SURVIVOR

Sorry for the delay. For once work kept me busy enough on a Friday that I wasn't able to get anything up for you. Forgiveness, please.

(If you don't know there's spoilers, you ain't been coming here long)

Zhan Hu ("Team Yellow") is NOW made up of:
Aaron(gone)
Ashley(gone)
"Chicken"(gone)
Dave(gone)
Erik
James
Jamie
Peih-Gee

Fei Long ("Team Denise") is NOW made up of:
Amanda
Courtney
Denise
Frosti
Jean-Robert
Leslie(gone)
Sherea(gone)
Todd

We start at Team Denise where they have just gotten back from voting Sherea out of the game. Man, He-Man is going to be pissed they played his cousin like that. Jean-Robert, his neck still on the block decides to set into motion Operation: Yeah, No, I Know, I'm Letting It Drop, But Can I Just Say One More Thing?. Seriously, the best way to secure your place in the tribe is to keep your head down, your mouth shut and help win a challenge or two. Don't keep everyone up all night. That's the wrong way.

Morning comes to Team Yellow and Peih-gee starts in on James about how she's always liked him and how much of an asset he can be to them and how much everyone likes and respects him on Team Yellow. Riiiiight. I'm sure he's forgotten all about you throwing the challenge two weeks ago in order to send him and Aaron home.

Later, the rest of Team Yellow now off bathing and discussing how much James must like them, James uses this time to pull off the hidden Immunity Idol. Unfortunately, he pulls off the wrong symbol first. Hearing the rest of the tribe return, James only has time to hide the real idol and has to leave the blank symbol lying on the ground.

Jamie and Erik find the blank symbol and like chimps stacking boxes to reach a wax banana, they put all the pieces together. "Sorta looks kind of idol-ish, right?" says Erik to the camera. How the cameramen have kept a straight face through this season is beyond me. James meanwhile is beside himself, "If they play that fake board at Tribal Council? Please let one of them play that. I would pass out with joy."

The joke is almost on James, however, because while he's away with Peih-Gee getting water, Jamie decides she'll look in his bag. It's not even an "oops, it tipped over and look what fell out" sort of thing, she has to turn it over, undo the clasp, reach in, pull out all of his stuff and THEN unroll his pants, where he has both immunity idols hidden. Luckily for James and unluckily for Jamie, she never actually checks to see what a real immunity idol looks like. How she figures him having two "somethings" allows for the possibility for her to have a true immunity idol is beyond me.

What's beyond Courtney back at Team Denise, is how no one wants to get rid of Jean-Robert but her. AND they all just voted out her newest best friend Sherea last episode. Boy, they all sure are mean. But like Todd tells us, "I have my people that I need. Right now, Jean-Robert is a person that I need. It's my game... BITCH."

No Reward Challenge this week, instead everyone gets the reward of New Buffs! That's right, just as Peih-Gee predicted two weeks ago, it's merge time. The team is now Back In Black, and are presented with a giant feast. "But remember," warns Probst. "The game never stops." Listen people, when Probst tells you something? It's important.

Sure enough later that day Probst pulls up in a boat with the individual immunity necklace. He'll be asking them questions about what they ate and experienced at the feast. One wrong answer and you're out. Despite my prediction that everyone would be out after one round, Frosti's Value Menu Mind kicks into high gear and wins himself immunity.

Now comes the scrambling. Jean-Robert or Jamie? Jean-Robert not-so-subtly threatens Todd with losing the million dollars (and disembowlment) if he's screwed over before the final three, while James admits that Jean-Robert might go soon, "because he's a dumb***."

But what dumb*** will prove to be dumb***ier? Let's go to-

TRIBAL COUNCIL!
Nothing new here as Jean-Robert once again figures running his mouth is his best strategy. And maybe it is. Maybe he figures if he's annoying enough no one will figure him a threat and carry him all the way to the final two. My guess is he's the first member of Old Team Denise to get the boot.

Everyone goes off to vote, and right before Probst reads the names, Jamie speaks up.

"We found this at camp. I was just wondering if it might be the immunity idol."

Probst looks at it as he says "It is true that when a hidden immunity idol is played, all votes cast for that person do not count. But this... is not a hidden immunity idol. This is nothing."

He then CHUCKS IT INTO THE FIRE PIT.

James is almost having a stroke trying not to laugh out loud. The votes are then read, and while JR takes an early lead, Jamie comes from behind to win the first seat on the Jury.



BONADUCE SMASH!

Probst reminds people that from here out they will be voting out the people that will then decide if they win a million dollars or not.

ELIMINATED
Chicken (Yellow)
Ashley (Yellow)
Leslie (Denise)
Dave (Yellow)
Aaron (Denise)
Sherea (New Denise)
Jamie (Black Fighting Wind)

NEXT WEEK!
Todd schemes! Everyone else schemes! James breaks a board!