Episode Report Card Sara M: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT This Is Stupid
By Sara M | Season 22 | Episode 7 | Aired on 03.30.2011
Phillip skulks off to find the one camera that isn't on Rob and vent that everyone likes the crispy rice, but Rob likes it a lot. So when he asked for a little bit of crispy rice, he was told it was all for Rob and he could only have some of the spare non-crispy rice. I don't understand why Phillip can't just make his own batch of crispy rice? It looks to me like it's just the rice stuck on the side of the pot that's kind of burnt. Can't be that hard to make another batch of it out of his non-crispy bowl, right? Anyway, Rob returns, and his ladies shower him with crispy rice gifts as Phillip continues to rant that the women of this tribe are slavishly devoted to him and even wear his underwear at night. Sure enough, they're filling Rob in on how Phillip wanted to steal a spoonful of his precious crispy rice. "Let it be known that the first opportunity I HAVE TO ELIMINATE HIM I WILL!!!!!" Phillip concludes insanely. Meanwhile, Rob's reaction to hearing about Phillip's crispy rice request is a wave of his hand, which Natalie finds hilarious.
Now, up until this point, I agreed with Phillip. He is being treated like crap by a bunch of mean girls (I include Grant in this) who don't want Phillip to have any crispy rice because they know he wants it and they don't like him, and they find it entertaining to make people who aren't part of their little clique feel bad. But then he starts talking about how he is owed the deference Rob gets because he's the oldest person in the tribe, which is silly. Also, it's kind of his own fault that he's stuck on a tribe with a bunch of young popular pretty people because he had a lot to do with Francesca and Kristina being voted out. And yet, he says the division in the tribe is "of their making."
So, now that we know that both tribes have people on them who hate everyone else, we get to the challenge. Hey, remember last season when all the girls were stuck on one team in a reward challenge that required a lot of physical strength? And Jane almost died like three times? Well, it's back, and less than one season later! This show isn't even trying anymore. This time, instead of getting keys from those high spiral wire things, they will get bags of balls, which they must then shoot into a high basket with no backboard. The first tribe to make its way through the obstacle course and put all six balls in the net wins immunity and another field trip picnic. Probst quickly says there will be both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages there, as Natalie is like 14 and therefore not allowed to drink legally. Actually, she's 19 and that is the legal drinking age in Nicaragua according to Wikipedia, so, whatever, Probst.