Well, after wiping away the tears of Grey’s Anatomy I thought it best I get my notations down on paper for tonight’s Survivor episode. Ahem… so here goes.
Another day dawns… (cue rooster).. we’re at Foa Foa after the tribal council that saw Marissa go home. Of course, it’s another shot of Russell H (a.k.a. Garden Gnome). Russell is pretty happy with himself, he tells us that he ‘had fun’ at last nights vote and he enjoyed getting rid of Marissa. He cannot have these strong women around. He also confronts Betsy about her vote for Ashley. He tells her that he wants to keep her around, and that she made a huge mistake. They basically came to an understanding to agree to disagree and not trust each other.
Back at Galu, Jasmine is hating life, she hates the living conditions, she hates the bed, the cold, the wet. On the up-side they caught a lizard and decided to cook it up for breakfast.
Back to the Garden Gnome, his tribe of dumb people aren’t quite so dumb. Jaison questioned why Marissa had to go home so early, he felt she was voted out too quick. Russell tells us that you have to trust someone in this game and he’s chosen that someone special to be Jaison. Russell decides that there has to be a hidden immunity idol in camp and sets out to look for it. He thinks he’ll be an absolute genius if he finds the idol without even a single clue. Russell searches as the tribe eats, and searches and looks up a tree and the dumba** actually finds the idol! He shoves it down his underwear and swaggers off to gloat. Man oh man do I hope this guy goes home quick! Maybe the genius will also become a victim of the hugest blind-side ever!
Back to the game. Treemail arrives with a combination reward and immunity challenge with an additional twist to be revealed later. Russell and his dumb blondes (his words, not mine), Liz and Jaison discuss the possibility of the next one to go. It’s decided that either Mike or Betsy will go next. Obviously Russell wants to get rid of Betsy because she crossed him and he figures she should pay for her crimes.
The challenge is to get painted up like a Samoan warrior to go to battle. Three members of each tribe battle it out for three balls in a ‘pit’ They pass a ball, if they can get it to one of their 3 tribe members on a platform who then must shoot a basket in the opposition’s basketball net. Now this is a very physical challenge, to the point that Dimples stops the game at one point to warn them that they must play nice on the playground, no choking, no head butting, no face shots, or they’ll be pulled from the game. Ben intentionally trips Russell (the good Russell) and Jeff calls him on it and hauls him out of the game leaving Foa Foa short a member. Galu manages to shoot the three needed baskets and wins the prize, fishing gear. And Jeff says, “if you can’t catch fish with this you should just go home”. The twist was that one member from the Galu gets to go back to Foa Foa’s camp and see how they live, their dynamics and go to tribal council with them up until the votes get cast.
Jasmine is picked to go back to Foa Foa, but before any good dirt gets dug up, Mike gets looked at by medical. Mike’s blood pressure is very low, when he stands up he immediately falls and his blood pressure plummets some more. Medical decides that he could be a heart attack waiting to happen and they pull him from the game and send him home. Dimples was not in a forgiving mood though and advises Foa Foa that they will still go to tribal council and still vote out a member.
Back at Galu, Shambo goes fishing. She’s out in the reef and proudly announced to her tribe mates that there are literally hundreds of thousands of fish out there in the ocean (go figure!), but sadly she did not catch any, maybe because she was too busy relaxing in the swamp water and losing the mouth piece to the snorkel set. So, not only did she not catch anything, she also managed to lose a vital piece of that equipment.
At Joa Joa Jasmine goes about setting them all straight on their survivor strategy. She tells them that she’s there to help and that it’s no fun to win like this, it’s like taking candy from a baby. Needless to say this infuriates the Joa Joas. Then she goes after Ben because he got thrown out of the game and he had tackled her and she didn’t appreciate that saying that he took ‘cheap shots’. Ben doesn’t think much of Jasmine, says she’s close to being a hooker, smells bad and has bad grammar. With Ben and Jasmine yelling at each other Ashley is worried about him, she says he is a wild card and she didn’t know if he should be around much longer. This is evident when he’s up chopping wood, in the middle of the night and wakes up the entire tribe. Betsy sees this as an opportunity to get rid of Ben and save her own hide, and she pleads her case to Russell’s blonde allies. Mick also has second thoughts about voting her out because of Ben’s behavior. Sadly, the evil Garden Gnome says it’s Betsy to go because #1 she is weakest and #2 she doesn’t trust him and “whatever I want… happens” are his words.
The rhetoric at tribal was about the same, Jasmine has poor grammar and she disrespected them. Ben makes no apologies for the way he played the game and that Dimples has “sissy rules”. Jaison was the only one making any sense saying that they can argue but they need to win to show their strength. Betsy said that she doesn’t understand why her head is on the chopping block and that Ben was the one who helped lose that challenge, not her. At any rate Jeff sends them off to vote, and then for umpteenth time counts the votes and by a margin of 7 to 1 it’s Betsy who gets sent packing. Along with Betsy goes our own Jeff.
Sorry to see you go Jeff, and sorry, no nice parting gifts either.
Next week on Survivor… - Jaison figures the Garden Gnome out and Shambo is on the outs with her tribe.
I don’t know if anyone picked Betsy to win the game, I’m just the substitute commentator, we’ll take you back to your regular scheduled commentator next week.
Thank you for letting me sub, hope the read at least was pretty accurate, however not nearly as entertaining as Pat’s usual.
Donna (the good Russell, glad I’m not a Gnome) Hodel
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