Episode Report Card Sara M: A+ | 4 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT WHAT
By Sara M | Season 16 | Episode 13 | Aired on 05.08.2008
The reward challenge should be very interesting indeed: contestants will be quizzed on past seasons of the show. Each right answer gets one point and the first person to get four points wins the reward. I'm just dying to see Erik and Natalie, the so-called "Fans," run away with this challenge. Surely they'll both get to four points after the first four questions, and then keep tying it up until one winner cannot be declared, so great is their love and knowledge of this show. The winner and another contestant he chooses get a helicopter ride to a "luxury resort," where they'll enjoy a meal, massage, and an overnight stay. The winner will also get to send another player to Exile, where there is yet another immunity idol. The Immunity Idol carver worked overtime this season -- I hope he works on commission and not a flat rate! Probst has to overly explain to these idiots that the upcoming tribal council is the LAST CHANCE players will have to use the immunity idol, so don't go hoarding it and thinking you can use it later because you're a moron who doesn't understand how this game works like half the current jury.
First question: on which season of Survivor did a castaway have a pet snake? The answer, of course, is Rupert from Pearl Islands, and we get to see another shot of Rupert, the man who loves animals so much that he took one out of its habitat and kept it as a pet until it died. Cirie and Erik are the only ones to get the question right. Hmm. Natalie must have, like, heard the question wrong or something. I mean, surely a super-fan like her would know this! The second question is also animal-related: on which season of Survivor did a contestant get bitten by a shark and, in retaliation, bite the shark right back? "If you are a fan of this game, you should know this," Probst says, forgetting to add, "Natalie." Erik guesses the first season of the show and while he got the contestant right, he got the season wrong. Cirie and Parvati guess Palau, which was also a good guess, since that was the season where Tom caught the shark when the cameras weren't looking, thereby missing one of the most legitimately survivor-related moments in Survivor history. Cirie is humorously upset about her incorrect response. Natalie and Amanda get it right: Survivor All-Stars. Richard Hatch was the bitee and the biter. And now he's in jail!
Third question: in which season did one tribemate ask another to pee on his hand to relieve the sting of a sea urchin? Okay, these questions are easy. You could get them all right just by watching commercials for the show and not the show itself! And yet, Erik is the only one to get Marquesas correct. We get to watch Kathy pee on John's urchin-stung hand. John was such a whiny baby about that. My dad got stung by a sea urchin once during a family vacation, and he didn't ask any of us to pee on it. (Which is good, because we wouldn't have. Sorry, Dad.) Erik is now ahead with two points, while Parvati still has zero, which Probst delights in pointing out.