People onSurvivorsure do love giving the finger.
Personally, I havent given anyone the finger in probably over a decade.
BECAUSE NOBODY GIVES THE FINGER ANYMORE!
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Thats not entirely true.
And why should they?
For one thing, its simply not very effective.
Am I supposed to be upset if someone raises his or her middle finger at me?
Because, honestly, the only emotion that elicits is mere confusion.
Like, is that supposed to make me angry?
Because it just doesnt.
Am I out of the loop here?
Do people still flip the bird with the regularity that aSurvivorepisode would have you believe?
Am I all turned around on this?
Do you walk about flipping people off?
Is this really the sort of thing intelligent adults still do in modern society?
It is if your name is Kass or Andrew, apparently!
Heres to Ciera giving a one-digit salute to Probst when he gets too lippy during a challenge.
Heres to Abi flipping off everyone.
Its all fair game from here on out!
Savage wants one of the women gone, but Ciera is still busy working the margins.
The answer is basically going to be HELL TO THE YEAH!
I dont want to sit around and be run over by a bunch of bros, says Stephen.
Also, Im sure he wont doanythingembarrassing at the reward challenge.
Left unsaid are the sugar and caffeine withdrawal symptoms sure to follow.
But it is the purple team that falls behind when they have trouble retrieving their crates.
Green takes a big lead onto the beach, but hold on!
Why is Stephen Fishbach jumping up and down like a lunatic?
Because theyve done it!
Purple has made a miraculous recovery!
Theyve solved the puzzle!
Why, just look at Stephen!
We got it, Jeff!!!!!
he yells in pure delight and the self-assurance that this will surely be his least-awkward challenge celebration yet.
Enjoy…
That is pure 100 percent uncut Fishbach for you right there, ladies and gentlemen.
Only the good stuff.
How silly of you.
He knows what theyre called: to-tos!
Or, you know, tuk-tuks, but close enough.
Theyre not breaking up, I promise you, she says, having no idea how wrong she is.
Still, it gives Joe both food and food for thought.
Tell me that would not be the best thing ever in the entire history of things.
Because it would be.
Meanwhile back at camp, Fishbach is still mourning his loss in the challenge.
I cant deal with it.
Im having a low moment, says Stephen.
Get over it, responds Abi.
Wow, you know youre in a bad place when Abi-Maria Gomes is telling you to get over something.
If thats not a call for re-examining your life, I dont know what is.
Time to get to work with the others.
He talks to Jeremy, Spencer, and Tasha about wanting to get rid of Joe.
Only one problem: Savage overhears it.
THIS IS SURVIVOR!!!
This is exactly what you are supposed to be doing!
So if I have to go toe to toe with Stephen, bring it on.
This makes two weeks in a row he has promised someone that.
If he keeps this up, there will be no ones name lefttowrite down.
Thats some straight up Cypress Hill insane-in-the-membrane throw in stuff right there.
I honestly for the life of me cannot figure it out why they would do that.
And not just once.
In any event, Joe wins immunity yet again, proving that Joes balls move only so much.
He works the two Kelly/Kelleys while his BFF Andrew floats it by Tasha and Jeremy.
Its back to the Wentworth-Ciera-Abi trifecta as the target.
Like, it shouldnt sound disgusting, but it totally does, right?
The problem with her plea is that nobody thinks theyareon the bottom.
NEXT: To split or not to split?
Keith and Wiglesworth, I guess?
Spencer, too, maybe?
But there are so many different sub-alliances going on it is truly hard to know.
Just because Ciera says someone needs to make a move now doesnt mean they necessarily should.
At least not yet.
Why wouldnt you out those people if you truly are on the bottom and are desperate?
asks Probst, clearly looking for blood.
Well, what if Im here tomorrow, and I need to work with them?
He is another element in the game just like other players, challenges, and twists.
The great players know how to do this well.
Finally its voting time, and you know what that means: time to hear from Spencer Bledsoe!
Because we almost always are treated to a Spencerbon motwhile casting his vote.
As long as hes not casting thelastvote, that is.)
We also see Kass wave her hand by her nose as if something stinks when Savage walks by.
Truth be told, theyallstink at this point in the game.
I mean, I cannot overstate how terribly smelly these contestants get after a few days out there.
You know what, Jeff?
I may be on the bottom, but Im not ready to go home yet.
Unless, of course, they split the vote.
So thats the obvious move, right?
As I outlined last week, there is a danger to vote splitting.
You open yourself up to defections changing the entire result.
Lets take an example.
Lets say Joe and his biggest ally Savage are assigned to be two of the five Wentworth votes.
Now Wentworths five just became three, and there are five votes to get Stephen out.
Which is why I jut wasted an entire paragraph explaining it.
NEXT: The legacy of Andrew Savage.
However, its not all bad news for Andrew.
You made it to the jury, says Abi, mocking the man she aligned with back on Angkor.
I am so sorry about the fact that I ever typed that word.
And this mattered desperately to him.
So I give Savage that.
And now I have several things to give you!
What sort of things?
How about ourweekly Q&A with Hostmaster General Jeff Probst?
Are you happy or sad to see Savage go?
And whens the last time you flipped someone off?
