Survivor Nicaragua: Reunion Show Recap

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After Fabio was named the winner of Survivor Nicaragua, the entire cast was reunited for the final hour. This is the time we often learn more about what was left on the editing room floor during the season, and why some votes went the way they did. Then there are the awkward times when we learn a little too much about the Survivor contestants. It’s always a fun show.

Jeff Probst started with Fabio, asking him if the nickname has stuck. “You started out here as Judson. Has the new name stuck?” Jud told us that he is now Fabio, likely forever. Then we got to see a picture of Jud in his modeling days pre- Survivor Nicaragua. Yum! This was also the time when Fabio confessed to being from a family of artists. His father invented “something” and his grandfather designed the folding card table for Samsonite (I believe he said that company). No need for Jud to take care of his family, it appears.

Survivor Nicaragua: Fabio Wins & Jane is America's Favorite Player

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After 39 days in the rain forest we finally see the Survivor Nicaragua players all cleaned up tonight. After a couple of intense Tribal Councils and a little more back stabbing, Fabio was pronounced the youngest winner of the $1 million Survivor prize. Jane won the $100,000 prize for America's Favorite Player votes.

Here's how the Survivor Nicaragua finale and reunion show went down:

After a short recap, the final five entered the Immunity Challenge. It was a  puzzle challenge and Fabio continued his reign of terror (albeit giggling terror). Winning easily over the other three, Fabio secured his spot in the final four.

Survivor Nicaragua: The Wrath of Jane

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After a recap of last week’s episode and the mild shake up of Benry’s back door exit, Survivor Nicaruagua got started with an uncomfortable return to camp. Fabio was surprised at the vote, but happy to still be in the game. After more drama than you can shake a stick at, Jane’s alliance turned on her this week when the got the opportunity. Jane was sent out the front door and off Survivor Nicaragua.

The six remaining players were in for a treat this week. The Reward Challenge brought messages from home and a chance to spend time with them. After much product placement of the new Sprint EVO phone, Survivor players were sent to the challenge in hopes of seeing loved ones in the flesh. They weren’t disappointed. Chase stuck his big size 12’s in his mouth again, as he promised Fabio he would choose him to join the reward if he won it again.

Survivor Nicaragua: Benry Gets Backdoored

The night in Survivor Nicaragua started with the aftermath of last week’s quitter-fest 2010. When NaOnka and Kelly chose to leave the game, they left then alliance member Sash hanging in the Nicaraguan wind. Two new alliances emerged. Sash was not part of either of them. He played both sides until finally landing with Chase, Jane and Holly. The four of them backdoored Benry... that sounds a lot dirtier than it is, really.

Jeff Probst kicked off Survivor Nicaragua by narrating what we’ve apparently missed on the edit room floor (thanks to NaOnka’s antics, likely). There were three solid alliances, now there are two. Chase, Jane and Holly are strong mentally and physically. Benry, Dan and Fabio are the other unlikely trio. Sash had to choose a new side. All know that Sash holds a hidden immunity idol (given to him by Marty), so he’s safe for tribal council anyway.

Sash talked to Chase and was upfront about having the idol. Chase said they were good, and they should stay with the women (Holly & Jane). Chase also said at the next Reward Challenge Holly and Sash were givens to be asked along if they didn’t win.

Survivor Nicaragua: NaOnka and Purple Kelly Both Quit the Game

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Tonight’s episode started with a weird vibe, and ended in a way that no other episode in 21 seasons of Survivor has. Two people quit the game. Yep. NaOnka and Purple Kelly (drop that purple now!) decided they’d had enough and told Jeff Probst to “smuff” their torches. Okay, actually Kelly said to “snuff” hers out proving she’s only slightly brighter than NaOnka.

Jeff Probst narrated a long recap (even after last week’s recap show), to start the episode. Talking about how the weather had worn on the castaways. We watched as storm after storm hit the Survivor camps this season. It felt like another storm was brewing.

Survivor Nicaragua: Brenda Doesn’t Scramble (but she did go home!)

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The puppets turned on the puppet master tonight. It happens every season of Survivor. Last week Brenda and Sash were running the game with a strong alliance. Tonight, out of the blue NaOnka smelled her best friend’s blood in the water and attacked like a hungry shark. When the feeding frenzy was over, Brenda was voted off Survivor Nicaragua to join the jury.

The jig was up after last week’s vote that evicted Marty. The alliances were pretty clear on the walk back to camp. Holly felt in the most danger and started clinging to Jane and tossing around Brenda’s name for this week. Jane talked to the other women, including NaOnka.

Once NaOnka had her “best friend” in her sights, she could not let go. Spreading Brenda’s name as a threat, everybody seemed ready to jump on the bandwagon. That is until she got to Chase. Poor, stupid Chase. Apparently Chase has never seen an episode of Survivor. He ran straight to Brenda and spilled the beans.

Survivor Nicaragua: Marty Takes the Walk of Shame

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The rift that started between Marty and Jane in the original older tribe grew even greater after last week’s tribal council on Survivor Nicaragua. After Alina took the fall, the tribe headed back to camp with a smoldering Jane. She became even more focused on getting Marty out of the tribe, and by the end of the night Jane got her wish. Marty got voted off Survivor Nicaragua tonight and became the second jury member.

There were separate reward and immunity challenges tonight. Neither was very intense, so the focus of the show was the tribal drama. At one point Jane said she wanted to “take [Marty] to the woodshed and whoop his ass!”

Survivor Nicaragua: NaOnka Steals Food and Alina Goes Home

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Tonight’s episode of Survivor Nicaragua was short on action and long on drama. Right off the bat teams were merged into a single tribe. Marty named the new tribe Libertad (he said it means ‘liberty’...but since it’s Marty, it could mean ‘pea soup’). The game is down to eleven players tonight after Alina wound up being voted off and becomes the first member of the Survivor Nicaragua jury.

The new tribe was given a chest full of food and happily began gorging. After a while of cooking and feeling taken advantage of, NaOnka decided to steal the tribe’s flour. Then she took a frying pan, a bowl and quite a bit of fruit, and stashed it in the forest. Eating by herself, NaOnka said, “It tastes better when you’re stealing! Like sweet victory!” M’kay.

Survivor: Nicaragua Shannon Shows His True Colors (and they aren’t rainbow!)

Survivor Nicaragua started of normal enough, but took a right turn at crazy and ended up in Homophobic-town. It was not a pretty show tonight, but it was entertaining for a while.

Let’s start with the older tribe (actually called Espada, but if Probst isn’t using the right names, neither am I!)....

Holly felt bad about voting off Wendy last week at tribal council, and she acted more and more strange as the night progressed. First she heard Dan making fun of her, so she decided to take her own revenge. Holly took Dan’s shoes, filled them with sand and sunk them in the lagoon water. I kind of thought it was genius to fill them with sand first, I’m so stupid they would have floated up on me and I would have been busted and crying in seconds.

Survivor Nicaragua Premier: Older Vs Younger

Survivor Nicaragua kicked off tonight with a new team line up pitting old against young. The youngsters took full control tonight at the first immunity challenge. One more thing, did you know Jimmy Johnson is on Survivor Nicaragua?

It quickly became obvious that this would be the season of 'Jimmy' on Survivor. We got to see and hear a lot from the former NFL coach. It was impressive to hear him give a team motivational speech. It was underwhelming to see him blowing chunks in the middle of the night. TMI.

Survivor Heroes Vs. Villains: "There's no one left with honor, not out here" Coach pontificates

When last we left our Heroes and Villains on Survivor, James was booting out Stephanie. Well, the tribe voted for her, but it was on the back of James' comments and ill will toward her. Safer to vote out the other strong voice.

Tom chose to take the high road back at Heroes camp (we would expect nothing less). I really hate the way he openly badmouths James behind his back though. He did tell James he could have said things in a nicer way to Stephanie, that's telling him Tom.

Turning to our Villains of Survivor, hearing Evil Russell and Parvati cackling together is enough to keep me up and creeped out all night. Boston Rob is onto all the couples and he knows how powerful that kind of alliance is.

Coach and Jeri are the other couple in the Villains camp, ick times two. Seeing Coach stroking Jeri's locks... *shudder*.

The Heroes camp came together over a chicken catching at the camp. Several more chickens were rustled up, keeping these reality TV starves plump. Far from our wasting competitors of previous seasons.

Casting is a Hit for Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains Week 1

The casting is amazing for Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains, starting the shows 20th season and tenth year. The villains are truly love-to-hate players from the past. The heroes were almost all great players (and corrected that tonight).

Standout villains include Russel Hantz from last season's second place finish. Still convinced he is the greatest Survivor player ever, Russel started his game right where his last game ended. Making final two deals with anyone who would listen. Funny they did not show Russel digging up an Immunity Idol... yet.

Boston Rob is the other love-him-or-hate-him guy on the side of evildoers. While Rob is not really evil, he is a sneaky and a very strong Survivor player. Now married to Amber, his Survivor sweetheart, Rob is really more annoying than evil. There were scary scenes from next week concerning Boston Rob, so be prepared for anything (as always).

Survivor Samoa: Natalie White Wins in the Ultimate Backdoor

"Evil" Russell Hantz Loses the Sole Survivor Title

Natalie White upset "Evil" Russell Hantz on the finale of Survivor: Samoa, winning the $1 million dollar prize and title of Sole Survivor. Keep those last two words in mind. Russell Hantz is the most polarizing character in Survivor history, but should have won the game. At least he will forever believe so. The final vote count gave Natalie four votes and enough to take the final win, and dole out the final backdoor to the master Russell.

Survivor came into it's 19th season a little worn and tired looking. I had lost interest in the last few seasons and only watched the finales. This season looked different during the promos. This Russell guy kept showing up with a ton of trash talk. I figured I'd check it out. He'd either be out immediately or be a master. He is a master.

Not since CBS stumbled onto "Evil" Dick on Big Brother has there been such a deeply disturbing personality been focused on. We all know one of these people. They aren't bad people, just ferociously focused on the goal. Nothing will stop them.The problem is, "Survivor" is a team sport. Right to the bitter end. Russell had no respect for any of the other castaways on "Survivor Samoa". His condescension and arrogance showed threw to every single one of the contestants. He was a good back to ride though, so they cut their losses and rode on the alligator's back. Of course he ate them, it's what he does.

The million dollar prize is usually what drives the Survivor contestants. As Jeff Probst read the final jury votes and pronounced Natalie the winner of Survivor Samoa, Russell was visibly fuming. Probst may as well have said "the loser of Survivor: Samoa is Russell..". Russell took it like a man, he just could not find his Academy Award runner-up clap and nod face. In fact, he continued to play the game.

Jeff Probst, ever the antagonist, honed in on Russell's red face and said, ".. you look visible upset..." To which Russell went into a brief explanation of why he should have won (all very valid points).

Russell continued by saying that he still did not care about the money, he would pay Natalie $10,000 right now to have Probst announce that he, Russell, is the "Sole Survivor". Probst said he would get back to him. Throughout the rest of the reunion you could see Russell gently working Natalie. When Probst finally asked Natalie if she would accept, she declined the offer. So Russell offered Natalie $100,000 for the same pronouncement. Natalie declined. Jeff Probst choked on his words as he said, "..we are talking about two words here, 'Sole Survivor'.... Russell I'll call you that every day for $100,000". Sorry folks, I'm sure Mark Burnett owns those two little words.

"Survivor: Samoa" definitely turned out to be the best season in quite some time for the reality TV series. Here is the run down of the most amusing characters from season 19. Since there were a few analogies to the office atmosphere, I'll match each one to a character on "The Office".

"Evil" Russell - Self proclaimed millionaire businessman, Russell is the guy you love to hate. He is focused, period. Totally "Dwight Schrute". Russell comes armed with the ammunition (and then some) to do the job. God help you if you are in the way (or he doesn't know how to use the weapons).

Mick - The young doctor who gave us an anatomy lesson on every single episode of Survivor: Samoa. Wearing his shorts so low the blur had to be in the front of him. Mick also proved that he could hold the world record for most number of days sitting in a tree trunk. Sorry Mick, I dub thee "Toby". Never have I been so bored.

Natalie - "Pam"... well, duh. Nice girl, nothing wrong with that... or is there?

"Shambo" Shannon - What can you say about this mullet wearing, life-loving, ex-marine ...other than enter "Michael Scott". "Shambo" has talked with chickens and God this season. She reminded me of "Michael Scott" from the start, no matter how many times she's flushed, "Shambo" won't go down. She gave us words like: "shambolicious", and sent us all to Google for "fectless" on finale night (which should be 'feckless').

Jaison - now I don't want to take crap for naming Jaison as "Stanley", it's not that they are both African-American. Do you ever see "Stanley" smile? Did you ever see Jaison smile? See? Jaison gave a judgemental speech in the reunion show about Russell being the guy in the office that everyone hates. Jeff Probst asked Russell if he had anything to say, "He's still made because I burned his socks!" With that Russell stood, took out a new pair of socks to hand to Jaison. Russell turned and threw the socks in the fire instead for the speech Jaison made.

Brett - Brett started Survivor: Samoa as "The Invisible Man", but somehow defied the laws of physics and became more powerful as his body shrunk. We never heard of this man child with tousled hair until it was obvious that Russell was in complete control of the game. Out stepped "Jim Halpert". Brett was able to make his piece with the dominating Foa Foa tribe and Natalie ("Pam") in particular. Of course she was the last female left on Survivor: Samoa.

I'll leave the rest of the cast for you to fill in and match up.

We were given a glimpse of the 20th season of Survivor. Another All-Stars season, this should be a fun one. Though no names were released, it's rumored that Russell will return. Makes sense since the title is Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains. Now to decide who should join him. No others have stood out as much as Evil Russell did on this season of Survivor.

Survivor Tocantins Season Finale: JT Thomas Wins a Million Dollars

Another Survivor Millionaire is Made
CBS Sunday 8/7c 5/17/2009

Survivor, the game of 'outwit, outlast, outplay', looked to have a boring final tribal council this season. With best friends (from the show) Stephen and J.T. making the final two Survivor contestants as planned. The gloves came off when the torches were lit though, and we again saw a blind-side in progress.

Stephen, a well spoken Yale grad, was ready for the interview part of the final tribal council. JT had mentioned the prospects of Stephen talking his way into a winning position. JT made the decision to take Stephen look like a difficult one, but I think it was part of his strategy. He had to keep his word to the end so no one could doubt him being a true 'warrior'... and he would guarantee Coach's vote.

The end of the final tribal council devolved into watching an old married couple (Stephen/JT) argue.

Stephen: "... let's just air our dirty laundry...JT wanted to vote you (Taj) off earlier in the game and I kept you here longer..."
JT: "... is this the same guy I brought with me?... but you would have taken Errin (to the finals)..."

The bromance was over it appeared.

When Jeff Probst went up to count the votes for the winner of Survivor Tocantins, the jury looked satisfied about the prior drama. At the end of the night though, Stephen was the first to jump up and hug the winner JT.

In only the second time in Survivor history, JT took home the prize with a unanomous vote.

Even Taj, blind-sided into 4th place, did not hold any ill will toward JT. She said his name was never even considered for elimination because "you can't find anything wrong with him".

Stephen played an excellent game with the skills he brought. He won the only real mental challenge in come from behind fashion. Stephen played a perfect mind game for survivor, laying low when he needed to and switching thing up when he needed to. He continually complimented JT's mental game as well, to show he was not riding coat-tails of a brute force player. Stephen often said, "...our minds work alike...". While JT often said he felt Stephen was far superior to him in education and thinking. It was the perfect team, and the right person won.

JT Thomas has showed that being a hard worker with character can pay off... big time. Congratulations to both JT and Stephen.

In case you have not had enough of 'Coach', here are some more of his... thoughts.

Survivor Micronesia - Fans vs. Faves 5/11/08

Season Finale Survivor Micronesia: Fans vs. Faves
CBS 8/9c Sunday

Parvati Shallow is the winner of Survivor Micronesia:Fans vs. Faves and $1million dollars. Here is how it all played out!

The ladies of the final 3 on Survivor Micronesia were victorious in blind-siding all of the other players in the game, only to be blindsided in the end.

The contestants were devestated to find out it would not be a final 3, but a final 2. One more Immunity Challenge to compete in, then choose one friend over another for money.

During the ceremonial torch burning, Erik voiced that he "learned a lot about how women think". Poor Erik, the girls had to laugh as Cirie said, "Erik, I'm sorry you had to face the women's wrath... you play with fire and you get burned."

Then on to the Immunity Challenge. A cool endurance challenge, holding a metal ball balanced on wood blocks squeezed together between your hands.

Everyone made it through the first 5 minute round, then they added blocks of wood. Everyone made it though round 2, so 2 more pieces of wood were added.

Parvati was the first to drop her ball, late in round 3. It was down to Cirie and Amanda in round 4. With Jeff Probst's monotonous droning during every 5 minute round.

Round 5 went until someone dropped their pieces. Cirie lost. Amanda wins final Individual Immunity and is guaranteed a spot in the Final 2 of Survivor Micronesia, and a shot at a million dollars.

Now Amanda had the difficult task of voting off one of her comrades. It has to be Cirie, but they just had a big fight about how Cirie feels on the outside of the alliance of 3.

Amanda cried and cried at Tribal Council because she had to choose between friends. Boo Hoo!

Amanda finally voted out Cirie, hopefully she will win an audience prize at the finale. Parvati and Amanda are the final 2 contestants of Survivor Micronesia: Fans vs. Faves.

The girls giggled and screamed at their winning breakfast. And at being the final 2. Amanda said out of the last 6 months, she has lived in the jungle for 78 days (as a finalist in last season's Survivor: China)!

With the traditional camp burning, the ladies headed off to the final Tribal Council to get asked questions by the Jury. The Jury member then vote for who they want to win Survivor Micronesia and $1,000,000.

Parvati took credit for every huge power play in the game in her opening statement to the Jury. While Amanda thanked them for helping her get to the finals... hmmm...

The questions went like this:
Eliza - jumped on Parvati for "being a mean person", and Amanda for being "superficial".

Jason asked Amanda if she would have told Ozzie about the back-door, Amanda "yes". He asked Parv what he redeeming qualities were.

Alexis asked Parvati what makes her a better roll model than Amanda. Parvati said that she is more indepedent. She too made a point that Amanda is superficial.

Natalie called Parvati a flirt, and asked how that resonates for her in the bedroom. Parvati said at home flirting gets her what she wants. She asked Amanda if her strategy was to play the pageant girl, glazed over dingy. Amanda said no.

Erik said 5-6 days ago he would have voted for Amanda hands down. But now he felt totally burned...duh! Too late for I'm sorry's!

James said Amanda should know she has it in the bag. He asked Parvati to be honest with him, and she was a smart-ass. Then explained herself, but he was pissed.

Cirie asked Amanda why Parvati deserved a million dollars more than she does. Amanda said Parvati made all of the bold moves in the game, Cirie laughed. She asked Parvati why she deserved to be there...

Ozzie said he thinks he is the biggest idiot up there and was truly hurt by what Parvati did to him (taking Ozzie out was all Cirie's idea, but Parvati wants all of the credit... heehee!). Ozzie said he didn't want to talk to Parvati and cried as he said she took away 14 days he could have spent with Amanda. He explained to Amanda that he is starting to fall in love with her. He said he was glad he didn't win Cook Island so he could be here and meet her. Wow, how Rob and Amber!

Votes:
Parvati
Amanda
Parvati
Amanda
Parvati
Amanda
Parvati
Parvati

Parvati Shallow is the winner of Survivor Micronesia:Fans vs. Faves and $1million dollars.

At the reunioun show in New York City, Jeff Probst questioned all of the contestants.
Amanda's records include: 78 consecutive days on the show (back to back seasons), and both original alliances made it to the end. She said that she now has trust issues with people in real life. And it sucks to lose again.

Jeff Probst called Natalie a "raving fill in the blank", she said she had some nasty responses on MySpace.

Getting to the blind-sides, Ozzie said he now understood how someone could kill in the heat of passion. He is over it now.

Eliza's famous line, about the fake Hidden Immunity Idol, "It's just a fucking stick!"

Jason still has and brought his unused Hidden Immunity Idol. He said it sits on his desk every day to remind him of his stupidity.

And then of course there is Erik. He is an ice cream scooper from Pickney Michigan. He said he learned a lot of life lessons. He also said that while it was a dumb move, he could not have gone farther ethically.

James made the call that Erik was "wearing the life vest, and the girls were in the boat... all he had to do was hold on to the boat and coast along, but he took that life vest off and handed it to the girls in the boat!"
Jeff Probst then allowed James to give his imaginary crown of 'stupidest player' ever to Erik.

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Survivor Micronesia - Fans vs. Faves 5/11/08

Survivor Micronesia Season Finale Fans VS. Faves
CBS Sunday 8/7c

The first ever all female final 4 kicked off tonight on the season finale of Survivor Micronesia - Fans vs. Faves. The final 4 contenders for the $1,000,000 prize were: Cirie, Amanda, Natalie, and Parvati. Personally, I am rooting for Cirie. If she makes it into the final 3 she could very likely win, now that she can finally make fire.

This was the first time ever that 3 Survivor contestants left the game without being eliminated. James and Jonathan from the Faves were shipped out due to major life threatening infections in cuts sustained during challenges.

The 'Black Widow Brigade', named by Parvati, began their rein of terror just after the merge. The original alliance of Parvati, Cirie, and Amanda joined forces with Natalie and Alexis to pick off the men at the camp one by one. What is most surprising about this is that every time the men went home holding an Immunity Idol, it seemed.

Now the question, who will get picked off from the final 3 and left out of the prize money. My fear is that if Cirie can't win, it may be her. Cirie would do very well with jury votes, I think, so she would be a huge threat in the final 3.

The final Immunity Challenge was a water lifting exercise combined with a race. Natalie started out in the lead, she is the one who needs Immunity the most as the only remaining Fan. Amanda took over the lead midway through and won Individual Immunity, hopefully sealing Natalie's Survivor fate.

With this group one thing is for certain, no one knows who is going home until Jeff Probst puts their torch out.

When the Jury walked in Natalie gave Erik a big smile and a thumbs up after screwing him out of the game last week. He laughed at his own stupidity.

The vote came in this way:
Cirie
Natalie
Natalie
Natalie

Yea, Cirie, Amand and Parvati are in the Final 3 for Survivor Micronesia Fans vs. Faves!

Stay Tuned For Part 2 of Survivor Fans vs. Faves

Two Survivors Leave Micronesia 5/01/08

James and Alexis Leave Survivor Micronesia
CBS 8/7c 5/01/08

Is the reality show Survivor becoming too dangerous? A record number of Survivor Micronesia: Fans vs. Faves have had to leave the show due to severe injury. James is the latest victim of infection this season.

A small cut on one finger brought down arguably the strongest Survivor contestant in the shows history tonight. Jeff Probst has obviously been worried about the cut on James' finger, calling for him to be checked after every challenge and meeting.

The Reward Challenge tonight was a visit from a loved one. Always a tear-jerker. In a Q&A game, Alexis won and sent Amanda to exile island (Amanda volunteered, wanting to find the Hidden Immunity Idol). Alexis picked Natalie and Cirie to go on a reward with family members. Leaving James, Parvatti, and Erik to go back to camp lonely and hungry.

James was sent to medical first, and told the infection in his finger was great enough to warrant his elimination from Survivor Micronesia. Jeff Probst commented on the historic decision by the medical staff.

Thus far on Survivor: Fans vs. Faves, Jonathan went home with a severe leg injury/infection. Kathleen asked to leave the camp, sick and emotionally drained. Chet asked to be eliminated at Tribal Council due to a foot injury. Now James has fallen, showing up at Tribal Council with an I.V. pole supporting continuous antibiotics through his body.

That was a nasty cut. It looked as bad or worse than Jonathan's leg, both nasty infections. At least James was well enough to still attend Tribal Council for the surprises.

With James out of the game, Erik is the last man standing. The shaggy headed blond looks like a survivor, and has every man's dream. Except the women he is surrounded by are just as dirty and skinny (almost) as he is! Poor guy, they are all out to get him too!

It's a Cimemax Afterdark movie gone wrong.

Lucky for Erik, he won Individual Immunity in a gun shooting challenge. This left the women to vote off one of their own.

Amanda found the clues to the Hidden Immunity Island and trusted Parvati with the information. The Idol was buried under the camp flag. They played it like Amanda couldn't find the last clue.

The women thought it was only fair to let Amanda know that they would be voting her off at Tribal Council. Amanda, with a cover story from Parvati went out to dig up the Idol.

At Tribal Council, Jeff Probst did the usually calling out. Then the votes were cast. Probst asked if anyone would like to play the Hidden Immunity Idol, and after sufficient suspenseful music, Amanda played the Idol.

The other women looked absolutely sick. The jury members were loving it!

The votes were then read, Amanda's smile ever widening as they rolled in for her. The person with the second highest votes would leave Survivor Micronesia tonight.

Amanda and Parvati both voted for Alexis, and she went to join the jury. Alexis was completely surprised, but the jury members loved every minute of it.

Jeff Probst commented that this group of Survivors have perfected the 'back-door'.


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Jason Gets Back Doored On Survivor Micronesia 4/24/08

The Black Widow Brigade Rule Survivor Micronesia
Jason Gets Voted Out
CBS 8/7c 4/24/08

Jason is the latest victim of the Black Widow Brigade. Sent to Exile Island, where a new Hidden Immunity Idol was buried, during the reward auction. Jason had a crappy week on Survivor.

The reward tonight was an auction. None of the guys got to buy anything, the ladies outbid, or eliminated them. James got to eat fruit bat soup, since no one else wanted it. He said the trick was removing the skin (gross!).

Jason came back from Exile Island to rejoin the tribe, where everyone assured him he was safe. He went to get water for the tribe and the women proceeded to go through his stuff to find the Hidden Immunity Idol. James and Eric sat and looked disgusted with the women.

Natalie then had a heart to heart with Jason explaining that he was completely safe at Tribal Council no matter the outcome of the Immunity Challenge. The tribe were to vote out James. She then was shown talking to us in the woods, saying that she would love to "floss her teeth with his (Jason) jugular". What a nice girl.

Jason profusely thanked Natalie for her allegience and for sending him to Exile Island knowing he would find the Hidden Idol.

Everything the women said to Jason worked, he trusted them. The cardinal sin in the game of Survivor. One look at Ozzie any time during Tribal Council shows what trust will get you in Survivor (oh, is he bitter!). Never trust anyone in this game!









Catch up with Survivor Jury members Eliza and Ozzie:

Survivor Micronesia - Fans vs. Faves "Ozzie Gets Voted Off" 4/17/08

The Aftermath Of Ozzie's False Idol - Elimination
CBS 8/7c Thursday

At the last Tribal Council, Eliza was voted off the Survivor Island after playing what Erik thought was the Hidden Immunity Idol. When Erik gave Eliza the Idol she questioned if it was real, but had no choice in playing it.

Now everyone in the Dabu Tribe knows that Ozzie has the Hidden Immunity Idol, making him a greater threat. For some reason the contestants have allowed Ozzie to stay past the merge, now he is the front runner for Individual Immunity every time.

The reward challenge involved swimming out to a puzzle, memorizing it, then putting the pieces in order back at the shore.

The Dabu Tribe was split into 2 teams:

James, Parvatti, Alexis, and Natalie
vs.
Ozzie, Erik, Jason and Amanda

Cirie was sent immediately to exile island for not getting picked for a team. The winners got to fly to an island for a feast and dance and overnight stay.

Ozzie's team won, of course, and headed off to eat. Erik chewed on Beatlenuts with the natives and drank island beer, and got sick that night.

When they returned to the rest of the tribe, Ozzie went into mouth-watering detail about the food. What a nice guy.

The Individual Immunity Challenge was an endurance contest. The Survivor contestants were standing on a post, tethered by the wrist to a bucket of colored slime over their heads.

Jeff Probst soon came out with temptations. Cirie and Erik quit for a bowl of Gummy Worms, Ozzie quit for 3 chocolate donuts, Amanda quit to go pee. Then Jeff Probst came out with a full plate of goodies to share for the whole group to share. It came down to Jason and Parvatti. Jason got a guarantee from the entire group that he would not be voted off.

After 61/2 hours, Jason took the deal without knowing that the promises were made with literally fingers crossed. Parvatti won Individual Immunity.

The plan remained to back door Jason at Tribal Council. Then Cirie got enough votes together to back door Ozzie at Tribal Council.

Ozzie felt comfortable enough to not play the Hidden Immunity Idol, and sat smiling as the votes were read off for Jason. Then the votes started pouring in for Ozzie.

Ozzie was voted off of Survivor Micronesia and became the 2nd member of the Jury (along with Eliza).

Great Back Door Move!!

Here is Ozzie's reaction:

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After the tribal change up last week, and Joel going home blindsided, the Malakal tribe was tentative.

The Airai tribe had an injured Jonathan to worry about, but he was toughing it out pretty well at first.

The reward competition was a strength and agility test. Each team had 10 minutes to block a tunnel with boards and wood. After 10 minutes, each team switched sides and had to remove the obstacles in the tunnel, get all of their players through, and on a mat to win.

Airai won the challenge, and promptly sent Chet from Malakal and Jason from their own tribe to Exile Island.

Medical was immediately called in for Jonathan Penner's knee. The medic strongly advised Jonathan to leave the game immediately "for the sake of his leg and his life". He was evacuted straight away by boat, then to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery. According to Jeff Probst, Jonathan is recovering and will be fine.

With Jonathan gone, James was now alone on a team of 5 women. He was not comfortable with this situation at all, as he felt they would be better at wooing people to their point of view than him. He has obviously been raised around women, as many men would think they had it made and could easily outsmart the women. Silly boys!

Meanwhile the new Malakal tribe was plotting to get rid of the fans, specifically Chet and Tracy. Cirie seems to still be the vocal leader, while Ozzie thinks he is running things. Ami, from the Faves, decided to flip sides and align with the Fans.

Ozzie found the Hidden Immunity Idol on Exile Island last week (why would you send him there?), then planted a fake Hidden Immunity Idol so that someone else would find it and try to play it.

On Exile Island, Chet told Jason that he thought Ozzie had the Idol so he wasn't going to look for it. He cut his foot on a piece of coral, and wanted to relax and soak it.

Jason headed off to look for the Idol, found the fake one and giggled with joy, not knowing it was not real.

At the Immunity Challenge, Jason and Chet rejoined their tribes. Jeff Probst updated the tribes on Jonathan's condition. Jason suggested to Jeff Probst that Ozzie has already found the Idol, but he still thinks that he found the real Idol (or at least that is what they are leading us to believe).

The challenge consisted of having to balance on player on poles above the water across a span to a platform. When they get 2 players across, they have to go to a platform built for 5 people and fit all 7 of their teammates on the top.

James simple picked up the pole and carried the first player on one pole, with everyone else keeping the pole straight for balance. It was quite incredible. Airai beat Malakal by a mile, Malakal did not even get one player to the platform. Airai wins Immunity!

Back at camp, Chet immediately offers himself to the Malakal tribe vote at Tribal Council. Chet explained that his foot was now infected and he could no longer compete. The Faves of the tribe had no objectives as that was their plan, the fans on the other hand begged Chet to hang on through the Tribal Council and throw his vote their way to backdoor Ozzie.

Chet appeared to be considering voting with them to blind side Ozzie, but in the long run he decided to vote for Erik (a vote he knew would be wasted) and "that should be something they take care of themselves".
So Chet went home, and left them to the tigers.
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