How do you figure? The challenge wasn’t over yet. They might have been behind, but had not lost yet. So they didn’t “have a date with Jeff” at that point in time.
It was reward and immunity challenge. Both teams were going to vote someone out. the winner of the challenge was going to sit in on the Tribal Council of the loses and eat the pizza.
Both Teams should have eaten pizza and sit in on each others TC.
The combined TC was interesting, they should do more of it. I liked Russell H and Erik getting into each other face and watch their blood pressure rise.
Who will be the new tribe leader for Galu? My guess is they select Dave Ball because of the fire debacle last week. Possibly Erik.
Can Shamwow keep quiet about her “alliance” with the guys? I can’t believe those guys were going to vote the Monica eye candy. Someone needs to check to see if they have a y-chromosone.
A lot of focus on the Galu tribe and we still don’t know Brett, John, or Kelly.
Who?
Yeah, exactly. The challenge was called off in the middle of the challenge. It wasn’t completed. No one had lost. No one had “earned” a trip to TC yet.
But the only reward was pizza. The winners still had to vote someone out, so it wasn’t immunity.
I joked to my wife that Jeff should just sit there eating pizza by himself at the tribal council.
No, Jeff stated before the challenge started that there would be no immunity that week. Both tribes were going to lose a member, regardless of the result of the challenge. All the challenge was for was pizza, and the privilege of watching the other tribe’s TC.
Having said that, I think it was actually to Foa Foa’s advantage that neither tribe voted anyone out. If nothing else, it helped their ratio:
Before challenge 9:5 - 1.8
After challenge 8:5 - 1.6
After TC, if they had voted 7:4 - 1.75
Then those hidden extra people had better include a bunch of secuity. 
Correct.
Incorrect.
They had established before the challenge began that both tribes would be going to TC. Both tribes would be voting someone out.
The aborted challenge was not for immunity. It was for pizza and fly-on-the-wall rights. While nobody won those, neither did anybody win the right not to vote someone out.
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Yes, sorry, I had totally forgotten that.
Nevermind.
Did he actually say that they would be voting someone out? I remember him saying they were both going to tribal, but I don’t remember him mentioning a vote for both teams. I thought he meant one would be eating pizza, and one would be voting. I’d check, but I took it off my TIVO already…
The Russell medical drama was quite exciting at first, but as it went on and he was on the ground, and then the keyboards were playing all of this dramatic music…and I just started laughing. And then to add on the “Rocky” speech between Jeff and Russell after the commercial - it was very, very entertaining to me and hubby, but not in the way they meant.
I bet the production staff is not so sad that the Russell thing happened - two weeks of episodes featuring raining is not very exciting.
And, after this week’s episode, I am squarely behind evil Russell. He’s shown himself to be a good player, and I agree with him about dealing with the elements. I mean, really - as stated above, I would be spending hours looking for leaves and stacking blankets on the roof to get that thing watertight. I don’t care if its 6 feet thick, I would be getting out of the rain.
Is this just a extra-lazy and dumb bunch of contestants, or has this been standard for the past several seasons? I stopped watching not too long after the All-Stars season…
I am frustrated that I have to wait another week to watch another episode.
In TV terms, this episode was a success. For me, it sucked.
When that other guy left on a medical emergency, Foa Foa still had to go to tribal council that night and vote another member out, losing two people in one day.
I was looking forward to Shambo triumphantly joining forces with her male tribe members and finally evicting Monica.
But no.
With these two guys leaving, does this effect how many episodes will air this season, and if so, I hope CBS does not fill in the missing week(s) with a flashback episode.
Yes, he did. My wife and I have a vivid recollection of this. Before the start of the challenge, Jeff said:
- You’re playing for pizza. That’s good news.
- The bad news is both tribes are going to tribal council and will both vote someone out.
- The winning tribe will attend the losing tribe’s tribal council and eat pizza in front of the losers.
Do the fall seasons have a flashback episode? The spring seasons always do because CBS carries the NCAA Basketball Tournament which akways begins on a Thursday.
Apparently, they all got pizza at tribal council. Probst responded to comments on his blog that they did give them pizza but it was not shown.
Is anyone else fed up with all these episodes with only one challenge? Trying to fill up the rest of the show with scheming doesn’t work for me - especially when the rain limits what they can do.
And especially when all the scheming is for nothing. Yeah, I’d prefer two challenges to replace some of the “wow, rain sucks” confessionals.
Is it possible they didn’t have each team vote someone off because Russell leaving got them back on schedule? By sending the other dude home earlier this season and still having a TC, they were ahead by one and were probably wondering how they were going to fill another episode without a vote. Now by having Russell get voted off in this episode, both tribes have lost a member to illness and we’re back on the usual schedule they had set up at the beginning of the season.
They actually wanted to get rid of two contestants last night. Voting out two players AND the Russell medi-vac out meant they were going to be ahead of schedule.
[speculation]Then we would have been forced into a clip show.[/speculation]
My guess that they will have a double eviction after the merge. I would like them to have a:
Immunity Challenge
Tribal Council,
a vote,
then a surprise Immunity Challenge, (Fire making, Quiz) something w/ little setup
another Tribal Council w/ no talk strategy,
and then another vote.
Good to see. I think that’s a reasonable way to handle it.
While I was sad to see what happened to Good Russell (I had him pegged to go all the way to the final four), I’m glad they didn’t pull another one of those “both tribes have to vote someone out” nonsense. It just seems so against the spirit of Survivor to punish the winning team.
They hadn’t done a double elimination for a few seasons now, so I figured Mark Burnett came to his senses, but I guess not.
Also, I agree with whoever said that Evil Russell (who I guess is now just Russell) is growing on them. He’s a jackass to be sure, but he’s become more interesting as he slowly comes to realize that teamwork is important and that he’s not running the game.