Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Removal Of Rudy
By Miss Alli | Season 8 | Episode 2 | Aired on 02.04.2004
A sloth hangs from a tree. I know that's a sloth, because the Suriname Scientist came back from...well, Suriname, with two wonderful pictures of a sloth climbing a tree, and we agreed that it could not possibly be a real animal, given how much it looked like a small child in an animal suit, which is also true of this thing.
Rudy strolls on the beach, favoring his right leg a little. (Excuse me, is that a sloth joke? I don't think I appreciate that, on Rudy's behalf.) Back at camp, Jenna quietly asks Rupert if Rudy is still limping. Rupert agrees that Rudy doesn't look very good, but weakly points out that at least he's still getting around. Much is understood and unspoken as Rupert looks at Jenna, shrugs a little, and says, "He's...you know...tough old man." Rudy now speaks for himself, saying that his foot hurts when he walks, which makes him limp "a little." It does look like he's not limping very much, but it also looks like his foot is pretty stiff. "Probably in a week, it'll be back to normal," he predicts. He returns to camp, and Jenna asks him how the foot's doing: "Any better?" "Not much," he answers. He says he tried to see if he could run, and he couldn't. "Rudy's not doing okay," Jenna interviews. She says that he's got a blister, and he's got some other foot injury. Back at camp, Rupert says, "I sure hope it's not a running challenge today, 'cause we'll be...out of luck." Yeah. They all see the situation developing, I think; they just really don't like it.
And now, it's time for the immunity challenge. The teams converge on a beach, and Jeff takes back the two immunity idols from Shii Ann and Amber. The way this challenge works, the teams each start out on a platform out in the water. They hop in and dive down to the bottom, where there's a broad, flat boat with fourteen heavy crates in it. They have to get the crates out of the boat, which will cause the boat to come to the top. Then they're to bring the boat back to the platform, flip the boat, bail out any water that's in it, and get it to the point where they can row it back to shore. Row it to shore, bring the boat up to the mat on the beach, and you win immunity. First two teams are immune, as last time. Incidentally, for those of you keeping score at home, there is nothing said about having to remove the crates one by one, or any other description of how you get them out. Jeff just tells the contestants to get the crates out of the boat. Alicia is sitting out for Chapera, and Shii Ann is sitting out for Mogo Mogo.