Something that may have stuck out to some Survivor fans was that after Guatemala, the eleventh season, there were ten seasons that had returning players and not one of them had one that originally was from the Guatemala season. In the 40th season of Survivor, one of those players, mainly Danni, finally played the game again representing her season after a 29 season gap.
Now those of us would have to note that none of the Caramoan fans have been back yet and thus none of the original players from that season have yet returned. It is now the oldest season of Survivor not to have a player back from it yet. Now based on how long it took for an original contestant from Guatemala to return again, I would think that a 29 season gap after the 26th season would be a potential 55th season. I can hope that Survivor would last that long. While I’ve complained some about how they did not have an original player from Guatemala back until they did, I will wait until season 55 of this show to complain about the lack of returning players from Caramoan should one not happen by then.
I was hoping that I could be more updated on the shows that I had watched on certain days of the week, but while I can do this and still will, I have to note that things will be outdated in the schedule back from when it was on. I’m going to cover all of the Sunday shows that I watched from January all the way to the summer of 2021. This is largely to cover Easter and picked because Sundays was when they aired Charmed at one point. I had covered Fridays which had Charmed too.
It was on Sundays with Batwoman after they were done airing what became the first half of The Outpost season 4. I watched all of them. I also saw the FOX shows of The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, and the new airing The Great North. I did not like any other FOX show on during that time. I did not see any of the NBC shows then. The only ABC show that I watched then was The Rookie. I also saw the shows of 60 Minutes, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, and The Equalizer on CBS. I also saw the CW show of Legends of Tomorrow which went into the summer. I might cover Thursday shows next since that is also when The Outpost was on at one point. It is on then now.
Let’s get to the idols from Winners at War part 3. Kim found an idol, gave half to Sophie, got it back, gave it to Denise, and Denise wasted it, although she had votes against her, just not enough to matter with the majority vote getting not playing an idol.
Before I get to the challenges that start with the letter J, know that it was rolled versus others that were not. The other letters that I felt worked in this grouping were m or r. I should be able to get to them in the other posts on this season or other seasons of the show.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Jail_Break
This challenge was also known as the great escape, pirate prison break, and back in the saddle. In it, contestants have to do stuff to get out of a cell, be it individually or in a tribal fashion of sorts. The challenge was combined with quest for fire in Cambodia. It was also combined with house of the holey as mentioned in a previous post, in two seasons, I believe, as it was used as the edge of extinction challenge both seasons that was used. In fact, being featured as a Redemption Island duel and as the challenge that the outcasts appeared in, it was the challenge used most when voted out players were fighting to get back in the game. It could be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Jump_Shot
In this challenge, people have to jump and score a goal against another player defending against this. It seems like a simplified version of the basketball variant horse only with a defender. It could be done while social distancing, I think, despite how close the defender and thrower are in this.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Jungle_Love
This challenge is also known as word forward. In it, the players must race through obstacles while getting puzzle pieces and solve the puzzle at the end, like numerous other challenges. This could possibly be done while social distancing. There is a song by this same name.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Jungle_Relay
This challenge is also known as outwit, outplay, outrig; share the wealth, and snake, rattle, and roll. In it, contestants have to solve a series of tasks in the jungle to win. It is possible that this could be done while social distancing. Note that most versions have two contestants tied together, so this would not be the case if they were trying to social distance.
Now in this old Elementary blog post of mine, I included an anti-drug message, NCIS reference, I said the phrase “burrito land” for some reason, and I mentioned animal videos for future posts. I don’t know what I meant by burrito land so I googled it to see what I might have meant.
http://adamdeckerelementarytvshow.blogspot.com/2018/07/june-25th-2018s-episode.html
Now I had mentioned that a challenge from Survivor sounded similar to the song Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin. If you want to know what that song sounds like, then listen to that here. I’m only sharing songs here that I felt that I like. Thus, others aren’t in here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDQ1FUUjPs
While looking through different songs, I notice that one of them sounded similar to a song called Life’s Been Good by Joe Walsh. This musician is not to be confused with the Republican politician of the same name who ran for president in 2020. I have heard this song a lot of times on the radio. I think that it is often played on classic rock stations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ocviQ3ux0
Now I’m going to start sharing animal videos as of this post and I’ll share them in every post covering this season from this point forward. I’m going to switch between songs relating to animals (or that could be it should it not be what it seems) and sharing other videos that sort of relate to a animal that are not a song. Today, I’m sharing the Baha Men song Who Let the Dogs out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkuu0Lwb5EM
Movie update: On Wednesday, I watched Toy Story 3. I did not finish watching it then and thus didn’t see a movie from Thursday’s list then. On Saturday, I watched a home video and not a movie from the list of things to watch. On Sunday, I watched Titanic. I replaced that with Stuart Little. On Monday, I did not watch a movie.
On Wednesday, I watched Celtic Woman: A New Journey. I replaced it with Celtic Woman: Songs from the Heart. On Thursday, I watched Flight of the Phoenix. I replaced that with Avatar. On Saturday, a last minute family gathering prevented any movies from being watched then. On Sunday, I was working as you might see in a future YouTube video on my channel. On Monday, I chose not to watch any movie as I wanted to spend time doing other things. I also thought that I could be doing two jobs that day, but thankfully, this didn’t happen as it would have been far too much for me to do at once.
Now it’s been a very long with me not being finished watching any of the shows on DVD or changing things from the list. While I want to finish some things, if I don’t finish the right things on the right lists, then I won’t be able to add the third list that I want to for a while, if ever. You do want to see that so I can start writing about Survivor: Borneo again. I forget what the current mystery choice was numbered, but I finished watching it and replaced it with mystery choice #10. As usual, you’ll have to read my blog on The Good Wife to read what the replacement is. Just know that Survivor: China is still the same number on the list as it was before. This switch also means that NCIS: Los Angeles season 1 replaces NCIS season 8 and Parks and Recreation season 1 replaces Power Rangers season 3.
On Wednesday, I watched Toy Story 4. I didn’t replace that with anything so I could watch that again with commentary. Now I had shared the CinemaSins videos on the first three Toy Story movies in my blog on CSI: Cyber. Now, I’m going to share their video on Toy Story 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZ6eLhd0U4
On Thursday, I watched Avatar. I replaced that with Bella, which one of my pastors is lending me. On Saturday, a family trip prevented me from watching any movie. On Sunday, I watched Courageous. I replaced that with Bend it Like Beckham. On Monday, I decided against watching a movie.
On Wednesday, I watched Baby Boom. I replaced that with Air Force One. I still have no idea just how many of my neighbor’s old movies I’ll be adding to the list over the course of time. But that is one of them as are most that you wouldn’t recognize as much if you are familiar with the choices.
On Thursday, I watched The Omega Code. I replaced that with The Omega Code 2. On Saturday, I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I replaced that with A Few Good Men. On Sunday, I was busy with lunch spending time with my grandmother so I didn’t have time for a movie. On Monday, I chose not to watch a movie from my list so I could rent one and watch that instead.
On Wednesday, I watched I am Sam. I replaced that with Ice Age. I can’t always decide whether or not to watch one of my neighbor’s old movies or just add one of my own ones. Well, both are mine now at this point anyways, but I ignored the other options of her old movies this time around.
On Thursday, I watched Spaceballs. I replaced that with That Darn Cat. On Saturday, I watched The Little Mermaid. I replaced that with One Night with the King. On Sunday, I watched nothing to once again spend time with family during lunchtime. On Monday, I chose not to watch a movie so I could see more of this show instead.
That means it was Monday, 8-23-2021 when this episode was rolled again. It is a rigged roll as I think that every roll of Survivor this year has been a rigged one thus far. I have a lot of them. I’ll tell you if I’m out of them, but won’t if the roll isn’t rigged.
We begin with Jean-Robert worried that he was about to go home over Jamie’s idol play. James seems to mock him over and over again. He feels that they still need to work with Jean-Robert. James thinks that his original tribe mates need to stick together. He thinks that the other tribe is only here to win a high school friend contest. Amanda talks about how good a position James is in due to him having both of the idols which could take him to the top five.
Next comes the reward challenge. Jean-Robert picks James, Peih-Gee picks Frosti, James picks Todd, Frosti picks Erik, Todd picks Amanda, and Erik picks Courtney leaving Denise unpicked and unable to win the reward challenge. Jean-Robert, James, Todd, and Amanda is one team, the yellow one. Peih-Gee, Frosti, Erik, and Courtney is the other team, the red one. The yellow team wins both rounds and wins the challenge as a result. The winning team gets a scroll to read as well.
The yellow team gets to see a 1,000 year old idol. Jean-Robert reads the scroll about the hidden immunity idol. Todd points out that Jean-Robert doesn’t know about James having the idols and Jean-Robert didn’t even know about the idols. They talk about what to do with the idol clue. James does not want to take it with them. The others secretly mock Jean-Robert in confessionals.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, as another Survivor blogger once said at one point, if not still, Denise is upset that nobody picked her for the challenge. As usual, the group gathered wants to form an alliance that probably won’t last until the end of the episode. This time, they do have a majority. Denise openly states that she will go with whoever she feels is best for her, be it those gathered with her now or those on the reward. A chicken is seen with a creature in the background. And here I was thinking that Chicken was already voted out of this season. I might want to do a post on animal imagery at some point.
Jean-Robert spends time that night looking for the idol and wants a trump card of sorts. Todd is annoyed by everyone, hating both Jean-Robert and James. He talks to Amanda. He wants to get James to be voted out without playing either idol. Frosti likes being seen as a swing vote. They want to make sure that James doesn’t win immunity.
Speaking of immunity, that is exactly what is happening next. They have to wade in the water in order to get to the challenge. This is an endurance challenge that oddly features them sitting. They can’t touch the lever in front of them or anything other than the barrel. Jean-Robert talks about an itch which then annoys others. He is still out first with Denise out second. James, after making a whole lot of weird noises, falls out of the challenge as most of us thought that he would. Erik is out after that. Peih-Gee is the next one out then Amanda’s carelessness gets her disqualified. Todd is out. This leaves Courtney and the singing Frosti. Courtney is lazy and hasn’t moved as a result. Frosti is out last giving Courtney the win. This seems like the easiest endurance challenge of them all.
Courtney talks about her immunity challenge win. Peih-Gee hopes that she will last. She shouldn’t be too concerned about her spot in the game. Jean-Robert lies and says that he has the idol. Or does he actually think that he has it? Erik says that James has the idols since Erik snooped through things. Now Jean-Robert wants to turn things on James. Jean-Robert confronts James with this information.
Jean-Robert claims that he knew this information on his own. James doesn’t want to work with Jean-Robert saying that it would be the dumbest move in Survivor history to work with Jean-Robert. I guess that James would be an expert on historically bad Survivor moves. Oh, wait. That’s a spoiler. Some don’t know whether or not Jean-Robert will be voted out and James isn’t sure he should even bring his idols or at least one of them to camp. Those are often bad moves.
At tribal council, Peih-Gee and Erik are the only ones who brought their stuff. This is baffling to me. Even if I had immunity, I’d still bring my things to tribal council because I wouldn’t know if there would be a surprise second round of voting with someone else immune or not. In all other situations, I would never be so cocky to think that it couldn’t be me.
Courtney likes having immunity. James thinks that he’s a threat, but talkers are more of a threat. Jean-Robert thinks that it would be frustrating to be in the shoes of Peih-Gee or Erik. Erik says that people have to be more aware of what’s going on in the game by thinking ahead. Jean-Robert thinks that he is the local jerk and is worried that an idol could shake things up in the game. Amanda doesn’t like coming to tribal council. Who does?
We then get to the votes cast in the game. Denise votes for Peih-Gee. Peih-Gee, Erik, and Jean-Robert all vote for James. Meanwhile, James, Frosti, Amanda, Courtney, and Todd all vote for Jean-Robert and he is voted out of the game. I can’t understand why Denise voted the way she did. Tribal lines are gone now according to Jeff. It’s a whole new game.
On the next Survivor, Todd doesn’t like people, Peih-Gee and James get into a fight, and the rest of the tribe learns something crazy after tribal council happens. But what is going on? And did the promo reveal the fact that Frosti gets voted out in the next episode when they showed the shots of people after tribal council?
Total confessional count: Jean-Robert- 15, Erik- 7, James- 18, Amanda- 14, Courtney- 11, Todd- 23, Peih-Gee- 15, Denise- 8, Frosti- 12.
New confessionals this episode: Denise- 1, Frosti- 1, Jean-Robert- 4, Erik- 1, James- 5, Amanda- 4, Courtney- 2, Todd- 3, Peih-Gee- 1.
Jean-Robert was clearly the resident asshole of this season in my mind, although Dave could give him a run for his money. What are his chances of playing the game again? I’d give it about a 35% chance of him playing Survivor again.
You may notice something different in my schedule of the next month’s planned blog posts. There will be a new blog that I will be starting. Also note that I had done posts on Borneo on Tuesday and have one planned for Sunday for Blood versus Water. This is because I want both Tuesdays and Sundays open for posts of this blog potentially. Sundays were closed after I finished watching Gabon. I want these open in case I have to delay a planned post from the Wednesday that it airs to a different day of the week.
Planned September blog posts
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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Not September |
Not September |
Not September |
1: freebie |
2: The Good Fight |
3: The Good Wife |
4: TV |
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5: CSI: Cyber |
6: Elementary |
7: Madam Secretary |
8: Survivor (maybe) |
9: freebie |
10: The Good Wife |
11: TV |
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12: Survivor (maybe) |
13: freebie |
14: Survivor (maybe) |
15: Survivor (maybe) |
16: freebie |
17: Survivor (maybe) |
18: TV |
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19: Survivor (maybe) |
20: freebie |
21: Survivor (maybe) |
22: Survivor (season 41 posts begin) |
23: freebie |
24: Survivor (maybe) |
25: TV |
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26: CSI: Vegas (new blog’s first post) |
27: freebie |
28: Survivor (maybe) |
29: Survivor |
30: freebie |
Not September |
Not September |
This is more than likely the last post on an episode that you will see before new episodes start. I do not know yet just how many more I might be able to write in the future or not. But at least I won’t have to worry about doing too many more random posts for a while after this coming month. I’ll explain more about what’s going on with the new blog and include a link for it when I have it started. It is a thing to note since it could affect this blog. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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