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Day 16 at Kalabaw, and Jonathan is preparing to go out fishing. Carter sees a stingray, and Jonathan trots out with his spear only to miss it, twice. “He’ll be back,” Jonathan says, like Homer Simpson after that fish made off with his Cheez-Doodle.

Carter recaps the rice-for-reward deal, which he says was a bad deal. He and Katie talk about how hungry they are and that if it becomes an out-starve game they will lose. We see Jonathan out fishing, and he successfully catches... the tiniest fish you have ever seen. They are half the size of his palm. They are smaller than Wanda, and Kevin Kline didn’t have to share Wanda with four people.

Katie continues to complain, while Jonathan continues to build up how great everything is because he knows his ass is in a sling now his grand bargain hasn’t panned out like he planned. He interviews about how deprivation doesn’t affect him the way it does the newbies, which is a fair point, but maybe you should have thought of that before deciding to trade away your rice? Anyway, he realizes that if they lose the immunity challenge, they are truly screwed.

Time for an immunity challenge! It is the tried and true “launch balls from slingshots for your tribemates to catch” one. Doesn’t matter what color – you catch a ball, you score a point for your tribe. First tribe to five wins.

Again, Tandang has to sit out two castaways, and it’s Michael and Abi. Probst cannot resist pointing out that Abi has competed in only two out of eight challenges, which is kind of impressive when you think about it. But again, if you were so keen for Abi to compete, Probst, you should have done something about it at the reward challenge.

Lisa and Denise are slinging the balls (behave!) to the pairs of Jonathan and Michael, Jeff Kent and Pete, Katie and RC and Carter and Malcolm. On the first sling, Jonathan makes the only catch and Kalabaw is actually leading, but next sling both Pete and RC make catches. Carter is “struggling early”, Probst points out. I wonder if he’ll yammer on about it for the rest of the challenge?

On the next sling, Jeff Kent catches Lisa’s ball, and then “Jeff goes high and scores for Kalabaw.” After taking time to call Katie out for not having her hand on the pole, it’s back to “Jeff with another catch for Kalabaw.” Kalabaw is up 4-2 and look like they cannot possibly lose. And all thanks to Probst’s man-crush. It must be weird having a man-crush on someone with the same name as you. Meanwhile, Katie is “completely ineffective in this challenge.”

Michael suggests to Lisa that she should aim at Malcolm because Carter is having trouble out there, and suddenly it is 4-3 Kalabaw. Then Malcolm catches another one ahead of Carter, so it’s tied at 4-4 and Probst proclaims that “[Malcolm] is eating Carter’s lunch!”

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