Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do The Right Thing
By Sara M | Season 19 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.01.2009
It took three quarters of the show to get there, but it's a new day at Foa Foa. Shambo teaches the blondes how to make something called a "poofy torch" out of a palm frond. They do not seem very interested in it, but Shambo interviews that she's being really helpful and imparting her wisdom to an appreciative Foa Foa audience. After that, she makes an attempt to find the immunity idol. She starts digging around the large tree where the idol did, in fact, used to be, telling the rest of the tribe that she's just getting firewood. Even though there is nothing resembling firewood there. But it's better than Li'l Russell's excuse for why he was digging in that tree, which was "I'm looking for the hidden immunity idol." The blondes talk about how great Shambo is while Liz yet again states her hatred of yoga. Li'l Russell walks by and scowls at the fact that the three women seem to be getting along, which he thinks will soon lead to them banding together to vote out the men. You know, kind of like how the guys (and, because she's an idiot, Liz) banded together to get rid of the girls. Meanwhile, Shambo's firewood excuse has got to be wearing pretty thin now that she's basically inside the tree with just her legs hanging out.
The menfolk, sans Ben, go off to talk. Li'l Russell tries to convince them that Ashley should go before Ben, saying they need Ben for challenges. Jaison shuts that right down, asking Li'l Russell to come up with just one thing Ben has done in a challenge that was useful to the tribe. Li'l Russell's brilliant, God-given mind can't come up with anything. Ha! Mick tries to argue that with Ben gone, it'll be three men against three women, and the women could band together to form their own alliance. Um, has Mick seen Liz? No way is she going to team up with the blondes when a man can tell her what to do. She's been more supportive of voting other Foa Foa women off than anyone else. Jaison calmly says that if Li'l Russell's only concern is that the women could team up against them when it would be three against three, he shouldn't worry about it. "Those girls are so weak that it would be suicide if they tried to pick us off," Jaison says in the only language Mick and Li'l Russell seem to understand. Li'l Russell again tries to promise that they'll get rid of Ben after Ashley, but Jaison isn't buying it. "This is ridiculous," he says, adding that he's going to speak out against Ben at Tribal Council tonight no matter what, and if they don't vote Ben out after that, then there will be serious problems at camp afterwards with both Jaison and Ben there. He asks if Ben is really worth saving at that cost. Li'l Russell interviews that everyone else seems to think that Ben is poison, and if he disagrees with them then he'll lose their trust. But I thought Li'l Russell was planting seeds and controlling everyone like a zombie? And no one else was playing the game at all? Could it be that Li'l Russell is full of shit?