Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fistbump
By Sara M | Season 20 | Episode 8 | Aired on 04.08.2010
And so, the Heroes dig into their nasty cold Survivor pizza. [Now with extra grossness as it seemingly sat out there the entire time they were competing in the bowling challenge. -- Angel] Amanda toasts to them all saying "we kicked ass today," like, maybe you did, Amanda (albeit at bowling), but Candice didn't get a chance to play and Colby sucked. Amanda interviews that her tribe is doing really well lately but they don't want to get over-confident, even though it appears to me that they already are, what with Rupert calling them "the Fantastic Five" and Amanda saying they're the "best team in Survivor." The talk soon turns to the Villains, and how they are now Rob-less. Rupert calls that an "insane" and "silly" move, as if his alliance's decision to keep James over Tom was any better. J.T. interviews that there's an obvious "all-women's alliance" on the Villains' side, while Rupert gets right to work on the Hero women, saying that when the merge comes, the Villain women will try to recruit them into their alliance. Candice says that's a good thing, since they'll be able to find out who the Villains are targeting. J.T. interviews that Douche and Li'l Russell are sure to jump over to the Heroes' alliance as soon as a merge happens. So, based on all of these erroneous assumptions, the Heroes have a merge plan. And the Villains already know what it is because Rupert is a stupid loudmouth.
Over at the Villains Camp, of course, things are not quite so jolly. They have to re-build the camp, and Jerri has decided that she knew all along that there wasn't going to be a merge and she is "furious" at her stupid tribemates for making more work for themselves. "Voting off Rob was a big mistake. He would've made sure that Sandra and Courtney did not sit out today ... and we had strong people in the immunity challenge." Well, Jerri, whose mistake was that? Because from where I'm sitting, you were pretty much responsible for voting out Rob. She then walks up to Danielle and Li'l Russell and complains about how they're bound to lose the immunity challenge now that Sandra and Courtney will be participating. Sandra, meanwhile, is sitting like three feet away from them and hearing every word. She does not appreciate it when Jerri says that Sandra and Courtney acted like they wouldn't be able to handle the rigors of bowling when Probst asked them to choose who would sit out. She says that she told her tribe to do whatever they thought was best. That's true, although it wasn't like Sandra was stepping up to do the bowling thing. She left it to everyone else to make the decision for her so she could avoid having the finger pointed at her, which is why she's pissed off that it's being pointed at her now. She says it's not her and Courtney's fault that the Villains lost the challenge. Jerri tries to explain that that wasn't what she meant -- she's saying it's whoever chose Sandra and Courtney to sit out's fault, not Sandra and Courtney themselves. But Sandra is already angry and will not be placated. Jerri doesn't want to be on the receiving end of that wrath, so she quickly points at Douche as the reason why they lost, since his desire for pizza took precedence over immunity. Well, that shouldn't surprise anyone. Remember back in his season when he decided not to do an individual immunity challenge because he wanted pizza so much? Douche just loves his pizza. It's like Jerri's history with chocolate, except it produces the opposite results.