Survivor: Caramoan - Episode 7

Tubby Lunchbox

By Ben Willoughby

March 28, 2013

Does she really race through busy city streets? At least that's not boring.

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Probst sighting! Immunity challenge! Here’s how it works. Three members from each tribe will paddle out in a boat and clip it to a pontoon. Then they’ll dive and release a big statue. They’ll take the statue back to shore, clip the boat up to a stand, and then put the statue at the base of a tower. Then the other three tribe-members will use a grapple to retrieve five keys, use the keys to unlock some locks, which will allow the entire tribe to pull the statue up to the top of the tower and release the tribe flag.

Losers go to Tribal Council where someone will be the eighth person voted out. Sherri is sitting out of this challenge.

Brenda, Erik and Eddie paddle out for Gota while Dawn, Corinne and Michael do the job for Bikal. Bikal gets off to a slow start and mockery from Probst as they nearly tip their boat over. However, Gota forgets to clip into the pontoon, so they have to retry and both tribes arrive at the pontoon at the same time. Get in the water. Release the statue. Load it into the boat. Get back to shore. Load the statue onto the tower. Bikal almost capsizes again, which would have been unfortunate for them but hilarious for the viewers, but both tribes arrive back with Gota slightly in the lead.




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Unsurprisingly Reynold is grappling for Gota, and he gets his first key as Phillip steps up for Bikal. Probst slobbers over Reynold’s “nice toss” and “another great toss” while Phillip “just misses.” By the time Phillip has his second key, Reynold is collecting his fourth and Probst has amped it up to “Reynold is on fire!” There’s more grappling of rings, and Reynold finally hauls in Gota’s fifth key and races off with Andrea to open the locks. It happens very quickly, as Gota hauls the rope to pull the statue up the tower and wins immunity. Tribal Council for you tonight, Bikal, if you were thinking any differently.

After the break, the Bikal sad sacks arrive back at camp. Dawn says to Michael that he did really great, which probably makes Michael worry that he’s the one going home. Then we get a narration from Cochran about how spirits were low, and then Phillip pulled him aside and said “I have a confession.”

Phillip interviews about the challenge. “It was close. We could have won that challenge... [pause for emphasis] had I wanted to.” He repeats this version of events to Cochran. Cochran laughs because it’s just so ridiculous. And the reason? Double-agent school drop-out Julia. Phillip claims he had to get rid of her before going to the merge. She knows too much! Cochran believes Phillip – to his face at least, but in interview he is talking about how ludicrous it is that they needed to throw a challenge to get rid of one of the “fans”. Cochran thinks it is “complete crap” and “you can’t make up this level of delusion,” which is apparently what excites him about playing with Phillip.


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