Episode Report Card Sara M: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT This Is Stupid
By Sara M | Season 22 | Episode 7 | Aired on 03.30.2011
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Stephanie is gone for good, as she loses the Redemption Island challenge to Matt, who may have Jesus on his side after all. Unfortunately for Zapato, however, they still have a whiny, arrogant loser tribemate to deal with in David, who makes it very obvious that he doesn't like or trust Sarita. Onomatopoeia also has an odd man out on their tribe: Phillip, of course, who has another fit, this time over being denied a spoonful of crispy rice. It doesn't matter in the end, as Onomatopoeia wins another immunity challenge, thanks mostly to Grant, while Sarita's weaknesses become more obvious to her tribe (though they were not, I would say, the reason why they lost it). Even though a merge is bound to be coming soon and alliance loyalty is much more valuable than challenge ability, they decide they're better off with David's "strength" than Sarita's loyalty and, much to her surprise, vote her out.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously on Survivor, Probst totally made up his own version of the show in which Zapato throwing the challenge to get rid of Li'l Russell destroyed their entire game and made them all hate each other forever, when in reality, they won the very next challenge after that, the only people threatening tribe unity were Li'l Russell's girlfriends and a guy who got all butthurt when Sarita said he choked under pressure, and Onamatopoeia only won challenges that were suspiciously tailored to the strengths of its tribe members. Also, Li'l Russell was voted out like three years ago so I don't understand why we're seeing him in the previously on segment at all.
Anyway, the tribe that ruined Probst's great Rob vs. Russell idea by voting Li'l Russell out the first chance they gave themselves, thus earning the host's undying twisted hatred forever, return to camp. Steve hopes to bring everyone back together and talk about David's obvious issues with Sarita, but David is still having his little attitude problem, so he says he doesn't have a problem with Sarita except that he "doesn't trust [her]." Meanwhile, David apparently trusted Stephanie, who was planning on flipping as soon as she hit the merge feast, so I guess he isn't a very good judge of character. David interviews that he voted for Sarita because he wanted his tribe to know "where [he] stood," even if it means he is voted out next. Sarita, who is an adult, says she hopes they can get past this and she's willing to listen to the "constructive criticism" she was given at Tribal and pitch in more around camp and in challenges. Steve interviews that now that they are the tribe of six they always wanted to be, there's a huge rift between David and Sarita. Sarita tries to fix it by telling David she has a lot of respect for him, but he cuts her off and says, "you don't need to give me a speech. It doesn't matter." Steve interviews that he hopes David can be "man enough" to put his petty shit aside for the good of the team, which it looks very much like he cannot.
Matt has been alone on Redemption Island for days at a time since nearly the beginning of the game, but now that he's stuck there with Stephanie, he clearly wishes for some more of that alone time. She talks and talks and talks and talks while Matt just sits there with his buff over his mouth so she can't see him mouthing prayers to Jesus that Stephanie will suddenly be stricken with a plague of laryngitis. Matt says he wants to go into the duel as soon as possible so that, one way or the other, he will be rid of Stephanie.