat ratio as Courtney’s thin ratio.
Yes, it’s catty and it’s below the belt, but once she refused to respect the culture of the country in which she was temporarily living (and made fun of it!), all bets were off with me.
13. yahtzee said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 11:37 am )
Kyle – I think the idea of producer integrity disappeared from these shows a long time ago. I think they do these merge things on the fly.
14. Maggie said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 12:20 pm )
If Courtney was a nice person, or despite her lack of muscle tried hard in challenges, I wouldn’t be posting skeletons. If someone on the show was big and fat and really nasty, I would not superimpose the Kool-Aid guy over him or her. The Kool-Aid guy is jolly and fun.
On Survivor, I make fun of people who are stupid, people who are mean, people who are out of shape and can’t do the challenges, people who quit, it’s all fair game. It’s not meant to be taken as a double standard about weight acceptance. I am sorry it offends you, Kyle. I don’t dislike Courtney because of her weight. I dislike her because of who she is. And I think by showing her as a skeleton I’m also showing she’s totally useless to the tribe.
15. Jack said ( Friday, October 26, 2007 at 4:43 pm )
The skeletons make me laugh. But I admit that my sense of humor is often borderline inappropriate, so don’t go by me. (I watch Family Guy religiously.) And to be technical about it, the skeleton isn’t really an accurate representation of Courtney because it’s probably much nicer to be around, and it has more meat on it’s bones.
Note to Peih-Gee: As for Sherea selling you down the river, I don’t want to say “I told you so”, but… I told you so. I’m not sure why you would put that much trust in former tribe members when we’ve seen in the past people shift alliances at the drop of a hat. Fool.
16. oolookitty said ( Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 6:12 am )
Re the producers doing these things on the fly, no. Because it’s basically a game show/competition, they have to have everything they’re going to do planned in advance so they can’t be accused of throwing a competition to a particular contestant. There are very strict rules about this, actually.