Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT II II
By Sara M | Season 19 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.12.2009
The reward winners return to camp and Shambo and Li'l Russell go off together immediately. Just in case you forgot over the commercial break, Li'l Russell ONCE AGAIN tells us that he found the immunity idol all by himself. And also once again he can't keep it to himself so he shows it to Shambo to try to win her complete trust. "Dude, you d -- you are shitting me," Shambo says. She gives Li'l Russell a kiss, and I have to say if given the choice between fried chicken and brownies or the immunity idol and a kiss from Shambo (who bathes infrequently and when she does bathe, it's in the swamp), I'd take the food. Shambo says the idol might as well be a sword to chop off Laura's head. Shambo interviews that she's had an alliance with Foa Foa since she went to the camp the first time and she trusts Li'l Russell "impeccably," which is like implicitly but not. Meanwhile, she tried to vote Jaison out last night, so how is that an alliance? Li'l Russell wants Shambo to make sure that Galu votes for him at Tribal Council and she says that's easy since they're already planning to get rid of him ASAP. Ha, watch her now go back to Galu and clumsily talk about how Li'l Russell needs to go and make them all suspicious. Shambo is "so excited" about this plan. But it's not 100% for sure yet -- Laura could still win immunity.
Immunity Challenge! Probst takes the immunity necklaces back, with John cockily saying he's sure he'll be getting it back soon. It turns out that there will only be one immunity necklace this week, and of course they're using the one with the pointy things on it. Probst explains the challenge: everyone has a grappling hook he must use to retrieve two bags with puzzle pieces in them. The first three to get both bags advance to the final, where they'll shove their puzzle piece peg thing into a board (it looks like a vertical version of Perfection) with a peg-shaped hole in it. Then another piece will drop down and so on until all the holes have been filled by pegs. That's pretty cool, actually.
Probst calls go, and the grappling hooks are tossed. Of course, Probst compliments Li'l Russell's toss even though it didn't get him a bag. Amazingly, Shambo is the first person to get a bag, followed by Mick and then Kelly. Dave Ball, meanwhile, could not be worse at throwing his hook. Mick gets his second bag, becoming the first person in the final round. He will not win, of course, because he is from Foa Foa. Jaison and Natalie get their first bags, and then Laura is on the board as well. The second person to make it to the finals is Shambo. Somehow. Li'l Russell manages to snag his second bag and smirks as he slowly reels it in for the third place in the finals. BUT WAIT! Laura just snagged her second bag too, and she is going to reel it in with a quickness. Li'l Russell tries to hurry up to beat her, but his haste causes him to lose the bag while Laura gets hers. HA HA HA! She gets the last spot in the final round. Laura is amazing. And she is so going to win this -- she's up against Shambo, who will probably lose both of her pegs before the round even starts, and Mick, who is destined to fail.