The tribes come together for what they think is going to be the reward challenge, but Jeff instead announces a merge. Everyone gets their new black buffs, and Jeff tells them to prepare themselves for a celebratory feast. He also reminds them sternly that "the game never stops" and then dismisses them to their feast. He says this in exactly the same faux-serious, overly dramatic way that Julie Chen says these kinds of things right before fake bird poop flies all over the place.
The castaways get to enjoy lots of food and whatnot while acrobats prance around in front of them. Many of them are getting drunk and taking shots, which seems inadvisable on a belly full of rice. I really wanted Courtney to get drunk and make out with Jean-Robert here, but it did not happen.
At their new camp (which is Fei Long's camp), the tribe discusses possible new names. They know that they want the word "black" somewhere in it, because of the buff color. This causes Jean-Robert to joke that "Once James leaves, we'll have to change the name." It's the kind of joke you make with someone that you know you're buddies with, as JR sort of is with James. It's not the kind of joke you make on national television, but you know...can't really fault him. Frosti picks up on this and jokes about how he got put on the yellow tribe, which seems to break the tension that remains. It doesn't make JR a racist or anything, he just didn't really read the room correctly, is all. But God knows my friends and I have made similar jokes with each other in the past. In short, I guess I'm trying to say that JR is a dumbass. A dumbass who can't read a room. Or a nation.
The tribe settles on the name "Hae Da Fung" which means Black Fighting Wind in Chinese. While Jaime paints the flag, a boat approaches. It's Probst! Everyone is like "WTF?" because it's pretty much like the principal showing up at your keg party. Quick, hide the bong, Probst is coming! He's even all awkward slang-y. "Whatup?" he says, pretty much like my grandma would.
It turns out that he's come to camp not to enjoy a dope and funky fresh evening with his homeslices, but to bring the tribe together for their first individual immunity challenge. He does not mention that he's also scouting for his next girlfriend. That's the awesome thing about contestants: he keeps getting older, but they stay the same age, man.
The challenge today is cribbed directly from Big Brother, and I mean directly. He's going to be asking them detailed questions about the feast that happened earlier, and they're going to write their answers down; wrong answers are immediately eliminated, and the last one standing wins immunity. This challenge, it is boring. It comes down to Jaime and Frosti, and Frosti takes the first immunity necklace.
Time for individual scheming! This is always where the season starts to hit the sweet spot for me. James pulls Todd and Amanda aside to tell them about the whole situation with the fake idol and the possibility that Jaime thinks she has the real one. He's actually sort of smug, going on and on about how dumb they are for thinking that the tile is the idol when it doesn't say "immunity" on it and whatnot, and it just goes on forever. So, here's my thing: James kind of doesn't have any room to be doing this: he wouldn't be in position of any idols were it not for Todd's Super Smart Plan To Finally Capture Moose and Squirrel last week. It's not like James deciphered the clues, ascertained the location of the idol, and then grabbed the second one as well, which is the way he's acting. Also, he was the one that originally grabbed the wrong plaque by mistake, so it's not like he didn't make the same mistake. Also also, someone who couldn't even figure out when a challenge was being blatantly thrown isn't exactly in a position to mock someone else's misperceptions. It's not that I don't want to see the fake idol played, because I totally do (and did), but this is sort of crappy right here. Not that I don't understand his desire to make those people look dumb, because (again) they did try to screw him over earlier in the game. But still: quiet, James. I sort of like you right now, so please don't ruin it.
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Comments (17)
thanks for the recap, schoonie! i'm sure i'm not alone in appreciating the time you give to your readers.
i loved this episode! i'm enjoying this season quite a bit, i must say.
keep up the great work!
1 of 17 | Posted by ajkc41 | Posted on November 8, 2007 8:59 AM
schoonie, i've been spying on your forever but i had to register so i could tell you "Todd's Super Smart Plan To Finally Capture Moose and Squirrel" was hilarious!!!
2 of 17 | Posted by margot | Posted on November 8, 2007 10:38 AM
Great recap. I agree Jaime had at least a pretty good suspicion what was in her possession wasn't the immunity idol, but since she pretty much had nothing else, she pulled it on the chance it could have been. It was still funny but doesn't rise to the level of when Dreamz flipped on his tribe and we got the famous Edgardo doubletake last season.
3 of 17 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on November 8, 2007 10:48 AM
I must have missed the part where James gave one of his ii's to Todd. What, no??? Again, I am firm in my opinion....TODD IS AN IDIOT!!!!! If Jamie was smart, she would have switched the fake idol in James' bag with the real one, it still would have left him one. Besides, is he really going to need it that much, because 99% of the immunity challenges are pyshical and he is going to win probably 100% of them.
4 of 17 | Posted by featherhead | Posted on November 8, 2007 10:55 AM
I must have missed the part where James gave one of his two immunity idols's to Todd. What, no, he didn't??? Again, I am firm in my opinion....TODD IS AN IDIOT!!!!! If Jamie was smart, she would have switched the fake idol in James' bag with the real one, it still would have left him one. Besides, is he really going to need it that much, because 99% of the immunity challenges are pyshical and he is going to win probably 100% of them.
5 of 17 | Posted by featherhead | Posted on November 8, 2007 10:56 AM
"she would have switched the fake idol in James' bag with the real one,"
You actually can't steal other people's things. So, that sort of wasn't a possibility, or the whole concept of the idol would turn into one big steal-fest.
6 of 17 | Posted by schoonie | Posted on November 8, 2007 11:08 AM
Probst is totally Survivor's Wooderson.... just gotta keep on livin' man, L I V I N
7 of 17 | Posted by Krizzatch
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Posted on November 8, 2007 11:22 AM
"You actually can't steal other people's things. So, that sort of wasn't a possibility, or the whole concept of the idol would turn into one big steal-fest."
I always wondered whether there were "Survivor Rules"...because I was thinking why Jamie just didn't take one of James' idols as well.
8 of 17 | Posted by moasey | Posted on November 8, 2007 12:15 PM
Schoonie, love your recaps, but why so short in length this season?
I miss your epic dissertations on the psychological ramifications of Lisi falling and Dreamz being homeless while he was a kid. How about padding out next week's recaps to at least 5 pages? :-)
9 of 17 | Posted by angiemarie | Posted on November 8, 2007 3:35 PM
I'm still doing that kind of thing (see: two paragraph rant about James and the Giant Fake Immunity Idol up there), I just don't do as much stupid detail about what happens in challenges and boring stuff that has nothing to do with anything fun. Plus, as the season gets longer and we get to know the people better, you get more stuff like that from me. It's a process, yo.
10 of 17 | Posted by schoonie | Posted on November 8, 2007 9:25 PM
If I was Jaime I would have kept/played the fake idol as well. I haven't watched every single season of Survior but the seasons I have seen don't necessarily actually SAY "Hidden Immunity Idol" do they? Especially when the idol is.. well.. an idol (Yul) and not a piece of wood with enough space to write on.
Or am I just not remembering correctly?
11 of 17 | Posted by Firthguy | Posted on November 9, 2007 9:24 AM
#9: angiemarie:
Schoonie, love your recaps, but why so short in length this season?
Schoonie, is inadequate length a common complaint you get from women? LOL.
12 of 17 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on November 9, 2007 10:50 AM
#9: angiemarie:
"Schoonie, love your recaps, but why so short in length this season?"
Is inadequate length a common complaint you get from women? LOL.
13 of 17 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on November 9, 2007 10:51 AM
Didn't Yau Man's idol get stolen?
I don't recall hearing/reading about any rules forbidding theft.
Can anybody confirm please?
14 of 17 | Posted by sweetblondie | Posted on November 9, 2007 11:15 AM
They didn't steal Yauman's idol, they just looked in his bag and saw that he had it (I don't understand why going in other people's bags is allowed). The funny part was that Yauman made a fake immunity idol and hid it back where he found the real one.
15 of 17 | Posted by featherhead | Posted on November 9, 2007 12:11 PM
Also also
love it schoonie.. I miss talking with you Or seeing you in the forums this season.
Did BB burn you out?
Then what the hell are you going to do in January ?
16 of 17 | Posted by giffordsaz | Posted on November 10, 2007 11:38 AM
DANG! poor misguided, socially backward parisa. i actually felt very bad for her this epi. the girl’s so traumatized by her experiences in the house that she can’t even open up to the attempts of a complete stranger to be friendly to her.
"It felt like she wanted my backstory to assess me better,"
NO SHIT, silly, that’s what people do when they’re trying to get to know you!!
it’s like she can’t win for losing! one minute she’s trying to be all super bubbly and flirty like the other girls and the next she’s playing the victimized social outcast. DUDE, just be *YOURSELF* and quit letting your external environment determine your self-worth.
it’s very disappointing and plain pathetic to see her carry on after the way she came into the house as this seemingly mature person who could bring a different perspective to the cookie cutter Real World. i actually think that parisa is a pretty girl and could do well by expanding her social circle outside of the house instead of continually extending herself as the punching bag/punchline for the majority of her roommates. i really hope that she overcomes her insecurity and low self-esteem after she watches this season.
on to trasha. this girl really has a lot of nerve trying to pass herself off as some spiritual, moralistic, nice person.
i know that she’s young and probably very sheltered/ ignorant. nobody's perfect, but publicly Bible-thumping while simultaneously being a nasty, arrogant person that tears down other people makes her a horrible model for Christianity. she's oblivious to the fact that she comes off as a big-mouthed hypocrite who name-checks Jesus just to further her favorite pastime of acting like she’s superior to others.
UGGHH!! >: - ~
in the wise words of our recapper “No, actually. Nice, fun, bubbly and outgoing are pretty much the last words I'd use to describe Trasha.”
AMEN TO THAT!
i hope that once she sees herself on tv she'll come to realize just how distasteful she has been this season and stop being so freaking high and mighty.
word of the day –
dimepiece (n.)
a very beautiful and appealing woman; a woman achieving the highest ranking on an attractiveness scale of 1 to ten; Syn.: a dime, a 10, a perfect 10 ; see Bo Derek in 10.
17 of 17 | Posted by naijababe623 | Posted on November 13, 2007 11:04 AM