Surprise Enemy Visit. Hasta La Vista, Amy

The Episode starts with Judd -- what else -- TALKING. It has to really, really, really suck to live with this guy. At least he's apologizing for his blowup at tribal council, "Yeah, man, sorry, man." "My bark is bigger than my bite, man." Ok, man.

Jamie tells the camera that he wants to keep Judd close, because Judd is only going to keep blowing up. Smart move. (man.)

Back at Yaxha, Bobby Jon is showing off puss-oozing, festering shoulder sores from the medicine ball challenge. Yick. Brandon has em too, and says that he thinks they make people look "tough." With the look you have going on, Brandon, you need all the help you can get.

Reward challenge is some goofy event where people have to wrap 30 feet of material around themselves like they're spools or something.... 1 person will be the spooler and 4 will be the ones who get all wrapped up. I prefer to refer to them as human spools. Or "tools" for short.

Probst tells the teams that the Maya discovered chocolate, so the reward involves some sort of chocolate feast. (fact check: Wikipedia confirms Probst."The chocolate residue found in a Mayan teapot suggests that Mayans were drinking chocolate 2,600 years ago, making the Mayans hold the earliest record of cacao use. The Aztecs associated chocolate with Xochiquetzal, the goddess of fertility. In the New World, chocolate was consumed in a drink called xocoatl, often seasoned with vanilla, chilli pepper, achiote (which we know today as annatto) and pimento.") I guess ya learn something new every day. Neat-o!

Jamie and Amy are wrappers for Nakum and Yaxha, respectively. After a lot of spinning and many close up shots of skin-on-skin action (why else do you think they'd do this stupid challenge?), Yaxha wins reward. Side thought: Danni really, really needs a sammich. Seriously. She's so skinny it's frightening.

The winners take a few zip-lines across the top of the jungle and feast on chocolate. Eat up, Danni, before they producers have to start highlighting you in blue like a hockey puck so the viewers can find you on the screen.

After the chocolate feast, the Yaxha returns to camp, and Danni tells us that it's her birthday. The team decides to row over to Nakum camp and invite them over for a pool party. HUH? Is that even allowed by the rules? Whether it is or not, they get in the boat and decide to attend the party. "No game talk," everyone promises. [All of the private cam shots show people saying "I didn't want to go" - which can only mean that this is going to backfire BIG TIME. I can't wait.]

Nakum arrives, and Yaxha shares their pool and their left over chocolate. The day of fun comes to an end, and Nakum rows back. All the way back Jamie is saying how he didn't want to stay that long with "the enemy." Steph, as usual, complains.

Back from the commercial, Amy starts to act all looney, telling Gary that if he's lying about being an ex-pro football player, she's going to use police databases to track him down. Way to admit your plan to commit a felony, Amy! She probably doesn't have too much to worry about, though - after the brass sees that she's missing a few nuts and bolts, she's sure to get canned anyway. Of course, Gary keeps up the lie.

Immunity Challenge is your typical puzzle challenge, with the twist being that the pieces are buried in a sand pit. Nakum figures out the puzzle, and they win immunity. This is great news - not because I like Nakum, or that I dislike Yaxha, but because this means that since Steph is on the winning team, we won't have to listen to her whine about how much of a loser everyone else on her team is.

The team heads to Tribal Council, but not before we're shown a plot by Yaxha to get rid of Bobby Jon. The general sentiment seems to be that Bobby Jon isn't deserving of a chance for a million, because, as one tribemate put it, "he had his shot already." CBS leads us into the vote thinking that Bobby Jon would be sent home. Though he gets two votes, in the end, it's Amy who is sent home.

EXTRA SURPRISE! Ha, you thought the title "Surprise Enemy Visit" referred to the swim party, didn't you? Boy were you fooled. Probst tells the 4 remaining Yaxha that they will not be returning to their camp - instead, they'll head to Nakum's camp, where the tribes will merge. I guess they're running out of ways to surprise these guys, huh?

Discussion

It's interesting that so much of Survivor revolves around the notion of "worthiness." Tonight, the team seemed to think that Bobby Jon wasn't "deserving" of a chance to win the million. Gary has stated that he's purposely not disclosing that he's an ex-NFL QB because he doesn't want to get voted off because people assume that he doesn't need the money. If you remember, in Survivor Africa, the Dentist got sent home because the team said "he has enough money already - he doensn't need any more." Does the notion of "worthiness" really play that big a role in survivor? What gives anyone the right to decide what other people do or don't deserve, particularly when they're all playing the same game? Discuss this and other questions in our new forum section!

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