Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Waterloo
By Sara M | Season 19 | Episode 15 | Aired on 12.20.2009
With that, Probst gives the jury a chance to think about things before they vote. What, no closing statements? Although I guess Natalie won't be needing one, since Erik did it for her, and much better than she could have. Hey, remember when Li'l Russell interviewed that he thought Natalie might actually tell the jury to just give Li'l Russell the million dollars instead of her? Yeah... that didn't happen. Looks like Li'l Russell may have underestimated his "dumb-ass blonde" ally. Which was her strategy all along.
After the break, we are now cutting into the Reunion show time. Great. Way to put in a thousand shots of waves and crabs and reduce the time we get with the stuff we actually want to see. Probst says it's time to vote and away they go. Erik votes for "Ratalie," saying she came a long way in this game and congratulations. Shambo votes for Li'l Russell, as promised. "You are the only one out there that is deserving of a million dollars, in my humble opinion," she says. We don't see anyone vote for Mick, which means no one did. Ouch! Probst grabs the urn and thanks everyone for a "great" season of this show, which it totally wasn't. Then he takes off.
Once again, he does not jetski to LA or jump out of a plane or fire up the zeppelin or anything cool like that. He just walks through the jungle before emerging from the fake one on the LA live set to the cheers of the studio audience. And there are Mick, Natalie and Li'l Russell, now looking non-emaciated (well, Li'l Russell never looked emaciated, but you know what I mean). Mick and Natalie look good, if slightly bigger than they were when they first came on the show, while Li'l Russell is wearing a shirt that is too small for him. How can a shirt be too small for Li'l Russell? He must have bought it in the toddler section or something. Probst orders the audience to sit down and shut up and says all the contestants endured a "very, very tough season" and should be applauded for that. Well, except for Jeffrey Tambor and Dead Russell who could not, in the end, endure the tough season.
Probst gets down to it. He reminds us all that while Mick, Natalie and Li'l Russell played the game well enough to make it to the Final Three, they still need the votes of the jury to win. And now... the votes. We are seconds away from Li'l Russell winning and telling us all how awesome he is. I can't stand it. Natalie gets the first vote from Erik, followed by the vote for Li'l Russell from Shambo. He doesn't even smile when he sees the vote. He is focused and nervous. Natalie gets a second vote. Li'l Russell gets a second vote. Then Mick gets all the rest and wins! No, not really. He didn't get any votes. He'll have to fall back on being a doctor to make his millions now. Natalie gets a third vote. And then she gets a fourth! She needs just one more to win, so we know all the rest of the votes will be for Li'l Russell. Probst pulls the next vote out and announces we have a winner. Holy crap, it's Natalie! She's surprised but fairly composed. She hugs both Mick and Li'l Russell, then heads for the audience and embraces a guy I'm assuming is her boyfriend.
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