Yeah, I was kind of pissed when I got on MSN's Entertainment section at 7:00 PM last night and saw the heading that said "Sally is gone" or some crap like that... JERKS

Oh, and yay for being first :) Good recap as always!

As much as I wanted him to give Sally the immunity idol, I probably wouldnt have either. The time to change the game was a few weeks ago, so pretty much if he had given her the idol he'd just have an extra week or two to stick around. Now he can afford to lose immunity once. But one thing is for sure-next week is going to be good because someone on the other team is going home!

Poor Sally . . . I liked her. I can't blame Terry for not using the stupid idol, but as you said B-Side, he is only making his place in the tribe worse by always talking about how he is going to dominate the rest of the game. If he is so sure about this, why not slip the idol to Sally b/c he won't be needing it?! This shows how confident he REALLY is.

I did find Cirie's comment to the camera interesting as she voted for Sally. She said something along the lines as "this is only strategic and I HOPE you have the idol." She wanted Aras' ass gone. I think Cirie is going to be one to watch in the future . . . she might have been Terry's best bet from the beginning; unfortunately he went for the younger, thinner girls. Strange, he wanted NOTHING to do with one named Misty at the start of the game. Makes you wonder how different the game would have been had weak-ass Ruth Marie been sent packing before Misty. Astronaut Dan was such a genius . . .

Shane's dining manners are lacking. Gross. I think he said "Wow" to Austin because he was wearing pink -- not a color the manly Shane would EVER wear.

Preview for next week -- poor Bruce. :(

I don't understand how Terry thinks he can win this thing? Him irritating the Casayas just means they would NEVER EVER vote for him. Him making it to the final two means nothing because he doesn't have the numbers in the jury. I think he is expecting them to all get upset with each other when they have to start voting out each other; but shouldn't he be a bit less vocal and a little less annoying if he wants some of their votes? I don't get him; but nobody here has ever said he is much of a thinker.

You know what's fun? Terry just might win all the rest... and take 2nd, of course.

I had a true guffaw when at the end of the reward challenge, Courtney's team mates just let go and she went flying away. Was it Courtney who said she wanted to be up against Terry in the final two? What is she thinking? Sure he's an egomaniac and sure he has no clear strategy, but if he makes final two with his sucky strategy, I would probably vote for him because he outlasted and outplayed. Why wouldn't she want to go up against Shane the Chaffed?

Did anyone else laugh out loud at Courtney's mother, then seeing her dance around with the fire?

Even though I'm not a fan, Terry is looking better and better, the longer he stays on that island. I think I'd rather have Aras first, but could enjoy the Terry train of love..; )

KH
I miss Nick!

KH -- Yes, I had a chuckle at Courtney's mom and then her whole fire dancing ecstasy. I'm kind of with you on the Terry train of love -- he has a lot to prove and it could work to my advantage.....

B-side, how could you not post a picture of Shane when he had his mouth stuffed with hamburger? That was the funniest thing I have seen in weeks!

Oh, the pictures are up now, yet none of Shane's baboon face full of food? I thought for sure it would be one of the pics this week. :) I about died when I saw him. Even Jeffy was cracking up!!

Terry, he's shown his immunity idol to so many people. And for what? Nothing. Oh, I'm sorry, he actually promised them a week of worry free tribal councils. Sounds like a GRRRReat offer!... Clown.

Oh and Austin didn't look any different to me. He had good clothes, and his hair was clean but he's still lacking an upper lip. Not hot. It pains me that it's not Nick sticking around.

And now, WHY would CBS even show those previews of Bruce in pain? And then when the tribe is eating the next day, he is obviously missing. CBS is spoiling their OWN episodes.

*Cirie, make it work girl!

Watching Shane eat reminded me of watching Flavor Flav eat -
Ick.

hb

Shane's chafed penis (and Cirie's mocking of it) was a reprieve in this somewhat predictable episode. I would like to think that the Casaya memebers were smart enough to not ALL go for the food to try and stop Terry from winning immunity, but I guess I thought wrong. Terry and his "idol" promises are so lame! Why even offer/show it now? It didn't matter whther people flopped sides b/c whoever Terry and Sally voted for would have gone home anyway in the event of him playing the idol. The only thing that switching others would do is guarantee that Terry DIDN'T have to use it! Don't they teach strategy at the Naval Academy? I want his ass out of there!

I like Terry. Maybe I'm a nut, but I do. I hope that it's Terry and Bruce for the final two, but I'm very worried about Bruce, seeing the previews of the next episode...
Whatever happened to the whole "Survivor being carried away on stretcher in intense pain" story line? I thought that CBS would show that for sure but it's been what, three weeks? I really hope that isn't what they're alluding to in the previews, with Bruce rolling around moaning...I love Bruce!! Bruce for final two!! Yeah!!

What does everyone else think about the absent stretcher? Is that Bruce's fate?

I thought Sally was supposed to be estranged from her parents, because she got a divorce and they are Christian? Then she has a video from home from them. Does Terry not realize he can't win this game? No one will vote for him if he makes it to the final two. Well, except Austin and Sally who really even shouldn't, because it's not like he ever gave them anything. I would be bitter if I were them, but they were holding on to the delusion until the very end that Terry would help them out, and he didn't and still they were all like "Rah Terry!" Pathetic. Go Cirie!

georgia- yes it does seem to be that the stretcher is for Bruce next week. The editing of the Burnett crew is crafty, but one of our fellow commenters said that next week would be the "medical emergency" episode.

georgiababe, I think it probably is Bruce going out on the stretcher but you never know. Editing for misdirection happens a great deal on this show.
I wish Terry was better at strategy but I can't entirely blame him for wanting to hang on to the idol. If he makes it to the end, who he's standing next to will make all the difference if he wants to win the million.
I loved Cirie laughing at Shane's genitalia. I wonder if it was cold out?

One more disturbing image: Shane saying how long he'd been wearing the same wet underpants.

Maybe Courtney sets Bruce on fire with her fire dancing thingies. First a machete to the face - now this. Poor Bruce.

Great recap B-Side. For some reason my Tivo missed this ep so I had to rely on you = and you never let me down!

That photo of Cirie and Shane looks like she is on the "job" if ya know what I mean. ;)

Now we know where Danielle got her big boobs gene from: her dad. Heh.

And Terry... argh. Terry is Colby version 2.0. Strong as an ox. Dumb as an ox.

I think he still has a shot. The right thing for him to do at this point would be to stop hiding the idol. He should just show it to everyone and say, "Hey everyone, I have the idol. If you vote for me, I'll be sending a random person home. You don't want to take the risk, do you?" That way, the others will definitely think twice before writing his name down.

But I don't think that he's smart enough to figure it out. Which is really unfortunate, because that immunity idol is probably the most powerful item in the history of Survivor.

What a waste.

Why all the hate for Aras?

His team basically backstabbed him by not competing. They showed that they weren't willing to protect their leader. If I were him, I would have joined Terry and Sally and tried to pull Bruce over.

Grr!!! Why can't Mark Burnett cast for smarts and not looks for Survivor? I love this show but it is absolutely MADDENING to watch and see NO ONE scheming or plotting! There has been such a dearth of any plotting since the first season. And the only reason Richard Hatch seemed like such a strategical mastermind is that no one had done it before him. The only exception was Rob Cesterino from the Amazon series. It really irritates me that this is the 800th series of Survivor and all the contestants think that "playing under the radar" is the most cunning strategy to get them the million.

I also have to complain about how LAME the Twist is this season. It seems that Burnett, et. al, TRY to create an interesting atmosphere for the show then just let it die out after the first or second weeks. Examples: Amazon = men v. women. That flopped when they mixed up the teams cuz the one chick got all weepy when her flirting skills atrophied. Pearl Islands = pirate theme. The best that happened was Rufus' pilfering the other tribes' belongings in the first episode. And now, Exile Island = exile island & immunity idol. Where is the fun & torture of the castaways if Aras considered going to Exile Island to be a vacation? And Terry finds the hidden immunity idol then blows all our fun by showing it off to everyone.

Parson my vent. I enjoy the show but watching it is becoming frustratingly repetitive with the same bland, forgettably "pretty" faces and lack of scheming which is what SHOULD make this show so entertaining.

I suppose since the casting pool pulls from the same group of folks (the American public) that twice voted for a man who has no "strategery" against global terrorism I should not expect much.

I will thank Mark Burnett for one thing: not prolonging the home video sobfest this go round. That event always makes me yawn. It's nice that the cast gets to see their familia. It just bores me to tears to watch them break down over their silly "love signs" and goofy dogs.

One last thing... Sally should count herself LUCKY to be on the jury. After she lost the fishing spear way back when, her arse should've been toast a long time ago.

ACK! did not need the image of shane's smelly, unwashed, wart-infested dong in my head. at least cirie didn't comment on whether or not shane's resemblance to tommy lee extends to the nether regions.

as for terry, he has certainly raised my ire at times, but i find myself cheering as he dominates challenge after challenge. terry has made at least 5 head-slappingly bone-headed strategic moves, and he's passed up another 3 or 4 great opportunities, but you have to admit, there's something fun about watching him consistently throw it in casaya's faces. i wish sally could have been spared, but since her main strategy throughout the game seemed to be 'ask terry', she sort of deserved it. i'll miss the pigtails and the knee-socks, though.

b-side took terry to task for boasting about his navy exploits, and while he may have come across as slightly (atrociously) smug, at this point, terry's near-invincibility is a given. it can't hurt his chances to intimidate the opposition even more. the fact that only aras chose to compete for immunity is less indicative of the other casayans' confidence than of their acceptance that it would be foolish to pass up food just to lose to terry.

terry probably blew any chance of winning the game weeks ago when he failed to use the idol to save nick. at this point, his only chance is to persuade one of the casaya nut-bars (shane and courtney would be the best candidates) to backstab their alliance, carry that person to the final 2, and hope that the sting of betrayal will sway the jury to turn against the traitor. terry has sally and austin and probably bruce (assuming bruce ends up on the jury), so he'd only need one more vote to win. occasionally, jurors vote for someone they hate out of respect for their game play. alas, the resentment of terry seems too potent at the moment for this to happen, and none of the casayans has the nerve to risk being scapegoated for screwing the alliance. sorry, terry--but hey, 2nd place (100 grand) is still worth playing for.

Why do people even bother signing up for Survivor if they're not going to do anything it takes to "outplay, outsmart, outlast" or whatever it is? Sally pretty much knew she was going home unless she did something drastic and she did nothing to help herself. Terry made no attempt to save Nick or Austin with the idol so expecting him to use it to save her was very stupid.
Here's what Sally could have done to save herself. She could have gone to Cirrie or the other girls and offered up Terry on a silver platter to save herself. She doesn't owe the guy anything she just met him and it's not like he has done anything to help his team members. She could have formed an all girl alliance to get rid of the guys and get her into final 4. At that point she would have been the strongest remaining player and even if the others ganged up against her she would have had a better chance. She could have told the girls to pretend to join her and Terry and that way he would let his guard down and maybe lose an immunity. The could use that chance to vote against him and then he would be forced to use his immunity idol and Aras or Shane would be going home. Then they would pick the men off one by one. There is strength in numbers and they could have all pooled their resources to help one girl win immunity and get Terry out.
That never happened of course. Sally was hoping Terry would use his precious immunity on her which WAS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!!
Sally pretty much deserved to go for her stupidity. I'm hoping Cirrie wins now.

I dunno, I think Terry has a really good shot to win if he makes it to F2. He's already got Sally, Austin, and Bruce, and I think it often happens that people vote for someone they dislike if they've played a strong game. Terry is strategically idiotic, but the upside of that at least is no one is going to be pissed at him for any betrayals. Terry's played stupidly, but clean, and I can't see, say Shane or especially Aras denying him a win because of cockiness. I don't think they hate Terry and as tight as Casaya is, there's not a lot of love there.

And that's not even taking into account future backstabbing as next week a Casayan is guaranteed to go home. Now unless they stupidly just want to stick with the pecking order, I'd say the people at the bottom are going to be a lot more concerned about saving their own asses, knowing that Terry is safe. Should be interesting.

I noticed that OTT hero music Terry got when he and his tribemates made their way towards the Casaya camp (B-Side commented on it too), and thought "HUH" and "WTF". Seemed a bit curious at the time, but now it really does seem more and more plausible (and likely) that Terry wins it.

I was thinking the exact same thing about Courtney No. 14 -- if she is estranged from her family, you'd never know it from the video clips that were shown.

Did anyone else have a hard time at first figuring out which one was Bruce's wife and which one was his daughter ?

The Brain (#24): Sometimes doing nothing is what it takes to "outlast."

I think Survivor should have Scratch 'n' Sniff cards, like John Waters had for one of his films (Polyester?). First up: Shane's damp, perpetually unwashed underpants.

i see your point, chronic (#25), but it looks to me like casaya really does hate terry. they look at terry and say 'that guy is the ultimate badass--just ask him.' i don't see anyone--including aras--favoring terry over a former casaya UNLESS one of them really screws the alliance, and even then, i think they'd prefer to reward one of their misfit brethren over captain america.

victoria (#14): a quote from a post-ejection interview with sally: "I was really shocked and pleasantly surprised that my family sent a video. I obviously have a relationship with my sister and I was shocked to see my parents in the video as I hadn’t talked to my mother in months and seeing them appear in that video gave me hope that there was a chance to make amends. Also, they hate appearing in any video so I was shocked to see them participate."

I wish Cirie would win, but it will probably be a dark horse like Danielle. She seems likable enough and capable of winning some individual immunity going forward.

subgenre (#22)- what "pretty" people do you think are still in it? We obviously have a different standard of beauty b/c I think that they're all average (except for Aras).

btw- Rob M. schemed, Jenna Morasca schemed and I thought that they were "pretty". JMHO

oh- let's not forget Danni. Pretty and schemey! :)

What's with all the Terry hate.
Yeah he could've used his idol.. but he didn't. Yeah he totally sucks at the manipulation thing. But oh well.. it's easy to sit on our couches and shout at the tv on things they should've done.

Hell, if I had found that idol I sure as hell wouldn't give it to anyone.
Even if he did use it a few weeks ago and tied up the teams... he still would've had a huge target on himself FROM HIS OWN TEAMMATES.
Do you think they would want to go up against him either? Hell no!
Has he done some dumbass things? Heck yeah.. but don't dog on him b/c he hasn't given anyone his idol.
I think him keeping it is the right thing.

Anywho... where are all the pics? :( 5 shots isn't enough!

Tailhook scandal of several years ago notwithstanding, Terry belongs to a brotherhood of the sharpest, strongest, quickest and most resourceful bunch: Annapolis graduates who go on to become Naval Aviators. "Top Gun" was an example of their hell-for-leather, fight-to-the-last-man attitude that makes them victors time after time. These are guys that fly and die (or mostly win) alone in the cold unforgivimg skies. They're also loners that fight best against overwhelming odds.

If Terry makes it to the final two with sheer guts and determination, any Casayas on the jury that don't vote for him are small, spiteful people that don't know the meaning of the word courage. Ganging up on others then hating them because they win is something cowardly bullies would do.

zoobabe (#30), Danielle cleans up pretty nice, I'd dare say stunning (until she opens her mouth and that god-awful Boston accent comes out).

Am I the only one who caught Shane and Aras basically telling Terry that if he won every immunity from here to the end they would "hand him the check" or something to that effect? Even if he's been light on the "outwit", if he does in fact run the table on Casaya immunity-wise he would have to be mentioned among the great players of this show of all time, and I have no doubt out of respect the jury will give him the win (as long as he keeps humble and goes light on the trash talking he'll be ok).

#22 subgenre: Let's not forget one of the greatest schemers of all seasons: Kathy Vavrick O'Brien. She turned the game around during Marquesas. Unfortunately, she fell for the "your boob's out" lie that Morman Neleh pulled. She didn't play as well in All-Stars because she alligned with one of Survivor's greatest badguys & backstabbers Boston Rob. But I will now and forever love me some KathyO.

Because of the typical bitterness of people whose original alliance turns on them, I think that players like Cerie and Danielle will always try to stay true to their original alliance as long as they can. Cerie clearly wanted Aras gone, yet she voted for Sally because flipping would hurt her both with her current alliance position and with the jury should she make final 2.

JasonR #34;

Terry was telling Shane & Aras that he expects to win every immunity challenge until the end and Shane told Terry that if he indeed does it, Shane will drive Terry to the bank himself. How generous.

The picture of Shane after he ate 1/2 of the cheese burger in one bite at the end was priceless. My wife and I couldn't help but run it over and over in slow motion on the Tivo. We were laughing so hard. He looked like a man crossed with and ape and a sucker fish.

Shane is a mess. And when he said his son was his brother and best friend that was just weird. If that is the case that kid is doomed. They grew up together? Dude is a mess,but without him there would be a lot less fun on the show.

If Terry represents one of our finest millitary academys, we are in trouble. I would assume that one trained in milltary strategies would be able to come up with something better than he has. Just counting down the episodes till his over achiever ass gets voted out.

No kidding Yota, I can't wait to see the end to Terry's smug mug. He has had the power all along but is too greedy to use it. I hope he has regrets when its all said and done.

Victoria, good point, hadn't thought about the parental hating of divorce and all. Why were they on her video? Strange.

Can we get a video of Shane's food fest in slow motion for the video of the week or day????? Pleasssseee.....????

Go Cirie!!!

#32, totally agree. It's obvious Terry has little in the way of scheming and manipulation skills. It's just plain painful to watch. And yet everyone is dogging him for not playing a game based on scheming and manipulation. I mean even if you're great at it, it still hardly guarantees you a win.

The contestants that are able to successfully plan and execute a mastermind scheme are pretty few and far between anyway. I know there's no way I could, some people are just really shitty liars.

If Terry, at age 47 no less, can keep dominating and winning immunity while maintaining the begrudging respect of those who are on the jury, he deserves to win. He will actually be in better stead than he would by scheming, since no one ever felt betrayed by someone who got where they are fair and square by simply continuing to win immunity, as opposed to lying and trickery. Might not make for great TV like scheming does, but it's working for him.

B-side, well, yes, there WAS another Survivor contestant who absolutely drove me nuts. Stephanie who I unfortunately had to see in TWO Survivors. It wasn't bad enough for CBS to inflict her on us for one season, they had to bring her BACK... I was so glad she won neither one she was on.

I, too, can't believe Terry. You'd think someone hit him with a stupid stick or something because he is acting so pathetic! I'm sure he's HEARD of strategy...

Can't wait for this week's show and see the medical emergency they've been teasing us about for weeks... Pretty sad when the only highlight of Survivor is someone getting hurt.