Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Elephantitis
By Sara M | Season 17 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.16.2008
Probst asks Sugar what her strategy has been in regards to the idol. Hey, Probst -- shut up about the idol already! Stop it! Shouldn't you be telling GC how pathetic he is for quitting? Why are you trying to blow up Fang's spot like this? Don't you ruin this blindside for me. Sugar says no one's asked her if she has the idol or not. "Doesn't that strike you as odd?" Probst asks. Sugar says no, since her tribe mates are allowed to look through her bag. Crystal's reaction to this is so pronounced it gets a musical flourish. Probst asks Sugar if she thinks her bag was searched. "I don't know," she says. "Do you keep your bag with you?" Probst asks. Sugar says she keeps it out where anyone can go through it. I don't get her strategy here at all. Back at camp, she seemed pretty confident that no one thought she had the idol and that they wouldn't search her bag. Now she's acting like she was well aware that they could search her bag, and it's no big deal.
Probst turns to Crystal and asks her if she thinks it's crazy to leave your bag out where anyone could find it and search it, or "crazy smart." I believe you mean "crazy like a fox," Probst. Crystal says it's just plain crazy. I think it's crazy (not like a fox, either) for a game show host to interject himself into the game like this. Probst asks Sugar if she's really that unconcerned with people knowing she has the idol. Sugar says that there's a sense of power in other people knowing you have it, because then they won't vote you out for fear you'll use the idol and it'll backfire on them. Not when they have five people in their alliance to your two, Sugar. But way to basically tell the players that Sugar has the idol, thereby ruining her game, and that the rest of the tribe searched her bag and found it, thereby ruining theirs. Really, thanks, Probst. You've just promised that this season will be even duller than it already was. And with that, it's time to vote.
Sugar votes for GC, saying she's only doing this because he said he wanted to go home. Also, she used two pieces of paper. Wasteful bitch. GC votes for Kelly, saying he had to vote for someone besides himself. We don't see anyone else's vote. They'd better all say Sugar. Not because I don't like Sugar, but because I love a good blindside and I want to see something good come out of Fang.
Probst grabs the urn and asks if anyone wants to play the idol. Everyone looks at Sugar, who stays seated. Crystal has a happy look on her face. I will be very impressed if they actually followed through with this blindside. First vote: GC. Second vote: GC. GC is getting ready to grab his stuff and go. Kelly gets a vote from GC. And then ... GC gets three votes. Aw, crap. No blindside. With the fourth vote, GC is done. Oh, suck. LAME! I am very disappointed in you, Crystal, Matty, Ken, and Kelly. Probst snuffs GC's torch, and he turns to wave good-bye to his tribe, but they're all stone-faced and angry. GC leaves to do some non-suffering with Michelle, Paloma, Gillian, and Jacquie. Good riddance, quitter. Probst tells Fang to dig deep and stuff. And then over the credits, GC tries to tell us that he isn't a quitter even though he totally is. In GC, the C doesn't stand for "Sizzle." It stands for "Suck."