Episode Report Card Sara M: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Wizard of Ozzy
By Sara M | Season 16 | Episode 10 | Aired on 04.17.2008
Jason and Natalie are randomly selected as captains (this is the second time Natalie's been randomly selected as captain. She should try playing the lottery) and Jason wins the right to choose first (on second thought, maybe she should stick to those scratch cards). He takes Ozzy, of course. Natalie winds up with James, Parvati, and Alexis and Jason's team is completed by Erik and Amanda. Which means Cirie is going to Exile Island. She doesn't look thrilled about it, but she probably knew this was coming as soon as they said the person not picked would be going there. I wonder what she'll get up to all by her lonesome?
The competition starts with Jason and Parvati going first for their teams. Jason is first to the platform and he takes his time memorizing the picture before heading back. They both reach their answer boards at about the same time with Parvati finishing as much as she can remember on hers before Jason. Ozzy and Alexis go next, and Ozzy quickly catches up to Alexis in the net tunnel and heads back quickly while Alexis chooses to take her time and memorize as much of the picture as possible. Nevertheless, Ozzy puts a decent amount of pieces in. I guess his godlike powers allow him to memorize things faster. James and Erik leave the platform at about the same time and reach their answer boards at the same time, too. Natalie and Amanda go for their teams. Natalie returns to her answer board while Amanda takes her time. "It is better to be right than fast," Probst warns. Sure enough, Natalie finishes the board first, but after Probst carefully compares it to the answer key, it's wrong. Parvati is so upset about this that her mouth blurs. James heads back out for the team while Amanda completes the answer board. And they are correct! Natalie's team heads back to camp empty-handed, with James walking like he has a load in his pants. He does that a lot, actually. Why? Anyway, I hope everyone on Natalie's team is regretting voting Eliza out right now, since she would have memorized that entire board herself and won the game in one round.
Jason's team heads for Yap. They board a small plane and I feel sorry for the pilot, who will be trapped in a confined space with four people who must smell pretty funky. For some reason, Jason is allowed to sit in the co-pilot's seat, even though there appear to be quite a few empty seats in the cabin of the plane. And he gets to play with the plane's controls. What happens on this show if half of the contestants die in a stupidity-related plane crash? As they fly, Erik tells us that Yap is a tiny island nation he's never heard of. But no one's ever heard of whatever tiny town he grew up in either, so that's cool. A town isn't quite the same thing as an entire country, but whatever, Ice Cream Scooper.