Episode Report Card Miss Alli: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Get A Room
By Miss Alli | Season 16 | Episode 2 | Aired on 02.13.2008
So now, they can eat and drink, and things are happier and "more unified." Mikey B shows off a bunch of his tattoos to a curious Mary, and we get to see that one of them is a tattoo of a ticket stub. Ha ha, barf. He interviews that he's kinda flirting with Mary, because she's cute and nice and he figures he can use her liking of him to his advantage. Bleh. Joel looks on disapprovingly as the two bond. He says that Mikey B "likes how Mary looks," so he's going to have to "keep [his] eyes on them." I keep making gagging noises in this paragraph, so I'm going to stop now.
When we return from commercials, it is night at Malakal, and some people are sleeping. But other people are not sleeping, and those people include Ozzy and Amanda, who are making out rather enthusiastically for people who are sleeping near a lot of other people. The morning after, Cirie tells us that she was awake for a good part of the night, and that she was aware of what was going on. "I heard...the sounds of...jungle love, I guess," she says. Heeeee hee. As we watch, Ozzy and Amanda make out, and he shows off his technique, in which he is apparently attempting to eat Amanda's entire head. Dude, it's not an immunity challenge. You don't get any points for opening your mouth the widest. Cirie says that it won't be long before there are birth announcements from...it sounds like she says "Ando"...and "her little Ozzlets." Ha! Way to go keeping it under wraps, there, Ozzy. Staying apart as long as possible! Cirie's also on to Parvati and James.
Cirie sits by a nighttime fire with Jonathan and talks about how "crazy" this all is. She seems very uncertain of exactly what kind of approach she wants to take, because she's not ready to commit to anything, but she's trying to open the door. "It's silly," Jonathan interviews, addressing himself to the makeout shenanigans. "Go get a hotel room. I mean, you've got to take one step back and say, 'There might be somebody awake.' We are sleeping together. In a cave." Ha! Yeeeeah, I'm not sure they've taken many precautions to ensure privacy. Jonathan and Cirie make some "so that's a concern, alliance-wise" noises at each other, but it's pretty noncommittal. As they go back to bed, Jonathan suggests that Cirie think about whether they should work together, and she says, "I definitely want to think about that." Oh, please. Please, please!
The next day, it's challenge time, and that means it's Jeff Probst time. The entire Airai tribe looks very relieved and actually applauds the booting of Dalton -- not knowing, of course, that he pretty much offered to go home. Jeff takes back immunity from Airai. He tells the tribes that they'll pick five swimmers, three puzzle-solvers, and a "key master" (hee). The swimmers will each run across a bunch of those lily-pad things and then swim the rest of the way out to a tower; then they'll leap and smash a tile with a baton in mid-air -- remember this from Cook Islands? -- which will cause a key to drop into the water. You retrieve your key, then you swim back and the next person goes. When you have all five, you give them to your keymaster, who uses them to unlock the five locks chaining up a big chest. Inside the chest are puzzle pieces, which your puzzle-solvers will put together. Winning tribe gets immunity, plus fishing gear. Furthermore, winners send one person from the losing team to Exile Island. That person is stuck there, but can look for a hidden immunity idol. And there's one more twist, but you don't get it until after. The fans sit out Kathy, after it appears that Chet says he can swim.