Survivor: Redemption Island: Spider & Armpit Hair (from 3/23)

Fuzzy spider in the dark in the opening scene. I'm watching this late so now I'm going to have nightmares.  They make it look like the giant tarantula is right outside their little tent on Redemption Island.

Matt is wearing a cloth over his face so he looks like he's going to rob a bank with a nylon over his head.


Back at the purple camp, Steve asks Stephanie why she and Krista voted for him at tribal council. Steve was shocked because he was in the NFL for 14 years.

At the yellow tribe, Natalie and Ashley are having a little "spa day" which includes using scissors and fingernails to pull each other's armpit hair out. I really AM going ot have nightmares tonight.

The rest of the tribe is working around camp while this is going on.

Someone pointed out to me last week (I think it was Trish!) that when they show Phillip's occupation next to his name when he's talking to the camera, it says "Former Federal Agent?" with a question mark. I hadn't noticed it but I looked for it tonight and she was right! That is HILARIOUS CBS. I love it.

On Redemption Island, Krista gets her luxury item which is a bible in a hot pink cover. The two of them sit on the beach and pray which includes something like "We give this day to you and this duel to you lord and know that whatever the outcome is that it will bring honor to you..."

Ummm...seriously?? I think you'd be bringing more honor to your lord if you were out helping people that ACTUALLY SURVIVE out in the world without being able to do fun challenges for food and then possibly win a million dollars for "surviving".

Sorry - that just pisses me off. It is like when actors/actresses thank god during their Oscar speeches. Seriously you think that some kind of higher power has granted this special gift of playing make believe to make the world a better place? PUKE.

Sorry. Vent over.

Time for the duel. Andrea and Natalie, Julie and Mike attend this one. Krista seems to be in the lead the whole time but Matt is catching up.  The end of this involves a little maze with a ball and a bunch of holes. Krista loses and Jeff tells her to drop her "buff" in the fire on the way out. I hate that he calls it a buff, have I mentioned that before?

Before leaving Krista gives Matt her hot pink bible. It matches his long hairstyle.

Another baby turtle on the beach at purple tribe!!!!!!!! YEAH!

Sarita says her tooth hurts because she cleaned it too much and some bacteria got in there. How she knows this, I have no idea. Some people are thinking she's being a drama queen and kind of trying to go home.

David now wants to get Stephanie in on his alliance with the rest of the purple tribe so he can send Sarita home. Last week Sarita pissed David off by saying something about him not doing well under pressure.


Back at yellow tribe (are they yellow or orange, what have I been saying all along?) Phillip announces that a storm is coming and they need to start gathering wood. No one makes any move to help. He is dictating to them so I don't blame them but then again, they don't do anything. They would really fit in well with Chelsea on Teen Mom.

Phillip is hunting the girls down to annoy them into helping. It isn't working.

Boston Rob is the smartest guy I've ever seen play this game. Not only does he know the girls won't do anything just because they are young girls and they don't want to, but he WANTS them to do nothing. If they started helping out that gives people more reason to want them to win the million dollars at the end. If they keep being lazy who is going to think they deserve it? I declare Boston Rob the winner. The end.


Back at purple tribe, Stephanie "apologizes" to Steve for writing his name down at the last tribal council. She starts playing the game a little bit and says she thinks Sarita is a weak link - obviously because David told her this. She might be a little smarter than I thought but then when I think about her idiotic outbursts at previous tribal councils I change my mind.

Time for the challenge. People are launching balls and catching balls. Balls. Sarita sits out of this one since purple has more members than yellow.

Jeff keeps using the name of the tribes when he needs to be saying purple and yellow. Grant is catching them all and he's on yellow. Rob catches one of the purple balls so yellow is winning 4 to 0.

My favorite guy Grant rips off his shirt because Mike on the other team kept tearing it off. Woo hoo Grant!!!!! Although, it isn't his body that I like - it is his hair. I LOVE HIS HAIR.

Yellow teams wins immunity and a reward that involves a picnic up on a hill with a statue of Jesus (I guess). Rob sees the immunity idol clue and Grant grabs it and puts it in his pocket. They walk off to look at the clue and Phillip sneaks up out of nowhere and says he saw it!

He says (to us...the camera) that he's been in an alliance with Rob and Grant. "In fact, I called ourselves 'Stealth' because I'm the specialist. Rob is the mentalist and Grant is the assasin." He's crazy I tell you...CRAZY.


I have a feeling that Sarita is going to be sent home tonight from the purple team. Stephanie is doing well with campaigning for herself. She makes a good point. They need to have strong members and Sarita clearly isn't strong. However, they trust Sarita much more than Stephanie.

More spiders at tribal council. If someone starts pulling out armpit hair again I'm not going to sleep tonight.

I change my mind, Stephanie looks WAY too confident which usually means the end.  And sure enough, Stephanie gets voted out. The only ones who voted for Sarita were Stephanie and David. I can see him blowing a gasket about this.