After all James’s bluster at the previous Tribal Council where he promised he wouldn’t work for game-throwers and quitters, he started off this week’s episode in more of mood to save his own ass. As Jaime, Erik, and PG slept, he was hard at work, justifying it by saying that the others would be able to perform better at challenges if they got lots of rest.
Do Jaime and co have some sort of memory-erasing skills I don’t know about? Did James forget the part where they admitted to throwing the last challenge? I doubt more sleep will turn a tribe who doesn’t want to win into challenge monsters. At the rate they’re going, they’ll likely decide to sleep through the next challenge rather than attend.
Watching the other tribe’s controlling alliance in action was a study in contrasts. Todd and Amanda were not idly lying down and watching their tribemates do all the work. Instead, Todd was telling Amanda all about the clues to the hidden immunity idol. Just because he couldn’t figure out the clue doesn’t mean Todd abandoned the search to seduce virgins and show off his non-existent acting skills like some other survivors whose names may or may not rhyme with “lamie”.
The butt of the jokeEverything interesting pretty much happened after the Reward Challenge. The reward itself was a visit to a teahouse, as well as a big supply of toilet paper and various beauty products. That tea must be pretty bad if they need so much toilet paper after it. Failing won the challenge – no throwing needed from John Woo this time around – and kidnapped James.
The teahouse was located somewhere in the middle of nowhere. That can’t be good for its customer base, especially if the only people who visit are smelly reality show contestants with no money. There they were served tea and pastries but disappointingly no fortune cookies. I have a feeling Todd’s in particular might have a little message about the best-laid plans often going awry.
After that, it was time to wash off some of the accumulated dirt. Courtney made sure to sit in the tub furthest from Jean-Robert so she wouldn’t catch any of his skeevy vibes. She happened to share a tub with Amanda so he just had to make a pervy comment about how much he wanted to be in there with them. Oh, go away, you creeper. They’re not there to film “Sexy Lesbian Hot Tub Party 4” for your private collection.
James on the other hand was more than happy to show off the goods and stripped off everything for a blur-tastic shower scene. Lingering shots of his bum followed. Sometimes, I feel like this entire season has been a series of endless butt shots. Amanda was especially appreciative and announced he had a cute butt. Jeff Probst is totally going to cancel the next RC and replace it with a sexual harassment seminar if this goes on.
Smooth criminalAfter the tea party, Todd approached James for an intimate one-on-one. No, not that kind of intimate one-on-one although you’d forgiven for thinking it with this lot of leering louts. Todd made James promise to give him his clue and in exchange he would save him from being voted out of John Woo.
James knew it was his only shot so he gave up the goods to Todd the next day. He figured out where the hidden immunity idol was and told Amanda. She decided to poke around the place where it was with a stick and pretend she was removing shingles. At least she didn’t sing “La la la, I’m removing shingles” while giggling to herself and winking like certain other people might have done. Her plan backfired when Frosti jumped up and started removing the shingles for her.
OMG STOP HELPING, YOU OVERLY RESPONSIBLE AND UPRIGHT YOUNG MAN!! YOU’RE RUINING THE PLAN!!
As if this wasn’t bad enough, Todd panicked and started trying to remove the little wooden immunity part right in front of Frosti. Smooth move, 007. Amanda looked distressed and secretly wondered whether she could knock Todd out with the stick and say it was an accident.
All this resulted in the idol falling to the floor and Frosti cottoning onto what was happening. Todd and Amanda were forced to bring Frosti into the loop, and later told Courtney and Denise about it as well. The hidden immunity idol is now officially the more-exposed-than-Paris-Hilton immunity idol.
Can I have some soy sauce with that?Todd gave James the idol and told him to throw the challenge so that he could use it against the Jaime alliance in the next TC. Ooh, Mr “I can’t stand losing” throwing the challenge? This should be good. It gets better because on John Woo, Jaime, PG, and Erik were perturbed that during the RC, Frosti and Sherea had basically ignored them and avoided eye contact. They were worried Sherea and Frosti had jumped ship and realised that they had to win the next Immunity Challenge no matter what. I hope you didn’t get dizzy from all those tables turning.
The IC saw the contestants enjoying a bit of Chinese food. Not the kind you get at Ho’s Chinese Kitchen either. They wish it was mere dumplings and kung-pao chicken. It was actually such delicacies as bird foetuses, cute little baby turtles, and 1000-year-old eggs. The best thing I can say about the 1000-year-old eggs is that
at least they aren’t actually 1000 years old. Other than that, yikes! I can just imagine the gas that’d give you.
Failing had a big advantage in having James as a double-agent but Denise threw that advantage away when she went up against him and could not eat her duck foetuses at all. Lame, Denise. They have those just about every season! Who cares about a few feathers?
Somehow, while celebrating their victory the rest of John Woo failed to notice that James looked as if someone had just kicked his grandmother down a well. Todd was forced to watch his brilliant plan go up in smoke. It was such a good one too, although I personally would have kept the idol for myself and simply told James exactly where he could find the other one. The ruling alliance of Failing resolved to vote out Sherea, while Courtney tried to convince them to vote out JR instead.
The TC was more like a forum for true confessions as Courtney and Sherea revealed exactly what they thought of JR. Why can’t anyone shut their mouths in TC this season? Does Jeff inject them with truth serum beforehand? Courtney continued with some violin-strumming about how she still felt like an outsider among the tribe’s cliques. Todd was shocked and said that she certainly wasn’t an outsider to him. I felt like I was watching Oprah. All of Courtney’s pleas were in vain however as Sherea was voted out.
Bad eggs may last for long, long timeMuch longer than good eggs, it seemsBad boys may also stick aroundTo sleep and snore and plot and schemeBad plans are usually doomed to failThough even when those plans are fineBad luck is always round the bendAnd it can strike at any time