SURVIVOR 2-7-08

On us faster than you would think, it's SURVIVOR time.

This season it's fans versus favorites.

Fans:
Alexis
Chet
Erik
Jason
Joel
Kathleen
Mary
Mikey B
Natalie
Tracy

Favorites:
Amanda(China)
Ami(Vanuatu)
Cirie(Panama)
Eliza(Vanuatu)
James(China)
Jonathan(Cook Island)
Johnny Fairplay(Pearl Island)
Ozzie(Cook Island)
Parvati(Cook Island)
Yau-Man(Fiji)

We meet the Fans en masse in the middle of a rainstorm. I think it's just so Probst can show off his rain-slicked good looks. He then trots out the "Favorites". Ozzie, Yau-Man and James get the biggest reactions, which has got to make central casting feel super about their choice of casting for the other 6. Oh, and last but not least they trot out Johnny "Ric Flair Gets Royalty Checks For This Character" Fairplay. Probst starts jibing him, which may be the only reason that they brought him in. Probst sends them racing across the bay where their boats and two immunity idols are waiting. The idols are only good for the first Immunity Council though. Johnny Freakin' Fairplay finds it first, only to realize he grabbed the other team's. Yau-Man then DDTs him into the boat and grabs the idol for himself. Kathy gets the idol for the Fans. Which is good, cause she's kind of awkward. More on that in a moment.

At the Fan camp Mikey B refers to his own team as Big Bird(Erik), Southern Princess(Alexis), John Bon Jovi in his prime(Jason), The Incredible Hulk(Joel) and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy(Chet).

Kathy, the golf cart driver who is originally from Wisconsin (thanks Kathy), first questions Chet on was ist das "homosexual" and then also comments that she's never seen big boobs before. The Badger State, ladies and gentlemen!

At the Favorite Camp they quickly zip together a shelter and food, as they've all been out here before. Parvati starts doing what Parvati does best, flirt with James. James, never that dumb, realizes she's "one of those sex kitten types", he also realizes that, hey, that's not a bad thing.

Last season James had a thing for:


This season it's:


I'm not saying he's trading up... I'm just saying.

While Parvati and James flirt and Ozzie and Amanda flirt, Yau Man, Jonathon, Ami and Eliza form an alliance. Good thing too, cause Parvati, Ozzie and Fairplay are already plotting to kick Eliza home. We haven't even had an immunity challenge yet... we haven't even had a reward challenge yet and everyone's pulling knives. Fairplay, being Fairplay has already pledged allegiance to both sides and then says "You've got 9 of the biggest favorites of Survivor and you think you can trust Johnny Fairplay? Have you never watched the show before?"

The favorites continue to dominate at home, having a shelter, fire, and sea food every day. Meanwhile, the fans (who are all "allegedly" students of this game) are muttering "I'd eat rat guts right now". Well there's no guts that need to be eaten, but there is...

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE!
Puzzle wheels, pull cart, obstacle course, plank digging, turnstile puzzle.

The favorites, Johnny especially, take an opportunity to rub in how well they're living at camp. Once the challenge starts, however, the fans quickly get a lead, putting together their wheels first and zipping through the obstacle course before the favorites even get going. The favorites finally get everything together, only to wipe out at the obstacle course by trying to go right through it. Eliza almost loses an eye. They start to tie up at the planks but the fans beat them up and over the bridge and get to the turnstile. And in the end all the favorites can do is watch the fans Walk All Over Them.

Back at Favorite camp, Cerie realizes she could go, and Fairplay comments on how he is alligned with both factions right now. Fairplay talks about how his girlfriend is 7 months pregnant for about the third time this hour. Then he starts crying becase he's worried that she might not be okay. It's gotta be fake. Remember, this man faked his own grandmother's death. He and Parvati cook up a scheme where he asks everyone to vote him off so that the Ozzie/James/Parvati/Amanda faction can vote off Eliza. How will it all swing? I guess we'll find out at...

TRIBAL COUNCIL!
Hah. Probst gives the Favorites the "Fire is Life" speech, I don't even know if he hears himself when he says it anymore. Fairplay drops another "baby on the way" line, it's too blatent for it not to be a work. Wow... Probst and Fairplay do NOT get along.

Probst smells a rat, but there's nothing he can do, cause now it's time to vote.
Fairplay, Fairplay, Fairplay, Fairplay, Fairplay, .... HOLY CRAP!! FARIPLAY GOT DOUBLE SCREWED!! Probst can barely contain his joy as he sends Johnny home. I've never seen him use his own urine to extinguish a player's torch before.


DEJA VU!!

ELIMINATED:
Johnny Fairplay (Favorites)

NEXT TIME:
The Fans start to bicker, Exile Island has a twist, and Ozzie bones Amanda??