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Survivor Season 15 Episode 8

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AIRED: 11/8/07

After returning from Tribal Council, Jean-Robert realizes he had a close call even though the real Immunity Idol was not found by Jaime. The next morning, James says he knows in order to stay strong, his original tribe has to stick together. Amanda realizes that James is probably in the best position and could potentially win the entire game. After a Reward Challenge win, Jean-Robert reads the clues for the hidden Immunity Idol, but Todd and the rest of his original tribemates know better. Meanwhile, back at the camp, Denise is a little upset about being picked last during the reward challenge and therefore unable to participate. While the reward winners are away, Peih-Gee tries to stir the pot to get Denise to vote out Jean-Robert. At night, while the others are sleeping, Jean-Robert searches for the hidden Immunity Idol, not knowing that they have already been found. The next day, Todd becomes annoyed with James and the fact that he has both Immunity Idols and quickly comes up with a plan to try and vote him out. After the Immunity Challenge, Jean-Robert tells Erik he thinks he has the immunity idol but Erik tells him James has the real ones. After Jean-Roberts confronts Todd about it, Todd continues to flip back and forth between who he and his alliance should vote for.moreless

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Todd had the potential to make a great move, but he messed it up

8.2

By OTHfan323, Nov 14, 2007

Todd was set up to make one of the best moves in survivor history and then he blew it. I really wish he explained to us why he decided not to get James out, because it didn't make any sense to me. I really wanted to see Todd make a big move and get James out but it didn't happen. Anyway, I thought Jean-Robert looking for the idol was funny and I was glad Denise started considering flipping tribes. I liked the reward challenge and it was interesting to see if people valued people who were light or who were strong. The immunity challenge was also, good and I was happy that Courtney finally provide she could be sucessful in a challenge. It would have been a great episode if Todd had went through with his great plan.moreless
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good episode...

7.8

By Fwirrel, Nov 11, 2007

Courtney wins immunity idol, which was a shocker. Finally, her anerexia helped her in a challenge. Anyways, Jean Robert goes off looking for an idol and finds out James has both. He lobbies to get James voted out, but instead, he is voted out. James had a close call and Denese finds out that her alliance doesn't trust her. The reward challenge was funny. Courtney and Frosti just sank like rocks. Seriously, why would you choose Courtney to be on your team? Anyways, overall, good episode. Pretty average. Nothing special. I'm interested to see what happens next now that Jean Robert is gone.moreless
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So... why didn't they vote out James?

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By b_flat_major, Nov 10, 2007

Yeah, I think they made a mistake in voting out Jean-Robert. It looks like the main reason for voting him out was the fact that he was annoying... That's not exactly a good reason to vote someone out at this point in the game.

James should have been the target tonight. He has two immunity idols, and Todd even said that it doesn't look like he will give up either of them. If James can win a couple of immunity challenges (there's a good chance he will, though I do realize that Frosti is a pretty good competitor), then he's set to reach the final four. So I reiterate: why didn't they vote out James? It's just bad gameplay to me. Erik and Peih-Gee had it right, but now they casted votes against James, James will be more motivated to win immunity.

I also see one other flaw in Todd and Amanda's gameplay: they didn't include Denise. It always causes some problems when you alienate someone from your alliance. Denise will be more inclined to vote with Erik and Peih-Gee now... I guess they don't see that as a problem since they have the numbers, but anything can happen in this game, too.

Now about Courtney... I was happy for her when she won immunity. I don't think anyone really expected that, but in those types of challenges, the winners and runnerups are surprising sometimes. But about not caring about who would be sent packing? Come on... play the game!

So basically, what I see is that Todd is trying a little too hard, Todd's alliance is getting too comfortable, and some people need to step things up in terms of gameplay and strategy. But while I am being very critical of everyone, I did like this episode, and I will be watching next week's episode to see how everything unfolds.moreless
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By cavanagh15, Nov 10, 2007

My heart skipped a beat when James went down 3-2 in the voting at the final tribal council. This is what watching television shows are all about right here. My heart is still recovering from the last scene in that epsiode. Jean Robert played a really horrible game. He wanted to start off as the bad guy and then turn into the good guy, which is the worst way one could ever play this game. Start off as the guy everyone likes and then try and ride coatailes the rest of the way or turn into the Todd who jumps around from vote to vote and settle for at least $100,000 and second place. The reward challenege was fun to watch. James pumping water into a boat brought back memories of episodes past. That guy shouldnt be allowed to play...ever. I think he got a bit of a wake up call in this episode when he got 3 votes. I think with 8 to go and having to use them up to the final 4, any challenege he doesnt win should be an automatic play of the immunity idol. He is 0/2 for individual immunity, but I mean...the two challeneges werent in his style. He did take the chance and roll the dice by not playing the one tonight dispite rumors flying around, but it paid off. He has himself in the final 6 at least if he isnt careless and give an immunity idol away.moreless
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I am totally mad at Erik for stopping Jean-Robert from pulling a Jamie!!!

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By cornelialover, Nov 10, 2007

Seriously, I can not believe that he would tell Jean-Robert something like that. If Erik had gone to Todd and told him that Jean-Robert thought he had the hidden immunity idol, they could have set him up to make it look like he was the one going home, and then he would have played it and it would have been perfect!

Not that it wasn't funny as it was, trust me, if you saw Todd's face at the end, you would be laughing too. His face was all red and he was trying so hard not to laugh!!!

This episode was pretty good, Courtney actually won immunity, and I was totally fine with it even though I have hated her for the entire season because this time she really was the best and this time she actually is playing the game. Even though she's not the smartest tool in the shed, she's still more in it then Denise is. Denise is also not the smartest tool in the shed... and she has her own shed.moreless
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Jean-Robert Bellande	Himself (Season 15)
Frosti Zernow	Himself (Season 15)
Erik Huffman	Himself (Season 15)
Peih-Gee Law	Herself (Season 15)
Amanda Kimmel	Herself (Season 15)
Denise Martin	Herself (Season 15)

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TRIVIA (1)
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- Not including any specials, reunions or re-cap episodes, and only counting episodes with game play in them, this is the 200th episode of Survivor.
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QUOTES (13)
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- Frosti: In this game, you have to take advantage of whatever happens whenever you can, and right now, people are starting to view me as swing vote which ends up being not so bad.
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- Todd: These people are driving me insane. I hate hearing Jean-Robert's voice. I hate hearing James complain how he is so hungry. Plus it kind of pisses me off that James has both Immunity Idols, being that I found it and told him where the other one was and he hasn't offered to give me one of them back. That drives me insane!
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- Denise: I'm big. I'm fat. I'm always the last one picked. It's been like that my whole life and here it is again.
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- Amanda: James is in a very good position because he has both of the Immunity Idols for sure, and he has almost guaranteed himself a top five position right now. I'm kind of afraid he could win the whole thing.
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- James: Jean-Robert doesn't know that I have both of the Immunity Idols. We can't tell him that. We just need to keep his dumb ass in line because we are stuck with him and need his vote. So we have to deal with it.
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- Jeff: Courtney, would you have ever guessed that you would be here on day twenty four wearing the immunity necklace?
  Courtney: Hell, no!
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- Todd: This game is fun and I like keeping it fun.
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- James: (referring to Jean-Robert) That would be the worse move in Survivor history...to align with that guy!
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- Jean-Robert: (to Erik) Buddy, you guys are definitely behind the eight ball.
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- Jeff: Glad you're still around, Jean-Robert...always need a complainer!
  Courtney: I thought I was the complainer.
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- Jean-Robert: I did not know there was an American Immunity Idol!
  Todd: (somewhat sarcastically) American Immunity Idol? Cool! That's great! There's an American Immunity Idol!
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- Jean-Robert: Hey, man, Jean-Robert thought he was going home, man.
  James: So what, you want a hug?
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- Courtney: (About Jean-Robert) He's become the Susan Lucci of Tribal Council.
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- Jean-Robert is voted out.
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- Courtney wins immunity in this episode.
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- James mentions the episode's title with relation to how he thinks his other tribemates are playing the game.
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- Beginning with this episode, for the first time on the show, the theme song displays only the current merged tribe members and the jury members
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