Sunday, June 28, 2020

Survivor: Gabon episode 10: Nothing Tastes Better than Five Hundred Dollars

According to the current schedule for the 2020-2021 TV season, this show might come back in the fall and I’ll try to keep you updated on potential filming if and when I know it is happening. It can just be a bit bad to look up stuff on future seasons as you may find out things you don’t want to know, such as who wins season 26 while season 25 is still airing. A fall season might be hopeful on their part as they think that they can film it when the usual spring season can be filmed and still have enough time for it to air later. It is possible that we won’t see it until midseason or next season.

Let’s get to the idols from Island of the Idols part 1, the regular idols. I wasn’t much able to make sense of what fandom had it on at first, but used it to help me sort out what happened with my own blog. With these idols, Chelsea finds one, lucking her way into it, and is voted out in possession of her idol. Jamal finds one as well. He gave his idol to Noura and it was wasted. Kellee then found a second one (see future posts) and a third one at the merged camp. She was voted out with both of them in her possession. Janet found an idol, but then wastes it only negating minority votes. Karishma found an idol and successfully played it on herself. Elaine found an idol and wasted it on herself, negating no votes. Janet found another idol and got cocky enough with it that she told people to vote her out. She could have had a successful play of it, but it was nullified by Dean’s idol nullifier.

It seems like now might be the time when a lot of shows that I watch on DVD will change. I finished with the Popeye cartoons that I have and replaced it with Flashpoint season 1. I will also have to switch back from Community season 1 to watching Charmed season 5.

In the next Madam Secretary blog post to talk about, I mention how I finished watching VeggieTales on tape outside of an Easter episode. This wound up being lent to sister at some point and I still haven’t gotten it back yet, even if she doesn’t really need it right now. I talk about having two lists of shows to watch on DVD or VHS, something I’m set to do again if my Amazon order arrives soon or I get something for my birthday or just decide to start watching Survivor: Australia on DVD, something that I can’t do in this format without watching the special before it. I also talk about death by suicide since it is a part of this episode which caused it to be a different episode. I also wind up seeming to combine segments three and four in the write up. I also mention wanting to do a redacted joke so enjoy those in the future starting in this piece.


Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Redacted.
Redacted who?
Exactly.

There might be a change to blogger coming soon before the month of June is over. I shouldn’t say that there might be, but there will be. I like the format the way it is now and am not sure that I want it to change. But they say that the current format should still be an option in the future. I might not be able to tell some of the OCD format in the new way, even if it might be for the better. I’m just thinking that I would want the legacy format in case I lose the current laptop for one reason or another and stop doing a bunch of other blogs of mine, even if only for a moment. I do believe that there is no reason to think that this would be one of the blogs that would stop updating, as long as my other laptop remains an option to use instead.

Since I had mentioned in the Madam Secretary blog about VeggieTales: An Easter Carol, I might as well share a random song from it. Today’s song is called Boids. It is about mechanical chickens made of plastic that can help create Easter eggs until the factory blows up.


I have no idea if I should be talking about what has already aired and happened on this season, even if it hasn’t been covered in this blog post yet. You see, I was confused in some places if I had been counting the confessionals correctly as Bob was really low for a while and wasn’t seen as much as he could be. But I guess that was what happened in the game, even though I find this strange.

Movie update: On Wednesday, I watched Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. I replaced that with Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. I will be watching Attack of the Clones again with commentary. I did not have time on the weekend to watch movies this time around. If I did, I would have watched the movie Courageous on Father’s Day instead of something from the list then. Since I couldn’t watch that then, it will be added to one of my movie lists and watched later this year.

It was on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 that I rolled the next episode and will watch it. I like having all of this time to watch this show and can only hope that it will keep working out for me to see an episode and have it posted by the next Sunday. Here is the planned schedule for posts of my blogs for the next month in question. Hopefully, this is easy to understand. I cannot yet factor in potential changes, but at least know what the current plan is as a result. Freebies could be any blog or none of them.

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Not July
Not July
Not July
July 1- freebie
July 2- TV
July 3- The Good Wife
July 4- CSI: Cyber
July 5- Survivor (potentially)
July 6- Elementary (if not on Sunday)
July 7- Madam Secretary
July 8- Survivor (if not on Sunday)
July 9- TV
July 10- The Good Wife (potentially)
July 11- freebie
July 12- Survivor (potentially)
July 13- Elementary
July 14- freebie
July 15- Survivor (if not on Sunday)
July 16- TV
July 17- Madam Secretary
July 18- Madam Secretary
July 19- Survivor (potentially)
July 20- CSI: Cyber (if not on Sunday)
July 21- freebie
July 22- Survivor (if not on Sunday)
July 23- TV
July 24- The Good Fight (if not on the 10th)
July 25- freebie
July 26- Survivor (potentially)
July 27- freebie
July 28- freebie
July 29- Survivor (if not on Sunday)
July 30- TV
July 31- freebie
Not July

We begin with Randy talking about the vote and how they were smart to take out Charlie since he had all these friends. Randy thinks that he is safe for now without having friends. Corrine thinks that they will all go home, but is not sure which order they will do that in.

Bob and Sugar talk about the fact that he doesn’t have an idol. He reveals his fake idol to her. He hopes that it can fool someone. She isn’t sure why his strategy involves this. Randy and Corrine talk to each other about what to do. They want Matty to flip flop on the people.

Treemail gives everyone individual envelopes with money. Corrine wants to get an advantage. Randy buys the first item, peanuts and beer for $180. Everyone has $500 to potential spend. Ken buys an item for $300 and sends Bob to Exile Island with that money, taking all of Bob’s money. After Randy bids all of his money on an item, Sugar outbids him and spends $340 on what turns out to be chocolate and peanut butter. Susie spends $340 on a bath. Matty spends $400 on cheeseburger, fries, and soda. Randy spends $280 on spaghetti and garlic bread. Corrine spends all her $500 on an advantage that has to be sealed until the next challenge. Randy quickly spends $20 on cookies and shares them with the tribe, but doesn’t get one when Sugar gives it away.

Randy doesn’t like the cookie issue. Sugar thinks that he was being rude and didn’t offer her one, but he did and she refused at first. She still didn’t take one. Randy talks about potential alliances. Bob is at Exile Island and looks for a clue, only to get what he has already seen earlier. He decides to go on his own personal safari instead of looking for an idol again. I’ve been on a safari to Kruger National Park. I highly recommend it. You might not have to go that far. And that’s provided that you can go anywhere at all. Back at camp, they think that the next boot order should be Bob then Randy then Corrine.

Randy wants to get people to vote against him with the idea that Bob has an idol that would result in Susie being voted out of the game. Randy wants to get rid of Susie due to her betrayal. Matty is then convinced that Randy needs to go and so is Crystal.

The tribe then gathers for the immunity challenge. It is a two part challenge and Corrine learns that she gets to skip the first part and automatically go to the final round. Ken and Matty win their way to the next round of the game. While all three have their dominoes going at some point, Ken is the one who wins the challenge in the end. Corrine doesn’t like her loss.

Back at camp, Randy thinks that everyone is voting for him. Sugar wants to get rid of Randy and talks to Bob about the fake idol. She thinks that it would be hilarious. Bob thinks that he has nothing to lose from giving Randy the fake idol. It is possible that this could have cost Bob the game, but it doesn’t. Bob talks to Corrine about it and gives it to Randy after all. Randy makes a deal that if Bob is in the finals and he is not, Randy would vote for Bob to win. But the idol isn’t real.

Still, the tribe heads off to tribal council where the next person will be voted out of the game. Jeff talks about how the cookie was given away and Randy is still upset about it. Susie feels sorry for him, but Randy thinks that others think that it is pathetic. Jeff thinks that it is possible that Randy is playing some sort of game by doing this. Jeff then asks Bob about the hidden immunity idol. Randy admits that he is worried about being voted out, but wants to stay in the game. The votes are then cast. Randy, Bob, and Corrine vote for Susie. The rest of the tribe, namely Susie, Crystal, Ken, Matty, and Sugar, all vote for Randy. After the votes are cast, Randy tries to play the idol. But the idol isn’t real. Thus, Randy is voted out of the game.

On the next Survivor, Bob suggests that the idol that was thrown into the sea wasn’t really thrown into the sea when he is talking to Corrine. Marcus kept the idol and showed him where it was. But then why didn’t Marcus play it? I guess we’ll have to see what happens next, if we don’t already know.

Total confessional count: Bob- 11, Sugar- 20, Randy- 39, Matty- 21, Susie- 7, Ken- 19, Crystal- 23, Corrine- 20. New confessionals this episode: Corrine- 3, Bob- 2, Sugar- 3, Randy- 9, Matty- 1, Susie- 0, Ken- 1, Crystal- 1.

Randy would later return to the game for the 20th season where he was put on the villains tribe. There was an incident off camera where he lost his buff and had to get a replacement. Being told not to lose it, he was mad in some way and burned it in the tribal council fire upon being the first one out of the tribe coming in 18th place. He might have inspired the buff burning that would be put in Redemption Island seasons in the future. One would have thought that he was rejecting the villain label as a result, but that was not the case in the end. Ultimately, Randy is rather old and probably not thought of as one of the greatest contestants.

I don’t know of any major health issues that he’s having that would prevent him from playing the game again. Still, I don’t know if that would happen or not. I give him about a 40% chance of playing the game a third time. In the meantime, I hope to be back next week with the next post. Pay attention to the TV blog posts and hope for an extra one when a freebie shows up. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

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