Survivor: Palau Episode 5 Recap: Ulong Knot Necessarily Best Tribe Ever
The rapidly dwindling Ulong tribe returns to camp minus Angie. At the last tribal council, Koror gave Ibrehem immunity. Stephenie tells us he knows he would have been voted out. She says, "He knows he's going next 'cause I'm not changing my mind, so we'll see what happens." Yes, we'll see. Because that sure sounds like foreshadowing that you will change your mind. His tribemates berate Ibrehem for costing them the last challenge. Bobby Jon is annoyed that James can't get over missing out on the beef stew Koror won. Ibrehem finds solace in time alone praying.
At Koror, Ian declares it, "just another day in paradise." Everyone woke up feeling "charged up" and "refreshed" after their dinner and ready to work. Tom notes that work now can save them work later on. Meanwhile, Katie makes necklaces. Coby snarks, "Camp Koror had Craft Day. Well, just Katie. Everybody else was working." Amusingly, right after Coby gives us a confessional about how useless Katie was being, we get a Katie confessional, with her saying she "feels great" and thought it would be harder than this. She says it will be, but she's prepared and she thinks if you keep that state of mind, you can survive. Okay, so Katie is clueless. Caryn complains that Katie's role appears to be to entertain but she doesn't work very hard. So far Caryn has pretty much only liked Willard, who everyone thought was a lazy grump and even Caryn voted out. Treemail arrives, heralding the arrival of the next reward challenge ...
Reward Challenge: Shooting Gallery
Koror sees the new Ulong. Jeff tells them that Angie was voted out, and Coby shrugs. Jeff explains the reward challenge. There are sixteen tribe-coloured tiles, eight for each tribe. Using a replica of a 50-caliber small-class cannon, tribe members will attempt to shoot out their tribe's tiles. The first tribe to take out their eight tiles wins a day trip on a Japanese boat, where they will enjoy potato chips and mai-tais. The boat will take them to Jellyfish Lake where they can snorkel among millions of jellyfish who have lost the ability to sting because they haven't needed it.
Katie, Janu, Jenn, and Ian sit out for Koror. A game of rock, paper, scissor gives Ulong the right to go first, but Bobby Jon misses, as do the next few people. Tom makes the first shot for Koror, and Stephenie makes the first shot for Ulong. Bobby Jon, Ibrehem, Gregg, Caryn, and Coby make shots but the star of the reward challenge is Stephenie, who never misses. Caryn has the opportunity to force a tiebreaker, but she misses, and Ulong wins the reward.
On the boat to Jellyfish Lake, Bobby Jon makes a toast "to here on out." Stephenie adds, "We win!" James chimes in, "We're buddies!" Awww ...
Among the jellyfish
The buddies swim in a "crystal clear" lake among countless jellyfish. Bobby Jon describes it as giving him a "euphoric type of feeling" and says he tried to "cherish every second" because he knew he would never be there again. According to Stephenie, the win was a huge morale boost and made them "feel like a tribe again."
That night, at Koror, the tribe endures a particularly harsh storm. The next morning, Janu describes feeling "very alone and scared ... I ended up getting through the night ... but it kinda lingered on into the day." She lies in a hammock, teary-eyed, talking to Tom. He says he feels the same way, "so far away from my family today ... it's a bad place to be, but let today be a bad day." He continues, "You've already passed your worst fear of going home early. You're gonna make the merge, I think you're gonna make the jury, and if most of us aren't careful, we're gonna be the jury voting on you." Janu manages a weak smile but tells him she doesn't have the strength. He says she doesn't have it today, but she has it. Katie has less compassion than Tom. She tells us, "I thought I was a drama queen, but apparently not."
Immunity Challenge: Build It Up, Break It Down
Ulong receives treemail, along with a foot locker, the opposing tribe's flag, and rope. The treemail instructs them to secure the flag inside the foot locker and make it inpenetrable using the provided rope. They are to bring the foot locker to the challenge.
James claims he learned a knot in the Navy that they should use. When you pull it, it gets tighter. Isn't that every knot? The tribe uses James' knot.
At the immunity challenge, Jeff tells the tribes they have 20 minutes to swim out to retrieve three bundles of lumber and build a fortress around the foot locker to make it more difficult to get into. Then the tribes will switch sides and try to into the other tribe's foot locker, and get to their flag. The first tribe to get their flag, secure it to the flagpole, and raise it on the flagpole, wins immunity.
Caryn, James, Tom, and Gregg sit out the challenge for Koror. Katie and Janu stay behind and add more knots to the ropes on their foot locker, while Jenn and Ian swim out for the lumber. Ibrehem, Stephanie, and Bobby Jon swim out to fetch lumber, while James stays behind and adjusts his clothing. Coby whispers to Gregg, "Look at James tying his skirt instead of the knots." Ulong initially gains a lead but Koror quickly catch up and move ahead, because they don't lose immunity challenges. Plus, once they figured out James' amazing miracle knot, that was that. Jeff looks past Janu, who competed in the challenge, and hands the immunity idol to Caryn, who sat out the challenge. Weird.
Ibrehem plans to vote for James because he thinks he has performed the worst on all the immunity challenges. Stephenie tells James they should vote for "Ib," but she's concerned Bobby may vote for James. In confessional, James makes a charming remark: "Ibrehem's overstayed his welcome. He was meant to go last time, and by the grace of Allah he didn't go, well my God says he is today."
Bobby Jon notes that he initially got two votes at the last tribal council, and one was from Angie. He thought the other was from Stephenie but now he thinks it was from James; "it was male handwriting." You can't tell someone's gender from their handwriting though I can't find one of the more recent studies I had read about on this point. For what it's worth, a 1910 study concluded "that the sex signs of handwriting are of social rather than psychophysiological origin. They are largely determined by (1) the amount of writing done, (2) age and (3) professional requirements." Also, that was Stephanie's "male handwriting" on the vote for Bobby Jon. Stephanie tells us she doesn't like to lie, but "this was in the midst of we were deciding who we were going to vote tonight, so there was no way in hell I could have told him the truth, so I said, 'I swear to God it wasn't me.'" She tells us she feels really bad lying to him, but if she didn't, she would have been voted out.
Bobby Jon wants to vote for Ib, but to avoid a tie, he makes a deal with Stephanie: he will vote for James, and they will vote for Ib next. They will stick together "to the end." In confessional, Bobby Jon confirms his intentions to stay with Stephenie to the end. "If she's playing me, we'll find out," he tells us. "But I don't think she is."
In confessional Stephenie says she could stick with James and force a tie. She hasn't decided.
Tribal Council
Jeff asks James about that whole never-winning-an-immunity-challenge thing. James claims, "I think we subconsciously sabotage ourselves." You just never know who's a Dr. Phil fan. Can't stand the guy myself, but to each their own. Jeff offers James his take of what happened, "Steph and Bobby Jon swam out, Ibrehem took a leisurely stroll to the middle, doing what I'm still not sure, and you sat there and messed with your skirt for two, three, four minutes ... that's when you lost the challenge."
Jeff brings on the tough questions to those weak links, asking Ibrehem if he thinks he's cut out for this (he does). Jeff asks James if he thinks it's fair to base a vote on how he performs on a challenge, which is the same criteria James applied to Ibrehem last time. Surprise! Now James thinks other factors should be considered, like personality and personal feelings. Someone might be fond of a guy who didn't make one shot at the reward challenge and whose crappy knot and fixation on his skirt helped cost them the immunity challenge, 'tis true. Bobby Jon and Stephenie say they trust all their tribemates. Stephenie thinks it's not her time yet, she's worked her butt off. She does get paranoid that the others are all from Alabama, as Jeff points out. Ah, Alabama must be proud. Of Bobby Jon, anyway.
The votes are tied between Ibrehem and James. Only Stephanie and Bobby Jon vote in the tie-breaker. James is voted out. Stephenie whispers, "Sorry" to James.
Apparently it was James' time to go after all
Jeff tells the new Ulong trio that this is a first: a tribe of three. That's sort of cool, to be the first ones to achieve that ... okay, no, it really isn't cool at all. To quote Homer Simpson, "They're the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked." Hey, it's still an achievement of sorts.
On the next Survivor:
Tom thinks Jenn and Gregg's romance could be a monkey wrench that they don't see coming. Sounds painful. Duck! Bobby Jon catches a fish. Tom catches a shark. Vegetarian viewers cringe.
At Koror, Ian declares it, "just another day in paradise." Everyone woke up feeling "charged up" and "refreshed" after their dinner and ready to work. Tom notes that work now can save them work later on. Meanwhile, Katie makes necklaces. Coby snarks, "Camp Koror had Craft Day. Well, just Katie. Everybody else was working." Amusingly, right after Coby gives us a confessional about how useless Katie was being, we get a Katie confessional, with her saying she "feels great" and thought it would be harder than this. She says it will be, but she's prepared and she thinks if you keep that state of mind, you can survive. Okay, so Katie is clueless. Caryn complains that Katie's role appears to be to entertain but she doesn't work very hard. So far Caryn has pretty much only liked Willard, who everyone thought was a lazy grump and even Caryn voted out. Treemail arrives, heralding the arrival of the next reward challenge ...
Reward Challenge: Shooting Gallery
Koror sees the new Ulong. Jeff tells them that Angie was voted out, and Coby shrugs. Jeff explains the reward challenge. There are sixteen tribe-coloured tiles, eight for each tribe. Using a replica of a 50-caliber small-class cannon, tribe members will attempt to shoot out their tribe's tiles. The first tribe to take out their eight tiles wins a day trip on a Japanese boat, where they will enjoy potato chips and mai-tais. The boat will take them to Jellyfish Lake where they can snorkel among millions of jellyfish who have lost the ability to sting because they haven't needed it.
Katie, Janu, Jenn, and Ian sit out for Koror. A game of rock, paper, scissor gives Ulong the right to go first, but Bobby Jon misses, as do the next few people. Tom makes the first shot for Koror, and Stephenie makes the first shot for Ulong. Bobby Jon, Ibrehem, Gregg, Caryn, and Coby make shots but the star of the reward challenge is Stephenie, who never misses. Caryn has the opportunity to force a tiebreaker, but she misses, and Ulong wins the reward.
On the boat to Jellyfish Lake, Bobby Jon makes a toast "to here on out." Stephenie adds, "We win!" James chimes in, "We're buddies!" Awww ...
Among the jellyfish
The buddies swim in a "crystal clear" lake among countless jellyfish. Bobby Jon describes it as giving him a "euphoric type of feeling" and says he tried to "cherish every second" because he knew he would never be there again. According to Stephenie, the win was a huge morale boost and made them "feel like a tribe again."
That night, at Koror, the tribe endures a particularly harsh storm. The next morning, Janu describes feeling "very alone and scared ... I ended up getting through the night ... but it kinda lingered on into the day." She lies in a hammock, teary-eyed, talking to Tom. He says he feels the same way, "so far away from my family today ... it's a bad place to be, but let today be a bad day." He continues, "You've already passed your worst fear of going home early. You're gonna make the merge, I think you're gonna make the jury, and if most of us aren't careful, we're gonna be the jury voting on you." Janu manages a weak smile but tells him she doesn't have the strength. He says she doesn't have it today, but she has it. Katie has less compassion than Tom. She tells us, "I thought I was a drama queen, but apparently not."
Immunity Challenge: Build It Up, Break It Down
Ulong receives treemail, along with a foot locker, the opposing tribe's flag, and rope. The treemail instructs them to secure the flag inside the foot locker and make it inpenetrable using the provided rope. They are to bring the foot locker to the challenge.
James claims he learned a knot in the Navy that they should use. When you pull it, it gets tighter. Isn't that every knot? The tribe uses James' knot.
At the immunity challenge, Jeff tells the tribes they have 20 minutes to swim out to retrieve three bundles of lumber and build a fortress around the foot locker to make it more difficult to get into. Then the tribes will switch sides and try to into the other tribe's foot locker, and get to their flag. The first tribe to get their flag, secure it to the flagpole, and raise it on the flagpole, wins immunity.
Caryn, James, Tom, and Gregg sit out the challenge for Koror. Katie and Janu stay behind and add more knots to the ropes on their foot locker, while Jenn and Ian swim out for the lumber. Ibrehem, Stephanie, and Bobby Jon swim out to fetch lumber, while James stays behind and adjusts his clothing. Coby whispers to Gregg, "Look at James tying his skirt instead of the knots." Ulong initially gains a lead but Koror quickly catch up and move ahead, because they don't lose immunity challenges. Plus, once they figured out James' amazing miracle knot, that was that. Jeff looks past Janu, who competed in the challenge, and hands the immunity idol to Caryn, who sat out the challenge. Weird.
Ibrehem plans to vote for James because he thinks he has performed the worst on all the immunity challenges. Stephenie tells James they should vote for "Ib," but she's concerned Bobby may vote for James. In confessional, James makes a charming remark: "Ibrehem's overstayed his welcome. He was meant to go last time, and by the grace of Allah he didn't go, well my God says he is today."
Bobby Jon notes that he initially got two votes at the last tribal council, and one was from Angie. He thought the other was from Stephenie but now he thinks it was from James; "it was male handwriting." You can't tell someone's gender from their handwriting though I can't find one of the more recent studies I had read about on this point. For what it's worth, a 1910 study concluded "that the sex signs of handwriting are of social rather than psychophysiological origin. They are largely determined by (1) the amount of writing done, (2) age and (3) professional requirements." Also, that was Stephanie's "male handwriting" on the vote for Bobby Jon. Stephanie tells us she doesn't like to lie, but "this was in the midst of we were deciding who we were going to vote tonight, so there was no way in hell I could have told him the truth, so I said, 'I swear to God it wasn't me.'" She tells us she feels really bad lying to him, but if she didn't, she would have been voted out.
Bobby Jon wants to vote for Ib, but to avoid a tie, he makes a deal with Stephanie: he will vote for James, and they will vote for Ib next. They will stick together "to the end." In confessional, Bobby Jon confirms his intentions to stay with Stephenie to the end. "If she's playing me, we'll find out," he tells us. "But I don't think she is."
In confessional Stephenie says she could stick with James and force a tie. She hasn't decided.
Tribal Council
Jeff asks James about that whole never-winning-an-immunity-challenge thing. James claims, "I think we subconsciously sabotage ourselves." You just never know who's a Dr. Phil fan. Can't stand the guy myself, but to each their own. Jeff offers James his take of what happened, "Steph and Bobby Jon swam out, Ibrehem took a leisurely stroll to the middle, doing what I'm still not sure, and you sat there and messed with your skirt for two, three, four minutes ... that's when you lost the challenge."
Jeff brings on the tough questions to those weak links, asking Ibrehem if he thinks he's cut out for this (he does). Jeff asks James if he thinks it's fair to base a vote on how he performs on a challenge, which is the same criteria James applied to Ibrehem last time. Surprise! Now James thinks other factors should be considered, like personality and personal feelings. Someone might be fond of a guy who didn't make one shot at the reward challenge and whose crappy knot and fixation on his skirt helped cost them the immunity challenge, 'tis true. Bobby Jon and Stephenie say they trust all their tribemates. Stephenie thinks it's not her time yet, she's worked her butt off. She does get paranoid that the others are all from Alabama, as Jeff points out. Ah, Alabama must be proud. Of Bobby Jon, anyway.
The votes are tied between Ibrehem and James. Only Stephanie and Bobby Jon vote in the tie-breaker. James is voted out. Stephenie whispers, "Sorry" to James.
Apparently it was James' time to go after all
Jeff tells the new Ulong trio that this is a first: a tribe of three. That's sort of cool, to be the first ones to achieve that ... okay, no, it really isn't cool at all. To quote Homer Simpson, "They're the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked." Hey, it's still an achievement of sorts.
On the next Survivor:
Tom thinks Jenn and Gregg's romance could be a monkey wrench that they don't see coming. Sounds painful. Duck! Bobby Jon catches a fish. Tom catches a shark. Vegetarian viewers cringe.
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