Amanda, in turn, tells James about Courtney's flakiness over the past few days, which causes him to throw a little tantrum about how emotional Courtney can be, which seems sort of...counterintuitive to the whole discussion. Meanwhile, Todd talks to Jean-Robert about how tonight's boot will be Jaime. JR, however, wants to get rid of Peih-Gee, and his reasoning is interesting: he tells Todd that he likes her and thinks that she's cool, and he doesn't want to like her enough to hear her out when she's still around tomorrow. This is solid reasoning, getting rid of people with whom you identify. It's also the reason why Jean-Robert is still around.
JR seems to think that the final three is going to be him, Todd and Amanda, which Todd signs on for. JR also gives Todd a stern warning about double-crossing him, and how JR will be blaming Todd personally if he gets screwed over. Todd is like, "Um, okay" and then tells us in confessional how ready he is to get rid of Jean-Robert when it suits him. Which should be never, at this point. Seriously, stack the JR haters on the jury and take his ass to the end.
Back at camp, the old Zhan Hus approach Frosti with the news that they have one of the immunity idols. This alarms Frosti quite a bit, which I think confirms my theory that he wasn't in on the whole challenge fixing thing that went awry last week, because then he would know that James had both, which he apparently does not. So, that mystery is solved. He tells us that the way they describe it is very similar to the one that he's already seen (which he has to know that James has), so it worries him a bit. You guys, I don't think he's voting with Zhan Hu.
Meanwhile, Jaime talks to Todd out in the forest about the immunity idols. She tells him that she knows who has both of them, and that she'll "tell him tomorrow" if he keeps her around. This is where I got suspicious of the whole "Jamie is dumb and thinks that she has an idol, ha ha, what an idiot" storyline, because you will note that she says "both". Which means that she is smart enough to know that there is only two. Also, she wouldn't be doing this if she thought what she had was the real idol, because logically this is either a bluff to Todd that she's got one, or an acknowledgement that she does not, depending on the circumstances. Either way, she's not dumb. She's not smart, necessarily, but she's definitely not dumb.
Todd, in confessional: "Man, she really needs to catch up. She's on the small bike in the back." See, that's how you act intellectually superior. He has a little room to gloat having found the idols at all, but then he turned around and gave them to James, which was equally dumb, so I guess James...stole his bike?
Tribal Council! Probst asks Jean-Robert about merge strategy, which gives him an excuse to call out Courtney as someone that he believes will be sticking around for awhile. That seemed completely unnecessary, but whatever. Jean-Robert and Courtney bitching at tribal council is not exactly a newsmaker round these parts nowadays. We get, like, thirty seconds of Jeff's stupid questions tonight (adding yet more evidence to the fact that he is being super lame this season) before it's time to vote. After the vote, Jaime interrupts Jeff, telling him that she "found something at camp" and thinks it "might" be the idol.
She goes over and hands it to him. They edit out the part where Jeff pees his pants with excitement at what he's about to get to do. He's as excited as we are when he tells everyone that the rules of Survivor (rules?) state that immunity idols must be played before the votes are read. Jean-Robert, knowing that he is well and truly fucked if this thing turns out to be an idol (and also just now becoming the very last person to figure out that idols are even involved this season, which is the sweeter part, if you ask me), is completely freaking out on the sidelines. Jeff is like "This, however, is NOT an immunity idol" and then he throws it into the fire. Jeff needs to throw more things in the fire. Like, say, several of the contestants. You can tell that Jaime was clearly not anticipating an embarrassing debacle here, but that's what you get when the Probst sees an opportunity to mock you. Still, it's awesome. The votes are read, and Jaime is ousted by a vote of 7-3.
So, that was badass.
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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