By Kim
Brandon starts feeling guilty for leaving his family home alone, and tells his tribe that, if they have to go to Tribal Council, he's volunteering to be voted out. Then he admits that he contemplated burning down their shelter and peeing in their beans and rice. Then, the morning, Brandon decides that he's going to stay and play hard for his family. Oh, Lord.
Reward Challenge. Two team members each hold a net up using a rope while the other team tosses coconuts into the nets. The team with the last net in the air wins. Phillip and Brandon hold the Favorites nets while Reynold, Eddie, Sherri, and toss coconuts. Meanwhile, Michael and Matt hold nets for the Fans, while Malcolm, Corinne, Brenda, and Cochran toss coconuts. Probst flat-out tells Sherri that she's worthless in this challenge, and she kind of is, but it's not like her tribe got to sit anyone out. Brandon is the first to drop his net, and Matt follows. So it's Phillip and Michael left, but they're taking all of the coconuts. Phillip holds out until Michael drops his net, so the Favorites win the barbecue reward.
After the challenge, everyone on the Fans tribe starts searching for the Hidden Immunity Idol and Reynold finds it again. Meanwhile, over at the Favorites, Phillip pokes the bear when Brandon takes offense to the idea that Phillip won the challenge. They have a dustup. Later, Phillip basically threatens Brandon into compliance, and Brandon goes along. Until the morning, when Brandon decides he's still pissed at Phillip. So then Phillip starts thinking about throwing the challenge.
Brandon gets wind of the fact that Phillip is talking to the others about getting rid of him and he goes on a tirade. He dumps out their entire container of rice and tries to dump some more food before the others stop him. He yells at Phillip, who has wisely removed himself from the situation. The rest of the tribe wonders if they should just skip the challenge and get rid of Brandon.
At the Immunity Challenge, Brandon gives a speech about how the Fans shouldn't let Phillip win the game. Corinne says that they want to forfeit the challenge so they can go to Tribal Council. Probst invites Brandon to come stand by him and figure this out and Brandon goes on a rant about how Phillip is the worst (but times ten). Phillip responds and Andrea starts crying. Brandon and Phillip get into it again because they are both mentally ill and should not be on this show. Yeah, I said it. This isn't fun to watch, it's not interesting, and I'm grossed out, frankly.
Probst finally takes control of the situation, something he should have done like ten minutes earlier. Then he does an immediate vote, and everyone votes Brandon out. You'd think they would have just removed him when he trashed the camp, but I guess that would have been humanitarian and respectful instead of exploitative and trashy. I feel dirty.