Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. Just pinch-hitting for Snidget who is off tonight for an event.

Welcome to this week's edition of The Russhole Show, dedicated to all things related to Russhole - an inner look into the self-proclaimed brilliant mind and strategic acumen of the Anointed One.

To make room for Russhole to show off his brilliance and greatness with his game play, please make this thread sigpic-free. There is only one DAW, after all.

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Everyone's abuzz in camp after getting back from Tribal Council. The villains are all asking each other if they knew Parv had two idols and none of them did.

King Russhole is now demanding for Parv's head for not revealing she had two. Parv's giggling about it all.

Rupert is bemoaning that he tried to warn Sandra and the other Heroes but nobody would bite. He's all alone by the fire.

There ia storm 200 mile away so of course ther is weather coverage

Immediately after the commercial break, we see a black whale. Then we see Russhole not wasting any time in talking to Candice to pull her over to his side.

Reward Challenge. It's time for "Survivor Shuffle"! Wow, CBS is really splurging for challenges this week.

Slide discs along a board and the team with their disc closest to the red X wins. The winning team will go and visit Robert Louis Stevenson's home right there on Samoa.

Teams:
Parv-Jerri-Candice
Danielle-Amanda-Colby
Russhole-Rupert-Sandra

Sandra's first disc naturally slides right off the board. So far, Amanda's disc is closest. Now Rupert has slid one closest to the X. Free for all as teams are bouncing each other's discs off everyone else's.

Colby wins reward for his team with the final disc landing almost exactly in the middle of the X.

Mmmm, that's a rather nice looking mansion. Was Robert Louis Stevenson's home and it's now a museum with all kinds of interesting artifacts inside.

The three of them lay on an old bed, watching the movie "Treasure Island" on a flat-screen TV with popcorn.

Danielle finds the clue in the popcorn and stealthily slides the clue down the side of the bed. Amanda goes over to sit by Danielle and discovers the clue. We now have a CATFIGHT! Wrestling match between Amanda and Danielle for the clue while Colby just sits there on the bed, watching.

Long spat between the girls over the clue and they beseech Colby to play referee. Finally, Amanda coughs up the clue and gives it back to Danielle.

After they get back to camp, Danielle gathers around with Scerri, Russhole and Perv, acts out what happened with the wrestling match against Amanda.

Russhole and Danielle runs off to find the HII ... and Russhole finds it while Danielle is oblivious to him finding it and she continues to search the woods for it while Russhole scurries off like a drowned rat!

Russhole confides to Candice that he has the HII.

Thanks for doing this pepe.

Now we know that Colby is old. The guy can only win shuffle board and he doesn't get excited with a catfight.

The whole clue imbroglio was strange. I wonder if Colby actually voiced the ruling of the producers. Danielle found the clue so it is hers according to what we have heard. Or is it if she just leaves it on the floor? I think but I'm not sure that it was hers. Amanda should have proposed to read it all together.

Amanda should have proposed to read it all together.

DH and I thought the same thing.

Colby should have suggested it as the referee of the fight!

Colby should have suggested a threesome.

>Now we know that Colby is
>old. The guy can only
>win shuffle board and he
>doesn't get excited with a
>catfight.

I spit coke on my keyboard over this. Line of the season so far.

RussHELL.

Whomever gets the idol wins.

After the commercial break... we see Sandra beefing to Colby that all of her original alliance mates are gone. She's now talking about jumping from the Villains and joining with the Heroes.

Colby thinks that Danielle will find the HII if she hasn't already, so that's why it's important for him to pull over Sandra and regain control so they can take out someone else on the Villains side.

Russhole and Sandra are now yapping. Russ is telling her that they now have 6 people with 'someone' flipping to their side.

Sandra runs to Rupert and says "we need to get Russ out now."

LAST EDITED ON 04-29-10 AT 08:37 PM (EST)

Each contestant will have 150 wooden tiles to build a house of cards - first person to reach 10 feet wins immunity.

Different strategies are in place right from the start on how to build the right tower.

Boy, Sandra really has a future in architecture, doesn't she?

Jerri's the early leader at eight feet. Russhole's right behind her.

All Sandra had to do was to give her typical withering glare at her pile and it collapsed.

Jerri's now about six inches away from the top with Russhole another six inches behind!

Jerri wins immunity by the thinnest margin imaginable!

We have a confessional from Sandra right before going to commercial - she's all about revenge and making up for Courtney's boot by voting Russhole.

I laughed when she said she wanted revenge for her whole alliance "and Coach even if I don't like him. I'll throw him in there"!!!

That was classic Sandra! lol.

Post-TC scrum.

Russhole works on Candice to vote for Amanda. Candice in a confessional says she feels stuck in a no-win situation because if she doesn't go with him, she'll be targeted and if she does go with him, she'll piss off a few other people.

Now Colby/Rupert/Candice/Sandra are discussing whether to vote for Parvati nor not.

Rupert says this is crazy, "there are three days of scrambling going on in three minutes."

Sandra and Candice are now having a row about the latter "running" to Russhole to tell him everything.

Considering the end result, that whole scrambling session seemed disjointed. I may need some help to interpret how this was edited. Particularly interesting was Parvati's words to Russell: "You wasted it". She knew.

I think she meant, 'Russell you should have trusted me and told me that you had it. I would have told you not to play it.' However that would depend on Russell succeeding some power to Parvati and that ain't gonna happen!

It's funny that he could put his finger on the fact that both Candice and Sandra wanted to flip; get Candice to stay flipped and have Sandra vote with the villains but didn't realize that he was no longer the target.

LAST EDITED ON 04-30-10 AT 03:29 PM (EST)

>I think she meant, 'Russell you
>should have trusted me and
>told me that you had
>it. I would have
>told you not to play
>it.' However that would
>depend on Russell succeeding some
>power to Parvati and that
>ain't gonna happen!
>
>It's funny that he could put
>his finger on the fact
>that both Candice and Sandra
>wanted to flip; get Candice
>to stay flipped and have
>Sandra vote with the villains
>but didn't realize that he
>was no longer the target.

OMG You are so very smart!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, RussHELL has disloyalty radar! And YES he was brilliant stealing Dani's idol AND sensing that both Candi and Sandy are vascillating.

Please, just move your chair to the Head of the Class!!

All of the heroes believe that Danielle has the HII.

Time to vote...

Russell votes Amanda. Courtney makes a retching motion with her face as Russhole walks by.

Amanda votes Parv.

Jeff: "I'll go tally the votes."
Courtney: "You do that."

Russhole stands up and reveals that he has the HII. Danielle put her hand onto her forehead. He's safe tonight!

The votes:

Amanda
Amanda
Parvati
Courtney laughs her head off.
Parvati
Amanda
Amanda
Parv
Amanda.

Bye bye Amanda! 5-3, you're out.

Russhole didn't need to play his HII at all.

Russ looks at Parv, and says "I had to."
Parv says "You wasted one."

Ummmm, didn't you waste a HII just last week, Parv? Shut up.

6-3 actually. Sandra and Candice voted for Amanda

LAST EDITED ON 04-29-10 AT 08:59 PM (EST)

The powerful villains alliance appears to be ripping apart with infighting amongst Parv/Russ/Danielle/Jerri.

have you ever seen so many dumb moves on one season

So neither Sandra nor Candice could stick with the Heros?

Sandra obviously knew that Candice flipped so why would she "hang herself out to dry" with the villians when it wouldn't make any difference with the vote?

Russell
Parv
Danielle
Jerri
Candice

vs.

Amanda
Rupert
Colby
(Sandra)

Candice is an idiot who believed Russell's line of crap. I hope she goes soon.

Or Candice has been with Parvati since the merge and she just baited Sandra.
It would explain why she let Danielle win IC and why Parvati knew that Russell didn't need to play his idol.

Thanks so much, Pepe! I missed tonight's episode, so it's nice to come home and be able to quickly find out what happened.

I don't get why Colby didn't help Amanda? And why didn't Amanda just quickly read the clue, then return it to Danielle? Maye it'll make more sense after I watch it.

No it won't make any more sense! Danielle should have gone to the bathroom, read it and flushed it as soon as she found it! The two girls just stood there arguing and Colby was half-asleep throughout it all. He told them he was watching the movie (don't the best survivor players say you never relax, you never stop playing the game??!!) He really was asleep at the wheel. Once he realized what was going on he should have come to Amanda's aide or just told Amanda to read it out loud!

I missed tonight too as I went to a chamber music performance, so thanks for posting, Pepe. Doesn't sound like I missed anything important.

Colby has been half asleep this whole season. What is wrong with that boy?

>No it won't make any more
>sense! Danielle should have
>gone to the bathroom, read
>it and flushed it as
>soon as she found it!
> The two girls just
>stood there arguing and Colby
>was half-asleep throughout it all.
> He told them he
>was watching the movie (don't
>the best survivor players say
>you never relax, you never
>stop playing the game??!!)
>He really was asleep at
>the wheel. Once he
>realized what was going on
>he should have come to
>Amanda's aide or just told
>Amanda to read it out
>loud!

You're right again! But, as you could tell, the Heroes have checked out of the game. The bathroom trick is PERFECT.

>Danielle should have
>gone to the bathroom, read
>it and flushed it as
>soon as she found it!

CTGirl, Amanda must have read your post, because I was just reading her post-game interviews and she says this is exactly what she should have done. She realizes it was a big mistake and she wishes she had not given the clue back.

LAST EDITED ON 04-30-10 AT 06:40 PM (EST)

Danielle should have shoved it up her whoo whoo and dared them to pull it out!

It was foolish to set up a fight. Need I remind these players that they are playing for $1 million? Forget the movie, dumbass Colby.

OMG!

I don't get Candice's strategy. She's 5th with the Heroes and 6th with the Villians. So jump to the Villians?

Knowing Colby's been on the outer fringe of the Heroes all along why didn't she propose to Sandra to have a final 3 with Colby and a final 2 with Sandra? Knowing how Colby's been playing this season she could have taken him during what's usually a stamina contest at the end. There's no way she can expect to go all the way with Russell - well, a person with a brain would no that.

It's still amazing me how many people RussHell can convince to trust him!
Wake up people! He's on the villians side for a reason;
Just because you've never seen in play before doesn't mean he's a good honest trustworthy fellow......

Tummy, I'm with you. Candice used to be the one with all the smarts on the Heroes tribe, but not lately. In the Insider Clips she says she flipped because Amanda was lying to her and she couldn't trust her.

I loved how Sandra gave it to her right before TC!

I think it's fairly simple: Candice knew she couldn't beat Amanda, Rupert or Colby in front of the jury but that she could beat Russell, Parvati and Danielle. Her alliance was probably more with her Cook island buddy than Russell anyway.

Her alliance was
>probably more with her Cook
>island buddy than Russell anyway.
>
As much as I'd like to give Candice more credit for being smart/strategic, I don't think so. Based on Insider Clips, etc., all indications are that Candice had a deal with Russell, and Parv was pretty much out of the loop on that. Looks like the next episode will bear that out.

As a traitor I doubt Candice would be able to beat anyone except maybe RussHell, who's universally despised.

Any Villain that takes Candice to the end could see the others react like Taj when she said she would vote for Erinn. And Candice could get Coach's and Courtney's votes.

I think this commentary by Stephen Fishbach pretty much sums up why Candice screwed up this week:

"The problem for Candice comes not so much in the decision she makes, as the way in which she vacillates between her alliances. First she outs Sandra’s plans to target Russell to the Villains. Then she takes it all back with the Heroes. But then she really wants to stick with the Villains. Flip-floppers have a nasty way of ending up voted out next, as neither group particularly trusts them."

Also, in the Insider Clips, there's a scene where Candice watches Russell talking with Amanda (and is clearly nervous/jealous). Then she and Amanda compare notes later, and Candice realizes that Russell promised her F3 too. You'd think that would make Candice think twice about going with Russell. I think her Nervous Nellie side takes over her brain after a certain point in the game, which is too bad.

But we aren't talking about what will comes next which I know you know but what could have happened from her POV. In this episode, Candice didn't do anymore flip-flopping than Sandra did yet I hear no one questioning Sandra's game. I don't have to wonder why.

If Sandra had flipped and then remained allied with the Heroes, I expect she would face the same consequences in front of the jury. As an excuse she could say she knew she was next on the chopping block for the Villains, but I doubt that would really sway anyone. She might get Courtney's and Coach's votes.

No one who's won the game was ever a blatant turncoat.

I don't see why Candice would think she couldn't beat Rupert, Amanda or Colby, as you opined above. Rupert is a fan favorite but I don't think he's liked that much by the other players. Colby's been fairly useless, and Amanda lied to Parvati. A final three of Candice, Sandra and another Hero might work out well for Candice. Going with the Villains should, from Candice's POV, look not so good.

A tribe glows in Brooklyn