In the wake of Rocky's booting, Ravu is absolutely sure that things are going to get a lot better for them. Okay, they're not really, but they're at least hoping things might get off the bottom of the barrel. At Moto, we learn that Earl has made a half-alliance with Michelle, who's his "little spy," reporting information from (apparently) the ladies. Turns out Michelle is gunning for Stacy, having astutely figured out that the two of them kind of duplicate each other's skills. The reward challenge is an awesome learn-to-dance challenge, which Moto wins because Earl is awesome and Lisi is not awesome. Lisi is also not awesome in that she doesn't know that Alex and Edgardo took her precious information about the location of the idol and shared it with Mookie, and the three guys found the idol while she was sleeping. And she really, really embarrasses herself in an interview about it -- so much that you kind of wish you could be there when she watches the episode and feels very foolish in front of all her friends. Anyway, Moto gets to go to a feast. The immunity challenge is a target-shooting thing, won by Yau Man, for the most part. This means that Ravu is going back to tribal council, and after Lisi volunteers to be sent home and then changes her mind, she gets her wish and goes home anyway. She then decides that the entire Ravu tribe is made up of losers, and she has maybe the most poor-sport exit speech of all time. And now, she's hanging out with Rocky. Ha ha ha!
Previously on The Day They Shipped In Extra Crying Towels: Yau Man discovered the immunity idol, and he and Earl agreed to stick together. Lisi became, like, the fifth plague of Ravu, although she behaved herself during the only reward they're likely ever to win when they all wound up hanging out at an arcade and gorging themselves. Rocky, on the other hand, tried to induce vomiting in others, even more than usual, which annoyed his team. Moto then returned to ass-kicking form at the immunity challenge, and even though practically everyone took a hard hit -- including the one member of Moto who was not blindfolded -- they won again. Rocky never really saw it coming when he was flattened by his tribe for, pretty much, the sin of being impossibly annoying. Eleven people left. Who will be voted out tonight?
The sun shoots up into the sky at Ravu on Day 20. Alex yawns while "Dreamz" sleeps. Maybe he is "dreamzing." Alex's hair is beginning to take on a life of its own, and it stands at attention as he tells us that he and Edgardo are working double alliances, with Lisi on one side and Mookie and "Dreamz" on the other. Alex figures that this puts him in a pretty sweet position, because as we know, nothing works great on Survivor like positioning yourself to be the swing vote. That has led to victory for...not one person I can think of, actually, but there's a first time for everything! Have faith, Alex! Mookie and Edgardo are lying on the ground to each other, but not in a homosexual way, that's for sure, and Edgardo is spilling the beans that Lisi told him and Alex that there was an immunity idol clue saying it was buried where everyone sleeps. So, while "Dreamz" and Lisi continue to sleep, Alex, Mookie, and Edgardo decide to dig for the idol. As you might have guessed they would, they're just totally screwing Lisi for being dumb enough to give them all the clues. I am reminded by his caption during this sequence that Mookie is a "Business Consultant." I can't imagine what that means, but I'm making him a guy who sells pens. All one kind. Blue ball-point pens. And in order to do it, he has to spend a lot of time in luxury boxes at various sporting events. Anyway, Alex, Edgardo, and Mookie start to dig, and it really doesn't look like they go very far down before they find it, so I have to wonder if Yau-Man didn't quite have the right spot when he dug a little bit with the machete. They all celebrate silently, being careful not to wake up Lisi and "Dreamz." Mookie is the one who technically winds up with it in his hands, but he, Alex, and Edgardo all hug, treating it as a communal victory for the moment.
Credits. The short ones. That's so you can don't have to miss a minute of Lisi's Schadenfreude World Tour.
When we return from commercials, we're still at Ravu on Day 20 during the post-idol-finding celebration and general back-slapping. Never has beer seemed so conspicuous in its absence. Edgardo, Alex, and Mookie are now huddled in the woods, and the others look on as Mookie unwraps the turtle. Now, by this, I mean that he literally unwraps the burlap bundle containing the turtle figurine serving as the immunity idol, so don't get gross. (Not that "unwraps the turtle" isn't my favorite accidental euphemism since "buffing the lobby floor.") Mookie interviews that there are "no words to describe" the significance of the idol. At least no short, easy words. Mookie tells the other two that they'll all use it together -- they'll use it as a team, and if any of them looks like he might be going, they'll give it to that guy. Alex brilliantly opines that they shouldn't tell Lisi that they stole the idol out from under her nose. Good one. Edgardo interviews that Lisi is "an unstable person," so she's not part of the club. He also doesn't think she would use the idol right, since she's not very smart. She is, after all, a girl. She'd probably use it for a decoration, or she'd put it in her hair. Alex adds that, on top of this, they're not telling "Dreamz," because he's close to Cassandra, and they're afraid he'd tell her. "Once they know we have it, its effect is gone," says Alex. Even with the change in the rules this year, I really don't see how this is true. In fact, with the rules the way they are now, if they know that three of you are sharing it, it's actually hard for them to vote against any of you, because they risk you finding out whom they're targeting and protecting that guy. So if you have three people who are all committed to handing it around willy-nilly as necessary, a group wanting to vote you out would really have to be confident that it could keep you from guessing correctly, or else it can't vote for any of you. Also, there should be instant runoff voting, but I am getting distracted. I certainly think Alex's notion that the value of the idol is gone as soon as anyone knows you have it is proved wrong by...pretty much the entire history of the show. The question is whether you think the idol's power lies in actually deflecting a vote, or whether its power lies in deterrence, and I think the history suggests that deterrence is what makes it a real weapon. Of course, Mookie tells us that all three of the guys can say they have it, but that he's the only one who really does. He's right about that -- there's no way everyone is really equal here -- he's substantially more equal than the other two, having it in his hands and everything.
Finally, the guys go back to camp to fill in the giant hole they dug, which strikes me as incredibly stupid, because there is no reason for them to have gone off to discuss how to use the idol before putting back the dirt, if they really feel this strongly about keeping it a secret. As Mookie is scratching in the dirt in the closing stages of covering the hole, Lisi wakes up and sees him. She watches him for a bit, thinking she's terribly clever. "Little idol digging?" she asks, all, "Busted!" "Yeah," Mookie answers. In what just might be the funniest interview in the show's history, Lisi tells us that she suspects that Alex told Mookie where the idol was. And how does she know? Because she caught stupid Mookie stupidly looking for it, and he stupidly couldn't even deny it. She goes on: "I'm like, 'Dude, you're going to have to wake up really, really early to fool an old cat like me. What's wrong with you?'" As if this isn't great enough, what with the fact that they actually got up early to fool her and it could only be better if she were literally a cat, we now return to camp, where Lisi is digging for the idol. Yes, she's...digging. They didn't really think they were going to put one over on her, did they? They didn't think she wouldn't know what was going on, did they? Mookie comes upon her and, I think, takes a little bit of pity on her, telling her that he already dug where she's digging. Rather brilliantly, when she doesn't heed, Mookie jumps in and helps her dig. Yes, he helps her dig. Right there, where he already found the idol. You have to admit, it's got some panache, that move, even given my generally fair-to-middling regard for Mookie. In an interview, he calls this "the funny part." Agreed.
Moto, Day 20. Boo and Michelle are...I think they're going to receive treemail, but they encounter several folks in what I suppose are traditional Fijian garb, drumming. The locals, as it were, hand over a piece of treemail. It turns out that these folks are returning to camp with them, too, which makes Michelle very happy. I don't know. I think I would have asked if I was expected to feed them lunch before I got too happy. Boo reads to the tribe a message saying that today, they'll be learning a meke (pronounced "meh-kay" according to Jeff later, and "mee-kee" according to Boo now), which is a dance. The dancers who have come along will provide two hours of instruction. And then, Michelle finishes reading, the tribes will have a dance-off in front of three judges. The winners get a feast in the village where the competition will be held. In an interview, Stacy repeats what just happened, which is sort of her only air time all week. Moto has to sit out one person, and Yau Man immediately tells them that he should be out. He tells us in an interview that the's the most rhythm-free person of all time. "I can't keep the beat if my life depends on it," he says emphatically. But he can keep the turtle.
And now, we are watching the dancers teach the members of Moto the meke. Everybody seems to be getting into it, and Earl tells us that he's "got the moves." He says that he's been put out front, and that he's ready go to. "Boo's doing the whole...the white guy thing, but he hung in there and he's making a great effort, and...I think we'll be okay." Indeed, Boo's moves to call to mind Donald Trump during the commercial for Donald Trump's House Of Wings. He should have gone for Omeletteville.
We switch to Ravu. Alex voices over that being big and strong isn't necessarily the key to victory on this particular challenge. I think they're still waiting for the body-building challenge. "There's no way Yau Man and those [somethings] are going to beat us," he tells the group smugly. He sure does like to pick on Yau Man, considering that Yau Man has indeed done some good stuff in challenges, and once a guy kicks your ass a certain number of times, you're obligated by your own dignity to stick it. "It's just frustrating," Alex interviews. "Because we've lost twice to a bunch of girls and an old guy." And Boo. And Earl. And you're a sexist, ageist prick. But other than that, good try, Alex. As one of the dancers tries to train Lisi, she gets all defensive and "who cares anyway?" She then says in an interview that she doesn't really care about challenges. In fact, she says she doesn't take them seriously. She doesn't offer a lot of explanation of why, particularly, winning challenges isn't significant in her opinion, but she sort of rolls her eyes at the idea of caring who wins. The team applies black paint to their faces in stripes. Many of them look kind of cool, but Mookie looks like he's going as a kitty for Halloween. Lisi continues to clown as they get ready to go, and "Dreamz" tells us that he still doesn't like her: she made his time at Moto really unpleasant, and she "should be worried, because she's the weakest." He guarantees us that if the team loses, Lisi goes .
We return to find the teams converging on a group of huts that constitute the village where they'll be competing, I guess. A lot of local folks seem to be hanging around to see the legendary spectacle of American waiters and pharmaceutical salespeople trying to be down with tradition. Moto learns when the teams come back together that Rocky took a walk last time around, and they also learn that he was the first jury member. "I'm glad to see everybody has embraced today so far," Jeff says. Lisi laughs thusly: "Hunh! Hunh! Hunh!" She has embraced her own laugh, that's for sure.
And now, it's time for dancing! Jeff explains that there will be three criteria for judging: appearance, authenticity, and spirit. ("Yes, yes, yes we do! We've can meke, how 'bout you?") Jeff says that this last will come down to whether you "embrace the dance." Why thank you, Jon Lovitz character that never was. Jeff says that the judges are Fijian dance experts, which actually seems a little excessive. It's like asking me to sing "Happy Birthday" and having me judged by the ghost of Jeff Buckley. Anyway, the judges determine the winner, and the winner gets a feast. Chicken, pork, seafood, entertainment. And the right to send someone to Exile Island who will come back in time for the immunity challenge. Jeff ascertains that Yau Man is the non-participator.
Moto is up first. Their dance is constructed with Earl at the front and the other four dancers in two pairs facing each other. Earl dances with considerable precision for an untrained guy. He also totally commits and sells the warrior persona. When Michelle and Stacy come forward in a pair, they manage to stay with the beat. Boo and Cassandra do the same. If there's one thing that can be said for this dance, it's that you do get a sense that they know where the beat is. Even Boo, who isn't a strong dancer, seems to be able to find the "one" in "one, two, three, four." Everyone applauds.
up: Ravu. Their dance, on the other hand, doesn't really have a leader. It starts with Mookie and Edgardo dancing in a pair, then it's like "Dreamz" and Alex are doing something, and then the whole thing falls apart. They don't seem sure what's going on, they're all standing around watching each other, it's not very organized, and Lisi seems to have no clue where the rest of the group is. If you got six bored seventh-graders together and gave them half an hour to think up a dance routine, you might get something about as well executed as what Ravu does here. "Dreamz" throws in a back flip at the end (thanks, cheerleader!), but for the most part, it totally sucks, and it's no contest. Moto looks around like, "Dude, we'd better not lose to that shit."
The judges deliberate. They announce that Moto was great, and Ravu sucked, and everything else is extraneous detail. They particularly praise Earl and how strong his dancing was, and they say that the dance was "organized." Ravu, on the other hand, was out of rhythm and wasn't with the music and...did I say "sucked" already? I did? Okay. So Moto celebrates victory. And Ravu loses again. Moto sends Lisi to Exile Island, on the theory that she already has the clues. She is picked up and whisked away, the better to go even further into the land of bazoo than she already has. Ravu goes home.
As Moto begins the feast, Earl talks about how they haven't really had the chance to learn anything about Fijian culture, so he loved this part. They all receive lots of food, including some seriously big-ass lobsters. Even Stacy seems to feel legitimately humbled, which is a pretty big deal coming from her. Stacy talks about the "huge hearts" on the locals who threw the feast. It gets dark, and there is dancing, and everyone seriously seems to be having a great time. Earl says that it helped to bond the entire tribe together, breaking down some of the old Ravu and old Moto divides. Stacy is seen dancing with some little kids, even holding one in her arms, which is pretty sweet. I think being around people other than Lisi has been good for her, even though I think some comeuppance for her lecture about how they're all adults is still required.
Exile Island. Night 20. Just Lisi and the snakes. And now, there is thunder and lightning. Lisi complains that Ravu "can't seem to win," which complaining is a little inconsistent with her statements that she doesn't understand why people even care about winning. But anyway, now that it's affecting her more, she sees the situation as "kind of serious." She actually gets weepy as she explains just how hard this all is on her, burbling, "What am I supposed to do, man?" She huddles and interviews that she's thinking of quitting, even though it would really disappoint her loyal friends, Alex and Edgardo. If you start counting the parts of this episode where she looks dumb, it will really take you a while. You will run out of whatever counting tools you're using, unless they are grains of rice from a five-pound bag.
Moto, Day 21. A worm crawls into the eyehole of a skull in the kind of shot they wait weeks to get. Yau Man works at making a fire. Boo sleeps. Michelle and Earl are awake, though, and they wander off as he explains that they have little meetings every day. Basically, the fact that Boo and Stacy sleep in allows other people a lot of time to plot against them. Because "getting up early" is the theme of the episode, rather delightfully. "She is my little spy," Earl says of Michelle, and it manages to sound appreciative rather than all that patronizing. During their meeting, he expresses the opinion that if Boo is "in the right situation," Boo would stay with them, presumably following a merge. Stacy, on the other hand, he's sure will head off to be with Alex and Edgardo again. Thus, he considers Stacy more dangerous than Boo. Michelle interviews that in addition to Stacy's loyalties to Alex and Edgardo, Stacy also has a lot in common with Michelle as far as her abilities, and she's not sure they can both expect to be kept around.
Ravu, Day 21. Mookie, "Dreamz," and Alex are chatting. "Dreamz" is saying that he anticipates a merge, and he tells them right out that he knows Cassandra will be with him no matter what. Edgardo interviews that this makes him wary about "Dreamz," who might flip over to the other side as a result of his close ties to Cassandra -- in other words, rather than bring her over as he's implying, he might go over to her side, if she's now more with the current Moto. Alex and Edgardo go to fetch basket-mail, and in the basket, they find an arrow. The clue makes it pretty clear that the challenge will be...what you would suspect. From the arrow. Don't make me insult your intelligence. Alex interviews that they need to win this immunity challenge, because they don't want to go into the merge down 4-6. Alex, who has already shown himself in the past to be the resident math whiz, has noticed that being down four to six would probably not work well. Back at camp, the guys chat about archery, in which Mookie claims to have some experience. Edgardo says that while he's usually hesitant to proclaim his own abilities too much, he's pretty sure he's good with the bow and arrow. In this continuation of Hubris Week on Survivor, you'd think that would be the wrong way to go.
Jeff calls in the teams. He welcomes Lisi back from Exile Island. She runs in and high-fives her tribe, the members of which don't like her. Jeff takes back immunity from Cassandra, who playfully hesitates to give it up, and then he explains the challenge. There are three target-shooting challenges. First, blowdarts. Each person gets one shot, and whoever gets closest to the bull's-eye will get one point for the team. Second round: spears. Closest shot gets two points. Third round: bow and arrow. Closest shot gets three points. Losers go to tribal council, in case you hadn't figured that out. Cassandra is sitting this challenge out.
Lisi takes a shot. She at least hits the target. Stacy hits closer. Mookie slightly beats out Stacy. Michelle's dart bounces off the target, which is a little funny. She's just not made to pierce things. "Dreamz" is even a little closer than Mookie was. And then Yau Man steps up and...bing! He hits even closer to the bull's-eye than "Dreamz," so he's in the lead. His joy is short-lived, however, as Alex takes over the lead for Ravu, hitting the edge of the bull's-eye itself. But then! A nother reversal! Boo manages to hit inside the bull's-eye, so Moto has the lead. Edgardo has the final shot for Ravu. Unless he beats Boo, Earl won't even have to take a shot. Edgardo's shot is pretty good, but not good enough. Moto takes the first point.
Spears! Past challenges on this show and other shows have demonstrated that throwing a spear is surprisingly difficult, let alone throwing a spear at a particular spot. Lisi hurls her spear in the general direction of the target, and it lands sideways and nowhere near anything. Basically, she might as well have been throwing a potato. Stacy's throw is similar. Mookie kind of gets his spear to go the right way, but he still misses the target entirely. Michelle's shot is way short. "Dreamz" manages to be the first one to get his spear to stick in the target, albeit at the very, very edge. Boo is nowhere close. Edgardo misses by a mile. Yau Man walks over and gets a spear. He is the first to take several steps back from the starting line so that he can run up and throw. And his shot isn't very straight, and it kind of dangles from the target, but it's still the best shot so far in terms of placement, and it's really pretty damn close to the target. I do think he got very, very lucky with that one. It's all up to Alex now, as Yau Man proudly shows off his biceps. Hee hee. Alex steps up. He copies Yau Man's running strategy. But Alex is no Yau Man, and he misses by a mile, and Moto wins again without Earl's even competing. Three to nothing, just the way I like it.
And now...bow and arrow. Moto needs this just to force a tiebreaker. Lisi doesn't touch the target. Neither does Stacy. Neither does Mookie. Michelle hits the very edge. "Dreamz" hits closer than Michelle, but not by much. It is here that you'll notice that they are inserting a special effect of a little glow that appears when people get a shot to land, just so you can see where the shot landed. I think they got that from coverage of NHL hockey. Do they still do that, where the puck has a little trail after it? I thought that was a great idea, but I haven't watched hockey in a while. Anyway, Boo misses completely. Alex misses completely. And then, Yau Man walks over to the collection of arrows. He picks over the selection thoughtfully. "Yau Man, what are you possibly looking for?" Jeff asks with amused befuddlement. "The straightest possible arrow," Yau Man answers quite sensibly. Yau Man loads up the bow. He drops to a kneel. He shoots and...boom! Way better than anybody else so far. Not as close as his spear shot was, but still. The only person who has a chance for Moto is Edgardo, who has told us that he knows archery pretty well. So he would seem to be a pretty good bet. Edgardo knows archery! And how does Edgardo do? Well, Edgardo does...he does...not very well! Like, not very well at all. He misses by a mile, and Moto wins immunity again. Ravu is pretty much getting its ass kicked up and down by Yau Man right now, so I hope they're enjoying having their own stereotypes force-fed right back to them.
We return to Ravu on Day 21, where everyone looks mighty dejected. They all grumble about losing again, and sucking again, and going to tribal council again. "Dreamz" can't understand how they did quite so poorly. Mookie actually feels driven to behave apologetically. And then we go to a brilliant interview in which Lisi declares herself "done with the losers." She even holds up the "L" fingers and declares each of them a "li-hoo-hoo-ser." She goes on to explain that the men in her tribe "know that they suck. And when you know you suck, you suck." She finishes with a declaration that Ravu is "a sinking ship."
In related news, a hermit crab thinks that his shell is a sinking ship, so he leaves it behind and walks off without it. Nice shot. Lisi is taking a walk with Alex, and she's explaining to him that there's no excuse for today's loss. She thinks they're not going to win the reward challenge time, and that means another trip to Exile Island for her. She says she's not in it to "buy real estate" there, and then she ant-hammers. Her point comes out in a roundabout way, kind of, but what she's trying to say is that she's ready to be voted out. Seriously, this is what she tells him. Alex shakes his head, but Lisi declares herself "done, man." Alex interviews that, apparently, Lisi is all done and has had "the experience she wants to have," and that she appreciates the way he and Edgardo "kept her safe." She has informed him that she wants to be voted off. Back in his chat with her, she says, "I've been rich, I've been poor, I've been in exile...what more have I got to do?" Please note that "win money" would be here if she thought she had any chance of winning. Of course, as they hug, Alex voices over that this made him mad, because he could really have used Lisi's vote down the line. Poor Alex! He says he doesn't judge people. Isn't that nice of him? The best part is when Lisi tells Alex that she knows they wouldn't be voting her off if she weren't asking. Which...really? I am not sure. Maybe not quite yet. Lisi interviews that "you have to know when it's time to go," and that she's satisfied with how far she got. She doesn't see the need to push herself: "I'm done like a Thanksgiving Day turkey, man." And just as likely to come back to life, I'd say.
Hermit crab.
The boys have a little meeting over some fruit, and Alex breaks the news that Lisi wants to go. "Dreamz" makes it clear that this is not a problem for him at all. He interviews that this was, like, fine with him in all ways, because Lisi sucks and he doesn't like her anyway. What could be better? In fact, he calls it a "dream come true." He says he might not even pay attention at tribal council -- he'll be so happy that he'll just stand up and start the voting.
We then watch everyone sitting around, Lisi stretched out on a palm frond, as Edgardo says that doing thirty-nine days isn't that bad. "Dreamz" adds that on Day 21 or whatever, it doesn't actually seem all that bad. "Dreamz" announces in his interview that he's not even taking his bag to tribal council. He's that sure he's not going home.
Crabs wrestling. Seriously.
And then, Lisi calls a meeting with Edgardo and Alex. Guess what? She changed her mind. And they're pretty pissed off, obviously, because she keeps breaking down and then pulling it together, and there's only so much of that you can find charming. Alex and Edgardo look at each other. Edgardo's like, "What do you want me to say?" Lisi says that she's rethinking her position, and that she thinks maybe she did the wrong thing. Alex interviews that he can only despair, because Lisi changes her mind every time he turns around. Lisi interviews that the three of them have all had their ups and downs, so she's sure they understand. Lisi tells the guys that she thinks "Dreamz" will switch sides as soon as there's a merge. She tells them she can last: they should get rid of "Dreamz." Alex points out to her that ten minutes before tribal council is maybe not the best time to be bringing this up. Edgardo interviews that he doesn't know yet whether it's going to be Lisi or "Dreamz" going home. Lisi tells us that "Dreamz" should go, and that Alex and Edgardo will vote for him, meaning he's going home. She's got the game knocked! It's in the bag!
Tribal council. Jeff welcomes Ravu, and then brings in Rocky, who looks a little better cleaned up, but not that much better. Jeff says that they've lost four challenges out of five, and he wants to know what's going wrong. Lisi accuses them of "individualism," which is keeping them from becoming a cohesive unit. Jeff talks about her "emotional ride," and Lisi repeats her "rich, poor, exile" speech, which is really...once more if not twice more than its quality calls for. "I've plaaaayed this game," she says darkly, as if she didn't spend the first two weeks living in the lap of luxury. Somehow, I don't think past players who spent an entire month in the conditions she faced at Ravu think she's experienced more because she had a bed part of the time.
Asked his opinion, "Dreamz" hops right in and says that Lisi is a big quitter, and as soon as she's not winning, she wants to go home. Lisi claims to have seen "Dreamz" quit in the middle of challenges, which is...pretty mysterious, since most recently, he was, like, the only person on their tribe to do well in the target-shooting. He insists that he has never given up, ever. She insists that he has. This is not a particularly thrilling exchange, that's for sure. When it becomes clear that Lisi has no argument, she says, "I can't even do this, man." Which is true for very different reasons than the ones she means. "Dreamz" says this: "Like I said, Jeff, she wants to go home. And they call me Genie In A Bottle, because I grant wishes." Mookie grins mischievously.
Jeff asks Lisi how her "will" and her "desire" are doing. Her answer is, "Wavering from minute to minute," which I'm not sure is going to get her the result she claimed she wanted right before tribal council. I'm not sure the right answer to "do you want to be here" is "eh." Jeff asks Edgardo how you trust somebody who's been saying she wants out. Edgardo basically says that the shifting fortunes have turned Lisi nutsy.
The most awesome part of tribal council is when Jeff asks "Dreamz" about his will, and "Dreamz" says that his will is forever. "If I die," he says, "recipitate [sic] me at the finish line." He insists that his spirit never flags; his ability to invent new words certainly doesn't. Jeff asks Lisi whether she wants to be here, and Lisi hesitates and says, "Can't I catch a break?" She keeps talking about how everybody has down times, but that she can't seem to bring herself to answer the question, and that's not a good sign. "I'm just being honest!" she says. And as you know, as long as someone is being honest, you can't be mad. "Dreamz" immediately points out that Lisi didn't answer: "Ask her again." "You just did," Jeff points out, and "Dreamz" looks at Lisi expectantly. "What?" she says. "Do you want to be here?" "Dreamz" repeats. When Lisi continues to equivocate, "Dreamz" insists that it's a simple question, and he poses it to all the other guys in turn, and they all say yes. "You see how simple those answers were?" he says. "They didn't give me a...shaligwa...shaquareh... " "'Soliloquy?" Jeff asks with a smile? "Yeah," "Dreamz" says. Okay, that was a great callback. Lisi says that apparently, she's "at fault for being honest." She's just keeping it real!
Jeff asks Lisi if she has any final advice. "Give me a chance," she says. "Edguardo [sic] and Alex know me." She goes on to ask them to "let [her] see what happens," whatever that means. Like, "Hey, I might decide I don't want to quit. Isn't that reason enough for me to stay?"
Time for voting. Mookie votes. "Dreamz" votes for Lisi, saying that he's been "waiting to do this for a long time." Edgardo votes. Lisi votes for "Dreamz": "You're a grown man. Consider a name change." You know, if she didn't suck, that would be a little funny, but she does. Alex votes. Jeff goes off to "tally." Hey, a guy needs some rocks to count to five. When he returns, he says that anyone can play the idol, but that does not occur. Time to read votes! Lisi. "Dreamz." Lisi. And...Lisi. That will do it. She brings over her torch. Snuff! I will not miss her. She leaves. Jeff says that "you have to want to win in order to make it to the end." He then sends them all home with that little pearl of wisdom to think about.
Lisi's parting words are that she knows herself, and that it has nothing to do with will: "When the ship is sinking, you get off the ship." If you think about it, that's the worst argument in the history of the show. "You guys are losers," she says to her former tribe. She finishes with "Try to hold on to yourselves, 'cause together, you're nothing." At least she's leaving with grace.
week: a twist. Michelle thinks they're going to die. I doubt it.