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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Survivor Caramoan 26e04: Survivor: The Sitcom!
Pop quiz hotshot! What's the funniest show on CBS? Two and a Half Men? Mike and Molly? Two Broke Girls? Well this week the funniest show happens to be Survivor which had plenty of comic relief thanks in large part to screwballs like Phillip and Shamar.
The episode starts off with Eddy losing it from his frustration of the fans performance. He gets in Sherri's face who bites right back. Eddy then warns them they won't win any challenges if he and Reynold are voted off. This to me this is not a very good argument and a sign of Eddy's immaturity. As Micheal states, they haven't been winning challenges with them. Also, the merge typically comes after 6 immunity challenges. There have already been 3 which means there are in all likelihood only 3 left, which means there would only be at the most 1 left before the merge if they were to vote off Eddy and Reynold. So if they can't help them win within the next 3 times what good are they?
You may be saying to yourselves that the pretty people did this to themselves with their own stupidity of trying to be a dominating alliance of four within a tribe of ten, but I've learned from post game interviews that looks can be deceiving. It turns out that Matt was initially in their alliance but flipped over before they went to tribal the first time.
At the "favorites" camp Phillip continues to strategize taking a page out of Napoleon Bonaparte's playbook. Now in a tribe of 9 most people would be happy with a 5 or even 6 person alliance. But "The Specialiast"? Is he happy with 6, or 7? Or 8? No siree, he decides he needs an alliance of 9 within a tribe of 9! Phillip does what no other person in Survivor history has ever done. He makes an alliance with everybody AND lets everyone know it!
First he promotes Crazy Brandon Hantz and dubs him "The Conqueror"! He then goes to Erik and gives him the very flattering title of "The Silent One"! This really annoys Andrea who complains that Phillip has recruited everyone into Stealth R Us except for Brenda. Then moments later Phillip does just that and enlists Brenda dubbing her "Serenity"! So I guess the next time they go to tribal council they're all going to have to vote for Francesca again!
Now it's time to go to the reward/immunity challenge! Wait! What? THEY'RE ACTUALLY HAVING A REWARD CHALLENGE THAT'S COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM THE IMMUNITY CHALLENGE?! Well bless my soul, two challenges in one episode!? I never thought I'd see the day again!
The challenge is a great old classic too! They must maneuver two tribe mates across the water with them stepping on small planks that are held by other tribe members until they reach a certain platform that they must all climb over to get to ANOTHER platform and all eight members must fixate themselves on or above the platform. The fans move Julia? and Laura while the "favorites" move Andrea and Brenda. It's always nice to see her sexy bod featured in a challenge.
Like every other challenge this season it's neck and neck the entire time. To my surprise Shamar actually volunteers the unselfish move of kneeling on the platform and letting everyone climb on top of him. It comes down to Corrine and Matt and once again the "favorites" are victorious by a nose. At which point Probst announces "Favorites win reward!"
Unfortunately Shamar forgets that he's not a returning player and bellows a victorious roar of "that's what I'm talking about!" After Shamar is given the bad news that he's a "FAN" and not a "FAVORITE" Phillip starts mocking Shamar and roaring "That's what WE'RE talking about!"
Who knows? Maybe there actually is some method to Phillip's madness and uniting the tribe by giving them all code-names is actually making them stronger in challenges. Then again, maybe the fans just suck.
The reward is a visit from a local pigmee named TaTa who shows the tribe the most efficient ways to maximize the benefits of their camp environment. John gets jealous by all the attention the girls give TaTa and contemplates how if he were to display as much PDA with the girls he would be seen as some creepy weirdo. Sorry to break the news to you John but that evaluation was made long ago on South Pacific when you talked about things like prank calling girls offering your semen and crapping your pants in school.
The comic relief isn't over yet. Back at the fans tribe Shamar announces that the price of him not quitting is being waited on at meal time, because it's way too inconvenient for him to get off his ass and walk 10 feet over to the cooking pot to get his share. To my shock the tribe agrees, albeit very reluctantly. I've never seen anything like this on Survivor! Makes me sick to my stomach actually. I've been dying to be on this show for over 10 years, I've applied twice, yet they put some infantile jar head on, who blackmails his tribe into waiting on him. How disgraceful! Then next thing you know he'll be demanding a piss pot for Sherri to hold so he doesn't have to make the trip to the bushes.
Well the tribe may be willing to put up with Shamar's crap but the gods of karma have other ideas. THEY have had it with Shamar and while he's relaxing in the shelter something gets in his eye that causes an injury. I don't see anyone offer to wash it out with some water and it just keeps getting worse. Medical is called in and it turns out Shamar's not being such a big baby this time. It is a serious injury and they pull him from the game to get treatment. The tribe tries to be polite and look sorry he's leaving, even Reynold, but we all know that no one is going to miss his personality, myself included.
At the beginning of the immunity challenge Probst tells the "favorites" to take a look at the new fan tribe. Alleged survivor superfan Dawn is shocked and can't figure out how that can be. She's such a big fan of the show she doesn't know that the possibility of people being medically pulled or quitting exists within the game of Survivor.
Unlike the last challenge this one is NOT neck and neck. Even with John participating the fans get lapped by the "favorites" during the first leg of the challenge although John isn't involved in that section. All he has to do is use the keys that five others retrieved from the water, to open a chest full of balls that Phillip must use to knock over a bunch of blocks on a ledge. Phillip does a good job but Reynold does even better when he finally gets his ahem, balls. At this point it does become very close but Phillip manages to just barely finish ahead of Reynold. So Stealth R Us has prevailed once again and the fans have lost their fourth challenge in a row!
Even though Eddy and Reynold are on the outs Matt is fed up with Laura's poor performance at the challenges and makes a plea to get rid of her. Sherri certainly doesn't like this because she knows she could be the next target if they're trying to weed out the weak. Reynold also isn't sure if he can trust Matt. Micheal is also on the fence. If I were Reynold and Eddy I would be going to Micheal and Matt and just offer them a new permanent alliance with them. Which is what they should of done with Laura and Julia? last week. Reynold has an idle, their tribal configuration isn't working at all for them so it shouldn't be that hard to get them to flip.
In the end everyone turns on Laura, even Sherri. They don't let Reynold know this so he plays his idol to be safe. Obviously this was a bad move, but I think it was bad for more reasons then Reynold's little brain could even contemplate. While you could make the argument that Reynold found the first idol pretty easily and he could probably find another one, he is such a great asset at challenges that I don't think the tribe would of ever of voted him off before Eddy.
So now it looks like Sherri is in hot water if they lose again. While it may appear that she's been covertly controlling the tribe, I've learned from post game interviews that this was not the case. Apparently as soon as the got to the camp sight Sherri went running around to every person on the tribe and started talking strategy and it didn't go unnoticed. So she's got a lot of tap dancing to do if she's going to make it to the merge.
NEXT WEEK ON SURVIVOR! Ok, I called it wrong last week, but with Shamar and Laura gone the Fans WILL win a challenge and Brandon truly earns the name "Crazy Brandon Hantz"!
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