Episode Report Card Sara M: A- | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Simple As That
By Sara M | Season 20 | Episode 14 | Aired on 05.16.2010
Day 37. Li'l Russell and Parvati arrive with treemail. It apparently contains puzzle pieces, but the clue says they'll need "steady hands" in order to prevent shattered dishes and dreams. Why are we talking about shattered dreams still? Rupert "so much for my dreams" Boneham is already gone. Parvati is the only person who knows anything about this show, so she immediately recognizes that this is the final immunity challenge from Season 15. Li'l Russell interviews that whoever wins immunity between Colby and Parvati will stay and the other will be voted out. He wants to go to the end with Sandra and Jerri, because he thinks he'll be able to beat them, since they "didn't play the game at all." I love how he STILL thinks that the winner of this game is only determined by who played it the hardest, and not the person who played it the best or, barring that, who the jury can stomach seeing win a million dollars.
The tribe arrives at the challenge. Can I just say how sad I am that there was no auction this season? Because I am. I love the auction. Anyway, Parvati was correct that this is, indeed, the plate-balancing challenge from Season 15. We begin with one large plate, followed by a large bowl on top of that. Why can't they let them decide which order they want to stack things? That would add a strategic element to this. We get a plate-stacking montage until we're 9 dishes in and Sandra's plates crash to the ground. Jerri is also having trouble keeping her stack steady, but it stays up until they're at 14 dishes and she can't hold on any longer. Probst instructs the three remaining contestants to put a "soy dish" on top of the stack, and you know Li'l Russell and Colby are thinking, "What is a soy dish?" Too bad Sandra isn't still in this challenge, because she would have just said that out loud with a few swear words thrown in. A "medium bowl" is the sixteenth dish on the stack, and that's all it takes for Li'l Russell's tower to fall. Good. Amazingly, Colby did not get out after one dish and is still in this thing. A gust of wind blows, causing both stacks to wobble, but they hang on. A large bowl comes up next. Colby's stack wobbles dangerously as he tries to place it, while Parvati has to deal with her wickedly shaking hand. With 17 dishes stacked, Colby's tower suddenly falls. Parvati hears the smashing sounds and smiles. She wins immunity again. On the way out, Jerri tries to tell us that Parvati would have been voted out tonight if she hadn't just won immunity, because it's really smart to keep Colby in the game over her. "It's not like it's the end of the world. We still have one more person that we can get rid of. That being Colby," she over-explains.
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