Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fistbump
By Sara M | Season 20 | Episode 8 | Aired on 04.08.2010
While Douche does some fake Tai Chi in the ocean, Li'l Russell goes to Parvati and says that Douche is working against him. "Who does he think he is?" Parvati asks, totally reacting to Li'l Russell's news exactly the way she knows he wants and expects her to. I can't help but feel like Li'l Russell is being played by the women in both of the Villain alliances, but he's too consumed with trying to get rid of the men he perceives as powerful to notice. He's decided that Parvati is going to ride his coattails, even though she told him that she doesn't do that. Li'l Russell points out an actually solid reason for getting rid of Douche next -- if another man is voted out, the Heroes will be convinced that there's an all-women alliance on the Villain tribe, and that will give Li'l Russell options should the merge happen. Which isn't really something he should tell Parvati since while that might help Li'l Russell in the game, it does the opposite for her, but he's too proud of his intelligence to realize that. If Li'l Russell tells the Heroes that the women have an alliance against him, who does that affect? Parvati, who they're sure to believe is in charge of it based on how she played the game last time. "It's all falling together perfectly," Parvati just says. "You've done that before," Li'l Russell says, shaking a finger at her but still not getting it.
The next day, it's time for the immunity challenge. The tribes arrive to find a muddy pit with a series of gates in it. Douche seems happy to see this, as if his tribe has any chance of winning. Probst explains the challenge, which has been taken from the Guatemala season except the teams are racing for flags instead of jugs of corn. The first tribe to get two flags back wins. Unsurprisingly, this is a purely physical challenge. And since the Heroes only have five members, one of them will race against a single Villain. You know, they could just take the fifth member out of the challenge entirely like they've done before, which will make things more fair for the Villains since they have to race two men and three women against the Villains' three men and two women, but no. Even though they had no problem doing that for the Heroes in past challenges. Of course, Courtney and Sandra have to participate in this one, so Parvati quickly assigns Danielle and Jerri to sit out before Douche can do something stupid like sit out himself and Li'l Russell.