No word on who the host is this week. My guess is Regis Philbin.
Yippee, the MERGE, finally. Maybe it will kick start this season and maybe we get to meet the phantom members of the purple tribe.
Shambo: Who’s Erik?
Shambo: Our Erik?
Finally, a good episode. I liked Erik, until this episode. He was extremely arrogant tonight. After Russell played his idol, I’m surprised that Erik didn’t play his idol.
Shambo pretty clueless on what the tribe is doing again. She was the only other vote for Jaison.
9 (or 10?) person jury?
Erik didn’t seem to bitter in parting words. Good for him.
I think Shambo has got to be the most clueless Survivor contestant ever. And I think she believes she has a chance of winning even though the evidence so far is she is as totally clueless as the editors want us to see. She was even told about the Erik vote too and yet she voted Jaison. How fucking clueless do you have to be to not see where the votes are gonna go even after the fact that people tell you Erik is going home.
Good luck to Evil Russell next week, seems like he’s gonna get the boot with their preview. I hope not because I’d rather have him doing more sneaky shit than getting voted off. Evil Russell shoulda kept the hidden immunity idol too. Erik got blindsided so bad I kinda felt sorry for him.
She’s definitely as clueless as they come. That said, the older lady from last season (Bus Driver Sandy?) was pretty clueless too. She didn’t even know what a “pace” was. And then there was the older lady in Africa (Gillian?). She was worthless too.
Maybe Burnett likes to cast clueless older ladies.
Meanwhile, Shambo thinks she is sitting pretty because her name has not been written on any parchment. Maybe Monica won’t sso hateful because Shambo didn’t vote for her.
I get a “Coach Wade” vibe from Dave Ball. Maybe its the hair, and it is definitely not as bad, but when he said “making love is my best game” it sounded a lot like Coach Ben Wade from last season.
To me, Survivor is a good enough show to survive a weak season. This, to me, is clearly a weak season, especially following last season, which was probably the best one.
Anyway, I totally knew Laura would win the immunity challenge because the editors emphasized too much that everyone had settled on her “booting” before the challenge.
By the way, why did the women and the men compete separately? Did the challenge makers realize that the men had some kind of advantage? I don’t like two immune people.
Did you watch the women hit? Of course the guys had an advantage. The girls didn’t even notice that the bat had a flat side.
Did you see Shambo’s pathetic hit? Seriously how bad do you have to be to not even get on the field of play, not even straight or enough power. It’s freaking T-ball. Seriously I have like the biggest hate on for Shambo. Everytime i see her on TV i just wanna smack her so bad. She doesn’t deserve to be on Survivor at all. If they need a token gay person they need to find a conniving backstabbing one.
I hope they dont continue with 2 immunities by sexes. Either make it two separate teams of mixed sexes or just leave it as one. With no more hidden immunity idol, immunity challenges are really gonna be worth watching.
That was delicious! Just watching Erik’s puzzlement as the votes were read made me laugh. And the exchange with Jaison was a great appetizer. “Those guys are on day 2, I’m on day 18”. Okay, Sparky. Weak, pathetic Foa Foa came over with 4 people to your 8, and none of them went home, you did. Eat it.
“Who’s Erik?” Jeez, Shambo.
Have we ever had a tribal with 12 people before? I can’t remember one this large, they usually merge tribes when there are 9 or 10 players left, right? Did the producers do an early merge so they wouldn’t lose some of the interesting characters on Foa Foa too soon?
One more thought, sorry for a triple-post.
I have to say, I’ve got more respect for Russell. He’s goddamn slick. He did what he needed to do after the merge: he went out, talked to everyone and figured out all the cliques in Galu, then lined up a bloc of votes for Laura, which aligned with the boy’s club in Galu. I have little doubt this would have worked if the “two immunities” twist hadn’t gotten in the way. What I think will trip him up next week is that all the Galu players will compare notes and find that he’s taking damned near everyone to final 2 (or 4 or 7 or whatever), so his credibility will be nil, and with his idol gone he’s now just some Foa Foa schlub who lied to everyone.
which will make the immunity challenge so very crucial to the four remaining Foa Foa’s. I will be cheering for Evil Russel to win and go on a long winning streak. I hope they get another hidden immunity idol with exile island thing going on too. Then we can see the politics and clan ranking on who to send on exile. More strategy and more lies make the show interesting. Perhaps they’ll have a shoot down 3 coconuts and figure out who’s on the low end of the totem pole too. I love it when the contestants are dumb enough to “rank” themselves in those challenges. What they need to do in those challenges is to suck and miss on purpose or answer the question wrong to not have to shoot at coconuts.
Ah, yes. Still Laughing. My. Ass. Off.
Really, could she be any more dim? (Thank you, DAVE BALL.)
What I found perplexing was that Russhole seems to like her and not just because he thinks he can control her. Weirdest “alliance” ever.
Pretty good episode – at last, this season has taken for-freakin’-ever to get started.
Why did Russell play the HII? Did he really think he was in danger? It seems like a serious misstep from one of the most conniving players we’ve seen in a long time.
(And I’m sorry, notfrommensa, “Who’s Erik?” completely trumps “What’s a pace?” 
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Russell had some serious paranoia going last night. Once he realized that “everyone” in opposite side knew he had a HII, he figured everything that was going on was a ruse to lull him into not playing the idol and getting voted out with it in his pocket, so he talked himself into playing it even though it should have been clear he was safe from the talk around camp. I felt like the he had the Vizzini/Westley scene from Princess Bride going on in his head.
This was one of those episodes that makes the vast majority of dull Survivor episodes (aka “voting out the weakest link episodes”) worth keeping up with…
Paranoia is such fun to watch. I hope Russell gets individual immunity next week, just so he has to put up with another few days of everybody being onto him. Comeuppance can be painful.
Didn’t Erik have a HII? Does it go back into play?
I don’t think it mattered much if Russell played the idol this week since he told everyfuckingbody he had it. He would have to play it next time if he hadn’t this time. He knew they’d flush it out eventually. His mistake was showing it too early. He should have waited to get a sense of who Galu wanted to vote out first.
Yes. No.
In the Fans Vs Favorites season, Didn’t Ozzy go home with the Hidden Immunity idol? And then they put it back in play?
Yes, they only had one HII in play that season.
I thought the best line was during the discussion of keeping Shambo out of the loop: “She can vote for Probst”.
I was starting to admire Russell’s game play – he was definitely workin’ it (maybe a bit tooo much, though) – playing the HII was his only mistake, but a huge one.