Episode Report Card Sara M: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Meet Galu
By Sara M | Season 19 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.08.2009
After the break, we go back to Galu. Russell reminds us that they lost the challenge and should not have, since they had the lead the entire way. Until the very end, of course. When it counted. "Okay boss, talk to me," Erik says to Russell, appealing perfectly to Russell's vision of himself as Galu's noble leader. Russell says Monica's performance during the challenge is the reason why they lost, and Erik agrees that she was horrible. Then I guess you should have sat her out, Russell. And put the other wonder twin in instead, because she's freaking awesome at this stuff and would have kicked ass and taken names. So it's kind of your fault, too. Then again, I still don't think Monica did an exceptionally bad job during the challenge and her relative slowness on the rope bridge didn't put her team behind. Foa Foa caught up during the second tower because they had taller people. And Russell sat Galu's tallest member out.
On the beach, Dave Ball suggests that Shambo be voted out tonight, because her suckage is really bringing down team morale. John disagrees, but Dave Ball says "she lost a chicken. How'd that make you feel?" Then he remembers that no one on this tribe except Erik cares about the chicken and suggests Yasmin for doing nothing around camp. True, but what's worse? Doing work around camp that results in the loss of a snorkel and a chicken, or doing nothing and thus not screwing anything up? John, Dave Ball, and the wonder twins seem to think it's the latter.
Meanwhile, tribe outcasts Yasmin and Shambo meet in the woods. Shambo talks about getting rid of Monica tonight for her slowness on the rope bridge, but Yasmin just says that she crossed the rope bridge before Monica and thus does not want to focus on negativity or something. Honestly, I don't know what this woman is talking about most of the time. And the rare times when I do know, she's saying things that she really shouldn't, like introducing herself to Foa Foa the least diplomatic way possible. She freely admits that she doesn't do anything around camp, but that's her strategy because she thinks that when you do something, everyone else finds fault with it. So basically, Yasmin says, while Shambo is going to be a target tonight for working hard enough to let a chicken escape, Yasmin will fly under the radar no problem because she's done nothing. She interviews to us that she helps win challenges, so she's an awesome tribemate. Monica, on the other hand, is not. "So if you want to penalize me for stepping up? Then so be it. Vote me out because my body could use a rest, dammit," Yasmin says. What planet is she on? She just admitted that she intentionally does NOT step up and all she does is nap anyway, so what's this about needing even more rest?