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The bloom is off the rose at Galu, where Erik proves to be good at both scheming and idol-hunting, as he pumps Shambo for information on the idol clues at the other camp and uses them to find it at Galu while Russell, Dave Ball, and Shambo are at the Reward Challenge with Mick, the blonde, and Li'l Russell from Foa Foa. Since Probst couldn't be bothered to show up, they have to run it themselves, throwing colored balls at a flag to see which team can get closest. Foa Foa is ahead for the entire game until Dave Ball beats them on the last throw and Galu wins chickens. They get them back to camp and Shambo claims to be a chicken expert, which means she promptly accidentally sets one free. Galu looks poised to win yet another Immunity Challenge until Monica's inability to walk across a rope with any speed contributes to their loss. Snorkel and chicken loser Shambo's days are clearly numbered now, right? Wrong! Because it's actually between Yasmin, who does nothing around camp, and Monica, who lost the challenge. Because Monica is popular, she stays. Yasmin gets to go to the Loser's Lodge. With Ben. I'm not sure who to feel sorry for. Marisa and Betsy, I guess.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Foa Foa returns to camp and Mick checks in with Li'l Russell to make sure he's okay after voting Ben out. Why wouldn't he be? He voted for Ben just like everyone else. Li'l Russell says he's sad to have to go back on his word to Ben and vote for him, but he had no choice after what he said at Tribal Council. Accordingly to the Previouslies, Probst also believes this is how it went down, but I call bullshit. Li'l Russell planned to vote for Ben before Tribal Council even began. He said as much in an interview. Meanwhile, Jaison reminds us that Ben is either racist or ignorant and an asshole either way, then complains that he's cold, hungry, and tired and thinks coming on this show was "the worst decision [he has] made in [his] entire life." Ha! I agree. He went to Stanford for undergrad and the University of Chicago for law school. He doesn't need this show. But he was in Cosmopolitan magazine as Mr. California or whatever, so he got cast without auditioning or probably ever watching the show. You know, like Marcus back in Gabon. You'd think the casting people could at least switch up the magazines they recruit from, but no. The morning, Jaison is still not having a great time and tells Li'l Russell so. Li'l Russell and his stupid walking stick run right over to an interview and say that Jaison isn't much of a man because he probably would have quit the game if Ben wasn't voted out last night. Now he wants Jaison to go out , and assures us that what he wants is what the tribe does. Except for last night, when they did what Jaison wanted.
Let's head over to Galu so they can get their weekly three minutes of camera time. Shambo sulks around camp, hating her tribe more than ever after being around Foa Foa where "there was a huge appreciation for Shambo." Do not refer to yourself in the third person, Shambo. Oh, what am I even saying? Of all the things Shambo shouldn't do, that is pretty low on the list. Number 1 is probably go near the fishing equipment and number 2 is speak. She tells her tribemates about how amazing Foa Foa's camp is, with its pristine beaches and racist assholes. She didn't say that last part, but she seems to think that it's much more fun to be around someone like Ben than the people of Galu. Maybe if she wasn't white, she'd feel differently. Shambo claims in an interview that she has a "following" at Foa Foa, so if she can last until the merge, she'll be in a good position. Not if there's no one left at Foa Foa to merge with. Also, a "following," Shambo? Really? You aren't Jesus. There's really no reason why this woman's self esteem should be this high. I don't get it.
Let's get to know someone in Galu who isn't Shambo, shall we? How about Erik, who pulls Shambo aside to ask about her clue to the immunity idol. Apparently Yasmin had no problem telling everyone about her clue, and Erik is hoping that wherever the idol is on Foa Foa's beach, it's in a similar spot at Galu, too. Because Erik knows this show well enough to know that the producers are that lazy. He promises Shambo that if she tells him what was in the second clue and he finds the idol, he'll give it to her if she ever needs it. "Yup," Shambo says, seemingly buying all of this. She's about to tell Erik what he wants to know when John runs up and asks her the same question. Erik tries not to look pissed off. He doesn't really succeed. Shambo tells both John and Erik what was in her clue, then requests that they give her their jury votes for being honest. John and Erik try not to laugh in her face at the idea of her being in the final two and not them. She interviews that she thinks what she just did was a smart move that "can do nothing but help" her. Then she admits that it could hurt her. I have a feeling this is the first time that occurred to her. She is oblivious to, like, everything. It's kind of amazing.
Back at Foa Foa, they have treemail. This stupid tribe chief thing continues as Mick is told to pick two tribemates and follow a map to a destination where they might receive food. Mick tries not to roll his eyes about this in an interview, then picks Li'l Russell and the blonde girl who isn't Ashley to go with him, claiming that she's good at puzzles. I'm sorry, but based on what little we've seen of the blonde, I do not think she is good at puzzles. But she's definitely better company than, say, Liz.
The tribes arrive at a beach with a large circle drawn in the sand. Russell chose Dave Ball and Shambo to go with him, calling their mission a "quest." This is Survivor, not Lord of the Rings, Russell. Nerd down a little bit. Russell thinks that Shambo and Dave Ball will give him "brains" and "firepower," but he doesn't say who he thinks will be responsible for what. I'm guessing Shambo is bringing the firepower, though. The tribes step inside the circle and stare at each other for a while, waiting for whatever is supposed to happen . But nothing happens. Probst is off doing something better with his time, so they have to run this challenge themselves. And that is bullshit. If Probst wins an Emmy year I am going to be so pissed. He isn't even showing up at challenges anymore! Finally, the contestants notice a cage marked "reward" with some chicken sound effects inside it. There's also a closed chest, which Li'l Russell guesses is full of rice and beans. Shambo, on the other hand, has decided that this challenge will somehow involve catching chickens (which are in a cage. A cage with a sign on it that says "reward." Which most reasonable people would take to mean that the chickens are the reward and not the challenge. Does Shambo have an inner monologue or does she just say everything as it pops into her head?) and the winning tribe will get a chest full of food as a reward.
Li'l Russell makes a move towards the chickens first, and that's all it takes for chaos to begin! Probst must feel so necessary watching this at home right now, seeing how crazy things get without him around to scold the contestants. Except that I have a feeling Probst hasn't watched this show since like Season 3. Not even the pleasure of watching himself on the screen is enough of a reward for Probst to watch his own show. Dave Ball takes off for the closed chest. Shambo throws her stuff down and run towards the chicken cage, actually reaching it before anyone on Foa Foa even though they're closer to the cage and had a head start. Either Foa Foa is just that slow and crappy, or Shambo LOVES chickens. She throws the cage door open as Dave Ball finds a note inside the chest with instructions for today's Reward Challenge. It's a game of bocce, essentially, with a flag placed in the middle of the circle and each contestant given three balls each to throw towards it. Whoever gets closest to the flag wins the chickens for his tribe. Meanwhile, Shambo comes walking up with a chicken in either hand. Seriously, she has one chicken by the neck and another by the wing. It is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on this show. A woman who calls herself Shambo and has a tremendous mullet just standing around holding chickens like it's no big thing. Words cannot describe it. Dave Ball tells her to put the chickens back in the cage. Amazingly, the chicken she has around the throat isn't dead yet, and is happy to return to its home.
Russell plants the flag in the center with his usual undeserved self-importance and the game begins. Mick and Russell throw first. Mick's first two throws are very close, and Russell's second throw only helps Foa Foa as it knocks into Mick's ball and sends it even closer to the flag. With two Foa Foa balls closest to the flag, the blonde interviews that she just wants to make sure her balls don't knock Mick's out of the top spot. She knocks one of his balls slightly further away with her first toss. Ha! She's awful. Shambo promises to knock Mick's balls away from the flag, so, of course, she doesn't come anywhere near that. Her other two throws also suck, to the point where she is calling herself "Shannon Lee" in disappointment. "Shambo is like no good," Russell interviews. Is there anything she can do? Li'l Russell gets his ball closest to the flag with his third throw, leaving Dave Ball with just one chance to win it for Galu. His useless tribemates remind him of this fact over and over again until he has to shush them. Then, calm, cool, and collected, he throws his last ball and wins the game for Galu. Dave Ball and Russell scream and point at the flag while Shambo says "oh my god" over and over again. Foa Foa tries to be gracious in defeat. They're used to it, so they do a good job. Mick interviews that it was demoralizing to lose to Galu again and watch them leave the beach with the chickens. "We can't even pull off freaking bocce ball," he sighs. No, you can't. You guys are just terrible.
Meanwhile, back at Galu, Erik is taking advantage of Russell, Shambo, and Dave Ball's absence and the rest of the tribe's laziness to search for the immunity idol while they're all asleep. Oh, except for the two women who look alike, who he sends off on "fruit patrol," whatever that means. He pokes around some nearby trees, sticking his hand in holes that may well be full of nasty Samoan animals with sharp teeth. The camera manages to catch John rousing himself from his nap on the hammock to watch Erik before apparently going back to sleep. Surely this will be important later. Not in this episode though, so let's move on. While the lizards scamper around camp freely now that Ben is no longer around to shove sticks in their mouths, Erik finds the idol hidden in some leaves on a tree branch. Of course, I'm sure he won't get all the congratulations in the Previouslies that Probst gives to Li'l Russell for also finding the idol without any clues, but whatever. This doesn't show us that Li'l Russell or Erik are especially smart. It shows us that the people who hide the immunity idols for this show are especially lazy. Erik is very pleased with himself and says he won't be telling anyone about his discovery. That's what people always say on this show. And then they tell everybody anyway.
Russell, Dave Ball, and Shambo return with the chicken coop. Shambo is assigned to take care of the chickens when she says "of course" she knows a lot about them. Dave Ball says Shambo's country knowledge isn't all that important - they just need to make absolutely sure that no one accidentally lets the chickens go. Well, yeah. Surely, that goes without saying. I mean, no one would be so stupid as to let their precious food reward escape... right? While Russell carries on about how awesome it is that they won chickens for everyone, Dave Ball interviews that he's celebrating on the inside but trying to remain humble and calm on the outside. Because he appears to be one of the only people on this show with any self-awareness. Which makes me wonder how he got cast on it in the first place. He won't be cocky around his tribe, but in interviews: "I won chickens. What did you do? Not that. Peace." Dave Ball gives much better soundbytes than stupid Li'l Russell. Why doesn't he get more camera time? Shambo informs the tribe that chickens need water, unlike every other living thing which does just fine without it. Russell says that Shambo, with her seemingly endless knowledge of chickens, has been assigned to take care of them. She celebrates this by imitating a chicken, bobbing her head and clucking. It's weird. She interviews that chickens have to like you in order to give you eggs, so she's going to make sure that the chickens like her and thus provide the tribe with eggs. But as we've already seen, Shambo doesn't know when people like her or not, so she'll probably just think the chickens like her when they're really thinking about how annoying she is. Shambo kneels down in front of the chicken cage and clucks for a while. Dave Ball and the chickens both react with awesome "look out for the crazy lady" faces. "Talking chicken," Dave Ball says. Shambo shushes him. I have a feeling the chickens would much rather listen to Dave Ball than Shambo.
It's raining at Foa Foa. Jaison complains again, saying he's so miserable that losing out on some chickens doesn't even matter to him. Li'l Russell weighs in that he doesn't think Jaison is the right person to take to the Final Two anymore since he may well quit the game. I think it's more like Jaison is likeable and well-spoken and will decimate Li'l Russell in front of a jury. He's thinking that the blonde girl is a better choice because she'll happily ride his coattails to the end because she knows she's "too stupid" to get there on her own. Have you ever met a stupid person who was aware that he was stupid? Most stupid people I meet think they're really smart. Like Li'l Russell, for example. So it wouldn't make sense for the blonde to just think "I am dumb and aware of the limitations that presents. Thus, it's best for me to let someone else get to the end for me." Li'l Russell says that at the Final Two, he's sure to win the jury vote by saying that the blonde rode his coattails and he did all the hard work. Coattails have worked for people in the past. Also, why does Li'l Russell think he has any chance at the Final Two when his tribe can't win a challenge?
Nevertheless, he talks to the blonde on the beach and reaffirms their final two alliance. She interviews that she's Li'l Russell's "wing man," whatever that means. "Hopefully we'll start winning," she says to Li'l Russell, showing that she's more practical than he is. Winning challenges as a team is Step One in this game, really. Burning people's socks can wait until after the merge. The blonde proves to be smarter than Li'l Russell thought, saying that she's aware people underestimate her here, and she's using it to her advantage by presenting herself as the ideal choice to take to the end. She's happy to go to the end with Li'l Russell because she's sure she can beat him in a Final Two situation because other people in Foa Foa don't like him. So while he plays his little strategy game, she'll do the social thing and be popular, which has probably always worked for her in the past and works pretty well on this show, too.
The morning at Galu, one of the chickens has laid an egg, no doubt due to her desire to please Shambo. Shambo makes chicken sounds to express her appreciation, causing any tribe members within earshot to be reminded of the fact that she's insane. While Erik talks about how he can't wait to eat one of the chickens, Shambo sounds the alarm -- a chicken has escaped! HA! That did not take long at all, did it? Shambo did the one thing Dave Ball told her not to do: she let a chicken go. She is ridiculous. Fortunately for her, most of Galu is too lazy to care. Yasmin is too busy trying to roast her pants, Dave Ball is too busy making fun of Shambo in an interview, and the rest are probably napping or, in the wonder twin's case, stroking each other and looking even more identical than ever. Only Erik tries to help Shambo catch the chicken, for which he pays dearly when he runs into the tribe's clothesline and flies backwards. "Erik gets clotheslined by the clothesline!" Dave Ball says, enjoying every minute of this. Casting directors take note: average-looking people who are smart and interesting are much more fun to watch than vapid models. This show needs more Dave Balls and less whatever the blondes' names are. And no Li'l Russells. In the end, the chicken winds up high in a tree and refuses to come down, no matter how many times Shambo tells her to in her chicken language. "I didn't know they could frikkin' fly," Shambo the self-proclaimed chicken expert says. Russell shakes his head and interviews that Shambo is a moron. Yasmin takes a break from pants-roasting to help out, and Erik assigns her to keep an eye on the chicken. "I don't know where she went," she shrugs, her arms folded. "All you have to do is look at the chicken," Erik says, beyond tired of these lazy idiots.
Dave Ball heads back to camp to tell the blonde and John about the loss of the chicken. "How did it get out?" the blonde asks. "I'll give you one guess," Dave Ball says. "Why? Why did she? How?" the blonde sputters. Yeah, that's pretty much the correct reaction. Meanwhile, Shambo bemoans her bad luck, saying she managed to "produce one egg," only to lose an entire chicken. Erik just wants to know how Shambo can take credit for that egg. Erik also pronounces Shambo's name "Sham-BO," which I love. He hates her so much that he can't bring himself to pronounce her name so it rhymes with Rambo. He says that the worst part of all of this is that he's the only person doing anything to try to get the chicken back. Everyone else is just standing around. Or laughing at him in interviews. "This tribe sucks," Erik says. Hey, maybe the chicken will go for a swim and find the snorkel piece Shambo lost in the swamp.
After the break, we're still at Galu, which should pretty much tell you that they are losing the immunity challenge this week. We need to get to know these people quickly before their first Tribal Council so that we actually care about who might be going home. The blonde works on a coconut while Yasmin observes. "Watching you is making me sleepy," she says. "Go take a nap," says the blonde. I think I like this blonde. The three things she's said this season have entertained me. Yasmin complains that she can't take a nap without Erik "interrupting" her, possibly with requests that she get off her ass and do something, like get water or help catch one-third of their reward. The blonde enjoys the fruits of her labor and drinks from the coconut while Yasmin asks if there's any milk in there. The blonde says there is not. At least, there's no milk that she's willing to share with Yasmin, as she interviews (I believe this is her first interview. It turns out that her name is Kelly) that Yasmin does nothing around camp and expects everyone else to tend to her needs, and Kelly is sick of it. With that, she rather passive-aggressively heads over to the wonder twins and offers them some coconut milk, saying she wouldn't give any to Yasmin because she worked on the coconut for almost an hour while Yasmin just sat there and watched her, hoping to score some coconut milk without having to work for it. I guess the wonder twins' "fruit patrol" runs count as worthy work. Kelly interviews again that while everyone in Galu is trying to work together as a team to make it to the merge as intact as possible, Yasmin is clearly only in this for herself. If that's true, it makes her approach at Foa Foa even more puzzling.
Immunity Challenge! Hey, look! Probst showed up to this one. Nice of him to stop by. Probst takes the immunity idol back from some random guy on Galu whose name I still don't know and at this point don't care to learn anymore. Probst explains the challenge: contestants must race across a net while carrying blocks of various sizes to a platform, where they will work to stack those blocks one on top of the other to make a tall tower. Then they will race across a rope bridge to another platform with more blocks that they will stack into an even taller tower. The first tribe to complete it wins immunity. Because Galu dominates, they have to sit four members out of the challenge. Russell picks Shambo, one of the wonder twins, himself, and Dave Ball. Even though Dave Ball is probably the tallest person in the tribe. So, that's dumb.
Probst calls go, and the tribes fairly easily make their way past the net. No crashing into each other, no hilarious falls. It's very disappointing for Probst. Both tribes start on their first tower at about the same time, with Foa Foa benefiting from Jaison's height while Galu props the tiny Kelly up on that random guy's shoulders so she can finish the top of the tower. Foa Foa tries to do the same, but they put their blonde on Li'l Russell's shoulders and he's like three feet tall, so they gain nothing. Galu finishes their tower first, with Foa Foa not far behind. Galu makes it to the rope bridge, where Shambo calls out this helpful tip: "you're way ahead! Take your time!" Shambo also thinks it's a good idea to lose fishing gear and chickens. And have a mullet. So Galu should just do the exact opposite of everything she says. Sure enough, they race across -- until Monica's (the younger wonder twin) turn. She seems to be moving her arms and legs quickly, but her progress is slow, giving Foa Foa plenty of opportunity to catch up. And yet, despite this, they're probably just as far behind going into the second tower as they were coming out of the first one. But Probst is quick to announce that Foa Foa somehow "made up a lot of time."
Galu increases their lead on the second tower when they get both of the bags containing their blocks untied before Foa Foa even gets one. But Foa Foa quickly catches up thanks to the height advantage they have in Jaison, which really isn't fair. The winner of an immunity challenge shouldn't be determined by which tribe has the tallest member. At the end, it's up to the blondes to stand on their tribe mates and complete the tower. Galu's blonde tries to stack the last three blocks at the same time, only to lose two of them on the way up. Foa Foa's blonde has just one block left to stack, but can't reach the top. But then she stretches and gets it up there. The tower stays intact for a count of five, and Foa Foa wins their first immunity challenge. There is much rejoicing. Over at Galu, there is bitter disappointment even though this is a good thing, really. Now they can get rid of Shambo and not lose any more chickens. As Galu does the slow motion loser's walk, Russell interviews that Monica lost the challenge for them. How? By not being ten feet tall? Because that's everyone's fault.
After the break, we go back to Galu. Russell reminds us that they lost the challenge and should not have, since they had the lead the entire way. Until the very end, of course. When it counted. "Okay boss, talk to me," Erik says to Russell, appealing perfectly to Russell's vision of himself as Galu's noble leader. Russell says Monica's performance during the challenge is the reason why they lost, and Erik agrees that she was horrible. Then I guess you should have sat her out, Russell. And put the other wonder twin in instead, because she's freaking awesome at this stuff and would have kicked ass and taken names. So it's kind of your fault, too. Then again, I still don't think Monica did an exceptionally bad job during the challenge and her relative slowness on the rope bridge didn't put her team behind. Foa Foa caught up during the second tower because they had taller people. And Russell sat Galu's tallest member out.
On the beach, Dave Ball suggests that Shambo be voted out tonight, because her suckage is really bringing down team morale. John disagrees, but Dave Ball says "she lost a chicken. How'd that make you feel?" Then he remembers that no one on this tribe except Erik cares about the chicken and suggests Yasmin for doing nothing around camp. True, but what's worse? Doing work around camp that results in the loss of a snorkel and a chicken, or doing nothing and thus not screwing anything up? John, Dave Ball, and the wonder twins seem to think it's the latter.
Meanwhile, tribe outcasts Yasmin and Shambo meet in the woods. Shambo talks about getting rid of Monica tonight for her slowness on the rope bridge, but Yasmin just says that she crossed the rope bridge before Monica and thus does not want to focus on negativity or something. Honestly, I don't know what this woman is talking about most of the time. And the rare times when I do know, she's saying things that she really shouldn't, like introducing herself to Foa Foa the least diplomatic way possible. She freely admits that she doesn't do anything around camp, but that's her strategy because she thinks that when you do something, everyone else finds fault with it. So basically, Yasmin says, while Shambo is going to be a target tonight for working hard enough to let a chicken escape, Yasmin will fly under the radar no problem because she's done nothing. She interviews to us that she helps win challenges, so she's an awesome tribemate. Monica, on the other hand, is not. "So if you want to penalize me for stepping up? Then so be it. Vote me out because my body could use a rest, dammit," Yasmin says. What planet is she on? She just admitted that she intentionally does NOT step up and all she does is nap anyway, so what's this about needing even more rest?
Erik meets with the beach group and tells them that Russell wants to vote Monica out tonight. John disagrees: "I like Monica, you know?" he says. Kelly thinks it's a "safer bet" to vote for Yasmin because she doesn't contribute at camp and no one likes her. Except Russell. Erik interviews that Yasmin is much stronger in challenges than Monica is, so he'd rather keep her and get rid of Monica. He tries to convince the others to vote for Monica, reminding them that if they vote Yamsin out then they'll be going against their own leader, which would be a bad idea if a leader on this show really meant anything. Meanwhile, how has Shambo's name only come up once? How is she not being voted out unanimously right now?
Erik tells Russell that most people want to vote for Yasmin. "So these people who are gonna vote for Yas they basically already have an alliance basically," Russell says, basically. "Already?!" It's Day 11, idiot! Of course they do! What is wrong with you? Can they just vote Russell out instead? He annoys me. Erik says it's not necessarily an alliance -- more like a group of people who like Monica and don't really trust Yasmin. Russell says if they don't trust Yasmin, then they don't trust his leadership decisions. So now he's mad. He says he'd rather have the performance of Yasmin than the "cutesiness" of Monica. "I'm the leader, so these people, they gotta listen to me or there's gonna be some serious ass-kicking!" Russell says. Oh please. You're not really a leader. You're not. Sometimes you get to choose people for challenges. And you kind of suck at that, by the way. Oh, and you get a necklace. But otherwise, it's totally meaningless and there's no reason why anyone should feel particularly compelled to follow you over anyone else.
Galu arrives at Tribal Council. They get their torches and Probst has to recite his stupid speech, which he does as quickly as possible. Then he asks Shambo how the afternoon went. Shambo says there was definitely some strategizing going on and secret meetings being called. Probst asks the random guy if everyone around camp is contributing equally, and he says no. Yasmin, for example, does "a little bit less work." Probst accuses Yasmin of rolling her eyes at this, to which she says, "I wasn't rolling my eyes, but you want my opinion , I'd be happy to give it." Well, that was just charming. Why haven't we seen this side of Yasmin before? She says that she does everything that people ask her to do, so she doesn't understand how the random guy can say she's doing less and wishes he had come to her about this earlier, when she could have done something about it. At the same time, didn't she say back at camp that she was purposely not doing anything? So why is she so surprised that someone actually noticed? She points out that she wore heels to this show, so she's out of her element in these woods, but at least she can wear them to Tribal Council to "dress up" for Probst. I find this entertaining even though, again, I'm not exactly sure what Yasmin is talking about. "Mission accomplished," Probst says, managing to blush under his overly tanned skin.
Probst asks Russell how important challenges are in this game. Duh, he says they're very important. Yasmin agrees, saying she's very competitive and steps up in challenges to do her best and win. Probst asks her who could have "given more" in today's challenge, and Yasmin of course says Monica. Probst asks Monica how it feels to know that someone thinks she's the reason why they're here tonight. "It sucks," Monica says, adding that she thinks she did a fine job at the challenge although she admits that she had some trouble on the rope bridge. "But once I got past that I think I really came back to my normal self," she says. But ... there wasn't anything past that. It was just building a tower. So that's not exactly something to be proud of.
Probst asks Dave Ball if he's going to vote tonight based on camp life, challenges, or individual strategy. Dave Ball says he's playing for his entire team, because what's good for them is good for him. The other wonder twin says she's voting based on who helps out around camp, a.k.a. "I need a reason to vote Yasmin out because there's no way I'm getting rid of Monica I love her." With that, they vote. Shambo votes for Monica. Monica votes for Yasmin, and we get another shot of Yasmin's heels to remind us that people who wear high heels don't pull their weight around camp. Yasmin votes for Moinca. Laura votes for Yasmin.
Probst returns with the urn. Yasmin gets two votes and Laura looks smug. But then Monica gets two votes, and Laura is angry. But the rest of the votes are for Yasmin, and she's gone. Monica breathes a huge sigh of relief, as does, I think, Yasmin. She was not having a great time out there. We get yet another shot of her high heels on her way out. The editors either loved or hated that high heels comment. It's not exactly fair, though, since Yasmin in all likelihood didn't choose to wear those heels. The producers choose the outfits the contestants wear. Russell looks all sad and pissed off, but it turns out that he voted for Yasmin, too, so whatever. I'm sad to see Yasmin go myself, but that's only because I know she's headed to the Loser's Lodge with Ben, who will probably be horrible to her.
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