Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bob Is Full Of Craft
By Sara M | Season 17 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.04.2008
Susie and her husband apparently didn't do anything worth watching, so we just see them hug good-bye. That's more than we saw of Crystal and Andre or Corinne and her brother. The loved ones leave, and Matty tells us that the good things in life aren't easy. Except for trust funds, but I guess he knows how easy those are to lose, too. "You have so much ability and gold in you, and if you just dig for it, you will find it," he says. Is he talking about picking his nose? That's gross. The contestants wave good-bye to their loved ones and Bob tries not to be bitter that all he really won in that challenge was some nasty pizza.
The next day, Corinne and Bob set off to get the treemail. The scene at camp Nobag continues just long enough for us to see Sugar bang her toe on a log. Alone, Bob and Corinne agree that tonight would be the perfect time to blindside Matty. Except for the fact that it's also the perfect time to get rid of Corinne that nasty hag. Corinne's hoping that the Fang alliance will do that if he doesn't win immunity, thereby saving them for another three days. Back at camp, the five talk about who should go home next. Sugar tells us that she's confident that their five-person alliance will stick together until the end. Matty thinks Bob should go home next. Sugar says that Matty's the only person who can beat Bob in a physical challenge. Bob is fifty-seven years old. Crystal is an Olympic champion. I'm sorry, I just can't get over how freaking bad she is at this. Sugar says the plan is to vote Bob out before Corinne, because Bob is a much bigger threat.
In the woods, Bob tells Corinne that Marcus never threw that immunity idol in the ocean -- he snuck it in his pocket at hid it at Kamp Kota. But he didn't bring it to Tribal Council with him, so Bob took it for himself. "Is that a legit idol?" Corinne says, as Bob shows her something wrapped in some cloth. "No!" Bob says; "but it sounded pretty good, didn't it?" It did to Corinne, and if she's the self-proclaimed smartest person in this game, then surely it will convince the other mutants. Bob says he's going to put another fake idol together and explain its existence with the story he just told Corinne. Damn ... that might be genius. Although, if Bob had that all this time, why wouldn't he have used it before? He could have given it to Randy to double-blindside everyone. Surely the Fang Five will think of that and realize there's no way this idol could be real. Bob tells us he's going to make his second "very good" fake idol and let it slip to someone on the Fang alliance that he has it, so they'd better rethink their voting strategy. Corinne says this will only work if one of them wins immunity today. "Well, we'll do that," Bob says. Corinne is very pleased that someone has once again done the thinking for her.