Tides are turning and alliances are breaking down. These are the days of our lives. I'm with Cirie, every time Aras or Shane bitch about their alliance with crazy Courtney or fake boob Danielle I just laugh.
As La Mina returns from voting off Ruth Marie, Sally bends over and starts kissing her own ass because she's so good the guys decided not to vote her off. Yeah, now, but later you might be gone. You better hope to win the next Immunity Challenge.
See what I mean?
The next morning at Casaya, the fire keeps going out. They make it all dramatic that it keeps going out, but I think it's because they're not making good fires. Aras wants to blame everyone else for it, but he's the tool making the fires. Aras does get a little pissed when he sees Bruce making a rock garden while he's slaving away at the fire. I don't know how many people Aras expects to make fires, but four seems to be enough. Or not enough because they're having a hell of a time. Aras does approach Bruce and ask him if he'd help out and not build that stupid ass garden of his. Bruce gets offended because it's not a garden. They have a dumb argument and Bruce harps on what Aras is saying and doesn't pay attention to the fact that under what he's saying he's calling him a lazy mofo. They resolve it, sorta, and Ara laments that even though he's the youngest member of Casaya, he's the hottest. I'm sorry I meant most mature. Aras comments that he'd almost rather be on Exile Island then deal with these people. So would I.
When they arrive at the Reward Challenge, Jeff tells them that they'll have a relay race of sorts. Out in a boat is rice, beans, and some guy from New Orleans with a funny accent. Also in the boat are some fish. One member of the team has to run out to the boat, which isn't out too far, probably waist deep for most, and grab each item individually. When they get back to their mat in the sand they'll toss the item to the next person, then to the next, to the next and finally to the anchor who has to put it into a box. When they move on to the fish the anchor has to chop the fish's head and tail off before putting it into the box. Whoever wins gets to keep all of what they've just put in the box, fish, rice and beans. The losing tribe will get to take home either a bag of rice or a bag of beans.
I'm sure this isn't the first time smelly things have been thrown at her face
The challenge starts and Casaya is off to a decent lead until Bobby drops a slippery fish. The person who throws it has to run, pick up the item and try tossing it back to the person who's dropped it. La Mina is able to catch up when Bruce has a hard time chopping the fish. Terry, as anchor, goes through the fish easily. There're eight fish all together. La Mina is up by two until Sally fraks it up. What they all should have done is layed down in the sand to get the slippery off, but they didn't do that and the fish keeps falling when she tries to catch it. Also, over at Casaya, Bobby's now anchor and makes up lots of time chopping the heads and tails off in one fell swoop. It gets down to the wire as Bobby and Terry are chopping their last fish. Bobby slams the head off and wins Casaya reward. Since La Mina lost again, someone has to go to Exile Island. Casaya selects Terry to go, since they've realized how important Terry is to La Mina. Terry's not too happy, since his main goal of finding the Immunity Idol has been reached.
Casaya's happy to return to camp with nearly 100 pounds of food. Unfortunately, they don't have refrigerators in the Panamanian jungle so how the hell are they going to eat it all? They were also given spices so my first thought is to salt it. Of course I have no idea how the hell you do that, but they didn't even think of that. The rains have set in so it's impossible for Casaya to get a fire going and cook their fish so they decide to have some sushi. Why does everybody look at Bruce? They chop it up and eat it. Cirie's never had sushi and hopes she doesn't wake up feeling sick the next morning.
Over at La Mina, they're happy to have their beans. They make a bit too many for the four remaining tribes mates and Austin goes back for seconds. Unfortunately, since their bodies have been deprived of food for so long the beans move quickly through them. Something I hope I never have to experience, diarrhea and vomiting in a jungle with no bathroom, toilet paper or soap. The agony continues through the night as both Nick and Austin take turns going to the jungle to take care of business.
I thought it was just women who met up in the bathroom
Casaya's having a better time. Because of the downpours everyone is under the shelter. Everyone except Bobby and Bruce who find shelter in the bathroom. Bobby's snagged the bottle of wine they won the day before and he and Bruce are helping themselves to it. Drunk, Bruce and Bobby make the promise that they'll never vote each other out. Bobby does tell us that as soon as they merge he's going to vote all those Casaya mofos out. Foreshadow #1. When the group wakes up the next morning they find both men in the bathroom, as Bruce stumbles out. When Bobby's confronted about taking the wine he admits he did it, and apologizes. Courtney gets on him still and he says that he doesn't care what she thinks. He calls her one of the most annoying people in the history of the world. Who do you think is the most annoying person in the world? Carrot Top? Terri Hatcher?
At La Mina, Austin complains that they were up most of the night because of the beans. He thinks this has really hurt their chances at the Immunity Challenge. Foreshadow #2.
On Exile Island Terry's gathered some snails and coconut which he makes into a nice dish, browning the coconuts with EVOO and some chicken broth from a box. And it really looks like he's making beans. Maybe not. He says that he's more concerned about his team, hoping they can eat enough and stay hydrated. That's his biggest fear, that they won't be hydrated enough. Foreshadow #3.
Yeah
Terry rejoins his group for the Immunity Challenge and this one's fairly simple. Three members of the team have to take a boat out into the water. Underwater are coffins tied up. They have to untie the coffin, open it, then untie the skull inside. Once they have all four skull pieces from the coffins they make their way back to shore. On shore they'll hand the skulls over to two remaining tribe members who will put together the skull sets to form a pyramid, setting a gold skull on top. There's only one way the skulls will fit together to create the pyramid, so it could get tedius.
Must be hard since she's fighting the laws of buoyancy
When the challenge starts and the teams go out I'm happy to see Terry and Dan on the swim team. Since holding your breath is the key to this, having a Navy pilot and astronaut, respectively, on your team is definitely a good thing. And of course since Danielle has those floating devices attached to her she's going to have a bit more problems. Terry and Dan take a big lead over Danielle, Courtney and Aras, and at some point all three Casaya members are in the water trying to untie the coffins. When they get the coffins back to the shore Austin and Sally struggle a bit and Casaya catches up. Luckily, they don't pull ahead and Austin and Sally finish the pyramid first.
Can he please drop that boulder on her dreadlocked head
When the losers make it back to camp, they begin debating on who's going to be going home. Cirie sits with the alliance as they make their decisions. They decide to vote Bobby out, until Aras says he wants it to be Bruce. Because of their little confrontation earlier, he doesn't like Bruce's erratic behavior. Shane disagrees with that decision and thinks that Bruce will be loyal, as opposed to Bobby who will immediately turn once they merge. Was he listening to his interview earlier because he's exactly right. The other members of the alliance disagree and they decide on Bruce. Shane then goes to Bobby and tells him that it was going to be him voted out but they've decided on Bruce. He says that he wants his promise that he's loyal to Casaya and won't switch sides when the merge comes. Bobby swears and Shane wants him to swear on his (Shane's) kid. And why wouldn't he even if he's lying. That's a dumb thing to swear on. Anyway, Bobby swears on Shane's kid. Hell, I'll swear on Shane's kid. Unfortunately, the girls don't want Bruce to go, they want Bobby to go. Danielle has some off base impression that she's in charge of this and decides to vote Bobby out. Okay funbags, you don't have any say, you're just the one who said something first, you're not swaying anybody. Anyway, the girls beg Shane to change his mind. Of course he can't because he also swore on his kid that he wouldn't vote for Bobby. Okay, enough swearing on Shane's kid. It's getting old. Shane's pissed because he's flip flopping all over the place. Oh, and at some point nasty Courtney starts doing her yoga in Bruce's Zen garden, while he's building it. Seriously, why would you do that unless you were a bitch.
At Tribal Council it's not clear on who's going to get voted out. I'm really hoping it's Courtney but I'm not in charge of the voting. When Jeff learns about Winegate, he asks Bobby about it and he apologizes and says he didn't realize it was such a big deal. Honestly, neither did I, he was the one who basically won that challenge for them chopping off the fish heads. The group talks about how dysfunctional they are, but they normally come together when it's crunch time. Oh, except for the last challenge. When the voting begins we see that Shane casts a throwaway vote. When Jeff tallies the votes there's one for Aras, one for Courtney, two for Bruce, and three for Bobby.
