Gigolo Pop Survivor

 Yea there was no update last week.  This is a really busy time for me.  In fact if I could have a volunteer or two this season that would be great!!

 

So here's that update:

Some stuff happened.  

There was a challenge that had a puzzle

There was an ad for the Love Boat, which is a romantic game show not the cute show with B-level stars in amusing love plots.  ASK ME HOW I KNOW.  lol.

The bead thing came up and Lindsay was able to trade beads and got an idol.

Nneke was voted off surprising no one that has watched it happen over and over.  

So this week....

Cody says its SHOWTIME.  

Gab is creepy and is going around putting palm frond blankets on people and I swear to got if anyone ever woke me up by doing that there would be fucking hell to pay. Gab and Elie are clashing.

Reward challenge

One person uses sandbags to knock blocks and, unusual twist, then uses 2 of the blocks to "walk" down the lane and then they all get to land sandbags on 3 swings.  Wanna know?  10 fish are delivered and then the winning tribe gets to stead ONE ITEM from a tribe of their choice.  

Cody is on fire for the red tribe and they win reward.  They ask Jeff if they can trade for another reward and he lets them trade for the fruit and toolkit reward.  Dwight thinks that's a bad idea.  Jesse wonders what choice would get them the most advantage.  Cody says ITS WAR MAN.  Noelle says they need to think long term.  

Cody goes to the blue tribe I think because they have more people but I can't remember why.  Blue didn't think it would be them.  He comes in all salesmanny and says the group wants to take their machete.  Lindsay says they'll retaliate and Cody is all "I'm just the messenger I'm sure we can make a deal".  He ends up getting fishing gear AND lime and this rule follower was annoyed because they just rolled over and gave MORE THAN ONE ITEM.  Karla doesn't trust him and thinks they got played.

Immunity Challenge

Something something and a giant standing puzzle.  Red gets it first and then they help yellow figure it out.  Blue is pissed they were working together.  Cassidy says the losers are uniting, and Lindsay wants revenge.  

Ryan says he trusts James and Geo.  They decide on Cassidy.  Geo feels like he's "calling the shots".  

Cassidy things Geo is getting too big for his britches  and is getting on her nerves.  She tells Lindsay it's Geo, and she tells Karla and James it's Geo putting James in a bit of a pickle.  

Geo asks Lindsay if she's heard his name and Lindsay realizes she's ONLY heard his name and goes OFF OF THE RAILS paranoid.  She believes she is the BEST PLAYER OF SURVIVOR HISTORY so naturally she should be the biggest threat and the person that should be the target.  Karla and James are all  WHOOOOOOAAAAA. That bitch is paranoid as a kid on his first drug trip.  James wants to talk her down but Karla says that would be like telling your drunk friend to stop drinking and I'm like, YUP EXACTLY..  

Tribal.  Get fire,  yada yada.  

Jeff starts it off with YO, ONE OF YOU GONNA BE GONE

He asks Ryan to grade the tribe and he gives an 8.5 (which isn't a GRADE) because they've eaten every night.  That's how I grade myself as a wife too.  

James says Geo and Ryan are providers

Ryan kisses Jeff's ass as if he has a vote: Jeff I took your words to heart and climbed my first coconut tree. 

Lindsay says they know what it takes to win, but then spins off to why some peeps didn't talked to her today. 

Ryan says he wanted to...

Lindsay: The people who wanted to talk to me did

Geo says he's nervous which I think means the vote and not about Lindsay

Karla says there was a scramble and you have to keep going back and checking in with your group

Lindsay says she was paranoid and people noticed

Geo says he just wanted to keep his people secure

James says he was just chilling, not endlessly checking to give his alliance the feeling of trust

Cassidy says things kept changing which must be surprising to those who didn't think things kept changing

Karla says talk never stopped and there are still questions.

Time to vote.  I swear the music guy sang "Gigolo pop" a few times.  

Cassidy 1

Geo 1

And paranoid LIndsay is gone.  

Survivor 43 Week 2

 

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Welcome to week 2 of the GREATEST SOCIAL EXPERIMENT EVER.  We had our first tribal last week (YELLOW) and Owen is acting all grateful for not getting voted off.  "Thank you for being you".  Doubtful he's sincere.  Gabbler says he's been to concerned with relationships and has neglected his body, and something something worms are = to bacon.  

Stormy night.  

Sami says the night was rough.  He thinks they need a roof TODAY.  Gabbler thinks that storm might be more than he can handle (it's freakin DAY 3).  Owen is worried Gab can't sustain himself.  Gab has to lay down because he's nauseous and everyone has to remind him to drink.  I'm gonna go out on a ledge and predict he has a wife at home who does everything and was VERY OKAY with him leaving for a month,  

Red-Dwight  and Jesse are looking for an idol.  Jesse says the lines have become clearer and he needs to pull Jesse into his alliance.  Dwight is more interested in having relationships with everyone and they show some pics of him as a child with a lot of politicians.  I'm sure Twitter melted down over the "politicization of Survivor".  Dwight doesn't  like Cody but Jesse things he's "fun".  Cody has the "livin" tattoo on his ass and amuses everyone with a palm frond hat he makes.  Jesse can't connect with Justine.  The bug Cody placed in his ear about salespeople has taken root.  Jesse also thinks Justine is high maintenance because she has a spider phobia and is worried about her nails.  

Hey did y'all see they are scraping the bottom of the barrel and bringing LOVE BOAT back?  WHY.  

Blue is one of those "do yoga" tribes.  Karla is in an alliance with the girls and James, but Geo and Ryan also think they are in an alliance with her.  Geo and Ryan are VERY CLOSE.  Geo finds almond trees, and gets his spotlight moment to talk about being gay and homeless because his parents kicked him out.  Ryan calls him a new brother. 

Red: Cody is all interested in Noelle's fake leg and is creepy watching her get it ready to put on.  Bring on the sob music! Cody had a friend when he was younger that had cancer and lost his leg and them died.  "This changed my life and made me want to be an elevator salesman".  I'm guessing he couldn't go up stairs with one leg?? Cody, like Ricky Bobby, wants to drive FAST.  

Owen says he's being "everyone's friend" which IMO usually means no one's real friend.  Says he's "held it together so far" and now I totally want to see him not hold it together. He's constantly bringing water and reminding people to drink.  Everyone is thirsty because they're out in the "faux jungle" looking for idols.  They show  few people walking past an idol a few time which makes me wonder how small this set really is.  Jeanine and Elie discuss bringing in either Owen or Sami as their new 3rd, but they're afraid Owen is going to be a lot to manage when they merge.  Jeanine wonders what game the guys are playing, if they are in fact playing a game because they look like they're just fooling around.  She and Elie decide to be "strategic".  

Sami says they have a boys alliance.  Says he really doesn't believe in sex-based alliances but they'd be "stupid to lose to girls".  

Immunity Challenge and I already know something is up since the episode is 90 minutes long and we're already at the IC.  The challenge is to climb into a cage in the water and lift out a 400 lb stuffed snake, carry it to shore, lay in on a looong table and find puzzle pieces inside the snake.  Wanna know?  Fishing kits.  

It's a really heavy snake and red is completely lame making Jeff yell things like YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU GO HOME.  Yellow wins 1, Blue 2 and Red goes to tribal.  

Cody says it's now HUNT OR BE HUNTED.  He says Nneke was atrocious but since she's part of his alliance it's not going to be  her.  The girls,  think she sucked, missed an entire bag of puzzle pieces and wasn't pulling her snake weight.  They discuss what is going to get Justine and Noelle further-keeping her or not.  

Nneke says after the challenge it was weird and no one was really talking to her.  But she thinks she is tight with Jesse and Cody.  

On Red they're all celebrating winning.  Elie is proud of herself and we get to hear that, in addition to a dead sister, she also has a sad story of having ADHD/Dyslexia.  ONE SOB STORY PER PERSON!

Gabler decides to use the new fishing spear and Elie reminds him a few times to tie off the spear so he doesn't lose it.  It's called a Hawaiian sling or something.  He refuses to tie it off so I'm expecting at some point the spear will get lost.  

Elie asks Jeanine if she remembers if Gab's idol expires after the second tribal or after HIS second tribal.  Jeanine goes through his bag, saying doing that is a "necessary deed", and reads that it's HIS second tribal.  

On red the decision seems to be Justine OR Noelle first.  Cody wants Justine the saleswoman, and yes-boy Jesse agrees because she told him she is good at lying.  Wonder if she has "lyin" tattooed on her ass?  Jesse talks to Dwight who doesn't have a vote about Justine or Noelle.  Dwight doesn't like Cody but it's not his call.  

Cody tells Nneke she's fine.  Then Cody takes a walk to look for an idol and finds the Beware Advantage and without thinking about it opens it up and gets the idol bracelet.  In order for it to have power he has to go to tribal with the beads from everyone's free Survivor Swag bag.  Or he also has no vote.  Cody thinks he's an idiot for opening it and is worried because everyone is such a superfan they want to keep everything as a memento.  He goes to talk to Jesse who is like, dude did you not watch season 41 and 42?  They tell Nneke and then Cody friggin makes up a story of adorning his palm frond hat with their beads to make it fancy.  Every one gives his his beads except Noelle who made hers into a bracelet and we go to tribal thinking he's screwed.

Tribal. Fire yada yada. 

Jeff-nice hat

Cody tells him his dad (?) taught him to make the hat 

Justine wants one

Jeff asks what it'll take for Justine to get a hat?

Cody says if she's still there tomorrow he'll make her a hat.  

Justine says she's on the chopping block because the tribe is split 2-2-2 and Cody and Nneke are tight.  

Jeff asks if there are 3 pairs and Jesse gets on his knee and asks Dwight to be his pair.  

Dwight points out he doesn't have a vote and Jeff wants to know why this season everyone tells everything, which I'm sure spoils the blindsides.  Someone says information is currency and Jesse says it's used to build trust.  

Noelle  points out that an advantage will help you AND put a target on your back. 

Jesse says the question this week is the alliance or strength one.  

Time to vote and I SWEAR the guy singing the nonsense music sang "I have a headache", 

Any idols or advantages?  Nope.

Cody 1, Nneke 1 and Justine goes home with 3.  And we also find out Noelle gave up her her beads.