Tonight’s episode of The Amazing Race: All-Stars
proved what many of us had long suspected: David & Mary are nothing
without their buddies from last season, the Cho Brothers.

Teams
started the leg in Calama, Chile, and they headed to the airport in the
middle of the night to book flights to Puerto Montt, Chile. Race
leaders Rob & Amber found an all-night travel agency and booked
seats on a flight that arrived at 12:55 the following afternoon.

At
the airport, Uchenna & Joyce announced to the other teams present
— Ozzy & Danny, Eric & Danielle, and the Guidos, Joe &
Bill — that they were going to find a hotel with an Internet
connection. They offered to book seats online for the other teams, who
then wrote their credit card information on slips of paper.

Unfortunately,
the Guidos were the only team to write down their credit card’s
security code, so they were the only other team Uchenna & Joyce
could buy tickets for.

Eric & Danielle were first in line
when the airport ticket counters opened and were still able to get
tickets on the early flight. Everyone else wound up on a flight that
arrived one hour later.

In Puerto Montt, teams drove to a fish
farm for this leg’s Roadblock. One team member needed to use a basket
to transport 80 live flounder from a small breeding tank to a large
holding tank approximately 50 meters downhill.

Danielle
regretted her choice to do the Roadblock as soon as she got near her
tank. She didn’t like fish to begin with, and being forced to catch
them with her bare hands didn’t help. She could barely hear Eric
calling her a “baby” over the sound of her own screaming.

Only a
few of the floppy fish would fit in the basket at once, so the fish
wranglers had to climb out of the tank frequently to lug their cargo to
the holding tank. Rob could only chuckle as Eric, with the utmost
sensitivity, encouraged Danielle to “use your boobs” to pin the fish
down as she carried them. She did.

Bill remained calm as he
lugged his cargo, bragging, “I’m the fish whisperer.” Ozzy urged his
partner to follow Bill’s lead, telling Danny in a serene voice, “Be the
fish. Become the fish.”

Once all of the fish were transported, a
clue written on the bottom of the tank became visible. The team member
who did the Roadblock had to get back in the tank to copy it down.

The
clue told teams to head toward the town of Petrohue, where they would
find a popular tourist spot along the way called La Maquina.

Bill
scanned the bottom of his tank too quickly and missed the part about
Petrohue. He and Joe drove around aimlessly, asking people where La
Maquina was (Nobody knew, as it was an hour away). Luckily for the
Guidos, they chanced upon Charla & Mirna — the last team to
complete the Roadblock — at a gas station.

When teams arrived
at La Maquina, they were given their choice of Detour tasks. Team
members could walk 200 yards to a rock face and each climb 40 feet, or
drive over two miles farther and raft through level-4 rapids.

All
of the teams chose the river rafting. Teri was the only racer to fall
in the water. Afterward, she said, “It was exciting to fall out of the
boat!”

Beauty Queens Dustin & Kandice, who’ve had some
trouble navigating this season, made a potentially disastrous blunder.
They found the river rafting Detour before they found the La Maquina
clue that actually told them to do the Detour. Instead of realizing
they’d skipped a step, they jumped right into a raft.

When they came ashore, the clue they found directed them to the Pit Stop at a camp three miles up the road.

Rob
& Amber had already finished in first place (for the third
consecutive time), followed by Uchenna & Joyce and Eric &
Danielle. Host Phil Keoghan told the Beauty Queens that they couldn’t
check in until they retrieved the clue they’d missed.

Fortunately
for them, the girls figured out their mistake and returned with their
clue before any other teams had checked in. The were followed by Ozzy
& Danny and Teri & Ian.

Charla & Mirna and the
Guidos caught a break when Dave & Mary made a wrong turn, although
the cousins managed to squander almost all of the meager lead they had.

Charla
& Mirna were first into their raft, but the Guidos chased them down
the river. Then, Mirna realized she’d left their car keys in a tent
where they’d changed into their rafting gear. By the time she found the
keys, the Guidos had checked in, and David & Mary had almost caught
up.

Almost.

The Kentucky coal miner and his wife were the latest
victims in a very satisfying trend this season. Thus far, only the
weakest teams have been eliminated. Even when the stronger teams have
made mistakes, they haven’t been too costly — yet

Assuming that
the trend continues, Charla & Mirna could be the next team to go.
As entertaining as their manic overreactions and mangled attempts at
Spanish are, they’re just not racing as well as they did during Season 5.

The tribe that won the reward and immunity challenges on this episode of Survivor: Fiji also lost two of its members. Meanwhile, the tribe that lost both challenges remained completely intact. Huh?

Ravu
started the episode still reeling from its fifth consecutive loss.
Earl’s suggestion that the tribe clear the air and talk about their
problems resulted in Rocky launching a volley of insults against
Anthony, whom Rocky blamed for the team’s failures.

Privately,
Anthony tearfully confessed to being hurt by the comments, but he vowed
to continue. Earl admitted that, while it was becoming harder to
protect his friend, he wasn’t ready to give up on Anthony just yet.

The
Reward Challenge was another rehashed Survivor classic: one at a time,
contestants had to move past their tribemates, who were standing
side-by-side on a balance beam over the water. The trick is to lean
back while holding hands, allowing you to effectively swing slowly past
your teammate, as you counterbalance each other.

As both teams
struggled early on, Jeff Probst said that there was a learning curve to
the challenge. But nobody figured out the lean-back-and-swing tactic.
Instead, the members of Moto squatted down and let one person at a time
crawl over them. Crude, but effective.

Moto won a big, fluffy
bed and pillows for their camp, along with some fish and a selection of
spices. They sent Yau Man to Exile Island, where he learned that the
Hidden Immunity Idol is buried directly under the highest point of
Ravu’s cave.

Moto didn’t have much time to celebrate their
victory after returning to camp. Gary’s health woes finally became too
much for him–he couldn’t breathe and had been lightheaded for days —
so the medical boat ferried him out of the game to a facility where he
could receive proper treatment.

Meanwhile, at Ravu’s camp,
Michelle and Rita suffered a totally different kind of pain. They
witnessed Rocky’s plan for boosting team morale before the next
challenge: walking around camp naked. Rita winced as she recounted the
horrors of seeing cocky Rocky’s Equus audition.

Losing
a member didn’t hurt Moto at the Immunity Challenge; in fact, shedding
the physically unfit Gary may have helped. And Rocky’s striptease did
nothing to help his team. Ravu quickly fell behind, as both teams raced
across styrofoam squares to rescue tribemembers from floating cages,
and a last minute surge wasn’t enough to earn them their first win.

But
Jeff Probst had a trick up his sleeve: a note with special instructions
for the winning team. Moto was given the choice of retaining their
immunity but switching camps with Ravu, or surrendering immunity to
Ravu but staying at the nice camp.

Moto chose comfort and agreed
to head to their first Tribal Council. Because of Gary’s departure, the
choice to stay at the nice camp meant that, after Tribal Council, both
teams would have an equal number of members (seven).

Dreamz,
mistakenly believing that no one had formed alliances yet, suggested
that they choose between voting out Cassandra or Lisi, the tribe’s
weakest challenge competitors. However, Lisi had already formed a
partnership with Stacy, Edgardo, Alex, and Boo, and they weren’t going
to vote for her.

Lisi and Stacy suggested that their alliance
vote for the flirtatious Liliana, the only woman with any chance of
breaking up their alliance. Alex and the other men said that it was
foolish to eliminate the strongest woman on the tribe.

That’s when Lisi and Stacy made it clear that voting for Liliana wasn’t a suggestion, it was an order.

At
Tribal Council, the men of the alliance caved to the pressure, and
Liliana was eliminated. She was stunned (as was Cassandra, who clearly
expected to go home), and told Jeff on her way out that voting her out
this early was the only way any of her tribemates could’ve beaten her.

Next week, Yau Man searches for the Immunity Idol, and Rocky reignites his feud with Dreamz.

Memo to all future Amazing Racers: When you’re going down the highway at 40KPH, and pretty much every other team on the entire Race has flown past you–some more than once–you might have missed a Speed Limit sign somewhere along the road.

Teams left Ecuador for Santiago, Chile, where they entered the headquarters of Codelco,
the largest copper mining company in the world. There, teams
encountered a Roadblock, which required the team member with the best
eye for details to scour a boardroom for clues to their next
destination.

A bunch of actors portraying Executive Vice
Presidents of Something-or-Other doodled letters on their notepads, and
had other letters embroidered onto their ties and suits. Those letters
could be rearranged to form the name of the teams’ next destination, Chuquicamata. Clever contestants would notice a picture of that next destination (and a plaque with its name) hung on the boardroom wall.

Most of the contestants were not clever.

Beauty
Queen Dustin was the first to notice the picture, and she escaped the
boardroom without anyone seeing her copy the name from the picture’s
plaque

Joyce and Eric had been the first contestants to the
boardroom, but because they didn’t pay attention to the photos on the
wall, they left in two of the last three places (Only Ian lagged behind
with them). Ultimately, it didn’t matter, as all teams bunched up at
the airport while waiting for another domestic flight, but it was
embarrassing.

The next destination was the largest open-pit copper mine in the world. There, a Detour forced teams to either drive a gigantic front end loader (fun) or change the nuts and brackets on one of the front end loader’s 10-foot-tall tires (tedious).

Amazingly,
most of the teams chose the tedious work of changing the nuts and
brackets. Rob & Amber drove the front end loader and finished the
Detour first, while having more fun than the other teams. Joe &
Bill also drove the loader, and finished quickly, as well.

Once
teams finished their Detours, they hopped into trucks and drove toward
the Pit Stop, which was in the Valley of the Dead. Charla & Mirna,
who’d hired a cabbie to lead them, became incensed when they noticed
Dustin & Kandice following.

The cabbie pulled over to make
sure that he would be paid his $100 fee, and both of the teams behind
him stopped. Dustin & Kandice seemed interested in working with
Charla & Mirna to get directions from the cabbie, but the two
cousins wouldn’t stop shrieking at the Beauty Queens for following them.

When
they weren’t able to get Charla & Mirna to calm down for even a few
seconds, Dustin & Kandice drove off on their own. Charla &
Mirna then realized that they couldn’t afford to foot the cab bill
alone. Oops.

They tried to offer their cabbie all of their money
and belongings, even promising not to eat the next day, for whatever
good that would do the cab driver. Charla & Mirna gave up and
pushed on alone, crying about the Beauty Queens all the way to the Pit
Stop.

Charla said, “Beauty is sometimes skin deep. It’s easy to
make yourself beautiful with plastic surgery. But to have a pure heart,
and to have morals, is not easy to make up.” Lucky for you, Charla,
producers have decided that this season’s Race winners will not be the team that finishes first, but instead the team that judges itself to have the purest hearts.

As
teams drove through the desolate but beautiful Valley of the Moon, the
shifting terrain forced them to adhere to a forty kilometers per hour
speed limit.

Unfortunately, Drew & Kevin didn’t notice a
sign at the end of the Valley that told them they could resume regular
highway speeds. They grew confused and angry as all of the other teams
passed them once, and then passed them again after Kevin and Drew
figured out they were all going the wrong way.

Rob & Amber
were the first team to reach the finish mat in the Valley of the Dead,
winning a pair of offroad motorcycles, which, sadly, cannot be used
until after the race. Oswald & Danny finished in second place,
meaning this week’s top two teams were the same as last week’s.

Kevin
& Drew puttered into the Valley of the Dead in last place, and by
the time they reached the mat, Drew had had enough. He stomped away
from the mat upon hearing he and Kevin were last to arrive. Phil
Keoghan had to beg Drew to come back to the mat so that the team could
be properly eliminated.

Next week, Danielle flips out when she has to pick up some fish.

Last week, clumsy Boo chopped himself with a hatchet and poked his eye
with a spear. This week, “Papa Smurf” Gary slipped during a Reward
Challenge and almost broke a rib. At this rate, Moto’s going to start
losing members without ever voting anyone out.

At the Reward
Challenge, Ravu was actually in decent shape for a change. Using a pair
of glasses, Michelle was able to start a fire, meaning that her tribe
could finally boil water to drink. It’s one of the few times in Survivor history that a contestant was able to make fire without flint.

For
the challenge, two greased-up contestants from opposing tribes slid
down a slippery incline, grabbing a numbered ball along the way. At the
bottom of the incline, the first contestant to toss the ball into an
elevated basket earned a point.

The first team to six points won
their choice of rewards: a set of fishing gear, the luxury items they
brought from home, or a basket of fresh fruit. Also, the winning team
sent one of the losers to Exile Island. That person would return in
time for the Immunity Challenge.

Many of the contestants dove
head first down the incline, in traditional Slip n’ Slide style. Gary
took a few steps onto the slippery surface and fell hard on his back.
He completed the challenge, and Moto won again, choosing the fishing
gear and sending Sylvia back to Exile Island — a smart strategic move,
limiting the number of people who could potentially have the Immunity
Idol.

Back at camp, Gary was disoriented and couldn’t take a
deep breath, leading him to fear a broken rib or possibly heart
trouble. The show’s medics didn’t find anything seriously wrong with
him and prescribed painkillers and rest.

Luckily for Gary, the Immunity Challenge wasn’t physical in nature. It was an old-fashioned Survivor
eating contest, meaning that contestants had to eat gross things like
sea cucumbers and peanut worms. It’s one event I can always count on to
make me glad I’m a vegetarian–until the next time I see my husband eat
another delicious hamburger.

Rocky and Mookie were the only
members of Ravu to win their face-offs, in part because the rest of
their tribe was dehydrated and didn’t have enough saliva to swallow
their food. The final battle came down to Anthony and Gary, and Gary
earned Moto’s fourth consecutive victory by eating two disgusting,
hairy pig snouts before Anthony could swallow his first bite.

Although
Sylvia was still Ravu’s biggest outsider, Mookie felt that Anthony
hadn’t tried hard enough at the challenge. Because they feared Sylvia
might possess the hidden Immunity Idol (meaning that the person with
the second highest number of votes would be eliminated) a couple of
people agreed to vote for Anthony.

As the day dragged on, Mookie
became even more convinced that Anthony wasn’t a committed member of
the tribe and told as much to anyone who would listen. At Tribal
Council, Mookie told Anthony off, and it looked as if Sylvia might last
another week.

As the votes were read, Anthony and Sylvia were
tied at three votes each. But Rita decided to branch out on her own and
cast her vote for Earl. The tiebreaking vote was cast for Sylvia, and
since she hadn’t found the Immunity Idol, she was eliminated.

Next week, concerns about Gary’s health linger.

Here’s an expanded description of the celebrities of Dancing with the Stars 4, including their professional partners.

Laila Ali
Partner: Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Laila Ali is the 30-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali, as well as a women’s boxing title holder. The discipline she’s learned through boxing should mesh well with Maksim’s occasionally tough training style.

Billy Ray Cyrus
Partner: Karina Smirnoff
The singer of the infectious (not necessarily a compliment) country hit "Achy Breaky Heart" is now a regular on the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana. Something tells me Karina won’t let BRC rest on his line-dancing laurels.

Clyde Drexler
Partner: Elena Grinenko
While this NBA Hall of Famer played, he was nicknamed "The Glide." Clyde is over six-and-a-half feet tall, so don’t be surprised if Elena has to dance on stilts.

Joey Fatone
Partner: Kym Johnson
Joey Fatone is a former member of boy band *NSYNC (their name was all caps preceded by an asterisk), and he now performs on Broadway. His dancing skills should be a welcome change for Kym, who danced last season with the less-than-nimble Jerry Springer.

Shandi Finnessey
Partner: Brian Fortuna
Shandi Finnessey parlayed her victory in the 2004 Miss USA competition into hosting gigs on the Game Show Network. She and new DwtS professional Brian might be this season’s underdogs.

Leeza Gibbons
Partner: Tony Dovolani
Leeza Gibbons is a talk show host and founder of a charity that assists people with memory disorders. Until Tony’s partner, Sara Evans, quit last season, he seemed on his way to his second straight season in the finals.

Heather Mills
Partner: Jonathan Roberts
At least early on, Heather Mills is sure to be the most talked about member of the cast. She’s in the process of divorcing (Sir) Paul McCartney, she’s a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, and she’s got a prosthetic leg. Jonathan’s classy style and background in Standard should be a great fit for Heather.

Apolo Anton Ohno
Partner: Julianne Hough
Apolo is an Olympic gold medalist in speedskating. If he’s been willing to put so much work into an amateur sport, he should be a eager student for Julianne — especially now that he’s getting paid.

Vincent Pastore (Since Replaced by John Ratzenberger)
Partner: Edyta Sliwinska
After his character Big Pussy got whacked on The Sopranos, Vincent Pastore gained a lot of weight and suffered some serious heart problems. He lost 29 lbs. on VH-1’s Celebrity Fit Club, and ballroom dancing is the next step in his new heart-healthy lifestyle. He’ll be the fourth partner for Edyta, the only pro to compete in every season of DwtS.

Paulina Porizkova
Partner: Alec Mazo
Paulina Porizkova twice graced the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition during the 1980s, but she’s perhaps better known as the wife of gangly Ric Ocasek, former singer of The Cars. Paulina and Alec are the best looking duo in the competition. Actually, anyone and Alec would probably be the best looking duo in the competition.

Ian Ziering
Partner: Cheryl Burke
Ian (pronounced eye-an, not ee-an) Ziering portrayed middle-aged high schooler Steve Sanders on Beverly Hills 90210. Cheryl’s won every season of DwtS she’s participated in, so Ian is in very good hands.

The celebrities are:
Paulina Porizkova
Laila Ali
Ian Ziering (who will be partnered with Cheryl Burke)
Shandi Finnessey
Billy Ray Cyrus
Vincent Pastore
Apolo Anton Ohno
Joey Fatone
Leeza Gibbons
Clyde Drexler
Heather Mills

I’ll
be updating the list later today with more detailed descriptions of the
contestants, and, hopefully, more information on the professional
dancers they’ll be partnered with.

Dancing with the Stars 4 premieres on March 19 at 8 p.m. EST.

ABC will announce which celebrities will be competing in Season 4 on
Wednesday, February 21. Jerry Springer will be making the announcement
on Good Morning America, which airs from 7-9 a.m. CST, but we’ll post the list here at MOIB for you late sleepers out there.

The list of professional dancers participating in DwtS 4
has already been leaked. Returning to the show are Cheryl Burke, Kym
Johnson, Karina Smirnoff, Edyta Sliwinska, Elena Grinenko, Alec Mazo,
Jonathan Roberts, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, and Tony Dovolani. New to the
cast are Julianne Hough and Brian Fortuna, two of the company dancers
from the DwtS Tour.

Notably absent from the list are Jesse DeSoto and Louis van Amstel. Ashly DelGrosso elected not to return because she’s expecting her first child. Makes sense to me.

DwtS 4 Rumors
The GMA
cast announcement will confirm whether or not a couple of new
celebrities rumored to be possible participants are actually in the
cast: Olympic speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and the soon-to-be-former Mrs. Paul McCartney, Heather Mills.

Gossip
According to People Magazine, Cheryl Burke is dating Matthew Lawrence, younger brother of DwtS alum Joey Lawrence.

Appearances
Surrounded
by piles of (slowly melting) snow here in suburban Chicago, Florida seems like the most
appealing place in the whole world right now. Those of you lucky enough
to be in the Boca Raton area on February 26 can stop by the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County’s gala to see Maksim Chmerkovskiy perform with both of his celebrity partners, Tia Carrere and Willa Ford.

In this week’s episode of The Apprentice, the candidates’ skills were put to the ultimate test of executive aptitude: registering people for a giveaway at the mall.

I’m
not exactly sure how the ability to sign up mall shoppers for a
vacation sweepstakes qualifies one for an executive position at a
corporation. But I suppose the inability to do so could certainly be a
disqualification.

Aimee and Surya lead their respective teams,
Kinetic and Arrow, despite being utterly disrespected by their
teammates. No matter which team lost, a Project Manager was dead meat.

Kinetic
had the more challenging location, as a large number of the patrons at
their mall spoke only Spanish. Derek and Jenn had that information in
advance and didn’t tell Aimee. But Aimee failed to make any adjustments to
address the issue during the task, instead focusing on unimportant
details, like a goofy inflatable octopus that Jenn had included in
their kiosk decor.

Instead of hiring a native Spanish speaker,
Aimee left Muna and Derek to translate the online sign-up form for
customers. The extra time that took may have hurt the team, as Kinetic lost the
task to Arrow by fewer than 50 customers.

In the boardroom, everyone ganged up on Aimee, and Trump had no choice but to fire her.

The Apprentice takes a break for the Academy Awards this Sunday, but will return with a new episode the following week.

If executed poorly, an all-star season of a reality show can easily
alienate the very fans it’s trying to please. Case in point: too much
Rupert on Survivor: All-Stars. Fortunately, the premiere episode of The Amazing Race: All-Stars
had just the right balance of jokers and jerks — even if they’re
missing some of the jokers (Ken & Gerard) and jerks (Colin &
Christie) I was hoping for.

The eleven teams started the race in
Miami, Florida, before departing for Ecuador. In the shuttle ride from
the parking lot to the airport, it became apparent which teams were
really on the ball and which weren’t.

John Vito & Jill, Rob
& Amber, and Ozzy & Danny all realized that the flight leaving
first might not actually arrive in Ecuador first. They checked with
their shuttle drivers and learned that the second flight on American
Airlines arrived nearly two hours earlier than the flight on a smaller
airline, Copa.

David & Mary, who were not widely regarded as
a shrewd team during Season 10, booked their seats on Copa before
asking the ticket agent if it was the faster flight.

The shuttle
ride to the airport also confirmed that, just like in Season 7,
everyone’s gunning for Rob & Amber. Ozzy & Danny, who were
sharing their shuttle, jokingly congratulated Rob & Amber for
having “your own cable channel,” and said they were familiar with
“Romber” simply by virtue of living on the planet Earth.

The
anti-Romber sentiment apparently ramps up next week, which strikes me
as funny, since they didn’t even win their season but are still seen as
the most fearsome team. Meanwhile, no one seems worried about Uchenna
& Joyce, the actual winners of Season 7 and the only TAR millionaires competing in All-Stars.

In
Ecuador, Drew & Kevin were in big trouble. After already losing a
footrace with Charla, Drew fell while stepping out of cab and lay
moaning and rolling in the street for what seemed to be several minutes.

Eventually,
Drew accepted that, were his shoulder actually dislocated, he would not
be able to wave his arm around in pain, and the team was back in the
race.

But Drew & Kevin fell behind the pack on the way to
the Detour the next morning, which was located in the middle of a
nature preserve. Things only got worse when they blew out a tire on the
muddy road, but rather than put on the spare, Drew simply drove on
three wheels and a rim.

Drew’s willingness to go offroad
four-wheeling on three wheels saved Kevin and him from elimination.
Season 3 favorites John Vito & Jill had gotten bad directions along
the way, and they wound up entering the vast nature preserve on the
wrong side. (Earlier in the day, the same thing had happened to Charla
& Mirna — due in no small part to the pseudo-Spanish they spoke
throughout the episode (e.g., “Exallante,” and “Muy dinero.”).

The
outcome of the first episode was all that show producers’ could have
hoped for. Everyone’s nemeses Rob & Amber finished in first place,
making them sure to inspire the hatred of the other teams. And the nice
but boring ex-couple, John Vito & Jill, were eliminated.

Eric
& Danielle, the only “new” team on the race, finished in fourth
place, which is very respectable considering they originally raced with
different partners. And the two most sluggish teams, David & Mary
and Kevin & Drew, finished at the back of the pack–as sluggish
teams tend to do.

Next week, in addition to the escalating Romber bashing, Charla takes on the Beauty Queens, Dustin & Kandice.

Even though Erica saved the Ravu tribe from dehydration, she wouldn’t
keep her big yap shut at the Immunity Challenge. Her freakout made her
the latest contestant eliminated from Survivor: Fiji.

When
Sylvia joined the Ravu tribe after her brief stay on Exile Island, she
found them in rough shape. With no fire to boil water, they’d resorted
to licking the dew off of palm fronds.

Sylvia did what she does
best and started barking orders, but her exhausted team wasn’t in any
shape — or mood — to carry them out. Within a few minutes of joining
the tribe, she’d made herself the obvious target for elimination.

As
they stumbled about and fell down, delirious from dehydration, it
seemed like they might be better off forfeiting the Immunity Challenge
and saving their energy. But Erica started poking around the bushes
near their cave and discovered dozens of pineapples.

Refreshed
from their boost of citric acid, and now scurvy-free, the Ravu tribe
was ready to take on their pampered rivals. Earl, the early hero of
this season, even vowed to marry Erica.

Meanwhile, things
weren’t going all that well at Moto’s camp, at least for one of their
tribe members. Boo, a construction worker by trade, proved that he
might be the most accident-prone person on the planet.

First,
Boo poked his eye on a spear. Minutes later, using a terrible chopping
technique to axe wood, he managed to slice through his hand and into
his thigh.

With only one functioning eye, hand, and leg, Boo
decided to do the least dangerous thing he could: rest in a hammock.
That’s when the hammock became unraveled, dropping Boo to the ground
with a thud.

Somehow, Boo survived long enough to make it to the
Immunity Challenge. Teams paddled their canoes through the water,
collecting four boxes and towing them back to shore.

Once
ashore, teams opened up their boxes to find the pieces of a flag pole,
which all fit together as a puzzle. The first team to solve the puzzle
and raise their flag pole won the rights to the posh camp, fishing
gear, and, should Ravu win, flint. The winning team also sent one of
the losers to Exile Island.

Ravu got an early lead in the water,
and had already started assembling their pole by the time Moto got
their boxes ashore. But Erica flipped out, screaming about how to
correctly assemble the puzzle.

Distracted by Erica, Ravu fell
behind. Eventually, most of them stopped working on the puzzle and
gawked as Moto raised their flag in victory.

Moto chose Earl,
the fittest of the Ravu men to send into exile. They didn’t realize
that there was a flint on Exile Island, and that Earl would be in much
better condition than if he’d gone back to Ravu’s camp.

Earl had
only one complaint about Exile Island — the snakes. He regretted
having to kill a snake in self-defense, saying, “Snakes are
misunderstood. But we have an understanding now.”

When Ravu
returned to their fire-less camp, sentiment quickly turned against
Erica for her in-challenge freakout. Even if it only bought her one
more week, Sylvia was off the chopping block.

Anthony insisted
that the team had functioned better before Sylvia arrived, and that it
didn’t make sense to eliminate one of their younger, stronger members.
He tried to steer the vote away from Erica, but at Tribal Council,
Anthony and Erica were the only people to vote for Sylvia.

Next
week, Ravu manages to start a fire without flint, and someone on Moto
is seriously injured. Is there any chance that it’s not Boo?