Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Elephantitis
By Sara M | Season 17 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.16.2008
Matty goes right over to Crystal and tells her that GC is quitting. "That's bullshit. I don't want to hear that," Crystal says. Meanwhile, Ace is lying in the hut, watching and smiling as if he somehow plotted for this all to happen himself and didn't just get really lucky. Crystal says if GC's looking for everyone to kiss his ass and beg him to stay, she won't. She tells us that GC has quit as a leader, during challenges, and now he wants to quit the game entirely. He's a loser and she has no respect for him, so she'll vote him out. I just feel sorry for Gillian, who wanted so badly to be on this show that she applied like 15 times, only to be voted out second. She wouldn't have quit. Crystal goes to the hut where Ken and Ace are hanging out and tells them that GC wants to go home and since she's too hungry for these mind games, she's voting him out tonight.
So Ken relays the message to Kelly. This is like a bad game of telephone. She asks if GC wants to go home. He says GC said he did. And even if he doesn't, it doesn't matter. "Good," Kelly says.
Ace heads for Sugar. He says GC is going home tonight. She says she trusts Ace. I'd laugh my ass off if this was some brilliant ploy to vote her out while she had the immunity idol, but I doubt it. These people can't even figure out how to ration rice, let alone vote out the holder of the immunity idol. There are no Ciries on this season, it seems. Ace says it's "pleasurable" to watch this tribe destroy itself. I disagree. So far, this has been boring and predictable. Talk shifts to Sugar's idol. She panics that Ace might have told someone she has to idol, but he says he's kept it quiet. For Sugar's part, she hasn't bothered to hide it and it's sitting in her unattended bag. Sugar is confident that no one thinks she has the idol, so no one will search her bag for it.
Oh, but wait a minute -- in the hut, Matty suddenly wonders if they shouldn't be concerned that Sugar could have the idol. So while Ace and Sugar go swimming, Crystal, Matty, Ken, and Kelly are in the hut with Sugar's bag. They serve as lookouts while Crystal searches Sugar's bag and immediately finds the idol hidden in a sock. Oh, Sugar. After you impressed me with your intelligence in finding the idol in the first place, it turns out that you are stupid after all. Crystal puts the idol back, and now Kelly, Ken, Crystal, and Matty have to figure out what to do next. "I feel like tonight's the only night to blindside her," Kelly says. Well, well, well. Looks like Kelly -- who was one of only two Fang players to score points in the immunity challenge -- isn't such a weak waste of space after all. So now that Fang has surpassed my expectations and figured out that Sugar has the idol, will they actually follow through on getting rid of it? Ken tells us that now that they know Sugar has the idol, it changes things. They all want GC to go home asap, but they're terrified of the idol. Or, as Kelly puts it: "dude, I don't have time for quitters, but the idol? That's like more ... intense." For some reason, Matty says they still have to vote for GC. No! Vote for Sugar! Give me something here, guys!