Best Survivor Ever

What I'm about to admit is slightly embarrassing. While getting ready to go to last night's Rangers game, I debated whether or not to tape Survivor. Am I that bad of a TV addict that I need to record a reality program? Yes, it appears that I am. At the last second I decided to throw in a tape. All I have to say is - best decision of the night! Last night was, I'll say, the best episode of Survivor that I've ever seen. The anticipation kept building and building and the tribal council turned out exactly as I, and probably everyone else, hoped.

I guess if you don't watch Survivor, you may want to skip this post. Tribes merged, Frosti won individual immunity, PG was sucking up to James, Courtney is a stupid idiot who just wants to make friends, blah blah. Let's just talk about the star of the show - the hidden immunity idols. If we all recall from last week, Todd gave James the immunity idol from Fei Long with the belief that Zhan Hu would throw the challenge to get him kicked off. James would then use his idol to get rid of Jaime. Plan backfired, but it still left James with immunity. This episode he found the second immunity idol by prying planks of wood from the tribal gate at Zhan Hu! The key here? The first plank he pulled was blank on the other side. He tossed it on the ground and didn't have a chance to put it back up before PG, Jaime and Erik returned. It turned out to be a stroke of luck. Jaime found it and believed SHE had the immunity idol. She even went through James' bag, found the REAL idols (by the way, how dumb is it that he just left them in his bag?) but obviously didn't turn them over. They pretty much look the same on the outside so she assumed that there were three idols. James realizes what's going on and, as soon as the tribes merge, tells Todd what happened - let the campaign to humiliate Jaime begin!!

Jaime, meanwhile, is so freaking smug throughout this whole thing and brags about how she's really good at playing dumb and how everyone's going to be shocked that she has the immunity idol. Ohhhh this was gonna be GOOD. I was hoping and hoping that she would bring out her fake idol at tribal council. So we get to tribal council and there's some boring smack talk between Courtney and Jean-Robert (yawn) - and then the votes are cast. As Probst is about to read the first vote, Jaime interrupts him and hands him her "immunity idol." Probst explains what happens when one uses the idol and then says "but this is not the idol" and throws it into the fire! The look on Jaime's face is priceless and James and Todd could barely control their hysterics. The votes are tallied and it's bye-bye Jaime. It's turns out you're really, really good at being dumb. IDIOT!