Episode Report Card Sara M: N/A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Treasure Island
By Sara M | Season 20 | Episode 11 | Aired on 04.29.2010
The next morning, Li'l Russell goes to work on Candice. He says she has a chance now to secure a spot in the Top Six by flipping to the Villains' side and she might as well take it, since there's no way the Heroes can come back from losing J.T. He interviews that he doesn't trust Sandra (as well he shouldn't), so pulling Candice in will give his alliance a 6-3 majority and protect them from Sandra flipping. He says tells Candice that she'd definitely be in the Top Six if not the Final Three. "Let me know ... " Candice says, trailing off. Poor thing; she's forgotten how to speak after being left with just those dumbass Heroes for company for weeks on end. Li'l Russell then talks to his alliance and tells them that it's looking good that Candice will switch to their side.
Oh, good. The reward challenge is Survivor shuffleboard, one of the more boring challenges this game has featured. The nine contestants will be "randomly" divided into three teams of three and the team whose puck ends up closest to the red X on the board wins a trip to Robert Louis Stevenson's Samoan estate, where they'll watch Treasure Island and sleep in a real bed. Parvati interviews that there will probably also be a clue to yet another fucking "hidden" immunity idol there because that hasn't ruined this season enough, so it's especially important that a Villain wins this reward. Our teams are as follows: Black Team is the fittingly evil Jerri, Parvati, and mutinous Candice; Red Team is Rupert, Sandra, and Li'l Russell; and the Blue Team is Danielle, Amanda, and Colby. The Blue Team is officially the most boring team in the history of teams.
Pucks slide across the board. Li'l Russell gets his the closest so far, allowing Probst to praise his shuffleboard abilities. Rupert then bests him, landing almost on the X. Candice launches her puck at the board and it goes flying off the other end. Probst praises her strategy of trying to knock the red pucks off the board, saying "good idea; didn't work." Then Sandra slides a puck that doesn't land near anything and Probst criticizes her "wasted shot.' Fuck you, Probst. Sandra was probably just trying to make sure her puck didn't knock into her teammate's. Danielle manages to knock Rupert's puck away from the X, but Li'l Russell's puck is the second-closest so that doesn't help the Blue Team much. Li'l Russell slides his puck weakly towards the center. "Lame," Parvati says. Probst asks Li'l Russell if he did that on purpose, even though when Sandra's shot was similarly ineffective he said it was a wasted shot. Li'l Russell says he's just trying to put an obstacle in front of the X to make it harder for the other teams. Maybe, but his puck is seriously like one foot away from the starting place so it's not doing anything one way or the other. Jerri takes the last shot for the Black Team, but isn't able to get her puck closer to the X. Rupert goes last for red and also comes up short, but does put another red puck in the Blue Team's way. Colby gets the last shot and the game is riding on him. He manages to bounce his puck off of someone else's and land almost on top of the X to win it for the Boring Blues. All those years of bar games and frat parties finally paid off for Colby.