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Immunity challenge! This one, it's real boring. There's a big net hanging, and four people will hold the net up, while four people from the other team take turns tossing coconuts into the net, making it ever heavier. The team whose net stays up the longest wins immunity, essentially.

The various throwing of coconuts into nets ensues. It is just as enthralling as you think it would be. Parvati, Cirie, James, and Jonathan are holding up the net for the favorites, so they must think that Parvati can do the least damage here. The newbies figure out that you have to throw the coconuts underhanded first, and they manage to make the net really heavy as a result, winning immunity.

And now, things get real ridiculous.

Back from the immunity challenge loss, Jon, Yau-Man and Ami decide to try and get rid of Parvati. Meanwhile, Amanda tells James that Yau-Man needs to go, because that's what Cirie wants to do and they sort of have to. Mean-meanwhile, Ozzy is over trying to tell Cirie that Eliza is the better choice for the tribe because she's the weakest. Again, Parvati = Turkey Leg. Cirie is not having it and refuses to budge and get rid of anyone besides Yau-Man. At this juncture, people should have been like "Well, eff you then" and just booted her ass, but no.

While Cirie is telling Ozzy that there will be no way she's getting rid of Yau-Man, Eliza and Ami walk up and she just sort of...keeps talking. I have no idea what the deal is, there. Maybe she doesn't see them? Maybe she's trying to play it off like she's trying to placate Ozzy?

Then, Jonathan walks up and makes the most awkward "Please, please, keep talking" face ever, which makes everyone stop dead in their tracks. Why is it okay to discuss this in front of Eliza and Ami, but not Jonathan? Jonathan decides to grab Cirie and tell her about the plan to get rid of Parvati. You can tell that he's kind of trying to comfort her, and she's kind of thinking he's bossing her around. It's odd, but everyone's had that kind of miscommunicative discussion before.

So, Jon thinks Cirie isn't listening to him, and she continues to think he's treating her like she's dumb, and the volume steadily increases on the conversation until they're full-on yelling at each other. Yau-Man tries to diffuse the situation by telling Cirie that there are two pairs in the other alliance, so the odds that she will be able to break that up are slim. Cirie's response is that "you can make the same argument for you guys" which, are Yau-Man and Jonathan making out? I had no idea.

Also, you kind of can't make the same argument, because the smaller alliances within the Jon/Yau/Eliza/Ami segment of the tribe will probably be much easier to infiltrate, and thus provide a better opportunity for Cirie. But by this time, she's so pissed off at them that there is absolutely no way that is going to happen. Cirie tries to end the conversation by being like, "I know how this works! How far did YOU get?" to Jonathan, and my thing is: you can pretty much only say that if you've won. Getting fourth is not that much better than seventh. And then the camera pans over, and Ozzy and Amanda are standing right there, for what appears to have been this whole conversation. What the hell is going on? Have they abandoned all semblance of privacy?

All of a sudden, Ozzy is talking to Jon about trying to get Yau-Man out, and my head explodes. This is all one giant WTF.

Then the whole discussion comes full circle when Ozzy, James, Parvati, and Amanda are talking (with Ami there, because these people are trying to kill me). Seriously, the editing is so off here. You, guys, don't talk about this with Ami right there. THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE! So, they're trying to convince Cirie to get rid of Eliza, but she is not having it. Some more. Again. Cirie's refusal to vote for anyone but Yau-Man has been the only consistent thing this episode. Obviously, the two sub-alliances in this tribe are much more loosely composed than they've been letting on. Otherwise, why the hell would random people always be standing around? James tells us that he has no idea what is going on, and he "feels like he's in China again, with a bunch of dumbasses". Let he who has not wasted two immunity idols cast the first stone.

Whew, thank Jeebus that's over. I almost error 404'ed.

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